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If you’ve been waiting for Samsung’s newest smartphones to arrive, the wait is almost over. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be available on March 11 through all the major carriers in the U.S. and in retail stores. While the S7s share many features with their S6 predecessors, there are some significant differences in this iteration — […]... →

The first generation of Google Glass may have fizzled out, but the idea of a headset that connects you to the online world is still kind of sexy (and maybe a little unsettling), as shown by this new clip from the upcoming film Creative Control. Directed by Benjamin Dickinson, Creative Control depicts the lives of New Yorkers “5 minutes in the future” and centers on a high-tech… Read More... →

Hewlett-Packard is launching 15 new printers for graphics professionals, office workers, and high-end consumers today. The new products show that HP, the world’s largest printer maker, is still trying to be the innovation leader in a mature market, and it is leading the charge with high-end printing services as well as secure printing in an […]... →

Spot instances on AWS can help you save quite a bit of money over paying for a regular virtual machine on EC2. In return, though, these machines may shut down at any time when demand for regular machines increases. Spotinst helps business manage both the cost and management of these spot instances, with support for Google Cloud Platform’s preemptible machines and Azure, which… Read More... →

The Internet is awash with gloom-and-doom predictions about the death of many unicorns, a down market for investing in startups, falling public company multiples and a massive disconnect between private and public valuations. Read More... →

Their feature sets don’t necessarily speak to a grandiose vision from Samsung regarding the company’s future. They don’t offer solutions to problems users weren’t aware they had. They don’t shed grams and millimeters in exchange for compromised battery life. In many ways, the S7 devices represent the anti-iPhones. Samsung took almost all of the complaints… Read More... →

Организаторы конференции DevGAMM Валерия Маллаева и Мария Чирвоная написали для vc.ru колонку о том, почему в отечественной игровой индустрии много женщин, и какие качества позволяют им занимать лидирующие должности.... →

Today on Google's home page worldwide is a special video doodle, logo, for International Women's Day 2016. The video uses the hashtah #OneDayIWill...... →

Google announced on Google+ a new automated feature to let you automatically set scheduled uploads for your AdWords ads. Google AdWords can now automatically update your business data daily, weekly...... →

Again, at SMX West last week, Paul Haahr from Google said that when Google launched their knowledge graph in 2012, they decided to put entities at the forefront of their query analysis...... →

At SMX West last week, Google's Paul Haahr, a top engineer involved in core ranking, had a keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan. He said many interesting things including that Google doesn't fully quiet understand RankBrain...... →

You can now use Apple Pay to buy gas at 6,000 ExxonMobil locations across the U.S. The transactions can be made through the free Speedpass app, meaning that customers won’t have to get out of the car to fill their tank, if they’re at a full-service station. Even if you have to leave your vehicle to use the pump, ExxonMobil suggests that this will reduce your time outside… Read More... →

Seoul-based Polaris Office is launching its cloud-based software suite in the United States with the very ambitious goal (some might say quixotic) of challenging Microsoft Office and Google for Work’s dominance. The company makes desktop and mobile apps that let users create new documents and edit existing ones stored on services including Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive. Read More... →

Another tidbit that came out of Google Paul Haahr's SMX West talk was an experiment Google ran before he even joined the company 14 years ago. He said they ran this long term experiment from 2001 or so through 2005 where they would swap positions 2 and 4 to 0.02% of the searchers...... →

It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited launch in Australia. Read More... →

It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited launch in Australia. Read More... →

Фонд Pulsar Venture Capital заявил, что предоставит приоритетные места на участие в международной акселерационной программе для стартапов, основатели которых — женщины. Как Firrma сообщили в фонде, в акселератор планируется взять до 15 стартапов, основанных женнщинами. Точно количество будет зависеть от проведенной питч-сессии на Казанской Венчурной Ярмарке. Фонд предполагает, что таким образом обратит внимание на  недостаточное количество женщин-технологических предпринимателей в отрасли. «Это часть нашего... →

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The director of UK spy agency, GCHQ, has urged closer co-operation between governments and the tech sector to end what he dubbed the “abuse of encryption”, describing it as a “moral problem” which democratic societies must grapple with in order to strike a balance between security and privacy. Read More... →

Основатель имиджборда 4chan Кристофер Пул рассказал в своем блоге на Tumblr, что стал одним из сотрудников Google. Чем именно он будет заниматься в компании, Пул уточнять не стал, но издание Mashable со ссылкой на вице-президента фирмы Брэдли Горовица сообщило о присоединении Пула к команде стриминговых и фотосервисов в рамках работы над соцсетью Google+.... →