Friday, February 26, 2016

Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22 and other top stories.

  • Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22

    Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22
      Rumor: Apple's 4-inch iPhone event pushed back a week, to March 22 By AppleInsider Staff Friday, February 26, 2016, 06:34 am PT (09:34 am ET) Apple is widely expected to unveil both a new 4-inch iPhone and new 9.7-inch iPad at a media event next month, but a new report claims the keynote presentation may have been delayed by a week, until Tuesday, March 22. Citing an unnamed source, South Korean website UnderKG reported this week that Apple employees have been asked to keep the days a..
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  • Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff To Stop Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter'

    Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff To Stop Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter'
    Employees and visitors can leave messages on walls like this on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Employees and visitors can leave messages on walls like this on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Jeff Chiu/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerber..
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  • Why Mercedes is halting robots' reign on the production line

    Why Mercedes is halting robots' reign on the production line
    Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker's robots can't keep up.With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is reclaiming space on Mercedes's assembly lines. That bucks a trend that has given machines the upper hand over manpower since legendary U.S. railroad worker John Henry died trying to best ..
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  • Mark Zuckerberg embraces live video

    Mark Zuckerberg embraces live video
    Mark Zuckerberg addresses a Facebook town hall in Berlin Friday.(Photo: Facebook)SAN FRANCISCO — Live video has a real fan in Mark Zuckerberg."Live video is one of the things I am most excited about because it's so raw and so visceral," Zuckerberg said Friday during a Facebook town hall in Berlin. The town hall was broadcast live on Zuckerberg's Facebook page.Facebook announced Friday that it has begun rolling out its "Live Video" feature to devices powered by Android mobile software. The roll o..
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  • Google, Microsoft, Apple: Where does the money come from?

    Google, Microsoft, Apple: Where does the money come from?
    If you want to know why a company acts the way it does, just follow the money. special feature How To Make IT More Agile Business executives are increasingly moving to an IT environment that is no longer focused on big, long projects but shorter, more sustainable efforts to drive change and innovation. Here are the pros and cons, and how to make it happen. That's what I've been doing for the past few years with the SEC-mandated earnings repo..
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  • Why serious PC gamers should ignore the Windows Store

    Why serious PC gamers should ignore the Windows Store
    It’s no secret that Microsoft wants to compete with the likes of Steam and GOG by providing a one-stop shop for AAA PC game titles such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and the upcoming Quantum Break. Be warned, however: Games purchased from the Windows Store are Universal Windows apps, which are severely sandboxed and can’t touch other apps or programs. Universal Windows apps are a great way to get mobile games like Candy Crush, Lara Croft Go, and Minecraft: Pocket Edition onto your PC. But AAA ti..
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  • Apple's Tim Cook to shareholders: Taking on the FBI is the right thing to do

    Apple's Tim Cook to shareholders: Taking on the FBI is the right thing to do
    Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook defended his hard-line stance against the FBI and a court order over consumer privacy as “the right things to do” during the company’s annual investors conference Friday.“We are a staunch advocate for our customers' privacy and personal safety,” Cook said, perched on a stool in front of about 200 shareholders. “We’ve been in the news lately, and some of you may have some questions on that. We do these because these are the right things to do. Being hard doesn..
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  • Amid FBI row, Apple hires developer behind secure messaging app Signal

    Amid FBI row, Apple hires developer behind secure messaging app Signal
      Amid FBI row, Apple hires developer behind secure messaging app Signal By Roger Fingas Friday, February 26, 2016, 10:30 am PT (01:30 pm ET) Apple is hiring Frederic Jacobs — a developer responsible for the secure chat app Signal — to work on the CoreOS security team this summer, a report noted on Friday. Jacobs announced his new job in a Twitter post, later spotted by TechCrunch. Beyond the security focus, Jacobs hasn't elaborated on what he might be doing, which is common for high-pro..
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  • Xiaomi Mi 5 vs Xiaomi Mi 4: The Apple of China Delivers The Goods AGAIN

    Xiaomi Mi 5 vs Xiaomi Mi 4: The Apple of China Delivers The Goods AGAIN
    It’s been a long 18 months since Chinese smartphone powerhouse Xiaomi has released an update to its Mi 4 flagship, but that wait is finally over. At Mobile World Congress the week the company unveiled the Mi 5. While it doesn’t pack in some of the high-end features of other flagship smartphones unveiled this week, the Mi 5 is quite an update over the Mi 4—especially in the design department. So how does Xiaomi make its phone so cheap? Surely if it was as easy as simply slapping a lower price ta..
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  • These Are the 5 Best Pokemon Games Ever

    These Are the 5 Best Pokemon Games Ever
    On Feb. 27, 1996, Pokemon appeared on Japanese store shelves for the first time. Players could inhabit a world crawling with animal-like creatures endowed with seemingly magical powers, fighting and capturing them to use them in battle. When the Nintendo Game Boy title arrived on American shores two years later, it sparked a phenomenon that dominated grade school cafeterias across the country. (And spawned a TIME magazine cover, eventually.) A media empire quickly developed, resulting in a TV ..
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