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Samsung has already said it will launch Samsung Pay in Singapore this year, but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in retail stores “as early as Q2 2016,” the day after rival Apple Pay rolled out in Singapore for the first time. Read More... →

I write. I work with writers. I studied English — many of my friends became journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material online is really important to me. However, to make progress in this area, I think the industry needs to stop pinning its hopes on the same dead ends that come up again and again. To me, one of these is microtransactions for material. Read More... →

A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill requiring all encryption to be breakable on command, which achieved infamy in record time following the leak of a draft earlier this month. Read More... →

Posted by EricEnge[Estimated read time: 12 minutes] The world of mobile continues to explode. Major players like Google, Facebook, and Apple are investing massively in efforts to establish themselves as the dominant player in the new markets that are emerging as a result. These companies are betting in a big way on continuing changes in mobile usage and in user expectations for mobile devices, and that means you should be, too. It means you need to have a mobile-first mentality. The investments by these com... →

Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting a rather baffling and prolonged omission. Read More... →

Posted by n8dogWe run a Software as a Service business called Highrise that recently spun-off from Basecamp. As soon as we started looking at our users and some of the things they did, I noticed folks canceling their Highrise account a day after creating it. They didn't even bother to create any data. Just in, "Nah," and out.We had to find a way to fix this.Luckily, by using a technique uncovered via our onboarding emails, we were able to remedy the problem. We did it using insight from a secret tool in our... →

About a week ago, Snapchat flipped on a new feature: 3D stickers (yeah yeah, it’s a weird name — but that’s what Snapchat calls them.) You can “pin” emojis to moving things in videos, and those emojis will track the moving object and move accordingly. Sound silly? A bit, sure. But, like much of Snapchat, it’s as oddly addictive as it is silly. When… Read More... →

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The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, the only thing standing between them and an incorrect or missed dosage is a big, plastic box from the drugstore sporting embossed letters of the days of the week. Read More... →

The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton of different development boards available, but none are as awesome as Johan Kanflo’s AAduino. Behind the delightfully punny name, you’ll find an Arduino-compatible board the size of an… Read More... →

Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities? Those are the questions at the center of an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit filed today against the Justice Department. Read More... →

We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more conversational way. Read More... →

OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the factory will turn out most of OneWeb’s 900 satellites that will be used to provide global internet coverage. OneWeb satellite factory to be located… Read More... →

МТС займётся строительством сети монобрендовых салонов Samsung в регионах России, рассказал vc.ru представитель оператора Дмитрий Солодовников. По его словам, таким образом МТС сможет продвигать свои продукты, а производитель техники — сэкономит на аренде площадей и логистике.... →

Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidders, including TechCrunch’s parent, Verizon. While it is not yet clear what the final outcome will be for the troubled internet company, one of Yahoo’s final earnings reports managed to… Read More... →

Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent calling it in all its corporate press speak glory a restructuring to accelerate its transformation. Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide and that  is never a good thing to hear. The fact is that Intel is a desktop computer chip maker at a time when desktop computers… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Бывший руководитель пресс-службы ФРИИ Мария Лапук займет должность PR-директора «Иннополиса».  Мария Лапук подтвердила факт переговоров, но отметила, что пока определённых договорённостей с «Иннополисом» пока не достигнуто. Мария Лапук работала во ФРИИ с июля 2013 года до августа 2015 года. До этого она работала пресс-секретарем социальной сети «Одноклассники» и в МТС. Об ОЭЗ «Иннополис» Особая экономическая зона технико-внедренческого типа «Иннополис"создана в соответствии с Постановлением Правительства Ро... →

Российский интернет-агрегатор услуг пассажирских перевозок InDriver с 18 апреля недоступен для жителей Казахстана, где сервис является одним из самых популярных. В компании сбои в работе связывают с попытками местных властей заблокировать приложение.... →

Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has changed the way consumers define ease and convenience. Read More... →