Latest and Breaking Technology News and Top Stories - July 8
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Internet of Things heats up for chip makers as Atmel pays $140M for Newport Media — Above: Atmel has acquired Newport Media — Atmel has agreed to buy wireless chip maker...
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You know how establishments have hidden emergency buttons to call the police? There's a new device called the ECHO Urgent Messenger that's something like that, except it's a tiny one-button emergency phone that you can attach to a keycha...
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Roman Seleznev was apparently picked up by U.S. agents in the Maldives, then sent to Guam for his first court appearance. He is alleged to have been involved in the theft and sale of credit card details from U.S. targets, but Russia is i...
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A Harrier jump jet is going up for auction at the end of this month, and it wouldn’t take much work to get it back to flying condition.
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Logistics is the new battlefront for tech.
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The riddle of how Uber would spend its recent billion-dollar investment wasn’t too difficult to solve. Travis Kalanick and company want to put more rides in more places.
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The project is an investigation into invisible infrastructures, aimed at gleaning a better understanding about how these wireless systems are designed.
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Toshiba’s FlashAir II incorporates a mini Wi-Fi access point into a standard SD card, letting you access photos on the card from up to seven other devices.
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When you're on a motorcycle, the fun begins when the pavement ends.
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I used to love pine nuts, but now I’m wary of them. A couple years ago I threw a handful of them on a salad and they ruined my sense of taste for weeks. Water tasted bitter and metallic. Everything I ate tasted different, and not i...
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The Independent Film Channel started as a showcase for auteurs like Jacques Tati, but its new corporate identity was driven in large part by Tarantino and Tumblr.
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Morgan Marquis-Boire is the director of security for First Look Media, the most prolific publisher of Edward Snowden's remaining secrets. His daunting task is to safeguard those documents, as well as the communications of reporters with ...
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When you're navigating the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, it's not a question of if, but how you'll reach your destination. Turning back is not an option.
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Apple on Monday was granted a U.S. patent covering a method of fusing glass structures together to encapsulate the display and internal circuitry found in an iOS device, as well as larger electronics like monitors and televisions.
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Mint Solutions, a hardware startup that’s developed a scanning device designed to help hospital nurses ensure each patient gets the right medicine and the correct dosage, has pulled in a €4.425 million ($6 million) Series A f...
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After almost a month of testing, the July update for Xbox One is here. Committed to a rapid pace of improvements, Microsoft has delivered a number of new features, including a new Snap mode for Achievements, improved voice functionality ...
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Rightster, the U.K. video distribution and monetisation startup largely backed by Angel investors, has been on an acquisition roll. It’s now acquired Viral Spiral, which specialises in social video management, licensing and b...
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No longer just a place to send letters and exchange money, the Post Office is set to add another service to its ever-expanding list of utilities: mobile contracts. The company announced today that it's joining the list of providers that ...
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As the cloud storage provider Box continues to slouch toward its public offering (staggering under the weight of new invested capital), a number of startups continue to raise cash on the premise that sometimes sensitive data needs ...
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Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo : Popcorn Time's “Netflix for Torrents” Is Coming to Chromecast — Popcorn Time is a miracle: It lets you stream torrents of movies and TV shows as though they were on Netflix or Hulu...
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Storage kingpin buys TwinStrata to make it easier for companies to move data from on-premises to their cloud of choice.
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Texas star: 'Songwriters fully support independent record labels in their fight to get better terms and deals from YouTube' Continue reading...
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FishBrain, a made-in-Sweden mobile app and social network for anglers founded back in 2010, has closed a $2.4 million pre-Series A round of funding, led by Northzone and Active Venture Partners. Read More
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An anonymous reader writes "Today, CentOS project unveiled CentOS Linux 7 for 64 bit x86 compatible machines. CentOS conforms fully with Red Hat's redistribution policy and aims to have full functional compatibility with the upstream pro...
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The FDA may have only cleared the ReWalk exoskeleton for home use just two weeks ago, but it's already finding use outside of hospitals and clinics. Retired US Army Sergeant Theresa Hannigan (shown meeting the President in March) has bec...
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PayPal has announced a new Next-Day-Settlement (NDS) service that allows eligible businesses to transfer money from their PayPal accounts to their bank accounts within 24 hours. The pilot program is only available in the US for now, and ...
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday issued unexpectedly weak quarterly earnings guidance which put it on track for its worst results in two years and cast doubt on the smartphone leader's strategy against cheaper Chin...
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A smartphone that’s optimized to help you take the best selfies ever — that’s how Sony is positioning its latest device, the Xperia C3, which it launched today. What is notable is that the Xperia C3 comes equipped with a five-megapixel w...
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Airbnb has been fined €30,000 ($41,000) by the Catalonian authorities in Spain, who say the short-term rental marketplace has been illegally making money off properties that aren’t registered for tourist usage. The authorities, who...
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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web : LG's Android Wear-based G Watch is now on sale across the world on Google Play and key retailers — LG took the wraps off the G Watch in March, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear, Google'...
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two unions representing some of Telkom SA's workers said on Tuesday they would take the South African landline provider to court over possible retrenchments.
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Police say gang carted off 40,000 finished products in trucks after hijacking bus bringing night shift to Campinas factory Continue reading...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A sophisticated group of hackers believed to be associated with the Chinese government, who for years targeted U.S experts on Asian geopolitical matters, suddenly began breaching computers belonging to experts o...
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Samsung's marketing budget has always been vast, but in the last quarter it was far larger than even the manufacturer itself would have liked. The company admits that it's been forced to spend extra money on promotions for older and lowe...
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Handybook, a platform for booking cleaners or handymen to carry out tasks in your house, is now available in London - the company’s first market outside the US and Canada and its 27th city overall. Announced today, the platform allows us...
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TechHub, a community of tech entrepreneurs and startup spaces, has announced that it will be opening its first hub in India in a bid to gain access to the country’s “predicted $100 billion technology industry”. Based in Bangalore, the hu...
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It’s been rumored for a while already, but the UK’s Post Office has now confirmed that it’s to launch a new mobile phone network later this year. The state-owned Post Office already offers its own home-phone and broadband service, so a m...
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It’s Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has issued six security bulletins including two which are rated "critical" and allow for Remote Code Execution (RCE), and three which are labeled "important" and allow for elevation of privilege inside W...
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Selfies are so popular that not only is the President getting in on the action, but ABC's even named its newest TV show after the trend. Not to be outdone, Sony is debuting the Xperia C3, a mid-range smartphone that's most notable featur...
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'The very last thing you should do is leave five of the scripts lying around on a public web server that can be indexed...' Continue reading...
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In the spirit of Indie Game: The Movie, comes App: The Human Story -- a documentary that looks at the people behind the digital goods we consume. The film chronicles the rise of developers following the iPhone's release back in 2007 and ...
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motang (1266566) writes Rob Pardo, Blizzard employee of 17 years who has worked on WarCraft and Diablo is leaving the company. "I'm looking forward to new challenges in my career, but I will always cherish the time I spent with you all a...
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Kim Dotcom's extradition hearing has been delayed again as the Megaupload founder continues to fight a series of criminal charges and civil lawsuits. It is claimed that Megaupload was used to store and share films and other content illeg...
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“Crocodile in the Yangtze” starts off with a shot of Alibaba founder Jack Ma dressed up in an outlandishly outrageous rock star outfit and performing on stage in front of thousands of people. It wouldn’t be surprising if the first word t...
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There’s been plenty of anticipation of Xiaomi’s arrival in India, and now the Chinese smartphone company has confirmed on its local website that its first device — the Mi 3 — will go on sale in the country on July 15. The phone will cost...
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Plus secondhand phone sales, Samsung's control tower problems, Spanish Wi-Fi promiser goes bust, and more Continue reading...
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One enterprising internet provider in New Zealand is providing a ray of hope for film and TV fans worldwide who don’t yet have access to Netflix. That’s because Slingshot is letting its customers access the video streaming site from New ...
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We're guessing a few of you don't mind preordering the latest triple-A game to ensure you get your hands on it on release day, but (ignoring the whole digital distribution thing) it's increasingly rare for game stores to sell out of pred...
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune : How John Arrillaga Sr. turned orchards into office parks for Silicon Valley's tech giants — The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley — How John Arrillaga Sr. trans...
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There’s yet another tech industry group focused on the internet of things in town. Samsung has partnered with Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel and Intel-owned Wind River to launch the Open Interconnect Consortium, an organization aiming to c...
