Google announces Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Pixel C, new Chromecast and Chromecast Audio, updates to Google Play Music and Google Photos
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Apple Music, iTunes Movies, and iBooks now available in China, music free for three months then 10 RMB/month, movies start at 5 RMB, iBooks from 0.5 RMB
Apple Brings Apple Music, iTunes Movies & iBooks to Customers in China Starting Today — Apple today announced that Apple Music …
TiVo Bolt review: great $300 solution for cable subscribers, but ad skip only works for recorded shows on select channels
TiVo Bolt review: watching TV faster — Back in 1999, when I first reviewed the original TiVo DVR, I griped that “TiVo has no commercial-skipping button” …
Pixel C Android tablet hands-on: powerful performance, 10.2" screen, and the detachable keyboard is solid with adjustable hinge, but the package is pricey
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IHS estimates iPhone 6s Plus costs about $236 to build, one-third its $749 retail price
Apple's iPhone 6s Plus Costs an Estimated $236 to Make — $749 to Purchase — It costs Apple an estimated $236 to make and assemble its new iPhone 6s Plus, roughly one-third the $749 retail price of t...
New Nexus cameras include support for slow-motion video, improved HDR, Smart Burst only on 6P
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New Qualcomm chips inside Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P support 300 Mbps LTE-Advanced networks
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Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney to open on October 26 and November 12 respectively
Grand opening dates set for Microsoft flagship stores in New York City and Sydney — Renderings of Microsoft's first flagship stores - Fifth Ave. in NYC (top), Pitt Street Mall in Sydney (bottom).
XOR botnet infecting Linux computers launches 150 Gpbs DDoS attacks on up to 20 targets per day
Botnet preying on Linux computers delivers potent DDoS attacks — XOR DDoS bombards as many as 20 targets per day, sometimes with 150 GBpS of traffic. — Security researchers have uncovered …
Samsung's Gear S2 launches on October 2 in the U.S. starting at $299
Samsung has announced it's making the Gear S2 watch available for purchase in the U.S. starting on Friday. The watch will cost $299 for the original version and $349 for the higher-end S2 Classic.
TiVo unveils 4K-ready BOLT DVR with ad skipping and speed watching, available this week from $300, with $15/month subscription waived for first year
TiVo Unveils BOLT, A Modern, 4K-Ready DVR Designed For The Streaming Era — DVR maker TiVo today is announcing the latest addition …
Cellular usage through the roof since installing iOS 9? Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame
If you've noticed that your data usage has skyrocketed since installing iOS 9 then this may be a feature rather than a bug. A lesser-known feature of the update called Wi-Fi Assist may be to blame.
Twitter Expands ‘Buy’ Buttons To Bigcommerce, Demandware, Shopify... And Best Buy
A year after Twitter launched its first commerce product in the form of “buy now” buttons in Tweets, get ready to start seeing a whole lot more of them in your feed. — The social media company today...
Google modifies First Click Free policy, lowers access from five to three free articles per day from Google Search and Google News
First Click Free update — Around ten years ago when we introduced a policy called “First Click Free,” it was hard to imagine that the always-on …
Behind the evolution of Nexus hardware and why Google chose to roll out two Nexus handsets
How Google Changed The Smart Phone: A Deep History Of The Nexus Phone — Google's vice president of Android walks us through how Nexus hardware and Android software influence each other and how they ...
iOS Ad Blockers Begin Dropping In Popularity
For the first time since iOS 9 launched, no ad blocker is number one on the paid apps chart for iPhone. — Just short of two weeks since ad blockers skyrocketed to the top of the iPhone paid app char...
