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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
AWS investigating S3 issues affecting US-EAST-1 region of data centers in northern Virginia; many sites affected including Quora, Trello, IFTTT, Coursera, Imgur — BCloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today confirmed that it's looking into issues with its widely used S3 storage service …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
AWS says all issues related to northern Virginia data centers are fixed and S3 is now “operating normally” — This is a developing story. We will update it as more information becomes available. — UPDATE: 2:15 p.m.: Amazon Web Services has fixed all the issues related to the cloud storage outage Tuesday.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations — Meet YouTube TV. — YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
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See also Mediagazer| Felix Gillette / Bloomberg: |
A look at YouTube's strategy to entice young cordcutters to pay for TV with YouTube TV, which focused on including live sports to make up for gaps in lineup — The millennial cordcutter singularity is nigh. — by — Subscribe Reprints — For years, YouTube has served up almost every imaginable kind of video.| Phil Spencer / Xbox Wire: |
Xbox Game Pass subscription grants access to 100+ games for $9.99 per month, launches in spring; service works by downloading games, not streaming — At Xbox, we put gamers at the center of everything we do and remain committed to giving you the freedom to play the games you want, with the friends you want, on the devices you want.
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Tweets: @anchormanv2, @ceojebailey, @kohaku233, and @majornelson
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Nearly three years after debuting, GMail's end-to-end encryption project gets handed over to open source devs and may never formally launch as a Google product — Nearly three years have passed since Google announced it would offer an end-to-end encryption add-on for Gmail …
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Thanks:@gfififi| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple's next iPhones will have no physical home button, include one curved OLED model and two LCD models, and come with a USB-C power cord — Rival Samsung will be the initial supplier of OLED screens for Apple's 10th anniversary iPhones — TOKYO— Apple Inc. has decided to adopt …
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| TechCrunch: |
Google SVP of hardware Rick Osterloh says the company has “no plans” to make another Pixel laptop “right now”, focusing instead on smartphones — In a small meeting with journalists at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Google's senior vice president …
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
New $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W comes with 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 — Although major Raspberry Pi announcements are very few and far between, you know that when there is one, it's worth paying attention. Take for example the Raspberry Pi Zero — the $5 (£4) board that apparently came …
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| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
Google updates Play Store algorithm so that games get promoted based on continued user engagement instead of installs — As this year's Game Developer Conference gets underway in San Francisco, Google says it is making some changes to its Play Store tools specifically to help game developers bring more attention to their titles.
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Development of Xiaomi's Pinecone Surge S1 chip, debuting today, was aided by an undisclosed amount of Chinese government funding — Government funding helped smartphone maker develop its Pinecone Surge S1 chip — BEIJING—Chinese government funding helped Xiaomi Corp. produce …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud debuts SoundCloud Go $4.99/month plan with 120M tracks ad free, will still offer its SoundCloud Go+ $9.99/month plan, which offers 150M tracks — SoundCloud has rebooted its paid membership plan with a new budget option less than a year after it launched.
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