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Outlook Premium, Microsoft's subscription email service, starts trials at $3.99 per month, gives users up to 5 personalized email address, ad free inbox, more — Outlook Premium, Microsoft's subscription email service, starts trials at $3.99 per month — Microsoft's experiment …
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Nest is disabling the Revolv home-automation service on May 15, effectively bricking Revolv home hub hardware, after acquiring the startup in 2014 — Google's parent company is deliberately disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices — Nest, a smart-home company owned …
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| Joshua Jamerson / Wall Street Journal: |
Network hardware maker Brocade to buy wireless systems supplier Ruckus for about $1.2B — Brocade Agrees to Buy Ruckus Wireless for $1.2 Billion — Brocade's shares fall, while Ruckus stock surges — Brocade Communications Systems Inc. agreed to buy Ruckus Wireless for about $1.2 billion … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
$85M patent verdict covering Android's push notifications, the largest ever against Google, overturned on appeal — $85 million patent verdict, largest ever against Google, wiped out on appeal — Patent describes a failed company's 1996 desktop notification system.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft partners with the R3 banking consortium to develop and deploy blockchain technologies on the Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service cloud platform — Microsoft solidifies its blockchain-as-a-service work with new banking partnership — Microsoft is making its Azure blockchain …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC releases new “nutrition labels” for broadband to show speed, caps, and hidden fees; ISPs are not required to use the labels — FCC's “nutrition labels” for broadband show speed, caps, and hidden fees — New labels will help ISPs comply with net neutrality transparency rules.
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9.7-inch iPad Pro teardown: A9X, 2GB RAM, less space dedicated to speakers than 12.9" model, larger capacity battery than iPad Air 2, 2/10 repairability score — iPad Pro 9.7" Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.| Johana Bhuiyan / Re/code: |
a16z confirms it led a $3.1M round in George Hotz's aftermarket autonomous car company Comma.ai — A16z Led a $3.1 Million Round in Aftermarket Autonomous Car Company, Comma.ai — George Hotz is a famed hacker turned software engineer who recently made waves for retrofitting an Acura …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Shake-up at Intel as Kirk Skaugen, head of PC business, and Doug Davis, head of IoT effort, depart — Shake-up at Intel as veteran execs Davis and Skaugen leave — Chipmaker Intel just announced the departure plans of two longtime executives, one heading up its business devoted to personal computers …
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| Dominique Soguel / Associated Press: |
Database allegedly containing personal information including national ID numbers and addresses of over 49M Turks leaked online — Data of nearly 50 million Turks allegedly leaked online — ISTANBUL (AP) — Hackers have posted a database online that allegedly contains the personal information …
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Apple faces opposition from India's largest phone brands in its push to import and sell used iPhones in the country to gain market share — Apple's Push to Flood India With Used iPhones Ignites Backlash — Apple seeks again to import and sell used phones into India| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on chat bots, Cortana, data centers, startups and partnerships in developing countries, and more — Satya Nadella on why you'll love Cortana, how cars are like data centers, and what's spurring all these global startups — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has reshaped … | Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
The White House is undergoing its first major IT overhaul in over a decade, now has improved WiFi and color printers, allows employees to use iPhones, more — Technology Upgrades Get White House Out of the 20th Century
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