Tech companies appear open to helping US government combat Islamic State after summit
Silicon Valley appears open to helping US spy agencies after terrorism summit — Obama administration acknowledges ‘complicated first amendment issues’ after top counter-terrorism officials traveled ...
Sources: iPhone 7 will do away with the standard 3.5mm headphone jack; premium Bluetooth Beats earbuds with charging carrying case could debut this fall
Apple developing revamped, cord-free Beats with charging case ahead of iPhone 7 — With its resources from the 2014 acquisition …
Twitter removes conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge without stating a reason, inflaming politicized battle over online speech
Twitter Unverifies Writer Amid Speech Wars — Twitter's removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's verification badge …
Amid reports the next iPhone won't have a headphone jack, 200K+ sign petition asking Apple to keep it
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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says all NYC underground subway stations will have WiFi by the end of 2016, new mobile, contactless payment system by the end of 2018
The entire New York City subway system will have Wi-Fi by the end of 2016 — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan …
Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac
TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app. The photo below shows a Facebook employee u...
Razer launches $999 Blade Stealth Ultrabook and Core GPU enclosure dock that connects with Thunderbolt 3 and can drive both internal and external screens
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica :
Peach is a new social networking app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann that gives you quick access to things to share with “Magic Words”
Peach.cool is Friday's hottest social network — It's been a while since the last fameball social network took the Twittersphere by storm …
Razer announces $200 Stargazer webcam with Intel RealSense3D technology, dynamic background removal, face and object 3D scanning
Razer Raises The Bar On VR Gaming With Its New $200 Stargazer Webcam — Last summer, gaming tech company Razer said that it was working with Intel on a webcam …
Juniper Networks will drop code tied to National Security Agency
Juniper Networks Inc said late on Friday it would stop using a piece of security code that analysts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order to eavesdrop through technology produ...
2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year
Android N, a big VR program, Google Glass, and lots more are in store for Alphabet. — It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every...
Chinese Travel Booking Giant Ctrip Invests $180M In India's MakeMyTrip
Ctrip, the Chinese travel booking site valued at over $10 billion, has taken a big step in India after it agreed to invest $180 million in MakeMyTrip, a fellow booking service that covers flights, hot...
Sources: Yahoo reassesses whether to spinoff its main Internet business, considers outright sale
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With Google's move to integrate OpenJDK in Android, Oracle gains influence over a significant part of the Android software stack
Oracle sinks its claws into Android — This is my first blog post since leaving my role as Mozilla's CTO 6 months ago. As you may have read in the press …
As some in advertising industry criticize Pinterest's ad efforts, the company touts 5X YoY revenue growth in 2015, and plans to expand ad offerings in 2016
Insiders say what's going on inside $11 billion Pinterest — and it's not all good — Pinterest is a strong contender to go public in 2016 …
Dell offers $200 off the Oculus Rift when purchased with an Oculus Ready PC; bundles start at $1600
and get it before May Adi Robertson / The Verge : How long will ‘VR Ready’ PCs actually be VR ready? Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Alienware reveals money-saving Oculus bundle and world's first OLED gaming...
FCC says 34M people, about 10% of the US, still lack access to fixed broadband at FCC's benchmark speed of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Hands-on with Huawei's Honor 5X smartphone, available in US for preorder now for $199.99, ships January 31
Sam Byford / The Verge :
Sources: Yahoo's programmatic ad program generates mostly fraudulent traffic, ad management system is broken
Inside Yahoo's troubled advertising business — Between a sinking stock, an embattled CEO and restless investors demanding that the company be dismantled, these are not great days for Internet pionee...
Microsoft's cellular data app for Windows 10 suggests it may be developing its own SIM card
and SIM card—for that Jamie Rigg / Engadget : Microsoft is launching its own data SIM for Windows devices
T-Mobile Confirms It Slows Connections to Video Sites
Klint Finley / Wired :
Karma is cutting the speeds of its unlimited data plan
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
In Y Combinator reorg, Paul Buchheit, Gmail creator and FriendFeed founder, is now managing partner of core YC program, Altman remains president
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
IBM Sells Salary.com Compensation Business To The Original Founding Team
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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