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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 …
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
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 … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car — Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully staged … | 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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Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that stopped Rift games from being played on HTC Vive, 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.| 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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| 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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eWeek, MacRumors, The Next Web, SlashGear, Inverse, Redmond Pie, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Insanely Great Mac, iMore, ExtremeTech, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, iPhone Hacks, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Inquirer, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, TechEye, Consumerist, ZDNet, Ars Technica UK, Engadget, MAC blog, The Mac Observer, Neowin, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Daring Fireball and The Loop. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski
| Scott Cendrowski / Fortune: |
Xiaomi struggles to expand abroad as its smartphone sales in China decline and ecosystem growth misses forecasts, making some question its $45B valuation — The “Apple of China” gets a reality check as its smartphone sales slump. … Xiaomi's tale may sound like merely another iteration …
Tweets: @fortunemagazine, @fortunemagazine and @amitbhawani
| 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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Tweets: @joshconstine, @adnys, @joshconstine, @joshconstine and @howardlindzon
| 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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Pocketnow, Ausdroid, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Phandroid, PhoneDog.com, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, Android Beat and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @mhbergen
| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products — Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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