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Intel unveils Apollo Lake next generation platform for cheap Atom-based devices, with first products shipping in the second half of 2016 — Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform: Apollo Lake with 14nm Goldmont Cores — This week, at IDF Shenzhen, Intel has formally introduced … | Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
The Minecraft Generation: How Mojang's virtual sandbox, which sells 10K copies per day, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world — The Minecraft Generation — How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. — J
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Gilt co-founder Alexis Maybank launches Project September, a service with photos from users' Instagram feeds and camera rolls that users tag with buying leads — Gilt Groupe's co-founder has a new fashion app that lets you shop from Instagram photos — Alexis Maybank, Gilt Groupe's first CEO … | The Verge: |
The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online — The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
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Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive — Google Fiber wants to beam wireless Internet to your home — Over the past five years, Google Fiber has laid its high-speed Internet in a handful of cities and pledged to come to several more.| Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News: |
On 60 Minutes, security expert Karsten Nohl eavesdrops on cellphone calls and texts knowing just the phone's number by hacking SS7, a global carrier protocol — Hacking Your Phone — Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how cellphones and mobile phone networks are vulnerable to hacking
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Oracle acquires Israeli big-data firm Crosswise for reported $50m — Company figures out which devices a user owns, helps advertisers target their pitches better — Big data giant Oracle announced Thursday that it had acquired Israeli big data firm Crosswise, a specialist in “cross-device” … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to offer $8.99/month stand-alone video streaming option in US; Prime membership to be offered monthly for first time for $10.99/month in US — Amazon Ups the Ante on Streaming Video — New stand-alone option for its service is direct challenge to rival Netflix
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Sources: EU antitrust charges against Google over Android may be announced very soon — Europe nearing Google antitrust charges — Brussels has stepped up its efforts to finalise antitrust charges related to the Android mobile operating system, advancing a case which is set to sharply escalate …
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DJI releases the Matrice 600, a $4600 drone which can stream in 1080p at 60 FPS from a distance of 3 miles, as well as the $1600 Ronin-MX aerial gimbal — DJI just released its most powerful drone yet — The film and television industry are gathered in Las Vegas this week …
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Assisted driving tech firm Nauto raises $12M Series A led by Andy Rubin's Playground Global — Nauto raises $12 million for driverless car technology that's street-legal today — Even before the blockbuster acquisition of Cruise Automation by General Motors for more than $1 billion … | Politico: |
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