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Source: smaller HTC Nexus will have 5-inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 2770mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit CPU — It's that time everybody: Nexus season. While the last substantive pieces of Nexus information we could share popped up nearly two months ago … | Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers for dynamic pricing during demand surges — Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
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Apple clarifies differential privacy will be opt-in for iOS 10; data collected for user-added local dictionary words, emojis, deep links, lookup hints in notes — “Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version — Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime — For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
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In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that prevented porting Rift games to other VR headsets, says it will not use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC anymore — News breaks not from official announcement, but from discovery by workaround dev. — What a difference an Internet uproar can make.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: Google is building a live support app with screen-sharing for Nexus devices — A long-standing gap in the Nexus device feature-set for “normal” buyers has been live on-device support. In the event you need help setting up your Nexus smartphone - a smartphone you bought on the internet …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS — Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out this big …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google's RankBrain machine learning system is now used to process every search query, up from processing less than 15% of the queries last year — Google is now using its RankBrain machine learning system to process every query that the search engine handles, and the system is changing the rankings of lots of queries.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm files a patent infringement lawsuit in China against Meizu — U.S. company files suit against Meizu Technology in Beijing — First test after winning agreement to charge licensing fees — Qualcomm Inc., the largest mobile phone chipmaker, is filing a lawsuit in Beijing …
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Amazon presenting engineers additional job offers at fast-growing divisions like AWS, Alexa when hiring managers from other Amazon divisions first make offers — Amazon's hugely popular and important cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, has a classic problem: It can't hire qualified engineers fast enough.Thanks:@mattrosoff
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Facebook hires Kevin Lo, former general manager of Google Fiber, to join its connectivity team — Kevin Lo will help Facebook wheel and deal in its efforts to bring more people online. — Facebook has brought in Kevin Lo, the former general manager for Google Fiber …
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