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Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has – Several People Are Typing

Posted by trickz on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:47PM
from the slackhq.com dept.

http://slackhq.com/post/113969353750/slack-for-windows

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Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 upgrades to pirates worldwide

Posted by trickz on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:17AM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/18/microsoft-will-offer-free-windows-10-upgrades-to-pirates-worldwide/

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Meet the Updated Chromebook Pixel and the New Google Store

Posted by trickz on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @02:14PM
from the googleblog.blogspot.com dept.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/meet-updated-chromebook-pixel-and-new.html

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Regarding Partner Offers – The Official µTorrent Blog

Posted by trickz on Friday March 06, 2015 @02:31PM
from the blog.utorrent.com dept.

http://blog.utorrent.com/2015/03/06/regarding-partner-offers/

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VLC gets first major cross-platform release

Posted by trickz on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:50AM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/27/vlc-gets-first-major-release-across-windows-mac-linux-android-ios-windows-phone-windows-rt-and-android-tv/

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RAD – Outlier Detection on Big Data

Posted by trickz on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:01PM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/rad-outlier-detection-on-big-data.html

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A Microscope on Microservices

Posted by trickz on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:57AM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/a-microscope-on-microservices.html

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Nicobar: Dynamic Scripting Library for Java

Posted by trickz on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @01:40PM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/02/nicobar-dynamic-scripting-library-for.html

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Project Silk

Posted by trickz on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:25PM
from the hacks.mozilla.org dept.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/01/project-silk/

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Introducing JavaPoet

Posted by trickz on Thursday January 29, 2015 @12:19PM
from the corner.squareup.com dept.

http://corner.squareup.com/2015/01/javapoet.html

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Netflix Likes React

Posted by trickz on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @12:17PM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/01/netflix-likes-react.html

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Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Dropbox at AWS Re:Invent 2014

Posted by trickz on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:44PM
from the tech.dropbox.com dept.

https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/12/aws-reinvent-2014/

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Netflix's Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards

Posted by trickz on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:55PM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/01/netflixs-viewing-data-how-we-know-where.html

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Django Fellowship fundraising goal achieved

Posted by trickz on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:46PM
from the djangoproject.com dept.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/jan/27/django-fellowship-fundraising-goal-achieved/

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Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

Posted by trickz on Friday January 16, 2015 @02:29PM
from the blogs.msdn.com dept.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/01/16/visual-studio-2015-cpt-5-now-available.aspx

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Introducing Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform

Posted by trickz on Friday December 12, 2014 @12:15PM
from the techblog.netflix.com dept.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/12/introducing-atlas-netflixs-primary.html

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YouTube Updates Apple TV App, Adds Ads

Posted by trickz on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:35AM
from the recode.net dept.

http://recode.net/2014/12/09/youtubes-apple-tv-gets-a-new-look-more-videos-and-ads/

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Steve Jobs's 2011 testimony in Apple DRM lawsuit points finger at music labels

Posted by trickz on Friday December 05, 2014 @07:20PM
from the theverge.com dept.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/5/7339875/steve-jobs-drm-testimony-points-to-the-labels

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Google to revamp its products with 12-and-under focus

Posted by trickz on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @03:47PM
from the usatoday.com dept.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/03/google-products-revamped-for-under-13-crowd/19803447/

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Obama announces funding for 50,000 police body cameras

Posted by trickz on Monday December 01, 2014 @02:41PM
from the theverge.com dept.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/1/7314685/after-ferguson-obama-announces-funding-for-police-body-cameras

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Nordstrom's fitting getting a lot smarter with eBay technology – Fortune

Posted by trickz on Saturday November 29, 2014 @02:58AM
from the fortune.com dept.

http://fortune.com/2014/11/25/nordstrom-ebay-fitting-rooms/

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UK Piracy Blocklist Expands with Demonoid, Isohunt, IPTorrents and More

Posted by trickz on Thursday November 27, 2014 @02:23PM
from the torrentfreak.com dept.

http://torrentfreak.com/uk-piracy-blocklist-expands-with-demonoid-isohunt-iptorrents-and-more-141127/

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Twitter to Start Tracking Which Apps Its Users Have Downloaded

Posted by trickz on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @01:28PM
from the recode.net dept.

http://recode.net/2014/11/26/twitters-now-collecting-data-on-which-apps-you-download/

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Homescreen Is Betaworks’ Latest Experiment-Turned-Product

Posted by trickz on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @12:17AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/24/homescreen-is-betaworks-latest-experiment-turned-product/

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Yahoo and Microsoft fighting to boot Google off iPhone when deal is up in 2015

Posted by trickz on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:22AM
from the theinformation.com dept.

https://www.theinformation.com/All-Eyes-on-Apple-as-Google-Search-Deal-Expires-Next-Year

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Microsoft sues IRS to get attorney agreement information on tax probe

Posted by trickz on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:13AM
from the electronista.com dept.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/14/11/24/software.company.turns.to.court.over.unfulfilled.freedom.of.information.act.request/

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How Samsung's OS stumbled – and aims to rise again

Posted by trickz on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:00PM
from the cnet.com dept.

http://www.cnet.com/news/tsk-tsk-tizen-how-samsungs-os-stumbled-and-aims-to-rise-again/

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Re:Bittorrent Sync: Security Is Our Highest Priority on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @06:05PM (#8626992)

Yep, that's fair.

Re:Bittorrent Sync: Security Is Our Highest Priority on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:55PM (#8626946)

How would open sourcing it make it more secure? I mean, I understand that doing so would let you look at the code, and maybe even have others find and plug security holes, but your statement seems to imply that closed source is less secure by default, unless I'm missing something.

Apple May Introduce 'Biggest Camera Jump Ever' in Next-Generation iPhone

Posted by trickz on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:49PM
from the macrumors.com dept.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/11/18/apple-biggest-camera-jump-ever/

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