Pre-orders for HTC's VR headset Vive start February 29, ships in April
HTC Vive pre-orders to start on February 29 — Pre-orders for HTC's virtual reality headset Vive will open on February 29, boss Cher Wang confirms — HTC will start taking pre-orders for Vive, its v...
AT&T brings back unlimited data plans for its DirecTV and U-verse subscribers
AT&T is bringing back unlimited data. The number-two wireless carrier discontinued its original unlimited plans years ago, but it's resuscitating the all-you-can-eat option as a cross-promotion with ...
Eddy Cue: due to a glitch, Apple has been underestimating the number of News app users since launch and passing that inaccurate information to publishers
Apple News App Is Off to a Rocky Start — There's one glitch: Neither publishers nor the company know how many people are reading
Sources: Apple Music now has more than 10M subscribers
Apple's music streaming subscribers top 10m — Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months to hit a milestone which took its arch-rival Spotify six years to hi...
Xiaomi's Redmi 3 offers a massive 4,100mAh battery and all-metal body for just $107
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced its latest budget handset today, the Redmi 3. The device features all-metal construction and a large 4,100mAh battery, which are both unusual in phones below...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is trying to sell The New Republic, after buying it in 2012
New Republic Owner Chris Hughes Puts Magazine Up For Sale — Facebook co-founder, who purchased the title in 2012, says magazine needs a new business model — The New Republic …
Nielsen: Music Streams Doubled In 2015, Digital Sales Continue To Fall
2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen's year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams - that's a doubling from 2014, whi...
Sources: more than 30% of Yahoo's workforce has left in the last year, but company says it is still hiring, and application numbers are strong
Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company — SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired …
Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber
From January 2014 to January 2015, Lyft grew fivefold in rides and revenue. Above, a driver for Lyft and Uber at Los Angeles International Airport last month. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) — I...
SoundCloud raises €32 million in debt funding with an option for additional loans
According to Swedish technology news site DiGITAL, Berlin-based SoundCloud has raised 300 million Swedish krona (a little more than €32 million, or about $35 million) in debt funding.
General Motors partners with HackerOne, opens Detroit's first public security vulnerability disclosure program
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How algorithmic systems to score humans like FICO and China's Sesame Credit can lead to social control, and some possible remedies to this problem
The risks — and benefits — of letting algorithms judge us — Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and chief technology officer …
Didi Kuaidi says it has booked 1.43B rides in 2015, 200M of them in December
Take That, Uber! Didi Kuaidi Says It Booked Over a Billion Rides Just in 2015. — Last month, Uber declared that it had booked over one billion rides worldwide through its app since its creation in ...
Lenovo chief: Google Play Services will be in China this year
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Thunderbolt 3, with increased speed and USB Type-C ports, now found in high end offerings from major PC OEMs
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Rocket Internet-Backed Easy Taxi Confirms Asia Exit, Doubles Down On Latin America
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Appeals court upholds 2013 settlement that allowed Facebook to use data of minors in ads
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica : Tweets: @spepofficial Tweets: StudioPEP / @spepofficial : The real way to keep Facebook from using your kid's information for advertising? Don't let them on Facebook. h...
Tor Project's executive director Shari Steele talks about changing public perception of Tor, CMU attack, diversifying the funding sources, and more
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2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year
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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
Andreas Gal : Tweets: @fmnjohn , @pquerna , @fraserspeirs , @stshank and @luisobo Tweets: John Carroll / @fmnjohn : Google really missed a trick when it opted not to buy Sun. Could have kept Java and...
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