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Reuters
Google faces first EU fine in 2016 with no deal on cards: sources
Reuters
BRUSSELS - Google is likely to face its first European Union antitrust sanction this year, with little prospect of it settling a test case with the bloc's regulator over its shopping service, people familiar with the matter said. There are few ...
Europe's Case Against Google Might Help Rivals More Than ConsumersNew York Times
Google Calendar for Android makes scheduling meetings on the go easierTechCrunch
You Can Now 'Find A Time' For Your Meetings Using Google Calendar: Here's How It WorksTech Times
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Fortune
Here's How Snapchat Might Be Beating Facebook
Fortune
It's all about those video views. Snapchat users are gobbling up more and more new videos on the social media app every day, the company says. How many? Oh, just 10 billion a day, Snapchat tells Bloomberg. That's an impressive growth streak for the ...
Snapchat Users View 10 Billion Videos A Day: ReportTech Times
Social media giants and content creators are essential to each other's growthBusiness Insider
Video consumption on Snapchat more than doubled in less than a yearTechCrunch
Android Headlines - Android News -Daily Mail -Mashable -CNET
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Tech Times
Hitomi Spacecraft Meant To Hunt Black Holes Lost In Space JAXA Declares
Tech Times
The Hitomi spacecraft is officially lost in space, according to a new announcement from JAXA. What happened to the Japanese space observatory meant to find black holes far from Earth? (Photo : Adam Lofting | Flickr). The Hitomi spacecraft has been ...
Japan's JAXA Abandons Hitomi, Its X-Ray Satellite That Went IncommunicadoInternational Business Times
Japan abandons costly X-ray satellite lost in spaceYahoo News
We Finally Know What Happened to Japan's Lost Black Hole SatelliteGizmodo
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Tech Times
Google And Fiat Chrysler Reportedly In Late Stage Talks About Self-Driving Car Technology Partnership
Tech Times
Google is reportedly looking to partner up with Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler in order to create self-driving cars. The two companies are said to be engaged in 'late stage talks' and are now finalizing a potential deal. (Photo : Justin ...
Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) Stock Sputters, BofA/Merrill Lynch Cuts RatingTheStreet.com
Experts: Fiat Chrysler, Google deal makes senseThe Detroit News
The Chrysler 200, Symbol of a Comeback, Slowly Fades AwayNew York Times
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Re/code
Google finally has a proper hardware unit. Now what?
Re/code
The Prince of Wales models Glass, one of the products in Google's new hardware division. Mobile. Mark Bergen; By Mark Bergen Apr 29, 2016; @mhbergen · EMAIL; Ethics. April 29, 2016, 3:30 AM PDT. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...
What's Google up to now? Hires Motorola honcho to head new divisionComputerworld
Rick Osterloh takes charge of Google's new hardware divisionSiliconANGLE (blog)
Google Revitalizes Hardware Division; Appoints Ex-Motorola Boss to Lead the UnitBidness ETC
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Fortune
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone's Q&A App Is Back Again
Fortune
But does the world need anything beyond Google? Last year at Austin's annual South by Southwest tech festival, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone sat on stage and talked about how his supposed third act, a funky question-and-answers app named Jelly, had ...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone relaunches Q&A app Jelly as a search engineThe Verge
With relaunch Jelly makes another run at Q&A-style "social search"Search Engine Land
Biz Stone's Jelly Is Back As A Crowdsourced Search EngineFast Company
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Computerworld
Apple's CareKit and the AI future of medical care
Computerworld
Apple's focus on personal health through connected devices ramps up a little more today with the release of the first four third party apps to integrate its newly announced open source CareKit technologies.
Apple Launches CareKit Platform With Support for Four Health AppsMac Rumors
Apple dives straight into health care with release of first CareKit appsThe Verge
Apple CareKit platform goes live with four health appsApple Insider
Fast Company -9 to 5 Mac -TIME -TechCrunch
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CNET
HP's Chromebook 13 is the MacBook Air of the Google world
CNET
HP is taking a stab at building a premium Chromebook, packing a better processor and high-end features into its new HP Chromebook 13. Designed in collaboration with Google -- the godfather of the Chrome OS operating system -- the Chromebook 13 has ...
HP Finally Making a High Quality ChromebookGizmodo
HP announces ultra-thin Chromebook 13, the first with an Intel Core M processor, starting at $499VentureBeat
HP's new Chromebook 13 is a Pixel for everybodyEngadget
ZDNet -Ars Technica -Alphr -TechRadar
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TIME
The 'Textalyzer' Could Help Curb Distracted Driving in New York
TIME
New York lawmakers have proposed implementing a new test to curb mobile phone usage behind the wheel: the Textalyzer. Much like its nominal inspiration, the Breathalyzer, the Textalyzer would allow law enforcement to ask for phones from drivers ...
Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the TextalyzerNew York Times
New York Wants To Know: Have You Been Texting And Driving?NPR
NYT: States Treating Distracted Driving Like Drunk DrivingNewsmax
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New York Times
It costs $5M to keep Zuckerberg safe, and four other things we learned from Facebook
CNET
There's a lot happening at Facebook these days. James Martin/CNET. Facebook's history is already the stuff of Silicon Valley legend: CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to start it, the social network rebuffed attempts to be bought, and it's ...
Data Sheet—Thursday, April 28, 2016Fortune
Facebook Plans New Stock Class to Solidify Mark Zuckerberg's ControlNew York Times
Why Facebook Is A Screaming BuyForbes
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The Verge
Triby Review: Alexa on your fridge
The Verge
The elevator pitch for the Triby is actually a kitchen pitch. 1. Take everything you like about the Amazon Echo speaker (including voice activation) and stick it into a portable Bluetooth speaker. 2. Add some physical buttons for shortcuts to your ...
