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Friday, October 28, 2016
28 October - Pale Moon StartPage Tech News
Samsung acquires Tachyon to extend enterprise mobile device management
Samsung’s mobile operation has taken a big hit of late, with profits
plunging 30% in the last quarter in the wake of the Note 7 recall. But
today, the company is announcing an acquisition of a wireless enterprise
startup that speaks to how it wants to grow other areas of its business
to offset setb...
BrainCheck raises $3 million for app to monitor brain health
A Houston-based startup called BrainCheck has raised $3 million in
seed funding for an app that helps users understand, by simply playing
some games on an iPad, if they or a loved one may have suffered a
concussion. Founded in 2014 by Dr. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at
Baylor College of Medici...
Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?
If you’re the maker of a popular, zero access encrypted webmail
product and suddenly discover your product is no longer featuring in
Google search results for queries such as “secure email” and “encrypted
email,” what do you conclude? That something is amiss, for sure. Read
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Here’s the full schedule of NBA games that will be shown in VR this season
Last week the NBA announced they would be partnering with NextVR to
stream one game a week in VR all season long.
Today they confirmed an exact list of matchups and dates, and the good
news is that each team will appear at least once throughout the season.
This doesn’t mean it’s exactly equal — the...
Apple: 400M ‘Memories’ have been viewed on the iPhone, 60% of users are on iOS 10
Today the focus of Apple’s event in Cupertino are new Macs and
big updates to other non-iPhone products, like Apple TV. But the company
also used the moment as a coda to yesterday’s earnings to provide some
updated numbers — a coda to its earnings earlier this week. CEO Tim Cook
started out with so...
Founder’s comment on Vine shutting down? “Don’t sell your company!”
Vine founder Rus Yusupov threw a ton of shade at Twitter with a tiny
little tweet in reaction to the company saying Vine will be shut down
soon: “Don’t sell your company!” TechCrunch has learned that Yusupov
didn’t know about the impending death of Vine until we contacted him
this morning. Don’t se...
The 13-inch MacBook Air model is still alive
Surprise, the MacBook Air is still alive! The new MacBook Air is
Apple’s new cheap laptop. While everybody thought the 12-inch Retina
MacBook was going to replace the MacBook Air, it’s not going to be the
case just yet. Apple just updated the MacBook Air page on its website
after its press event. W...
Asana co-founder discusses Thiel’s donation to Trump
Asana co-founder and head of product Justin Rosenstein discussed the
political views of his controversial investor and former board member
Peter Thiel today at the Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco.
Asana isn’t the only company to face questions about its continued
relationship with Thiel ...
New FCC rule protects users from the prying eyes of ISPs
It’s a good day for consumers, and the advertisers are tearing out
their hair: The FCC today voted to adopt new privacy rules that severely
restrict what data ISPs can collect from you without your consent. The
Association of National Advertisers called the rules “unprecedented,
misguided and extre...
Alphabet reports a strong third quarter despite free-falling advertising values
Alphabet’s strategy of trying to stuff the difference between
declining mobile advertising value with additional clicks appears to
still be paying off as the company once again showed Wall Street that it
can make a ton of money and continue to grow. Alphabet (we’re just
gonna call it what it is bec...
Accel cofounder Jim Swartz: It hasn’t burst, but it’s a bubble all right
Earlier this week, the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, a “hub for
entrepreneurship” in the center of Carnegie Mellon University’s
Pittsburgh campus, was officially launched in an event attended by
upwards of 600 students, alums, and professors. They’ll have even more
to celebrate when construct...
Tesla Powerpack 2 has twice the energy density, began shipping in September
Tesla posted an appetizer of sorts for its event tomorrow, via a blog
post that details Powerpack 2, the second iteration of Tesla’s
commercial and utility energy storage solution. The Powerpack 2 actually
started shipping quietly in September, with a brand new energy module
on board that’s capable...
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