Monday, October 10, 2016

Amazon Bulks Up Prime With Unlimited 'Reading' and other top stories.

  • Amazon Bulks Up Prime With Unlimited 'Reading'

    Amazon Bulks Up Prime With Unlimited 'Reading'
    Good news, Amazon Prime members: your subscription now includes a new perk. Prime members in the US can now enjoy unlimited reading from a "rotating selection of books, magazines, comics, and more" at no additional cost. The list of available Prime Reading titles currently includes The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Man In the High Castle, The Millionaire Next Door, Half Way Home and When I'm Gone; comics such as The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1 and Transformers: Robots in Disguis..
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  • Yahoo says it's not currently spying on customer emails — but that doesn't mean it wasn't in the past

    Yahoo says it's not currently spying on customer emails — but that doesn't mean it wasn't in the past
    Marissa Mayer speaks during the Fortune Global Forum - Day2 at the Fairmont Hotel on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune Yahoo has denied that it's currently spying on customer emails on behalf of U.S. intelligence programs, but that doesn't mean it didn't do so in the past. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that two former employees and a third person aware of the events claimed the company had last year secretly buil..
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  • PlayStation VR: nine launch games for Sony's new VR platform

    PlayStation VR: nine launch games for Sony's new VR platform
    VIDEO Thumper: a trippy ride through hell that’s even better in VR Thumper starts with a familiar design for rhythm games: a track right in the middle of the screen, with bright lights running along it. It almost looks like a simplified take on Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But from that familiar launch pad, the game rockets into some weird, amazing, and alien places. In Thumper you control a shiny, metallic beetle as it races along the aforementioned twisting track. As you zip through the world —..
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  • Remembering Steve Jobs: Apple co-founder, typeface fanatic

    Remembering Steve Jobs: Apple co-founder, typeface fanatic
    Steve Jobs died five years ago after leading Apple through momentous decades. Apple In the tech world, five years feels like centuries. But for Apple, the legacy of Steve Jobs lives on. The charismatic co-founder of the world's most profitable company died October 5, 2011, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. While Jobs has been gone for five years, he has remained in the public eye through ..
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  • Google Home is the voice-controlled speaker that wants to take over your house

    Google Home is the voice-controlled speaker that wants to take over your house
    Google doesn't want to just be on your phone or your laptop - it wants to invade your home as well. At an exclusive event in San Francisco this evening , the tech company revealed its Google Home speaker. The internet-connected speaker will answer any query you have - from football scores to the news headlines and the weather. This is Google Home. It's designed to fit your home, with hands-free help from the Google Assistant. #madebygoogle pic.twitter.com/sv39VjRXRJ— Google (@google) October 4,..
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  • Here's What Could Be Easing Samsung's Note 7 Hangover

    Here's What Could Be Easing Samsung's Note 7 Hangover
    Scarred by the global recall of its flagship smartphone, Samsung Electronics ssnlf is set to report on Friday it still expects a small rise in third-quarter profit, analysts say, with healthy sales of memory chips and displays easing the pain. Lost sales and expenses tied to the recall of at least 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 handsets to fix battery problems could cost the firm nearly $5 billion this year, some analysts have said. That could sap momentum from a nascent recovery in Samsung’s..
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  • Google announces Chromecast Ultra, a 4K version of its streaming device

    Google announces Chromecast Ultra, a 4K version of its streaming device
    During Google’s Pixel event today, Google announced the Chromecast Ultra, a 4K version of its very popular streaming device. The Chromecast Ultra will be able to stream 4K content from YouTube  Netflix, and Vudu at launch, with films from Google Play Movies gaining support in November. HDR content — both HDR10 and Dolby Vision formats — is also supported by the Ultra. Google says the Ultra is its fastest Chromecast, regardless if you have a 4K TV or not, loading videos 1.8 times faster than t..
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  • Mossberg: How Google's bold moves shake up the tech industry

    Mossberg: How Google's bold moves shake up the tech industry
    Google’s decision to become a full-fledged, vertically integrated device maker — controlling and blending together hardware, software, and ecosystem design — may one day seem inevitable, obvious, or even a little late. But in the short and medium term, it’s a huge, bold move that will pose new challenges for the other major players in the tech industry. That’s especially true because the company made it clear that the array of new Google-made hardware devices it rolled out yesterday — especiall..
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  • US Traffic Deaths Up Sharply in First Half of the Year

    US Traffic Deaths Up Sharply in First Half of the Year
    Traffic fatalities increased sharply in the first six months of the year, raising fresh concerns about distracted driving and accelerating efforts to equip cars and trucks with safety gear needed to eliminate road deaths and serious injuries within the Obama administration’s new 30-year timetable. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that traffic deaths rose 10.4% in the first half of 2016, a steep increase following a surprising uptick in fatalities last year. The ..
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  • Facebook: Sorry About the Guns and Babies on Marketplace

    Facebook: Sorry About the Guns and Babies on Marketplace
    Drugs and guns and baby hedgehogs, oh my: Facebook has apologized for a "technical glitch" in its Marketplace that allowed the sale of illegal items. The social network on Monday launched a new version of its in-app yard sale for iOS and Android users in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. But the digital shop, which features categories like Household, Electronics, and Apparel, was soon featuring some rather unique items. Thank you Facebook Marketplace for giving me the opportunity to buy b..
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