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American Airlines sues Gogo over right to terminate agreement, claiming ViaSat's wifi is faster; Gogo stock falls over 28% — American Airlines Is Suing Gogo Over Its Crappy Wi-Fi — The company wants to switch to the competing service used by JetBlue and Virgin America — but Gogo is digging in its heels.
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Stuxnet was part of larger campaign against Iran's power grid, air defense; Israel modified the program, then launched it unilaterally, claims documentary — U.S. Hacked Into Iran's Critical Civilian Infrastructure For Massive Cyberattack, New Film Claims — A new documentary on “Stuxnet” …
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New York Times, The Verge and VentureBeat
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Yahoo reorganizes Yahoo Labs as both its chief scientist and VP of research leave company; the researchers will now work more closely with product teams — Yahoo just pulled the plug on its Google-like research group — Yahoo is scaling back its research lab and two of its top executives are out.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
1Password launches new subscription plan for families, allows 5 people to share passwords for $5 per month — 1Password launches a family plan that lets five people share passwords — 1Password is one of the best ways to store and manage all of your passwords, and now it wants to start working for entire families.
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| Matt Kinne / Phone Probe: |
Galaxy S7 water resistance confirmed from Samsung video, website — The Galaxy S7 has been well-documented ahead of the official debut on February 21st. We know what the specs are thanks to Evan Blass (evleaks) and that there will be two devices, the S7 and S7 edge.
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Apple Pay to go live in China on Feb 18 for customers of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, say the bank's representatives — Apple Pay to go live in China on Feb 18 — Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Apple Pay mobile payment system will be available in China from Feb. 18 for Industrial …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Giphy closes $55M Series C at a $300M post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, though the service is not yet monetizing — Giphy Closes $55 Million Series C At A $300 Million Post-Money Valuation — Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms that it's beginning to roll out long-awaited two-factor authentication — Instagram Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Fight Hackers — Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it's time to add another lock to its doors.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Silk Labs, founded by Mozilla's former CTO Andreas Gal, launches a Kickstarter to debut Sense, its smart home hub and facial recognition camera — Ex-Mozilla Team Unveils “Sense,” An Intelligent, Secure Hub For The Smart Home — With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices …
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| Eric Schmidt / Jigsaw: |
Alphabet's Google Ideas think tank becomes Jigsaw, an incubator that uses technology to solve world issues like terrorism; Jared Cohen named president — Google Ideas becomes Jigsaw — Today we're announcing the expansion of Google Ideas, Google's think tank, as a technology incubator called Jigsaw.
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Re/code, The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, USA Today, Business Insider and Boing Boing
| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Khronos Group releases version 1.0 of Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL — Vulkan now official, with 1.0 API release and Nvidia, AMD drivers [Updated] — After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly shutters Play for Education, will continue to support existing users until the end-of-life date of their tablets — Google Quietly Shutters Play For Education — Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps …
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CRN, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, ZDNet and Ubergizmo
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple Uses Dr. Dre Video, Other TV Production as Apple Music Marketing — Wait a minute: After years of anticipation, Apple finally made its entry into the TV business, and the rest of the world ... shrugged? — Well, yes. But also, no. — Because it's interesting — but not that interesting.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fast-Growing Photo App Everalbum, A Chart-Topper On iOS, Comes To Android — There are apps that promise to help you free up space on your smartphone by backing up then deleting your photos. There are apps that help you organize your photos into albums, and share them with friends.
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