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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Apple TV 2015 review: fast and easy to navigate, but the on-screen keyboard is worse than on older Apple TV, Siri functionality is somewhat limited — Mossberg: The Apple TV gets smart — It seems like we've been waiting for years for Apple to reinvent the TV.
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| Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed: |
Apple says Siri on Apple TV will support Apple Music by early next year — Apple TV's Siri Search Will Soon Include Apple Music — One of the most useful features of Apple's new Apple TV is its Siri-enabled universal search. It's something Apple TV owners have been asking about for years … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple TV 2015 review: drastically stripped down Siri, most apps just larger iPhone apps, as good as any other device on the market but needs more work — Apple TV review — App attack — “The future of TV is here.” — It is not the world's most understated tagline for a new product, especially one from Apple.
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| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
What you can watch on the new Apple TV — and how it compares to Roku, Fire TV and Chromecast — The new Apple TV is finally available. Here's everything you can watch on it so far, from Netflix to HBO Now to everything in between — and how it compares to what's available on other leading video streamers.
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9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, NEWS.com.au, BGR, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, App Advice and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo to release its first smartphone game, Miitomo, in March 2016 as a free download with character add-ons available as in-app purchases — Nintendo's first smartphone release is a free-to-play game called Miitomo — At an investors meeting in Tokyo today, Nintendo revealed some details …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Breach at free webhosting service 000Webhost leaks 13M names, passwords, and email addresses — 13 million plaintext passwords belonging to webhost users leaked online — Personal data is exposed as a result of a five-month-old hack on 000Webhost. — A security researcher has discovered … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google to Symantec: account fully for misissued google.com certificates or else Chrome will flag your TLS certificates as unsafe — Still fuming over HTTPS mishap, Google makes Symantec an offer it can't refuse — Google: Fix ailing certificate business or risk having Chrome flag your credentials.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
MIT is developing a technology called RF-Capture that uses wireless signals to track human motion and identify people through walls — MIT uses wireless signals to identify people through walls — Tech could identify intruders in your home or power motion capture for movies.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Samsung reports Q3 earnings of $6.4B on $45.2B revenue, plans to buy back up to $10B in stock in one year — Samsung Aims to Improve Phone Sales While Maintaining Profits in Holiday Quarter — As part of its earnings release on Thursday, Korean electronics giant Samsung said it hopes … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Facebook and the Tor Project get the IETF to fomally recognize .onion domains as special use, which prevents ICANN from selling off the gTLD — Facebook helps Tor's hidden sites get official recognition — Today the Tor Project and Facebook announced that .onion web addresses …
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The Tor Blog blogs, PCWorld, Help Net Security, Facebook and The Register
| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft Band 2.0 review: over 100 guided workouts are great, design is comfortable and improved, but clasp is bad and GPS can be slow — Microsoft Band 2.0: Big steps forward mean you just might ditch your trainer — Review: Better than the original, but not perfect.
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The Verge, ZDNet, PCWorld, Engadget, PC Magazine, Tom's Guide, Thurrott.com, Ars Technica UK, SlashGear, Wearable Tech Insider and Mashable
| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus X is official: 5-inch 1080p display, Snapdragon 801, 13MP camera and premium glass back for $249 — At an event in London this morning, OnePlus finally took the wraps off its latest smartphone. It's not a the company's flagship device, but at its price-range it certainly seems competitive.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung's super-sized Galaxy View tablet is $599, coming November 6th — The Galaxy View, Samsung's colossal 18-inch tablet designed for video streaming, will be priced at $599 when it's released on November 6th. That'll get you the Wi-Fi version with 32GB of internal storage …
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Pocketnow and Wall Street Journal
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business: |
Flipboard struggles as executives leave, competition heats up, ad rates fall, and sales talks go nowhere with Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — Flipboard's Fanfare Fades as Executives Exit, Sale Talks Stall — Mobile app's innovative reader debuted with iPad hype in 2010
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Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat. Tweets: @technology, @mhbergen, @antderosa, @mdudas, @tsgiles, @mikeisaac and @puiwingtam
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
PayPal to launch Pay with Venmo, which will let users use Venmo to buy from PayPal merchants — PayPal reveals how it will finally cash in on Venmo — PayPal is finally breaking Venmo out beyond peer-to-peer payments. — During its Q3 earnings call, the company announced an upcoming service called …
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