Instead of offering to replace units, Samsung should officially recall Note7 via US Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban ongoing sales of pre-recall units
Some retailers were still selling the phone Friday — Consumer Reports is calling for an official recall …
KGI: iPhone 7 to feature 2.4GHz A10 chip, IPX7 water resistance, new 12 megapixel cameras, 2 black color options, Lightning EarPods, 3GB RAM in Plus model, more
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Samsung will begin exchanging Galaxy Note7 devices in US as early as next week and provide $25 credit to those who stick with Samsung smartphones
Ina Fried / Recode :
What to expect from Apple's Sept. 7 event: new iPhones with pressure-sensitive home buttons, 5.5-inch model with dual-camera system, new Watch with GPS, more
Apple seeks to set foundation for holiday quarter with iPhone camera upgrades, improved Apple Watch fitness tracking, and refreshed software
comScore: smartphone apps now account for half the time US users spend online, up from 41% in July 2014
Here's a stat that's sure to worry Google: smartphone applications now account for half the time that U.S. users spend online, up from 41 percent back in July 2014, according to a new report from comS...
Startup Drive.ai plans self-driving retrofit kits for cars with roof-mounted displays for communicating car's intent to pedestrians; testing starts in weeks
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Head of Nokia's Technologies unit, Ramzi Haidamus, responsible for company's IP and consumer hardware initiatives, is stepping down
The head of Nokia's small, but highly profitable patent licensing division is leaving after two years in the role, the Finnish company said on Wednesday …
Inside Amazon's delivery business and its ambitions, which FedEx and UPS privately fear
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Softbank has completed its £24B cash acquisition of ARM Holdings
One of the biggest tech deals this year — and the biggest ever in the UK — has now closed. Today, Softbank announced that it has completed its acquisition of ARM Holdings, the semiconductor firm that...
Why LPs might gladly invest in Andreessen Horowitz despite unfavorable comparisons to Sequoia and Benchmark
Rolfe Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z's returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” — Scott Kupor of A16Z responded …
EU's net neutrality implementation guidelines ban network-wide ad-blocking by telecoms
Plans by European mobile phone companies to block advertisements across their networks have been dealt a heavy blow after new EU telecoms rules outlawed the process. — Software that blocks adverts …
A detailed look at NATO's Locked Shields, the largest cyber defense exercise in the world
Berylia is under attack. Again. — The island nation, located somewhere in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean, relies on its state-of-the-art drone industry for a large part of its income.
Suspect arrested for allegedly hacking Linux Kernel Organization and Linux Foundation servers in 2011
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
OpenOffice leaders discussing shutdown due to lack of developers; many switched to LibreOffice
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Dream Town, an incubator for 710 startups that was built by the government of Alibaba hometown Hangzhou, shows how China is trying to fuel tech growth
HANGZHOU, China — In Dream Town, a collection of boxy office buildings on the gritty edge of this historic city, one tiny company is developing a portable 3-D printer. Tweets: @mdudas , @nytimesbits ,...
Apple, Google, Amazon, others back Microsoft in lawsuit against DOJ's gag orders preventing disclosure to customers of government requests for their data
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Flipboard to begin selling programmatic display and native ads for mobile devices next month via Rubicon Project
Flipboard is turning a new page and will begin selling programmatic display and native ads. — The mobile app known for offering users a sampling of stories from around …
Google Analytics App now offers Google Now-like automated insights
automatically Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat : Google Analytics adds plain-English data insights to its mobile apps
Kaspersky Lab details how they helped catch the Lurk cybercriminal gang, suspected of stealing nearly 3B rubles
Ruslan Stoyanov / Securelist : Tweets: @skyhighnetworks Tweets: Skyhigh Networks / @skyhighnetworks : How a hacking group develops malware, launders money, and even hires new “employees”: http://secu...
As employers turn to algorithms to sift through job applications, the poor are more likely to lose out
Cathy O'Neil / Guardian : Tweets: @boonerang , @mkelley , @ilparone , @ilparone , @digiphile and @digiphile Tweets: Boon Sheridan / @boonerang : “Most of these algorithmic applications were created w...
Bitmovin announces $10.3M Series A, says funding will help speed the development of its adaptive streaming tech for existing and new platforms, including VR
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How Uber forms part of the public transit system in Altamonte Springs, a small town in Florida, causing concerns over accessibility and transparency
Spencer Woodman / The Verge : Tweets: @josephfcox , @joshdzieza , @jtemple , @verge and @dangillmor Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Very concerning: Local Governments Are Letting Silicon Valley Sk...
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