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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Rift review: great design, good VR games, promising future game catalog, but expensive, lack of motion controls is a big weakness — Oculus Rift review — For a long time, the hopes and dreams of many virtual reality fans could be summed up with two words: Oculus Rift.
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The Atlantic, New York Times, Windows Central, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Polygon, Road to VR and Tech Insider
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| Ben Kuchera / Polygon: |
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Developer Center and VRFocus
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Bitcoin rival Ethereum climbed 1000% in 3 months, crossing $1B in value at times, and attracts interest from giants like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and IBM — Ethereum, a Virtual Currency, Enables Transactions That Rival Bitcoin's — A new virtual gold rush is underway.
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Bloomberg View, Wall Street Journal and CCN
| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile — Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.
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Engadget, Phandroid and PhoneArena
| Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post: |
Clinton email scandal began with her desire to keep using an impossible-to-secure personal BlackBerry, transmitting classified docs over insecure communications — How Clinton's email scandal took root — Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state.
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The Daily Caller. Tweets: @ryan__hyman, @ggreenwald, @alanagoodman, @dataeditor, @n8han and @reince
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pandora cofounder Tim Westergren becomes the new CEO as part of management makeover — Pandora has appointed cofounder Tim Westergren its new CEO as part of a broader management makeover, the company announced today, — Stating that it “remains 100 percent committed to growth strategy,” …
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| Grace Huang / Bloomberg Business: |
Japan's NTT Data to buy Dell's IT services business for $3.055B; Dell bought the unit, formerly known as Perot Systems, for $3.9B in 2009 — Japan's NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion — Deal is largest by NTT Data Corp., which is expanding overseas — NTT doesn't give details of when it will acquire Dell units
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, Re/code, Ars Technica, eWeek, Business Wire, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Tech Times, New York Times, Patently Apple, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BBC, TechCrunch and Re/code. Tweets: @kimsstevenson
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sony's more powerful PlayStation 4 supporting ultra-high-definition graphics to be announced before planned October VR headset launch — Sony Plans New PlayStation for Graphics-Heavy Games — New console would be announced before virtual-reality headset
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The Verge, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, DualShockers, Tech Times, GamesIndustry.biz and Polygon
| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Transmission BitTorrent client released for Windows — The popular BitTorrent client Transmission, formerly only available for Mac OS X and Linux distributions, has been released as a binary for Windows officially. — The new release is not advertised yet on the project's website …
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TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, TorrentFreak and The Next Web
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Facebook Messenger source code hints at an in-store purchase service, “secret conversations”, and calendar sync between users — Facebook Messenger Prepares In-Store Purchase Service — Tucked inside the code for Facebook's Messenger are clues for how the chat app plans … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr brings back Replies, revamps Notes to encourage more conversations on its service — Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr this morning announced two changes to its service designed to encourage more conversations and increase engagement around posts and other content.
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The Next Web, The Verge and SlashGear
| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
European Commission launches public consultation on “neighboring rights” for publishers, a “Google tax” for snippets — “Google tax” on snippets under serious consideration by European Commission — The German Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda is leading the fight against a Google tax.
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Digital Single Market, 9to5Google, Fortune, Techdirt and The Next Web
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Bug in iOS 9.3 crashes some iPhones and iPads when opening links in Safari and other apps, affects latest as well as older devices — Some users reporting iPhone crashes on iOS 9.3 when tapping links in Safari and other apps [Update] — Update: Although details around the problem …
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Ben Collier, TechCrunch, Computerworld, iMore, Forbes, CNNMoney, Engadget, The Next Web, MacRumors, MacNN, Pocketnow, Fortune, MacStories, discussions.apple.com, iLounge, HowToiPh.one, ZDNet, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, Macworld, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, The Tech Portal, SlashGear and The Siver Times
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