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Apple Watch event predictions: 42mm costlier than 38mm, steel models $749+, Edition models $7.5K+, no upgradability, Photos demoed, 12" MacBook Air revealed — One Last Spitball on Stainless Steel Apple Watch Pricing — Here are my “final guesses” from last night (for 38/42mm models):
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Eddy Cue explains how Apple Watch uses your iPhone to authenticate Apple Pay payments — Eddy Cue: Here's how Apple Pay works on an Apple Watch — The exec in charge of Apple Pay tells CNET at a Golden State Warriors game that the mobile payments service will work on the company's …
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With abusive posts still rampant on Yik Yak, some college campuses are taking steps to ban the service — Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling — During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class's three female professors.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Square, now shifting its focus to small businesses, plans to introduce instant deposits and disputed purchase protection on Monday — The Payment Start-Up Square Expands Its Reach Into Small Businesses — What is Square? — The six-year-old payments start-up began by offering small … | Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Ex-VP of online marketing Sean Percival shares MySpace lessons: lack of focus after News Corp takeover, deceptive ads, failure to build on unique music deal — MySpace: what went wrong - by its former VP of online marketing — Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey … | Damon Darlin / New York Times: |
With Emoji a product of Japanese origins, America needs new Emoji symbols that reflect its own culture — Dispatch: America Needs Its Own Emojis — America Needs Its Own Emojis — There's so much we can't express because the symbols don't exist: no Vulcan salute, no pickup truck, no bacon.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How one man had most of his online life compromised and $3000 taken after his email was hacked — Anatomy of a Hack … In the early morning hours of October 21st, 2014, Partap Davis lost $3,000. He had gone to sleep just after 2AM in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after a late night playing World of Tanks.
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Mexican drug gangs are believed to be abducting IT specialists to build communication networks — The Drug Cartels' IT Guy — The most recent photo of Felipe García, an architect, taken just weeks before he disappeared in Northeastern Mexico in March 2013. He was wearing this shirt the day he vanished.
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Epic Games' Tim Sweeney on how Unreal Engine 4 may soon power film and architecture — Why video game engines may power the future of film and architecture — The original developer of Gears of War has an ambitious plan for the future of everything. — Epic Games, the company best … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Review: good build quality and near-stock load of Android 5.0.2 make the Moto E the best phone you can get for $150 — Review: The new Moto E is the most phone you can get for $150 — The first Moto E cut too many corners, but this one can hold its own. — The new Moto E with LTE.
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Behind freemium mobile game Crossy Road, which earned $10M and hit 50M downloads in 3 months — They wanted to make a phenomenon. They made $10 million. The story of Crossy Road. — A few years ago, Matt Hall, the 39-year-old co-creator of the enormously successful Crossy Road … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the final version of Valve's Steam controller that will ship in November — Valve's virtual reality headset is great, but its controllers are the real story — Valve has a lot of trust to regain when it comes to hardware. The Steam Machine concept — a fusion of consoles and gaming PCs …
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Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft — Inside The Post-Minecraft Billionaire Life Of Gamer God Markus Persson — It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull.
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