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300 of Intel's “Shooting Star” drones were used for a choreographed light show for the Super Bowl halftime show — There were 300 drones dancing behind Lady Gaga during the Super Bowl halftime show. They're called Shooting Stars and were previously used in a holiday show at Disney World.
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Intel's UAV segment GM Anil Nanduri talks about RealSense cameras, why Intel got into drone business, their product roadmap, and where the industry is headed — Intel is flooding the skies with drones, doing everything from sending them out to inspect massive solar arrays in the Mojave Desert …
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US Judge orders Google to comply with warrants seeking user emails stored outside the US, diverging from decision in similar Microsoft case; Google plans appeal — A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States …
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PlayStation 4's 4.5 software update adds support for external hard drives, “Boost Mode” to PS4 Pro to help older games run faster and smoother — Coming as part of the 4.50 update — Sony is rolling out the beta preview of the PlayStation 4's latest firmware update, version 4.50 …
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Interview with the hacker who says he took down Freedom Hosting II, a service reportedly hosting 15-20% of dark web sites — On Friday, a hacker took down a huge chunk of the dark web. Visitors to over 10,000 Tor hidden services running on Freedom Hosting II—a hosting provider for dark web sites … | Susan Crawford / Backchannel: |
Interview with former FCC head Tom Wheeler on the new FCC chairman, Trump administration's talk of “modernizing” the FCC, municipal broadband, and more — Obama's FCC head Tom Wheeler talks candidly about the open internet—and why, in Trumpworld, four companies could lock it up.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
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Early build of Windows 10 Cloud leaks; the lightweight OS can only run UWP apps from Windows Store, could lead to cheaper devices to compete with Chromebooks — Microsoft is working on a new Cloud SKU for Windows 10 which is expected to be Redmond's next take on Chromebooks.
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Petri, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Engadget, ZDNet, Born's Tech and Windows World, Thurrott.com, gHacks Technology News, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Liliputing, and Thurrott.com. Tweets: @neowinfeed
| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Inside Austin-based startup Ketra, which builds $100 smart LED lightbulbs to fill trendy tech offices with fine-tuned “natural light” — Two years ago, as it prepared to build a new office on Manhattan's West Side, the ad firm R/GA surveyed its 1,000-odd employees to ask … | Corazon Victorino / International Business Times: |
Viber for mobile now supports expiring messages, rich notifications, and the ability to send photos and videos in original sizes — Free messaging and calling app Viber has a new update. The new software comes with a couple of new features that will make the iOS and Android app's user experience even more entertaining.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Nextdoor acquires assets of Streetlife, a UK neighborhood social network with 1.5M registered users — In what is being billed as a “multi-million pound” acquisition, San Francisco-headquartered Nextdoor is purchasing the “assets” of U.K. local social network Streetlife.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Iran-focused app developer IranCubator debuts RadiTo, an Android podcast app that evades Iran's censors, giving Iranians and foreign pubs a broadcast platform — Reza Ghazinouri remembers the importance of pirate radio as a teenager growing up in in the city of Mashhad in northeast Iran.
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Inside the 20-year quest to build bots to beat pro poker players, and how recent breakthroughs in AI research could threaten the online gambling industry — Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research raise questions about the threat that bots pose to the online gambling industry.Sponsor Posts
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