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Twitter reversed its stance on blocking a second time Thursday night, reverting to the original policy in the face of what it admitted was tremendous opposition on the service. “We never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe,” Vice President of Product Michael
Walking past Shamees Aden’s exhibit, the object on display looks like a spare bit of rubber that washed up on the beach after a shipping accident. If you turn your head the right way, it almost looks like an insole or maybe a water shoe. The mind-blowing reality is that it’s a self-heali
The Federal Communications Commission is close to completing a list of rules for cellphone unlocking with US carriers, according to a report. The new rules would govern how a carrier advises a consumer about unlocking and the timing of the unlocking process itself, with the deal between the mobile p
A report issued by the advocacy group Fair Labor Association has praised Foxconn for continuing to improve working conditions. An audit reportedly found that three of Foxconn’s factories in Longhua, Chengdu and Guanlan, each tasked with assembling iPhones and other Apple devices, have satisfie
Film may be going the way of the dodo, but not in China where it’s gaining popularity for use in analog X-ray machines in many of the nation’s estimated 20,000 hospitals and smaller clinics. That’s led to a massive uptick in business for US-based film exporters. Light-sensitive fil
Dell has established a $300 million venture fund that will promote the development of technologies important to the company’s product portfolio. The fund will invest in early-growth companies in storage, cloud computing, data, security, mobility, and next-generation data-center technologies, said ch
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with expanded redesigns of user profiles which will allow users to do things such as highlight certain content over others, like their most popular tweets. As is, