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Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime and other applications infringed on patents — A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty — Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope …
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more — So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
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Android Authority, Ars Technica UK, 9to5Google, Engadget, Ars Technica and Gizmodo
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Android Police, Ausdroid, 9to5Google, Android Central, Digital Trends, TalkAndroid.com, Phandroid and Android Police
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ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1 — A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.| Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post: |
How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Li-ion batteries powering gadgets made by Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies — Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces Twitch Prime with ad-free streaming and other perks for Amazon Prime members; Twitch adds video uploads, loyalty badges, HTML5 support, more — Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off …
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Thanks:@grg| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user — The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
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WeChat testing new feature called “little program” that lets service providers build apps within the messaging app, instead of linking to webpages as before — TENCENT Holdings built a hugely successful messaging platform with its WeChat app. Now an experimental new service … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon's jobs website shows Echo and Alexa groups are currently looking to fill 400 positions — Alexa, we're going to need some more recruiters. — When Jeff Bezos revealed in May that Amazon employed more than 1,000 people working on Echo and Alexa products, he warned: “It's just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Washington Post and Amazon.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele, @ashleymayer, @samim and @brianroemmele
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line invests $45M for 25% of Asia-focused Snapchat-like app Snow — Line, the messaging company that went public in the year's highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat clone focused on Asia.| Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
Anecdotes show increased use of electronic devices can injure hands, wrists, and other body parts, but effects of long-term exposure are still unclear — For Cassandra Smolcic, the trouble began at her dream internship. Handpicked to spend a summer working on movies at Pixar …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Remitly raises $38.5M Series D led by World Bank's IFC for its P2P international money transfer service, bringing total raised to just under $100M — Remitly, a startup co-founded and led by a former executive of Barclays who saw a gap in the market to build money transfer and other financial services … Sponsor Posts
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