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Conjecture on new iPhone resolutions: 1334 x 750 for the 4.7" model, 2208 x 1242 for 5.5" — Conjecture Regarding Larger iPhone Displays — Throughout the entire rumor cycle for this year's new iPhones, we've been inundated with reports of two new screen sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches.
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Delivery startups return: services like Instacart try to avoid flaws of dot-com-era companies — Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It's 1999 — Last year, I was excited to hear about a new start-up in San Francisco that delivered cheap bottles of wine within an hour. It was called Rewinery, and it was fantastic.| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook deploys huge “Mentions Box” tablet celebs will use to answer fan questions at Emmys — Facebook to Unleash a ‘Mentions Box’ on Celebrities at the Emmys — Even if Matthew McConaughey doesn't win a lead actor Emmy for his role on HBO's “True Detective,” there may be consolation.| Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon preparing ad program similar to AdWords, will replace Google ads on site — Amazon Prepares Online Advertising Program — Retailer Developing Ad Sales Program in a Challenge to Google and Microsoft — Amazon.com Inc. is gearing up to more directly challenge Google Inc. 's dominance …
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Research Shows Off “DeLorean,” Its Tech For Building A Lag-Free Cloud Gaming Service — When looking to the future of gaming, few concepts get people as excited as the mythical “Netflix for gaming.” It's a concept that we've seen in multiple forms, from OnLive's early efforts to Sony's new PlayStation Now service.| Sean Nealon / Phys.org: |
Researchers use malicious Android app to steal personal info from Gmail and other installed apps with up to 92% success rate — Hacking Gmail with 92 percent success — (Phys.org) —A team of researchers, including an assistant professor at the University of California …
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
British man sentenced to 33 months in prison for illicitly recording and uploading one movie — British man sentenced to nearly three years in prison for movie piracy — On Thursday, 25-year-old Philip Danks was sentenced to 33 months in jail by a Wolverhampton judge for pirating a copy of Fast and Furious 6.
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Tor director suspects NSA and GCHQ agents are anonymously tipping off the company about vulnerabilities — NSA and GCHQ agents ‘leak Tor bugs’ alleges developer — Andrew Lewman: “The fact that we take a completely anonymous bug report allows them to report to us safely”
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| Ian Paul / PC World: |
Microsoft Miracast dongle spotted at FCC ahead of Lumia event — Google's Chromecast is a hit, and now it appears Microsoft wants to replicate something similar for Windows Phone and probably Windows PCs. — Windows Phone Daily and Nokiapoweruser did some sleuthing at the Federal Communication … | Alice Truong / Fast Company: |
The company with the best culture? Twitter, according to Glassdoor — To outsiders, Silicon Valley work culture seems almost like a joke: college kids pretending to be adults in unkempt hair who show up to business meetings wearing wrinkled T-shirts with jeans. But for the people entrenched in it, what could be better?
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple finds some iPhone 5 units have battery problems, opens replacement program — This Friday afternoon, Apple has opened up an iPhone 5 battery replacement program after discovering that a “very small percentage” of units “may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged more frequently.”
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