Google announces Chromecast Audio, Chromecast 2 with apps for Netflix, Sling TV and Google Photos, both available today for $35 in 17 countries
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Warburg Pincus to invest up to $60M in Civitas Learning, a cloud-based data analytics provider for education
Warburg Pincus to Invest Up to $60 Million in Civitas Learning — With sophisticated data analysis seeping into nearly every industry, a start-up focused on higher education …
Apple buys additional 200 acres adjacent to existing Prineville data center in Crook County, Oregon for $3.6M
Apple buys more land in Prineville — Tech giant purchases nearly 200 acres from Crook County — Apple Inc. closed on the sale of just under 200 acres in Prineville on Friday …
IAB is forming Ad Blocking Working Group and plans to distribute code that detects ad blockers
Ad Blocking - Unlike Fraud - Comes At The User's Behest — If ad blocking is war, long-tail publishers will likely be its earliest casualties. — “Ad blocking is a threat to the whole industry …
Adyen Adds New Funding From Iconiq, Values Dutch Payment Group At $2.3B
Adyen, a payment startup based in Amsterdam that provides services for companies like Facebook, Uber and Netflix, made waves last year when it announced a $250 million Series B that valued it at $1.5 ...
Chromecast is Google's hugely successful Trojan Horse into your home
Google's secret weapon for getting inside our homes and deeper within the fabric of our daily lives is not smart appliance maker Nest or even its ubiquitous Android operating system. It's a $35 HDMI ...
Foursquare now lets you make OpenTable reservations without leaving the app
Foursquare has partnered with OpenTable since 2012 to make restaurant reservation times available for viewing, but today a small update will allow users to book tables straight within the app.
GeForce Now puts PC games on your NVIDIA device for $8 per month
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Microsoft updates OneDrive for Business with new sync client, updated Android and iOS mobile apps
Microsoft is making available in limited preview its promised next-generation sync client for OneDrive, along with OneDrive for Business updates for iOS and Android.
SyFy pulls startup reality TV series Bazillion Dollar Club starring Dave McClure and Brady Forrest after first episode
Exclusive: Syfy pulls Dave McClure's ‘Bazillion Dollar Club’ from schedule — The Syfy channel has pulled “Bazillion Dollar Club” from its schedule one week after it premiered … Tweets: @jcinsv Tweet...
LA school district to get $6.4M from Pearson in settlement over iPad software, following its aborted $1.3B plan to equip the district with iPads in 2014
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Sources: Twitter building new product to let users share tweets longer than 140 characters
People are suddenly … Nick Cowen / htxt.africa : Twitter may be expanding the character limit on tweets Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch : The Super Tweet — Twitter is about nine years old and has a little...
Netflix and Virgin America to offer free in-flight WiFi for movies and shows on select flights through March 2, 2016
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Google Maps companion app for Apple Watch released, doesn't include map, only a directional arrow for guidance
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Tim Cook says Apple's enterprise revenue reached $25B in 12 months ending June, about 14% of company revenue
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Airbnb acquires sensor-centric, high-end Russian design company Lapka
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GE says its Predix industrial-IoT platform is on pace to generate $6B in revenue this year
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New Azure Container Service to bring together Mesos, Docker and Azure cloud
Join this worldwide event from your place in Aotearoa. Tom Keane / Microsoft Azure Blog : Announcing expanded Microsoft Azure support for financial services customers Benjamin Xue / MSDN Blogs : Catch...
Two serious flaws found in TrueCrypt by James Forshaw, a member of Google's Project Zero team
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YouTube announces Shopping ads, which overlay the video player, with testing this fall
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New Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill lets 47 people go, closes three offices, aims for “smaller, more focused team”
13 percent of its workers — and closes three offices https://t.co/E67qlUW7tS
Google Photos updates with Chromecast support, shared albums, and ability to tag people by name
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Y Combinator makes Hacker News an autonomous unit within YC to give it full editorial independence, tests “vouching”, a new community moderation feature
Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven :
Consumer loans marketplace Avant raises $325M in new equity funding, led by General Atlantic with J.P. Morgan investing, at a valuation of about $2B
Dan Primack / Fortune :
Box announces Box Platform with new services, a 3D document viewer, a camera-syncing photo app Capture, and more
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