Samsung announces Galaxy Note 5 available August 21 with 5.7" quad HD display, 4GB RAM, 16MP camera, refined design and materials
Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is official and will be available on August 21st — Samsung is officially taking the wraps off of the Galaxy Note 5 today, the latest in its flagship line of Note phablets.
Samsung announces slightly larger variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge, the Edge+, with 5.7" display
Samsung's new Galaxy S6 Edge+ is bigger and smarter — Samsung released two phones in March that featured some radical shifts in design philosophy: the Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 Edge.
Samsung Pay to launch September 28 in the US on Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and Edge+, Note 5
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Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support
Apple today released an update to Boot Camp with support for Microsoft Windows 10, according to a new support document. The update, Boot Camp 6, is still propagating and is not yet available for OS X...
Facebook rescinded Harvard student's internship after he revealed privacy flaw, created Chrome extension to map people's locations when they used Messenger
Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws — Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna …
Tinder Founder Sean Rad Returns as CEO, Replacing Chris Payne
Sean Rad, the co-founder of Tinder, who was replaced as CEO in March, is returning to the job. — As part of the move, Chris Payne — the former eBay and Microsoft exec who was hired in March to give ...
NBCU invests $200M in Vox Media, pre-money valuation of $850M; will invest $200M in BuzzFeed
NBCUniversal Buys Big Chunks of Vox Media and BuzzFeed — Last week Re/code reported that NBCUniversal was investing in BuzzFeed and Vox Media. — Now those deals are done, and NBCU and Vox Media ar...
HTC to cut 15% of its workforce, about 2250 people, by the end of this year
HTC to Cut Jobs Amid Crowded Smartphone Market — Taiwanese smartphone maker sets its sights beyond smartphones in latest restructuring — HONG KONG—Smartphone maker HTC Corp. said Thursday it plans...
At AT&T, the Galaxy Note 5 starts at $739.99, S6 Edge+ at $814.99, both with 32 GB of storage; preorders begin at 3PM EDT
Galaxy Note 5 release dates and pricing hit US carriers — Today the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been revealed with a launch date of August 21st, 2015.
Windows 10 activation status for each device is now stored online; future reinstalls on that device don't require product key
Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10 — Windows activation is alive and well in Windows 10. Microsoft doesn't like to talk …
Russia bans Reddit because a thread gave advice on how to grow psilocybe mushrooms
Russia bans Reddit over shrooms — The Russian government has officially banned Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet. — Unless Russian users take advantage of VPN to bypass the web...
Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+
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Samsung announces hardware keyboard that snaps onto the screen of Galaxy Note 5 or S6 Edge+
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Samsung's new phones offer new Periscope-like service using YouTube Live
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Google's NASA relationship lets it test 100-mph, 55-lb Project Wing drones in US as high as 400 feet over private land
Google is testing drones in US airspace by piggybacking on Nasa exemption — Documents show the tech company has skirted regulations for private firms for a year …
Xiaomi announces new flagship Redmi Note 2: Octa-core and full HD for $124
Just days after releasing its last new phone, Xiaomi has announced yet another device with competitive specs at a very disruptive price point. Xiaomi calls it ‘the new monster’ and for good reason.
Periscope announces 2M daily active users, claims more than 10M have created accounts since launch
We'd like to share an exciting update … Kiruti Itimu / Techweez : Periscope Cares More About “Time watched” Over “Daily Active Users” Metric Nate Swanner / The Next Web : Periscope now has 10 million ...
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 820: Adreno 530 GPU 40% faster, consumes 40% less power than 430, supports HDMI 2.0 4K display at 60 FPS
Snapdragon 820 is official: A look at its GPU (and how much the chip matters) — Qualcomm introduces a new flagship by way of the Adreno 530 GPU and Spectra ISP.
Lenovo to cut 3200 non-manufacturing jobs after its Q1 net profit drops 50.9% YoY to $105M; job cuts part of company's $650M cost-cutting effort
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Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform
Mojio, a connected car platform based around a small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car's OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The new Mojio Drive w...
Groupon cuts 20 jobs in its restaurant software unit Breadcrumb as founder Seth Harris leaves
Layoffs Hit Groupon's Restaurant Software Unit as Breadcrumb Founder Leaves — Earlier this year, Groupon considered spinning off its restaurant software business, Breadcrumb, as Re/code previously r...
Samsung teases Gear S2 circular smartwatch to be unveiled on September 3
Here is the first look at Samsung's new Gear smartwatch, coming next month — Samsung's big news today was two big phones, but it has even more tech to come shortly: a new smartwatch that's going to ...
Niantic Labs, Maker Of Ingress, Spun Out Of Google As Its Own Company
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Facebook struggles to sell advertising in India
Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free email support for questions about advertising and advice on increasing sales in a bid to boost revenue from its sec...
Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub
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Kik launches Jam, a new service designed to help Kik's 200M+ users “meet new friends based on similar music interests”
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Dropbox will now let you use a USB key for two-factor login
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43.3% of Intel's US hires over last 6 months were either female or underrepresented minorities, up from roughly 20% for all of 2014
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Amazon to retire Product Ads Oct. 31, will provide new text ads as alternative
Matt McGee / Marketing Land :
Cisco beats Q4 expectations with non-GAAP earnings of $0.59/share and revenue of $12.8B; shares up over 3% after hours
Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code :
Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC May Not Launch Until Next Year
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Moto X Pure Edition Will be Available Starting September 3
Kellex / Droid Life :
Map Maker Reopens Starting With Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, Philippines, And Ukraine
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News Corp in advanced talks to sell off its education division, Amplify, will cease production of tablet, continue to develop software during talks
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Microsoft Surface Hub to ship starting January 1, 2016, rather than September 1, 2015, as originally planned
Microsoft delays its giant tablet Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld : Microsoft's Surface Hub collaboration tool delayed until 2016 Carly Page / Inquirer : Microsoft's 84in Surface has been delayed until 2...
Outlook.com preview gets new add-ins from Uber, PayPal, Evernote, and Boomerang as rollout expands
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Facebook plans to open Mentions, which houses Periscope competitor Live, to all verified profiles
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