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A few weeks ago, we had an intense discussion on what would happen if Apple’s next iPhone doesn’t have a headphone port — and what that means for the rest of the industry, as well as the pros and cons of ditching the legacy port. Over the past few mon… Continue reading Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here… and They’re Extremely Annoying
Ina Fried, reporting for Recode: It was already known that LinkedIn chose a potentially lower all-cash acquisition offer from Microsoft rather than take on the uncertainties of a stock-and-cash deal from Salesforce. But now it has been revealed that Sa… Continue reading Salesforce CEO Told LinkedIn He Would Have Paid Much More Than Microsoft
Peter Dockrill, reporting for ScienceAlert: For something that’s hypothesised to make up more than 80 percent of the mass of the entire universe, it’s no easy thing to detect the existence of dark matter. That’s the conclusion the world is coming to to… Continue reading Scientists’ Biggest Search For Dark Matter To Date Just Turned Up Nothing
Mastercard has agreed to purchase a controlling stake in VocalLink, the payments processor that handles most payroll and household bill processing in the UK. The American payment giant will be paying up to $1.14 billion. Fortune reports: According to M… Continue reading MasterCard Is Buying the Core of the British Payments Infrastructure
An anonymous reader writes: While Google Fiber gets a massive amount of media hype (justly based on its disruptive speed and price point), the reality is that despite numerous city “launches” — not that many people can actually get the service. But wh… Continue reading Google Fiber Reminds People It’s a ‘Real Business’
The FCC chairman on Friday pressed major U.S. phone companies to take immediate steps to develop technology that blocks unwanted automated calls available to consumers at no charge. Chairman Tom Wheeler, in letters to CEOs of Verizon Communications, AT… Continue reading FCC Calls On Phone Companies To Offer Free Robocall Blocking
An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said. China’s push to modernize its manuf… Continue reading China Wants To Be a Top 10 Nation For Automation By Putting More Robots In Its Factories
It’s no secret that ransomware hackers are in the business to make money. But a new business arrangement hitting the news today may surprise many. Vice’s Motherboard, citing research and investigation (PDF) from security firm F-Secure, is reporting tha… Continue reading Fortune 500 Company Hires Ransomware Gang To Hack the Competition
Reader schwit1 writes: The state department’s release of Hillary emails may be over, but that of Wikileaks is just starting. Moments ago, Julian Assange’s whistleblower organization released over 19,000 emails and more than 8,000 attachments from the D… Continue reading ‘The Hillary Leaks’ – Wikileaks Releases 19,252 Previously Unseen DNC Emails
Reader itwbennett writes (edited): Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of the torrent directory service KickassTorrents, was arrested in Poland earlier this week, charged with copyright infringement and money laundering. As we dig deeper as to what exactly… Continue reading How Apple and Facebook Helped To Take Down KickassTorrents