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Opera introduces native ad-blocking feature to its browser, claims it is about 45% faster than Chrome with AdBlock Plus extension — Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster browsing — If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90% faster.
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| Brent Lang / Variety: |
Sources: The Screening Room, backed by Sean Parker, pitches film industry on service that would offer $50 home movie rentals on theatrical release day — Studios, Exhibitors Consider Revolutionary Plan for Day-and-Date Movies at Home (EXCLUSIVE) — Tech moguls Sean Parker …
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Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, Deadline, The Next Web, MacNN, Tubefilter, TorrentFreak, Tech Times, Forbes, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK, Neowin, Gizmodo, Guardian, Consumerist and Mashable. Tweets: @ganeumann. See also Mediagazer
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sonos announces layoffs, greater focus on voice technology and paid streaming music services — Sonos has announced that it will be “letting go of some employees,”; part of reshaping the company in a new direction. In an (admittedly vague) blog post, CEO John Macfarlane doesn't say exactly …
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MIT researchers develop Polaris, a software framework that they say can make web pages load up to 34% faster — MIT May Have Just Given the Web a Huge Speed Boost — An open source tool may help tame the hobbled mess of autoplaying videos and advertising trackers that is the modern web.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter offering additional restricted stock and cash bonuses to employees companywide to stem talent drain — Twitter Bets on Payouts to Rein In Talent Flight — Social media company offers additional restricted stock and cash bonuses to employees
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Nest launches family accounts and Home/Away feature that will use phones' locations to tell when house is empty — Nest can now use your phone to tell when you've left the house — Nest's products are about to get better at telling when you're out of the house and when you're about to come back home.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Gaming expands to several new markets, adds 60fps playback, DVR mode, and pop-out player support to Android — YouTube Gaming expands to new markets, improves its browsing and viewing experience on mobile — YouTube Gaming, the video network's dedicated application for streaming …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases Dynamics AX ERP as a cloud-first service in 137 markets and 40 languages — Microsoft's new Dynamics AX ERP-as-a-service offering is truly cloud-first — Microsoft is making generally available its latest Dynamics AX ERP service offering in 173 markets.| Oculus: |
Oculus to roll out social features and games to Samsung Gear VR on Thursday, will add personalized Facebook content to 360 videos next week — Join Friends in VR with New Oculus Social Features — Now you can experience games, videos, and more with friends in VR!
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| Jordan Valinsky / Digiday: |
Facebook says it will let users disable all notifications for live video within the next few weeks — Facebook will soon let you disable seeing all notifications for live videos — Relief is on the way. If you've noticed an influx of Facebook notifications from brands or publishers every … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
LINE launches group voice calls that can support up to 200 people; service will first be released to countries outside of Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Indonesia — Mobile messaging giant Line now supports group voice calls for up to 200 people — Mobile messaging giant Line has announced …
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Sources: tech companies may face civil penalties like contempt of court for withholding encrypted data in new Burr-Feinstein bill — Senators close to finishing encryption penalties legislation: sources — Technology companies could face civil penalties for refusing to comply with court orders …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking, bundled notifications, improved Doze for better battery, more, available today as an OTA update — The Android N developer preview with split-screen multitasking is available today — Well, this was unexpected.
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