NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV
And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets for free on Twitter.
iPhone 7, 7 Plus teardowns reveal 2,915 mAh battery, 3GB RAM for Plus, bigger Taptic Engine where headphone jack used to be, Intel modem in some iPhone 7 models
As it does every year, device repair site iFixit is putting all of Apple's new devices through the teardown process.
John Zimmer on Lyft's self-driving vision: semi-autonomous cars on fixed routes from 2017, fully autonomous fleets from around 2022
Expect to see semi-autonomous vehicles driving on fixed routes by 2017 in a subscription model. — Lyft — trying to keep up with its longtime ride-hailing competitor Uber …
Mobileye says it broke ties with Tesla because Tesla was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” with the design of its Autopilot driver-assistance system
Mobileye (MBLY.N) broke ties with Tesla Motors (TSLA.O) because the Silicon Valley firm was “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” …
Microsoft to close Skype's London office, making close to 400 employees redundant, as part of its global restructuring
Microsoft will shut down Skype's London offices, making most of its employees redundant, and terminating the headquarters of a rare European technology champion.
After enabling movie ticket sales through Apple's iMessage, Fandango will start selling tickets through Facebook this weekend; sales on Snapchat coming soon
LOS ANGELES — By making it easy for people to buy movie tickets online or through a smartphone app, Fandango has experienced breakneck growth over the last two years.
21st Century Fox sues Netflix for poaching employees, seeks injunction against interfering with employee contracts and damages
The film studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference. — 21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a …
Google acquires Urban Engines to bring its location-based analytics to Google Maps
Google has acquired Urban Engines, a provider of location-based analytics for urban planning. The team will be joining the Google Maps team in a bid to “help organizations better understand how the w...
US Consumer Product Safety Commission formally recalls about 1M Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones after 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage in US
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Microsoft now has the most open source contributors on GitHub, surpassing Facebook and Google with 16.4K
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Profile of Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, an ex-Wall Street exec who is overseeing a fiscal tightening of the Other Bets divisions, prompting concern among Googlers
CFO Ruth Porat is pushing Google “creatives” to bring their costs under control. — Subfreezing temperatures didn't stop Ruth Porat … Tweets: @felixsalmon and @fortunemagazine . Thanks: @katiefehren ...
Frame.io, a cloud-based collaboration tool for video creators whose clients include Facebook and Snapchat, raises $10M Series A led by Accel
Cloud-based collaboration tool Frame.io has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from SignalFire, FirstMark Capital, and Shasta Ventures.
How Microsoft is retooling Minecraft with its Education Edition, giving free early access to 25K students and teachers and adding classroom management tools
Two years after buying the wildly popular video game, Microsoft is using Minecraft to vie for kids' brain space and schools' dollars.
Associated Press, Vice Media, and Gannett sue FBI for information on how the agency broke into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone
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Netflix releases original short film “Meridian” as test footage for codec developers and even competitors to use, open sources tools for new video master format
A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white. Tweets: @jank0 . Thanks: @jank0 Tweets: Janko Roettgers / @jank0 : “It's a weird story wrapped up in a b...
Apple's latest hires, an Oculus researcher and a Magic Leap engineer, hint at push into AR
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Mode Media, publisher and ad network formerly known as Glam and once valued at $1B, shuts down; company was on track to generate over $100M in revenue this year
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SwiftKey publicly launches neural network-powered keyboard for Android, available now on Google Play
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Mirantis aquires Prague-based startup TCP Cloud, source says for about $30M
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Google releases Verified Access API for enterprise that will cryptographically validate identity of Chrome OS devices
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De-Cix, operator of the world's largest Internet exchange point, is suing German government over Federal Intelligence Service's mass surveillance requests
David Meyer / Fortune : Tweets: @epicbrowser and @superglaze Tweets: Epic Privacy Browser / @epicbrowser : Germany is contravening its own laws against mass surveillance. Brave data center DE-CIX sue...
Behind Twitter's efforts to move away from being known as a social network, rebranding itself as a central destination for news and live events instead
Harry McCracken / Fast Company : Tweets: @arrington , @mitchjoel , @fastcompany and @internetryan . Thanks: @mariedomingo Tweets: Michael Arrington / @arrington : This feels all wrong to me. Twitter ...
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