Source: smaller HTC Nexus will have 5-inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 2770mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit CPU
It's that time everybody: Nexus season. While the last substantive pieces of Nexus information we could share popped up nearly two months ago …
Report: Huawei hedges its bet on Android by developing a new non-Android operating system in-house
Like Samsung before it, Huawei hopes to have a “Plan B” should Android terms go bad. — A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Huawei is building its own in-house OS as a p...
Apple clarifies differential privacy will be opt-in for iOS 10; data collected for user-added local dictionary words, emojis, deep links, lookup hints in notes
“Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself …
HP's 0.41 inch-thick Spectre laptop outperforms the MacBook but trails on battery life, and like MacBook makes too many sacrificies for thinness
As laptops go on extreme diets, you need to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice in ports, power and battery life
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos
Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
Source: Google is building a live support app with screen-sharing for Nexus devices
A long-standing gap in the Nexus device feature-set for “normal” buyers has been live on-device support. In the event you need help setting up your Nexus smartphone - a smartphone you bought on the i...
In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that stopped Rift games from being played on HTC Vive, says it will not use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC anymore
News breaks not from official announcement, but from discovery by workaround dev. — What a difference an Internet uproar can make.
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime
For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
China's search engines need to verify advertisers, clearly ID paid results from Aug. 1, following death of a student who accused Baidu of showing misleading ads
Avertisers' qualifications must be verified effective Aug. 1 — Banned content must be reported: Cyberspace Administration
Facebook to Provide ‘Political Bias’ Training for Employees
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Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers for dynamic pricing during demand surges
Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge :
YouTube Red acquires its first big-budget Hollywood-produced series, based on dance drama Step Up from Lionsgate
Brooks Barnes / New York Times :
Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version
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Intel weighs sale of cyber security business
Intel is looking at options for Intel Security, including potentially selling the antivirus software maker formerly known as McAfee which it bought for $7.7bn almost six years ago. — The Silicon Val...
Facebook hires Kevin Lo, former general manager of Google Fiber, to join its connectivity team
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Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car
Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully stage...
Qualcomm files a patent infringement lawsuit in China against Meizu
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Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS
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In China, subscriptions accounted for 13% of the online video industry's 2015 revenue, up from 5.6% a year earlier
More users become paying subscribers; ‘Lost Tomb’ is a boon for Baidu's iQIYI — Online video in China is starting to look more like Netflix and less like YouTube, as more users agree to pay for subs...
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products
Steven Levy / Backchannel :
A look at the ethical and logistical issues of preserving social media for future reference
Jenna Wortham / New York Times :
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Katherine Maher, earlier its Chief Communications Officer, as Executive Director
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Xiaomi struggles to expand abroad as its smartphone sales in China decline and ecosystem growth misses forecasts, making some question its $45B valuation
Scott Cendrowski / Fortune : Tweets: @fortunemagazine , @fortunemagazine and @amitbhawani Tweets: Fortune / @fortunemagazine : China's Xiaomi earned 9% of its 2015 revenue overseas and here's its pla...
Amazon presenting engineers additional job offers at fast-growing divisions like AWS, Alexa when hiring managers from other Amazon divisions first make offers
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