Leaked Images Of The New Nexus Phone Retail Boxes Confirm ‘Nexus 5X’ And ‘Nexus 6P’ Model Names
It's a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand.
Instagram announces it has reached 400M monthly active users, doubling in size since March 2014, with more than 75 percent of users outside US
Celebrating a Community of 400 Million — We are thrilled to announce that the Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong.
OPM now reports 5.6M federal employees' fingerprints stolen in breach, up from 1.1M
OPM Now Admits 5.6m Feds' Fingerprints Were Stolen By Hackers — When hackers steal your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they've got an unchangeable credential that le...
On iPhone 6s and the importance of Apple's tick-tock release cycle: new-number phones demonstrate design focus, and S models are for perfecting engineering
The iPhones 6S — The pattern is pretty clear. In even-numbered years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) Apple releases all-new iPhone form factors: 3G, 4, 5, 6/6 Plus.
T-Mobile offers iPhone 6s for $5, $10, or $15/month via its JUMP upgrade program, price depends on trade-in model
T-Mobile Offering iPhone 6s Starting at $5/Month With iPhone 6 Trade In — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced on Twitter that it will offer the iPhone 6s for as low as $5 per month through JUMP!
Sources: Citrix looking to sell itself as a whole before embarking on asset sales, has reached out to Dell and others
Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources — Citrix Systems Inc (CTXS.O), the U.S. cloud computing company targeted by activist hedge fund Elliott Management …
Google develops and open sources Brotli compression tool, claims it offers 20-26% higher compression ratios than predecessor Zopfli
Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet — At Google, we think that internet users' time is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to wait long for a web page to load.
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying
Just how safe is Safe Harbour? (credit: Elizabeth du Toit) — The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws ...
Nvidia's desktop GTV 980 graphics cards coming to six gaming laptops, includes overclocking headroom and support for VR
Nvidia hits gaming milestone: True desktop performance in a laptop with GeForce GTX 980 — Nvidia somehow managed to cram a desktop GPU into a laptop. Read on to find out how.
Source: Uber leasing space in former Sears building in Oakland, likely all 330K square feet, for an office that will open in two years
Exclusive: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland's former Sears building — Uber Technologies Inc. will open a large office in Oakland …
Kleiner Perkins brings on new partners in effort to increase diversity and hires Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister, Arielle, as an associate partner
Arielle Zuckerberg, Zuck's Youngest Sister, Is Joining Kleiner Perkins — Arielle Zuckerberg, the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a Slack-like messaging and collaboration tool for web, iOS, and Android
Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a single app for chatting and collaborating — Collaboration tools are abundant these days, but each one seems to be taking a unique approach to the mobile space.
Keyboard apps are becoming more capable by adding new functionality, like search, emoji, and more
Super-Smart Apps Are Invading Our Keyboards — The origin story of the QWERTY keyboard layout is a very particular, very nerdy sort of mythology. There was a guy with a typewriter patent in the 1800...
Samsung unveils 950 Pro SSD with V-NAND and NVMe, coming October and priced at $200 for 256GB, $350 for 512GB
Mark Walton / Ars Technica :
Researchers say over 4K apps in iOS App Store infected with XcodeGhost, but apps not as harmful as feared earlier
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica UK :
Indian government withdraws draft encryption policy after backlash, plans to revise and rerelease it
Ellen Barry / New York Times :
Imgur vulnerability that targeted 8chan via images on Reddit patched
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
Smule sues two former employees, claims their new startup Shred Video used Smule IP
Startup sues former employees who launched similar company; CEO warns, 'If we're wrong, we'll win' — Smule, a maker of popular apps like Sing! Karaoke, AutoRap, and I am T-Pain …
Gmail now lets you block specific email addresses, unsubscribe from newsletters in the Android app
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Uber Is Testing UberCommute, A New Carpooling Service, In China
First in China, Then Around the World Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Uber launches a carpooling service for commuting drivers in China Mariella Moon / Engadget : UberCommute is the company's new c...
NY regulator issues first ever BitLicense to Boston-based Bitcoin startup Circle, allowing it to offer digital-currency services in New York
Karen Freifeld / Reuters :
Shred denies it repurposed Smule's IP, details how its technology works
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Sources: Cisco to announce partnership with Chinese server maker Inspur in deal that may involve resale of Cisco networking gear and joint hardware development
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Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join
Peter Kafka / Re/code :
Waze considers reducing suggestions for dangerous left-hand turns that save time
David Yanofsky / Quartz :
Broadband is a “core utility” like electricity, White House report says
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Periscope iOS update allows viewers to share screenshots seamlessly while watching streams
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch :
Google Opens Up to Wall Street
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjd Tweets: @wsjd : Google is holding business briefings with Wall Street analysts as part of new transparency effort: http://www.wsj.com/...
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