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Microsoft to donate $1B in cloud services to 70K nonprofits globally over the next three years — Microsoft to Donate Cloud Services Worth $1 Billion Over 3 Years — Program aims to advance public good, solve biggest problems — Company will also invest in Internet in developing nations
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers disclose an almost three year old privilege escalation bug in the Linux kernel that imperils millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones — Linux bug imperils tens of millions of PCs, servers, and Android phones — Vulnerability allows restricted users and apps to gain unfettered root access.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Netflix Q4: revenue of $1.82B, $43M in profit, 5.59M net new subscribers with 4.04M internationally; stock up 7% after hours — Netflix whizzes past 75 million subscribers thanks to record international growth — Netflix share price is up more than 121 percent in the last year.
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LinkNYC free public gigabit WiFi goes live for beta testing, shows speeds of 280 Mbps down, 317 Mbps up, plans to have 500 kiosks running by July, 4450 by 2020 — LinkNYC's free gigabit Wi-Fi is here, and it is glorious — I'm standing on the corner of 15th Street and Third Avenue in New York City, and I'm freezing.
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| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
Confirmed: Samsung changes Galaxy Note 5 internals to fix upside-down S Pen issue — Company confirms it has changed the Note 5's internals to stop its stylus getting stuck — Back around the time that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 first went to market, a few unfortunate owners found … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Facebook Android app update lets you connect through Tor via the Tor Project's Orbot app — Facebook Android App Update Makes It Easier to Connect Through Tor — Facebook, a company based on publicly sharing details about yourself, continues to make it easier for users to maintain some privacy when they visit the site.
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Apple files an application with India's Department Of Industrial Policy and Promotion to open its own retail stores in the country — Apple seeks DIPP nod to open own stores in India — Confirming the development, DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant said, “We have just received Apple's proposal.
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| Paul Lilly / Maximum PC: |
Intel announces sixth generation Core vPro processors with Intel Authenticate, an embedded multifactor authentication technology — Intel Bakes Multifactor Authentication into 6th Generation Core vPro Platform — Intel Authenticate brings security to a new level| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Jinen Kamdar discusses company's dedicated apps for celebrities to aid in interacting with fans and creating unique content for Moments — Twitter's Latest Dedicated Celebrity Apps Supercharge Moments — In verified blue checks we trust. — Twitter has never forgotten the power … | Rick Carew / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Meituan-Dianping, an online seller of movie tickets and restaurant bookings, raises $3.3B, the largest ever private round in tech, at $18B+ valuation — China's Meituan-Dianping Raises $3.3 Billion — Online seller of movie tickets, restaurant bookings snares record private fundraising round| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amnesty International report alleges 16 companies including Apple, Samsung, Microsoft source cobalt from mines which employ child labor — Apple, Microsoft, Samsung And Other Tech Firms Implicated In Child Labor Report — Apple, Samsung and Microsoft are among a host of tech companies …
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Apple's federal EEO-1 filing shows that its diversity in US barely improved last year, contradicting figures reported by Apple in August — Apple's US diversity barely improved last year — Apple's US workforce is slightly more diverse than it was last year, but the company remains overwhelmingly white … | Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …: |
YouTube purchases 550K square foot office center in San Bruno for $215M — YouTube grabs 550,000 SF in giant San Bruno expansion — Making its biggest expansion play yet, Google Inc.'s YouTube division just acquired a sprawling office park near its San Bruno headquarters in a deal …
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Verizon Wireless to begin selling data cap exemptions to content providers January 25 with beta trial of its new FreeBee Data 360 service — Verizon Wireless selling data cap exemptions to content providers — Video, music, app downloads, and ads can be exempted from caps for a fee.
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