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AWS's new services and features go after legacy customers of tech giants like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — Amazon Messes With Billions in Corporate Computing Dollars — LAS VEGAS — There is a famous story from the early days of Google that goes something like this …
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Medium adds publishing API, @mentions, updated apps, improved editing options, custom domains for all, and a new logo — Taking Medium to the Next Level — Two years ago, we opened up Medium for anyone to write. It was a new, well-lit place for an old idea: letting people share their stories …
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Sources: Amazon weighs creating a live online TV service, holds preliminary talks with CBS, NBCUniversal — Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Live Online Television Service — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of a live online TV service and has reached out to major media companies …
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Sources: Dell in talks for full or partial takeover of EMC — Dell Is in Talks to Strike Merger Deal With EMC, Sources Say — Unclear whether deal would be for part or all of EMC — Dell Inc. is in talks to strike a combination with EMC Corp., according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HP introduces Envy all-in-one PC with a 34-inch curved display running Windows 10, available November 22 from $1,799.99 — HP's new all-in-one PC is curved and ultra wide — HP is introducing a number of new PCs today, but easily the most impressive — on a physical level, at least …
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Dell refreshes XPS 13 and XPS 15, and debuts XPS 12 tablet hybrid — A sleek, premium line of PCs gets another member that's more laptop than tablet. — Dell launched some serious notebooks when it came out with the XPS line, and now the company continues to improve on already solid products.| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Light debuts L16 camera, with 16 separate lens modules that can create a single 52 megapixel picture, preorder now for $1299, will ship summer 2016 — This camera is actually 16 cameras in one — It's not often that you see something truly different when it comes to camera design these days.
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Sources claim IP address belonging to Lyft CTO Chris Lambert used to access a security key later used in 2014 breach of Uber driver data — Exclusive: In lawsuit over hacking, Uber probes IP address assigned to Lyft exec - sources — Eight months after disclosing a major data breach … | Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Matthew Keys found guilty of hacking under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; US attorney's office may seek less than five year prison sentence in January — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking — On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California … | Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
AMP adds constraints for faster loading webpages that restrict Javascript and ban some HTML tags including iframes; new AMP-specific elements introduced — Get AMP'd: Here's what publishers need to know about Google's new plan to speed up your website — Google unveiled its new plan … | David Besbris / Official Google Blog: |
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Andy Rubin's Playground Global incubator closes $300M funding round, will invest in hardware startups — Andy Rubin's Playground incubator has closed a $300 million funding round — Former Android chief Andy Rubin has a new incubator called Playground Global, and, Rubin says … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Reactions, Facebook Supercharges The Like Button With 6 Empathetic Emoji — In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some waves when he hinted Facebook was working on a way to expand its famous Like button — not by adding the much-fabled “dislike” option, but by making it way more empathetic … | Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Sony Acquires SoftKinetic, Which Can Track Hands For Virtual Reality — Sony has acquired SoftKinetic, a computer vision startup specializing in depth-sensing cameras that can track things like what gestures your hands are making, for an undisclosed amount.
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Street View Android app adds Google Cardboard support for photospheres — Latest Street View v2.0 Adds Google Cardboard Support To Use With All Of Those Awesome Photospheres — Google Street View launched as a true standalone app just last month, becoming something of a shared gallery for the world's most awesome locales.
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State-affiliated Chinese hackers breached LoopPay's corporate network as early as March, no indication that consumer data was stolen — Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, a Contributor to Samsung Pay — WASHINGTON — Months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's …
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