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22:07 15.12.2015

Facebook Makes Changes To Its Real Name Policy

After over a year’s worth of controversy around Facebook’s real names policy, Facebook has announced a couple of changes to its process in order to better serve all of its members, including those in the LGBTQ community. Last October, Facebook promised it would make changes to its real name policy after a number of false account flagging incidents led to the suspension of LGBTQ… Read More... →

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22:00 15.12.2015

Google’s Angular 2 Framework Hits Beta

Angular 2, Google’s framework for building mobile and web apps in HTML and JavaScript, is now in beta. Google first announced Angular 2, which represents a significant (and controversial) break from Angular 1, in September 2014. Since then, it’s gone through an alpha and developer preview. By applying the ‘beta’ label to Angular 2, Google basically says that it believes… Read More... →

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21:46 15.12.2015

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. ProSky gets a $2.3 million seed for its hiring tech ProSky announced today that it raised a $2.3 million seed round led by Lightbank to further develop its product and invest in marketing. The […]... →

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21:37 15.12.2015

Netflix’s Ongoing Quest To Save Bandwidth

Netflix has a bandwidth problem. It currently represents 36.5 percent of U.S. Internet traffic and it’s going to increase as 4K becomes more popular, and LTE and fiber Internet improve. As Variety reported, the company is taking a first step by re-encoding its entire catalog with more granular bitrates. This move should lead to 20 percent in bandwidth savings. Read More... →

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21:34 15.12.2015

The Future Of In-flight Entertainment Is Virtual Reality

If you happened to have flown out of San Francisco to Seattle on Virgin America last week, or back last night, you might have noticed me. I was the guy with the big helmet on his dome, swinging his head around like a weirdo. I didn’t see you, though. For all I know, I was on the flight alone (sorry to April, who sat right next to me). I fly a lot for work, be it a quick two hours or less… Read More... →

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21:32 15.12.2015

Watch This Amazing 3D-Printed Clock Made With A Multi-Toolhead Printer

In the future multi-toolhead robots will harvest our organs and control our reproductive cycles. Until then, they can make amazing clocks! This clock, created by Matt Olczyk, was made using a ZMorph 3D printer, a printer that can swap tool heads to perform different actions. The ZMorph system has a CNC mill, dual extruders, an (optional) chocolate extruder, and even a laser burner. By using all… Read More... →

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21:20 15.12.2015

Firefox 43 arrives with 64-bit version for Windows, new strict blocklist, and tab audio indicators on Android

Mozilla today launched Firefox 43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include a 64-bit version for Windows (finally!), a new strict blocklist for the browser’s tracking protection feature, and tab audio indicators on Android. Firefox 43 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users […]... →

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21:09 15.12.2015

Microsoft forms philanthropic arm to improve access to technology

Microsoft has expanded its organization structure to establish a philanthropic arm dedicated towards using technology to combat some of the world’s most challenging problems. Under company Vice President Mary Snapp, the group will work on focus on how to drive greater inclusion and “empowerment of people who do not yet have access to technology and the opportunities […]... →

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21:01 15.12.2015

Easy Taxi And Tappsi Merge To Try To Run Uber Off The Road In LatAm

Rocket Internet-backed Easy Taxi is joining forces with Colombian taxi app startup Tappsi in a merger the pair will be hoping helps them keep accelerating ahead of Uber, which only has a limited presence in the region. Read More... →

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21:00 15.12.2015

ScreenMeet’s new app lets you share your screen in mobile meetings

Virtual meetings may not take place while you’re sitting at your desk anymore — they’re more likely to happen when you’re on your mobile device. But what’s missing in this scenario is the ability to share your screen — which has, for the most part, been difficult to do on a smartphone. ScreenMeet believes it […]... →

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21:00 15.12.2015

Four Market Forces That Will Shape Robotics Over The Next Year

As 2016 approaches, robotics is poised to traverse from a narrow set of industrial and military use cases to broader market applications that include commercial drones, telepresence robots, delivery robots and, of course, mobile vacuum cleaners. Read More... →

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20:57 15.12.2015

German 3D Indoor Mapping And Navigation Startup NavVis Locates €7.5M Funding

Munich-based 3D indoor mapping and navigation startup NavVis raised a €7.5 million Series B round of funding as it readies the launch of its smartphone indoor navigation app. Read More... →

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20:45 15.12.2015

Atlassian’s Marketplace For Third-Party Devs Hits Over $120M In Sales

You can now buy stock in Atlassian, but that’s not the only way to make money from the quickly growing collaboration and developer tools company. As the company told me today, its Atlassian Marketplace for third-party developers has now hit $120 million in direct sales and more than 15 developers have now generated more than $1 million in direct sales. The company also tells me the… Read More... →

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20:30 15.12.2015

Twitter details its home-brewed framework for simulating hardware failures

People who maintain companies’ data centers don’t want to be caught by surprise in the event of a power outage or a hardware breakdown. They want to rest assured that everything will be fine in such cases. Years ago, Netflix engineers developed software called Chaos Monkey that would artificially create problems with the underlying Amazon […]... →

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20:28 15.12.2015

«Мегафон» начнёт забирать по 15 рублей в день у неактивных абонентов

«Мегафон» с 25 декабря 2015 года введёт единые правила списания средств у неактивных абонентов для всех тарифов. Со счетов всех, кто не пользовался SIM-картами более 45 дней, оператор будет снимать по 15 рублей в день, пишут «Ведомости».... →

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20:25 15.12.2015

ProSky gets a $2.3 million seed for its hiring tech

Hiring processes can be a pain for both the recruiter and the applicant. Dozens of people apply for one position, and resumes do not necessarily reflect the applicants’ skill sets. San Francisco startup ProSky found an opportunity in this flaw and stepped in to design a hiring solution in which companies can train, test-drive, and […]... →

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20:25 15.12.2015

Reminder: I’m Holding Mini New York Meetups Tonight And Tomorrow

Here they come: my mini-meetups. This week we’re meeting at WeWork Chelsea for a chat with Amol Sarva of Knotable about the magic and pain of starting up in NYC. The event starts at 7pm and there will be food and booze! You can RSVP here. This even is going to be sponsored by InVision so there will even be swag! Tomorrow I’m holding a Bitcoin meetup at Coinspace in Industry City,… Read More... →

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20:18 15.12.2015

Google Updates “Now On Tap” To Let You Track Packages, Flights And Find Related Articles

Google is expanding the capabilities of its clever mobile feature, “Google Now on Tap,” which offers additional information about what you’re looking at within a mobile application without having to exit and then perform a Google search. Before, the feature supported the ability to find restaurants and points of interest, learn more about songs or artists in music apps,… Read More... →

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20:15 15.12.2015

Backblaze’s Low-Cost Cloud Storage Service Comes Out Of Beta

After a short beta, Backblaze today opened up its new low-cost cloud storage service for all developers. Backblaze made a name for itself as a backup service for individuals and small businesses. But as the company’s CEO Gleb Budman told me when the company first announced this new product, the technology it developed to run those services (and all the hard drives it buys) is also a… Read More... →

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20:13 15.12.2015

LinkedIn Revamps Its Jobs Listings With Big Data Analytics

LinkedIn, a social network focused around the working world with nearly 400 million members, is well known for how it uses algorithms to suggest potential business connections and jobs to you based on your profile. Now, it’s injecting more of data analytics into another part of its platform: job listings. Today LinkedIn is taking the wraps off a new version of its Jobs section,… Read More... →

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