Apple says iPhone pre-orders are on pace to beat last year's 10M unit first-weekend record
Apple: We are on pace to beat last year's iPhone first-weekend record — Apple on Monday said it is on pace to beat last year's iPhone first-weekend record. — Apple shares rose in premarket trading...
Xcode confirms 2 GB RAM for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, 4 GB RAM for iPad Pro
Hamza Sood has cleverly used asset catalogs with the Xcode 7 GM to confirm the rumors around the iPhone 6s and iPad Pro RAM specifications. It confirms that the iPhone 6s has 2 GB of RAM, up from 1 G...
Google X hires Detroit veteran John Krafcik as “CEO” of its self-driving car project, suggests the division could become an independent company under Alphabet
Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars — Hiring of Detroit veteran John Krafcik indicates keenness to commercialize the technology
Microsoft sends invites for October 6 event where Surface Pro 4, Lumia 950 and 950 XL, other Windows 10 devices are expected to launch
Microsoft to launch Surface Pro 4 and new phones at October 6th event — Microsoft has started inviting media outlets to a special Windows 10 devices launch next month.
How Ashley Madison Hid Its Fembot Con From Users and Investigators
The developers at Ashley Madison created their first artificial woman sometime in early 2002. Her nickname was Sensuous Kitten, and she is listed as the tenth member of Ashley Madison in the company'...
Nintendo Names Tatsumi Kimishima Its New President
Following the deeply sad passing of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo has recently announced that the long-term member of the company Tatsumi Kimishima will replace him as president.
New Hampshire library that set up a Tor relay, the first library to do so, suspends the relay after DHS inquiry
First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email — A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor...
White House announces updated College Scorecard website with 18 years of data from 7K+ colleges, open APIs, new comparison tools, and more
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NASA to send another HoloLens to ISS on Dec. 3 after losing first one in June SpaceX explosion
Why NASA Wants Microsoft's HoloLens in Space — The rocket carrying two HoloLens headsets to the International Space Station blew up in June, and NASA is planning another launch.
Symphony, a messaging tool intended to compete with Bloomberg's terminals, strikes deal with Dow Jones to offer news content in its service
Dow Jones strikes chord with Symphony — Symphony, the messaging tool backed by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, has struck a deal with Dow Jones …
YouTube star Michelle Phan's makeup subscription delivery service ipsy raises $100M round led by TPG Growth and Sherpa Capital
Makeup Subscription Delivery Service ipsy Raises $100M — ipsy, an online makeup subscription delivery service, said today that it had raised $100 million.
Netflix and Amazon users sue to stop Chicago's 9% streaming tax
It's on. Subscribers to popular streaming services, including XBox Live and Spotify, have filed a lawsuit that claims the city of Chicago's controversial tax policy on digital entertainment is illega...
FireEye: reported vulnerability affected only .005% of customers; ERNW injunction was about protecting sensitive proprietary info, not the overall disclosure
An in-depth look at Travis Kalanick, his prior startups and how his changing philosophies are influencing Uber
What Makes Uber Run — Jordan Kretchmer remembers what Travis Kalanick was like before Uber was Uber. — Kretchmer was a 25-year-old college dropout with a lot of ideas, and Kalanick had even more.
Lack of WebKit webview support in Apple's tvOS poses problems for porting many apps that use webviews to display web widgets and pages
Since Apple announced the new Apple TV … Tweets: Andrew Savory / @savs : No Webviews on the new AppleTV: http://medium.com/... We've regressed a long way since 2007: http://www.apple.com/... Logan Tur...
CloudFlare transfers technology to Baidu in partnership to make foreign sites more accessible in China, receives revenue split as part of virtual joint venture
Our portfolio company CloudFlare operates … Tweets: Eva Dou / @evadou : CloudFlare-Baidu tie-up another example of the new China model. US firms need to hand over control of IP, data http://www.nytime...
Mozilla quietly rolled out Suggested Tiles, its built-in ad product for Firefox, in early August; currently not getting paid for them
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Profile of Facebook executive Matt Jacobson, employee No. 8, and the company's link to Hollywood
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Estimote's Location Intelligence Platform now allows users to track and search for indoor items that have company's Bluetooth beacon-enabled stickers on them
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