Review: Alexa breaks free from Amazon devices with new Triby smart speakerGeekWire
Triby shows another side of AlexaCNET
Amazon Alexa is now available on first device not made by AmazonTechCrunch
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Space.com
Starliner Simulators: Astronauts 'Fly' Boeing Spacecraft Trainers
Space.com
NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Sunita Williams evaluated Boeing's new CST-100 Starliner Crew Part Task Trainers that will be used to prepare crews to fly on the commercial spacecraft. Credit: collectSPACE.com. ST. LOUIS — With the flick of a few virtual ...
'Way Up There': Above the Earth and onward to MarsCNN
Simulators give astronauts glimpse of future flightsSpace Daily
NASA Astronauts Prepare for Flight on Commercial SpacecraftSci-Tech Today
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Computerworld
Samsung's Gear 360 VR camera goes on sale Friday -- in Korea and Singapore
Computerworld
Samsung's Gear 360 camera for creating virtual reality content will go on sale online on Friday, the company announced Wednesday. The Gear 360 will initially be available only in South Korea and Singapore, a company representative said. A U.S. shipping ...
'Minecraft' For Samsung Gear VR Now Available: Here's What You Need To KnowTech Times
Samsung to develop a standalone VR headset, launching 360 camera soonAndroid Community
Samsung's VR future includes Star Trek holodecks and no wiresCNET
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Macworld
The iPhone SE: A surprise hit?
Macworld
After Apple's latest quarterly earnings call, we got a hint that Apple has a surprising hit product on its hands. iphone se review mrv 010 59 Credit: Adam Patrick Murray. Comments. Jason Snell | @jsnell. Macworld. Apr 28, 2016 3:30 AM. The thing about ...
Was Mike Daisey right about Apple being doomed?Apple Insider
Apple's slowdown highlights how growth-obsessed investors distort our view of valuePhys.Org
Apple Reports First Year-Over-Year Revenue Decline Since 2003: $10.5B Profit on $50.6B in RevenueMac Rumors
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Spaceflight Now
[ April 27, 2016 ] SpaceX announces plan to send mission to Mars in 2018 News
Spaceflight Now
Elon Musk's space transport company — chartered with a long-term goal of colonizing Mars — plans to send the first commercial mission to the red planet as soon as 2018 with assistance from NASA, SpaceX announced Wednesday. Measuring about 20 feet ...
Elon Musk plans unmanned mission to the red planet, by 2018ABC News
SpaceX Sees Unmanned Mars Mission as Soon as 2018Wall Street Journal
SpaceX sets ambitious Mars timeline: Can it pull it off?Christian Science Monitor
SpaceNews -National Geographic -Phys.Org -WPTV.com
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TechCrunch
Oops! Tinder's new friend-finding feature, Tinder Social, is outing which of your friends use the app
TechCrunch
Tinder announced this morning it's testing a new friend-finding feature called “Tinder Social” in its popular dating app. The idea is to offer a way for you and your group of friends to find and connect with other groups out in the real world. Similar ...
New 'Tinder Social' feature under fire for exposing Facebook friendsCNN
Tinder Social gets a beating for outing users to Facebook friendsMashable
Tinder's new 'Social' feature reveals which Facebook friends are swipingThe Verge
Vanity Fair -Bustle -Tech Times -PC Magazine
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CBS News
Dyson's new invention aims to blow you - and bad hair days - away
CBS News
Dyson, the one-time vacuum company that continues to expand its range of electronics, is looking to take on bad hair days across the globe. Sir James Dyson has been making use of the air around us for more than three decades, and on Wednesday, the ...
Dyson made a hair dryer and it's kind of stunning ... and expensiveMashable
Dyson Wants to Create a Hair-Dryer RevolutionNew York Times
Just Hot Air?: Dyson Unveils Bladeless, $400 HairdryerNewsweek
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BBC News
Warcraft considers compromise for fans
BBC News
The studio behind World of Warcraft has responded to a petition asking it to run a server for the original version of the video game. Blizzard Entertainment no longer operates servers for the original WoW so some gamers have set up their own. The ...
Blizzard Finally Breaks Its Silence For Shutting Down World Of Warcraft Server NostalriusGamenguide
Blizzard responds to the vanilla WoW server 'Nostalrius' shutdownDestructoid
Here's What Blizzard Had To Say In Response To The Pirate Server ShutdownCinema Blend
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BGR
FBI will tell Apple how it hacked the San Bernardino iPhone… after Apple patches it
BGR
The FBI challenged Apple in courts twice in the last few months, asking the iPhone maker to unlock devices. And twice, the Feds had to drop their cases, after finding ways to break into the iPhones. One of the two handsets belonged to the San ...
FBI tips Apple about security flaw in iOS and Mac software … but it had already been fixed with iOS 99 to 5 Mac
Encryption row spotlights fears on security, privacyPhys.Org
FBI's first vulnerability tip to Apple came on April 14 for already-patched flawApple Insider
Macworld -ABC News -USA TODAY -Mac Rumors
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Washington Post
A good moon is hard to find — but Pluto's 'little sister' just got one
Washington Post
Pluto is probably feeling pretty annoyed by his "little sister" right now. First Makemake, the icy dwarf planet that hangs out in the Kuiper Belt, helped get Pluto bumped from the official planet list: In the mid-2000s, scientists argued that the just ...
Astronomers Find a Moon for Pluto's Little SiblingSlate Magazine (blog)
Pluto's Dwarf Planet Friend Makemake Has a Cute Little MoonWIRED
Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting Dwarf Planet Makemake In Outer Solar SystemScience World Report
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