Tim Cook talks data encryption and criticizes competitors' stances on customer privacy at Washington event
Apple's Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy — Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washingt...
Amazon offers free shipping on small goods to all customers without requiring a minimum order
Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods Without Minimum Order — Not just for Prime members — Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items …
HomeKit documented officially by Apple, as Apple TV confirmed as gateway device
A new Apple support document for HomeKit has now officially confirmed our earlier report that the Apple TV would serve as a hub for HomeKit devices. The document confirms an Apple TV is needed …
Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast
Yahoo Will Stream the NFL's First Web Game, for Free — A couple of months ago, when the NFL announced that for the first time ever, it would show a regular season game (almost) …
Senate passes the USA Freedom Act to restore and revise some Patriot Act spying provisions, ending bulk collection of US call metadata
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Obama signs USA Freedom Act into law, surveillance measures of Patriot Act now resume
Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures — Lawmakers approve a variation of the phone-records spy program Snowden revealed. — The Senate on Tuesday revived three …
Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Due To “Rare” Fire Safety Risk
Apple has issued a voluntary recall for the Beats Pill XL Bluetooth speaker, which is made by the company it acquired last year. The speaker, originally created pre-acquisition, apparently poses a po...
Pinterest doesn't plan on taking a cut of retailers transactions with Buyable Pins, will instead make money promoting the pins
Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Scrapbooking With ‘Buy It’ Button — Pinterest, the online social scrapbooking service, has long claimed to help people discover new things in the real world.
Skype crashes after specific 8-char string is received in chat, updates released with fix
These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they're in your chat history, the app can't start (Update: fixed) — Skype users have discovered a rather nasty bug in the app.
Facebook Tests “Saved Replies,” A Tool That Lets Pages Respond To Customers With Canned Messages
Facebook is testing a new feature called “Saved Replies,” which will allow business Page owners the ability to write, save and then re-use canned messages when communicating with their customers over ...
Meg Whitman confirms HP split for Nov. 1; HP Enterprise gets new logo but future vision remains vague
Whitman Paints a Vague Picture of Hewlett Packard Enterprise — LAS VEGAS — Meg Whitman, chairwoman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, explained her dream Tuesday for Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...
Google Photos Review: best photo backup-and-sync cloud service, but free only applies to images up to 16MP, and videos 1080p or less, more than enough for most
The New Google Photos: Free at Last, and Very Smart — Last Thursday was liberation day for Google Photos …
Pinterest to launch Buyable Pins in US to let you buy pinned products without leaving the app
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Magic Leap announces augmented reality SDK that supports Unity and Unreal game engines, no release date given but company says “soon”
Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform — Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators …
Sources: nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals; employees quiet on changes due to NDA
Medium, the publishing platform started by one of Twitter's cofounders, is gutting some of its most popular sites — Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium …
AMD's new 28nm Carrizo chips for mainstream notebooks use half the power of last-gen chips and improve performance 1.5x
AMD's Carrizo chip targets the one thing every laptop user wants: Longer battery life — Think of Intel's Core chips as the giant's massive broadsword …
Korean E-commerce Leader Coupang To Raise $1 Billion From SoftBank At $5 Billion Valuation
As a Harvard undergraduate student, Bom Kim signed off on most emails with a quote from his entrepreneurial hero, SoftBank leader Masayoshi Son. “All I had was a dream and confidence for which I had ...
Opendoor launches service for home buyers, enables them to browse listings, organize a site visit, even make an offer
Is this the future of shopping for a house? — Imagine selling your house almost as soon as you decide to list it, and for a fair price. Tweets: @ericwu01 Tweets: Eric Wu / @ericwu01 : Excited to rel...
Piston Goes To Cisco, Blue Box to IBM As OpenStack Consolidation Accelerates
Cisco announced this morning it has purchased private cloud — and OpenStack — specialist Piston Cloud Computing. The acquisition comes on the heels of its Metacloud purchase last Fall, and the acquis...
Comparison of SSD firmware reliability of different brands after using thousands of drives for five years
SSDs: A gift and a curse — Artur Bergman, founder of a CDN exclusively powered by super fast SSDs, has made many compelling cases over the years to use them.
Amazon brings Minions ads to delivery boxes, marking its first advertising deal on packaging
the first non-Amazon ads to appear on the company's delivery boxes.
Pharmacy Delivery Startup PillPack Locks In $50 Million To Take On Walgreens
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Google is developing a tool called Im2Calories to identify food in pictures and determine its calorie count
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Steam now offers refunds for video games purchased in past 14 days and played for less than two hours
You can request a refund for nearly any purchase … Chloi Rad / IGN India Feed : Steam introduces refund system Andy Chalk / PC Gamer : New Steam refund policy lets you get your money back “for any rea...
Comcast says hardware in its backbone network caused outage on West Coast on Monday, will send $5 refunds to customers
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IRS failed to address computer security weaknesses, making attack on 104,000 taxpayers more likely, watchdog says
Update Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times : Chief Says I.R.S. Struggles to Stay Ahead of Online Attackers
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas in case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas — Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes …
Facebook to remove support for SHA-1 certificate signatures Oct. 1, will require SHA-2
Adam Gross / Facebook Developers :
Terbium Labs' Matchlight technology aims to find stolen data on the dark net before it is sold
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet :
Sony Mobile cuts 1K jobs, nearly half of staff, in its Sweden R&D and manufacturing center
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Wireless-software firm Synchronoss Technologies explores sale worth over $2B
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Microsoft bringing SSH to Windows and PowerShell
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Biggest MasterCard issuers reject $19M settlement with Target over hacked credit-card data
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Sprinklr acquires text analytics software provider NewBrand, its seventh purchase in 18 months
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Imgur introduces promoted posts, releases fully native Android app, updated iOS app with upload feature coming soon
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
AT&T is prepared to abide by the new net neutrality rules under the DirecTV deal
Brian Fung / Washington Post :
Udemy raises $65M Series D led by Stripes Group to more quickly grow Udemy for Business
Christine Magee / TechCrunch :
Google plans expansion of Baseline Study for later this year with Study Kit apps that enable collection of health data on iOS, Android, and Chrome
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