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Sources: Apple abandons development of wireless routers, disbands its router division, and reassigns engineers — Apple disbands its router division, reassigns engineers — Apple Inc. has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers, another move to try to sharpen the company's focus …
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Symantec has agreed to acquire ID theft protection service LifeLock for $2.3B — Acquisition forms “world's largest digital safety platform for consumers and families.” — Symantec on Sunday agreed to acquire LifeLock, a consumer identity-theft protect service, for $2.3 billion to form the …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches ephemeral live video that followers can watch only when it's streaming, and Snapchat-style disappearing private messages — Instagram is combining the best of Snapchat and Periscope to help you get comfortable on camera. Rather than overlap with Facebook Live and Messenger …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn for an undisclosed amount with plans to add its DNS solution to its cloud computing platform — A timely, if a little surprising, piece of M&A this morning from Oracle: the enterprise services company announced that it has acquired Dyn …
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| Mark Wilson / Co.Design: |
The buggy $1,495 June Intelligent Oven is all that's wrong with Silicon Valley design: automated yet distracting, boastful yet mediocre, confident yet wrong — Automated yet distracting. Boastful yet mediocre. Confident yet wrong. — I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Macom buys Applied Micro for $770M to combine its analog processors with connectivity chips for data centers, plans to sell Applied Micro's ARM server chip unit — Macom is buying Applied Micro so it can provide a set of connectivity processors from switches to fiber in the network.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Programmers share stories about being asked to write code for illegal or unethical purposes and ponder the need for self-regulation — Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called “Code I'm Still Ashamed Of.”
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Eero update adds Alexa integration to devices; new “TrueMesh” technology adds dynamic rerouting, reduces connections issues, and improves LAN speeds up to 40% — Earlier this year, Eero launched a home WiFi solution that it claimed would solve all our wireless woes.
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| Andrew J / The Verge: |
nuTonomy signs agreement with Boston city officials to test its self-driving car tech on Boston streets, limited to within an industrial park — NuTonomy is coming to Boston — NuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup that's been testing its technology in Singapore …
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| BBC: |
Facebook says it will increase UK employees by 500, or 50%, in 2017 when new London HQ opens — Facebook will expand its presence in the UK by 50% when it opens its new London headquarters in 2017, the US technology giant has announced. — It will hire 500 additional employees …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
LeEco Le Pro3 review: good build, battery life, and performance, but cameras perform poorly in low light, custom UI skin hinders usability, no headphone jack — LeEco is a name you've probably never heard of, but the Chinese electronics company has been popping up everywhere over the past year.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Intel's Project Alloy “merged reality” headset prototype; Intel says a new version with upgraded internals and camera is coming in 2017 — Stranger than fiction — In August of this year, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich appeared onstage during … Sponsor Posts
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