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Fitbit unveils $100 ‘swim-proof’ Flex 2 and $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring — Meet Fitbit's next Fitbits. — The fitness-tracker company is unveiling two new devices today, the $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring and a larger screen, and the smaller, “swim-proof” … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
While Hillary Clinton's stance on encryption is unclear, her campaign staffers are reportedly required to use “Snowden-approved” encrypted messaging app Signal — Hillary Clinton wants Edward Snowden in jail but that doesn't mean her campaign won't eagerly take the whistleblower's advice …
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Vanity Fair, Techdirt, CNET, Motherboard, Fortune, Security Affairs, Washington Times and Gizmodo
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US federal court convicts Russian hacker Seleznev in theft and sale of credit cards resulting in $169M in losses; he could face up to 40 years in prison — Roman Seleznev could face between four to 40 years in prison — The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday in federal court … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Square brings payment and capital offerings to TouchBistro and Vend customers — Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could've been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro. Square will now offer Vend and TouchBistro's restaurant …
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The Next Web, Fortune, VentureBeat and Recode
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (OLED) review: incredible screen but expensive compared to LCD models, meager battery life during typical use, stylus is uncomfortable — The dream of large OLED screens has, for the past few years, seemed perpetually on the horizon.
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9to5Google, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, Aperture Games, CNET and SlashGear
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Boomerang for Gmail creators launch Respondable to help you write better emails using A.I. — The battle over how to make our lives more productive continues, especially on the email front. Baydin has spent the past six years helping people bring a degree of normalcy to their inbox through its Boomerang for Gmail plugin.
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Boomerang for Gmail, Business Insider, ZDNet, Engadget, Refinery29 and Lifehacker
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Massive data centers in small towns mostly create low-wage, temporary jobs for the locals, high-tech workers at these facilities are usually outsiders — BOYDTON, Va. — A giant Microsoft facility just outside this very small town hides behind a quarter-mile berm and a guard house …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @tomiogeron and @puiwingtam. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Nutanix is acquiring cloud storage startup PernixData and DevOps automation firm Calm.io — Nutanix, which combines server, storage, and virtualization into a single “converged” piece of data center gear, said it is in the process of buying PernixData and has completed an acquisition of Calm.io.
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PCWorld, eWeek, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, diginomica and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
| Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel: |
Amazon's $970M bet on Twitch in 2014 gives Amazon an edge as Facebook, Google, and others jockey to own live video — In 2014 Amazon surprised many by buying Twitch. Today it has an edge as Facebook, Google and others jockey to own live video. — 2015, Twitch viewers watched … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Indian digital payments startup Paytm raising $300M at a $5B valuation led by Taiwan's MediaTek — Indian digital-payments and e-commerce startup Paytm is raising $300 million in a funding round led by Taiwan's MediaTek Inc. and other investors, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion …
Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Snapchat's head of revenue operations says the company is planning to introduce behavioral ad targeting in Q3 2016 — Snapchat is planning to introduce behavioral targeting for advertisers, the company's director of revenue operations Clement Xue revealed in an eMarketer report published earlier this week.| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
AlphaBay, the largest darknet market, begins supporting Monero, a cryptocurrency meant to be more anonymous than Bitcoin — Not even bitcoin is anonymous enough for some criminals on the dark net. — For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying …
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Bitcoin Magazine, Wired, NEWSBTC and CCN
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