Instagram to begin testing an algorithm-based personalized feed for users, moving away from reverse chronological order
Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm — For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order.
Pennsylvania man charged with hacking iCloud, Gmail accounts of celebrities, admits to phishing, but prosecutors find no evidence that he shared images
Hacker Admits to Stealing Celebrity Nude Photos, Takes Plea Deal — Prosecutors estimate Ryan Collins, 36, accessed at least 50 iCloud accounts …
PlayStation VR headset to arrive in October for $399, less than Oculus Rift at $599 and HTC Vive at $799, but excludes camera required for gameplay
PlayStation VR will arrive in October for $399 — Sony took to the stage today during GDC 2016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset.
Apple asks court to guard civil liberties in final filing ahead of March 22 hearing
Apple just filed its final response before it meets the FBI in court — Apple will face the FBI in federal court in California on March 22 to address whether it needs to help the agency break into Sa...
Oculus Rift to have 30 titles at its March 28 launch, priced between $10 and $60, with Lucky's Tale bundled
The 29 Oculus Rift games you'll be able to buy at launch — Two weeks before Oculus launches its Rift virtual reality headset, we're learning what games people will be able to play on it …
Vic Gundotra's AliveCor is building a heart monitor band for the Apple Watch, waiting for FDA approval
Vic Gundotra, Former Google+ Boss, Is Building a Heart Monitor for the Apple Watch — AliveCor, a startup that builds heart-monitoring sensors for smartphones, is building sensors for another mobile ...
AWS makes Database Migration Service available to all customers
Amazon Web Services has now made its database migration service available to all of its customers, after completing the migration of over 1,000 databases since the first day of 2016. — Amazon Web Se...
Comcast debuts gigabit cable with uploads of 35Mbps in Atlanta at $70/month with 3-year contract, $140 without; Google's symmetrical gigabit Fiber is $70/month
Comcast offers gigabit cable for $70 a month with contract, $140 without — Uploads are only 35Mbps, and there's a data cap unless you sign the contract.
Amazon files patent for a process allowing users to authenticate by performing an action or gesture while taking a selfie
Amazon Wants the Patent for Pay-By-Selfie — First, Amazon patented one-click purchasing buying. Now it wants a patent for pay-by-selfie.
Sony expects 50 PlayStation VR games by end of 2016, gets Star Wars Battlefront exclusive
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Google says 75% of web requests to its non-YouTube sites are now encrypted, up from about 50% two years ago
Google is giving itself an encryption report card — Today, Google added a new section to its transparency report, giving users a running tally of how many Google requests use HTTPS encryption.
Google reveals renderings of new Charleston East campus in planning application to city of Mountain View
Here are the latest images of Google's project in Mountain View (slideshow) — Last month, I brought you details of Google's latest concept for Charleston East …
Medium updates iOS and Android apps to add topic- and theme-based collections, curated by trusted human testers
Collections: Curating A More Browsable Medium — There's so many great stories published every day on Medium—it's hard to keep up. We're building a platform for authors …
Smart doorbell startup Ring raises $61.2M round led by KPCB, launches sleeker $250 Pro device
Internet of rings: Smart doorbell startup raises $61.2M, launches sleeker $250 Pro device — Smart doorbell startup Ring has raised a further $61.2 million in a series C round led …
Google, GM, Lyft, and Delphi ask Senate panel to regulate self-driving cars to avoid medley of state laws, citing 53 bills proposed in 23 states
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Menlo Ventures leads $14.5M round for Usermind, an enterprise business operations startup
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Fossil launches two $275 Android Wear smartwatches and other connected wearables as it expands its Q line and aims for 100 new “connected devices” in 2016
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Apple News now lets publishers of all sizes edit and deliver their stories in the Apple News format, improves statistics dashboard, and launches ad campaign
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Experts estimate fewer than 10% of the world's 1.4B Android phones are encrypted, compared with 95% of iPhones
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F.lux color-adjusting app arrives on Android but requires rooted phone, as it confronts a future in which major mobile OSes include same functionality
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Oracle reports mixed results with quarterly net income of $2.14B as cloud grows, but software and hardware stagnate
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Accel raises $1.5B fund for later-stage “growth” investments and $500M for a classic venture capital fund
here are the kinds of companies they want to fund Blaise Zerega / VentureBeat : Startups, what would you do with $2 billion? Accel has 9 big ideas Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Early-stage venture firm Ac...
Snapchat Hires Longtime Pandora Executive Tom Conrad as VP of Product
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Peerio productivity suite for end-to-end encryption of email, files, and IMs is now available on iOS and Android
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Google puts presidential campaign finance information and more directly in search
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Google's new Analytics 360 Suite for enterprise marketers directly challenges Adobe's Marketing Cloud
for what Google's new Analytics 360 Suite really means Patricio Robles / the Econsultancy blog : Google courts enterprise marketers with launch of Analytics 360 Suite Horia Ungureanu / Tech Times : Go...
Google Maps goes beyond Uber, adds Ola, Hailo and more car services to its app
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