Net Neutrality day is here: a guide to today's vote
Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — What is the right way to run the internet? After months of pitched debate over so-c...
FCC overrules state laws to help cities build out municipal broadband
Before it tackles net neutrality, the FCC is setting a major precedent for municipal broadband: it's just voted to preempt state laws that were preventing two cities from building out their own locall...
Google to Bring Paid Search Results to Google Play Apps
Google is bringing one familiar feature of Web search to its Google Play store: Paid search results. — The company said it will begin testing what it calls “sponsored” search results within its app ...
LG's ‘luxury’ Watch Urbane LTE doesn't use Android Wear
LG has already pre-announced the Watch Urbane, its “luxury” smartwatch that it's showing off in Barcelona next week, and now even more details have been revealed ahead of Mobile World Congress. It tu...
Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs
Jay Carney to Amazon — Mike Allen's Politico Playbook will report: “Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs.
Source: Google to announce new payments API, Android Pay, at I/O in May
Google will launch Android Pay at I/O in May — Source tells Ars that the company will revitalize its payments platform with a new API. — A source close to the matter told Ars on Wednesday that Goo...
Revenge porn boss wants Google to remove his “identity related” info
Craig Brittain wants links to stories of FTC dinging his site wiped from search. — What do you do if you're a revenge porn site operator and the Federal Trade Commission has barred you from publishi...
Google is working on a Chrome reading mode, try it out
Google wants to give your peepers a break. Google Chromium Evangelist Francois Beaufort laid out early versions of Reader Mode for Chrome desktop and mobile in a post today on Google Plus (of course)...
Google Calendar for Android gets 7-day week view, pinch-to-zoom, Drive integration for events, and more
Google today updated Google Calendar for Android with a slew of new features and improvements. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz reveals more on company's plans in Reddit AMA
Here's what we know about Magic Leap so far — When Google came out in full support of Magic Leap in the form of a $542 million investment last year, people wondered what it was exactly and why Mount...
WSJ: YouTube remains unprofitable, breaking even with revenue of $4B in 2014
YouTube still doesn't make Google any money — YouTube still isn't a profitable business for Google, sources tell The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler. — Thanks to a premium ads push last year c...
Sens.ly brings a human face to telemedicine with Kinect-powered nurse avatar named Molly, who can respond to patients' speech and body movements
This nurse makes house calls, thanks to Kinect for Windows — Telemedicine has become one of the hot trends in healthcare …
Google Play increases free music storage limit from 20,000 to 50,000 songs
You can now store 50,000 songs online with Google Play Music — Google just made its Play Music service a bit more appealing, even if you don't use a Google Android phone. You can now upload 50,000 ...
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Android, Play ads, Google+, Apple, China, and more
Exclusive: Sundar Pichai's Plan To Keep Google Almighty — If it works, do it again. And again. — That's Sundar Pichai's approach as he steps up efforts to monetize the hundreds of millions people...
Apple announces media event on March 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; more Apple Watch details expected
∞ Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invites for a special event to be held on March 9, 2015.
Apple's iOS grabbed a record 88.7% of smartphone profits in Q4 2014, Android fell to a new low of 11.3%
Google may be winning the mobile OS market share race, but Apple continues to dominate in smartphone profits. In fact, iOS grew its profit share to a new record high of 88.7 percent …
Facebook paid 321 security researchers $1.3M in 2014; adds Oculus and Moves to bug bounty program
Facebook today announced it paid out $1.3 million to 321 security researchers around the world in 2014 as part of its bug bounty program. The company has now given over $3 million …
Google Merges European Operations To Square Up To Regulators And Rivals
United we stand, divided we fall. So goes the old saying that search and mobile giant Google is now taking to heart in Europe, as it faces off with regulators and rivals in the region.
W3C finalizes Pointer Events web API spec, but Apple and Google's lack of support is a deal-breaker
Pointer Events finalized, but Apple's lack of support still a deal breaker — Spec has support from Microsoft, Mozilla, jQuery, and sometimes Google. But not Cupertino.
GPG, with its old technology, bad design, and small userbase, is dead; it's time for a more usable encryption system
Blog >>- GPG And Me — I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn't seem to be a popular choice these days …
Viacom's Nickelodeon will launch Noggin, a subscription video service aimed at pre-schoolers, on March 5 for $5.99/month
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Google researchers have created an AI system that taught itself to play and win 49+ 1980s games; could be used for robots, driverless cars in future
You can teach a computer to play games … William Herkewitz / Popular Mechanics : Google's Atari-Playing Algorithm Could Be the Future of AI Matt McFarland / Washington Post : The 22 Atari games that G...
Lenovo.com has been hacked, possibly by Lizard Squad
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Notation Capital, a new, “pre-seed” stage firm founded by former Betaworks colleagues Nicholas Chirls and Alex Lines, closes debut fund with $8M
New York Pre-Seed Fund Notation Capital Raises $8 Million Fund … A duo that helped develop numerous New York startups …
Yo Tries To Make Itself Useful With Photo And Link Alerts From 150 Sources
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Candy House announces Sesame smart lock with knock pattern recognition, remote access, 500 day battery life for $89; on Kickstarter now, shipping late April
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Following Google deal, Softcard is shutting down its Android and Windows Phone apps
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Chat App Viber Opens Its Games Service To All Users Worldwide
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
IronSource raises additional $20M, led by Access Industries, closing funding round at $100M+
Uber partners with Starwood Hotels to offer reward points for rides
Joshua Barrie / Business Insider :
HP in Talks to Buy Aruba Networks for Wi-Fi Infrastructure
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The official Twitter plugin for WordPress is here
Niall Kennedy / The Twitter Blog :
Former Facebook employees launch Coolan, a startup providing predictive analytics for data centers; currently in private beta
Amir Michael / Coolan Blog :
Broadcom has an Android Wear platform with 3G, NFC and more
Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom :
Lytro Cuts Jobs, Raises $50M in Shift Toward Virtual Reality and Video
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Salesforce Q4 sales and earnings in line; stock up about 9% in after-hours on raised guidance
Julie Bort / Business Insider :
Google Mulling ‘Strategic Investment’ in Device Maker Jawbone
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