Sources: Twitter paid less than $10M for the 10 NFL games, while rival bids were higher than $15M; users can watch for free without signing-in
Twitter Beats Amazon, Verizon for Global NFL Streaming Deal — Surprise finish to the fight for NFL streaming rights: They're going to Twitter.
HP introduces super-thin 10.4mm, 13.3-inch Spectre laptop with i7 CPU, 9.5 hours battery life; starting $1,169, available for preorder April 25
HP goes for bling with new super-thin, copper-accented Spectre notebook — While taking up minimal space, it promises to deliver on battery life and power.
Twitter acquires rights to stream NFL's Thursday night games, beating Amazon and Verizon, in an effort to attract mainstream users
Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream Thursday Night Games — Twitter Inc. won a deal to show Thursday night National Football League games online, a person familiar with the matter said.
Facebook announces Automatic Alternative Text on iOS, that uses AI to automatically describe images to blind users
Facebook begins using artificial intelligence to describe photos to blind users — Ask a member of Facebook's growth team what feature played the biggest role in getting …
Sony's next PS4 update arrives tomorrow with game streaming for PC and Macs
Sony's next major update to the PlayStation 4 debuts tomorrow. It includes a number of new features, but the most important addition is Remote Play for PCs and Macs. New Remote Play apps for Windows...
HTC Vive review: great innovative ideas, customizable UI, and solid construction, but glitchy and too expensive at $800
HTC Vive review — One month ago, I tested a virtual reality headset called the HTC Vive Pre. The Pre was a development kit created by gaming behemoth Valve …
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communications on its service by default
Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People — For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle …
Roku debuts a new Streaming Stick with a quad-core processor, support for private listening
Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other sticks and dongles, like Google's Chromecas...
Medium launches Medium for Publishers, a suite of branding and customization tools, over a dozen websites migrate over, including The Awl
Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers — At Medium, we're building out a new corner of the Internet specifically designed for people and publishers …
MIT Media Lab launches Data USA, the most comprehensive visualization of US public government data
Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through — For years, the federal government, states and some cities have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public.
Google Open Sources WALT, A Tool For Measuring Touch And Audio Latency On Android And Chrome OS
From a user perspective, a phone is either snappy or it's not. If it isn't, the device is either old or garbage that a manufacturer should be ashamed of shipping. — Technically, things aren't quite...
IHS teardown of 16GB iPhone SE reveals it costs about $160 to build
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Yahoo scales back its media focus as cutbacks follow tensions between media stars seeking home-page space and engineers who swear by algorithms
Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian's Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo's Media Ambitions? — After a pricey talent spree, Yahoo News is reversing course—again.
Groupon receives $250M from private investment firm Atairos, which launched this year with $4B backing from Comcast
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Database allegedly containing personal information including national ID numbers and addresses of over 49M Turks leaked online
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Intel announces head of PC business Kirk Skaugen to depart April 8, Navin Shenoy to take over; Doug Davis, head of IoT effort to leave by year end
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Techies Project launches, offering photos and interviews of people from underrepresented groups in tech
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Nest is disabling the Revolv home-automation service on May 15, effectively bricking Revolv home hub hardware, after acquiring the startup in 2014
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Salesforce acquires MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Marc Benioff and Khosla Ventures; services to be discontinued in May
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Disqus releases first iPhone app w/ support for tracking comments & discussions, more
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Zomato launches Zomato Base, an Android-based point-of-sale product, in India
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Amazon launches the Amazon Payments partner program to integrate “Pay with Amazon” option into e-commerce platforms like Shopify, not just individual merchants
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DJI, 3DR, Parrot and GoPro form new drone advocacy group
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Amazon Echo Dot review: at half the price of the Echo and much smaller, it delivers the same experience and makes for the perfect companion device
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Q&A with Satya Nadella on chat bots, Cortana, data centers, startups and partnerships in developing countries, and more
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Toyota forms Toyota Connected, a new subsidiary for development of connected vehicles; Microsoft gets 5% stake in the venture
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$85M patent verdict covering Android's push notifications, the largest ever against Google, overturned on appeal
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