Uber and Lyft say they'll shut down Monday in Austin after voters reject proposition against fingerprint background checks for drivers
AUSTIN — Despite an $8 million dollar campaign by ride-hailing companies, Austin-area voters on Saturday rejected a proposal by Uber and Lyft to self-regulate …
Apple met with top podcasters as concerns grow about its commitment to the medium; lack of sharing tools, analytics, subscriptions remain industry sore points
Steven P. Jobs put his talent as a master salesman to the test when, in 2005, he introduced new Apple software for downloading digital audio shows.
Microsoft will remove Windows 10 upgrade prompts from Windows 7, 8.1 PCs after July 29th
Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade prompts will become a thing of the past soon. The software giant is planning to remove its Get Windows 10 app from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs after July 29th.
NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1080 starting at $600 and available May 27, and 1070 starting at $380 and available June 10; both are faster than the Titan X
Latest GeForce cards also push prices that won't break the bank either — Austin, Texas— “This is the largest chip project endeavor …
iOS 10 Likely to Include Standalone HomeKit App Designed by Apple
A unified, Apple-designed HomeKit app has been desired by HomeKit users since HomeKit first debuted, and it appears Apple is planning to introduce such an app in the near future, perhaps in iOS 10.
Despite Apple's dominant role in podcasting, the medium has remained decentralized and open; individual podcasters would suffer if Apple asserted more control
This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple's actual role …
Amazon's Alexa assistant can be used via Lexi, a $4.99 app that is available on iOS now
Amazon started to expand Alexa's reach with the Echo Dot, and now the company's voice assistant is showing up in even more places. Lexi is a new app that lets iOS 9.0 devices connect with Alexa …
NVIDIA announces Ansel in-game photography feature letting users take 360-degree screenshots that can later be viewed with VR headset or mobile VR
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HP EliteBook Folio G1 review: thin and light with a great build, trackpad, keyboard, but confusing array of configuration options
Two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a great keyboard and trackpad help it excel. — HP's EliteBook Folio G1. … Apple's laptop designs used to feel like they were a few years ahead of the curve.
Facebook testing “Discover” feature for Groups on iOS and Android to simplify finding Groups by category
More than 1 billion people use Facebook Groups every month. But for the world's largest social network, that just isn't enough. — The nearly decade-old product …
Internal documents show Palantir losing some top-tier clients and on track to turn over 20% of its staff in 2016
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Amazon Kindle Oasis review: extremely thin and light, but very expensive and no adaptive backlight
My favorite way to test any e-reader is to see if I still like using it when my reading material isn't exactly thrilling. For the past week, I've been using Amazon's newest Kindle to get through a bo...
FCC officially approves Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, with conditions FCC chairman outlined last month
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Dropbox says it's cutting some employee perks including SF shuttle bus, gym laundry service, and unlimited dinner guests in leaked memo
When Dropbox employees walked into their new office on Brannan Street last month, they were dazzled by something they hadn't seen before — a gleaming, 5-foot-tall panda statue made of chrome. Tweets: ...
Following highly publicized report of 272M email credentials for sale in Russia, Mail.ru and Google both say 98%+ of credentials on their services are invalid
and how to do it. http://www.troyhunt.com/... Fenno / @fennobear : I purposefully didn't talk about that “272M accounts hacked” story, it just didn't add up. Read: http://www.troyhunt.com/... (@troyhu...
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale accuses BuzzFeed of taking “select facts out of context” in effort to “hunt unicorns”, says customer traction is “astonishing”
Let's address this briefly here rather than write emails back to a lot of friends and investors … Tweets: @mikeisaac , @mattocko , @weberwest , @mattocko , @mattrosoff and @mims Tweets: @mikeisaac : d...
Apple Music Connect social network to be demoted in iOS 10 overhaul
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Lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition system moves forward, as judge rules that Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act is applicable
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AdBlock and AdBlock Plus now available for Microsoft Edge on Insider builds
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Amazon promises to fill all racial gaps in Prime Same Day delivery service, not launch in new regions until it can cover all zip codes there
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Warner's Q1 music streaming sales up $72M, making it the biggest source of revenue, more than 50% from outside US; downloads down $17M, physical copies down $6M
Peter Kafka / Re/code :
Qualcomm issues fix for 5 year old Android security flaw that exposes SMS, call history; Android versions prior to 4.3 mostly affected
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Lenovo announces $500M Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, its second tech startup fund
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BlackJet, an on-demand private jet service started by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, shuts down
For Good Tweets: Josh Wolfe / @wolfejosh : Most frequent phrase in 2016 may be: “Uber for ______shuts down” http://fortune.com/...
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