iPhone 6s teardown reveals smaller 1715 mAh battery, 3D Touch display, x-ray view of Taptic Engine
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Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android
New FTC inquiry comes years after it closed search-engine case — Lingering skepticism meets probe over access to phone platform — Google Inc. is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask...
BlackBerry confirms “Priv” Android phone will launch at the end of 2015, posts weak Q2 earnings with loss of 13 cents per share
BlackBerry Confirms Android Plans, Posts Weaker-Than-Expected Earnings — BlackBerry on Friday confirmed its plans to launch an Android-based handset …
Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
Demanding “personal thought processes” amounts to compelled self incrimination. — The Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination would be breached if two insider trading suspects wer...
Samsung and Oculus announce $99 consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November
Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99 — And even better, the new Gear VR works with all of Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones released in 2015.
Minecraft Windows 10 edition will launch on Oculus Rift in 2016
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Oculus partners with Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Vimeo, Lionsgate, and 20th Century Fox to provide content for Gear VR and Oculus Rift
but there's a catch Abhijeet M. / SamMobile : Samsung's Gear VR now has official Netflix app, Vimeo and Hulu coming soon Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Netflix, Twitch, Hulu To Arrive On The Gear VR Brad Lin...
Michigan sues HP over $49M project that's 5 years late
Hewlett-Packard has faced no end of financial and legal woes in recent months, and on Friday it was hit with one more: A new lawsuit filed by the state of Michigan over a $49 million project the state...
GCHQ debuted a program called Karma Police seven years ago to track the browsing habits and communications of “every visible user on the Internet”
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities — THERE WAS A SIMPLE AIM at the heart of the top-secret program …
Pure Storage seeks to raise $450M in IPO at $16-18/share, for a valuation of up to $3.33B
Pure Storage Seeks to Raise as Much as $450 Million in IPO — Flash-storage maker would be valued at up to $3.33 billion — Company to offer 25 million shares at $16 to $18 apiece
Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 14 with 4K video editing, motion titles, tools to remove camera shake and haze, and more
Adobe updates Elements hobbyist photo and video apps with more pro-level features — As a consumer photo/video editing package …
Oculus partners with Alienware, Dell, and Asus to offer “Oculus Ready” PCs for less than $1K at launch
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iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist
Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
Researchers: cookies can be used to bypass HTTPS, reveal private session information in all modern browsers
Cookies can render secure websites vulnerable in all modern browsers — Share1 — Pin1 — TOTAL SHARES 3 — CERT have issued a new directive notifying that cookies …
Netflix announces in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad, offers same monthly rate as on the web
Netflix adds in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad — Now you won't even need to get off the sofa to find your laptop before you start binge-watching Netflix.
iOS 9's space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update
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FanDuel acquires eSports fantasy platform AlphaDraft, which will continue operating
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Microsoft launches Invite for iPhone, an app for scheduling meetings, in the US and Canada; coming soon to Android and Windows Phone
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Internet.org rebrands its free services mobile website and app as Free Basics to distinguish it from larger initiative, adds 60 new services, HTTPS support
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Tinder says last year's partnership with mobile security firm TeleSign has enabled it to reduce spambots by 90%
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App marketplace vendor AppDirect acquires AppCarousel, an app management platform for IoT
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