New images of the BlackBerry Venice slider leak, showing 18MP OIS rear camera, microSD and SIM card slots on top
BlackBerry ‘Venice’ slider spotted once again in new images [UPDATED] — While the rumors surrounding the BlackBerry ‘Venice’ slider continue to swirl …
Google Rolls Out Personalized Storm-Tracking Information In Search Results
With the U.S. hurricane season about to kick off, Google announced today that it's expanding the weather-related information that will appear in Google search results when web users search for informa...
Steve Jobs actively disdained Washington DC, but Tim Cook's Apple has reengaged in politics, especially on issues like privacy
Apple Takes Washington — Steve Jobs famously disdained D.C. Tim Cook's quietly taking it on. — As Apple chief Tim Cook quietly slipped out of a public meeting …
Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA launches Mirrativ for Android to let users livestream anything on their screen
DeNA Goes Live Streaming With Mirrativ — Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA Co. is joining the global live streaming race with a new app …
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming: effective for finding and viewing YouTube's existing gaming content, but it must attract big live audiences to compete with Twitch
YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does — YouTube is already a big player in live video.
Why It's Hard to Sue the NSA: You Have to Prove It Spied on You
Here's a big problem with secret spying programs in the US: To dismantle them with a lawsuit, someone has to prove that their privacy rights were infringed. And that proof is almost always a secret.
Verizon customers with two-year contracts can keep and renew them, and still get phone subsidies
Verizon's New ‘Simplified’ No-Contract Prices Confuse Everyone — Verizon is reminding users that while the company recently announced that it was killing devices subsidies and long-term contracts …
Amazon Echo now plays music, books from multiple accounts; gains BART schedules
Don't want to hear the kid's hip-hop on your Echo? Just add another Amazon account and tell Alexa to use it for music and audiobooks. — The Amazon Echo got a little more useful on Friday both for f...
HTC cofounder Peter Chou joins Hong Kong visual effects studio in VR push
The cofounder and former chief executive of struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has joined Hong Kong-based visual effects studio Digital Domain Holdings, according to an exchanges filing Friday.
ITC clears Microsoft phones of infringing on two InterDigital patents
U.S. International Trade Commission clears Microsoft of patent infringement — Microsoft Corp avoided a potentially costly setback to its mobile phone business on Friday as the U.S. International Tra...
Ten ISPs Sign On With FCC Fund, Will Expand Rural Broadband To Over 7M Customers In 45 States
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Branch founder Josh Miller and Parse founder Ilya Sukhar have announced this week they are leaving Facebook
The founders of two Facebook-acquired startups are leaving the company — Within a day of each other, two founders of startups acquired by Facebook said they are departing the company.
Google rolling out new colorful grid layout for app searches on Android
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Samsung offering $100 Google Play credit for those who buy a Galaxy Note 5, S6 edge+, or S6 edge after Test Drive promotion and $100 if they trade in iPhone
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FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly
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Facebook's Post-Roll Video Ad Test With the NFL and Verizon Quietly Ends
Late last year, Facebook inked a unique partnership with one of the more discerning and coveted media partners out there: the National Football League. — The deal featured NFL clips being promoted i...
Uber hires Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the researchers who hacked into moving Jeeps
Google to app developers: iOS 9 privacy feature that forces HTTPS can break ads, so add an exception to allow ads to be delivered over HTTP
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FTC to hold PrivacyCon in Washington, DC, on January 14 to bring together privacy and security researchers with policymakers
The Federal Trade Commission will hold … David McCabe / The Hill : FTC to hold privacy summit in January Robert Bartley / FierceCIO News : At new PrivacyCon event, FTC seeks input from industry
Q&A with Bitcoin Foundation's chief scientist, Gavin Andresen, on the imminent technical challenges facing Bitcoin
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European publishers are actively lobbying to strengthen copyright rules and limit Google's advertising power
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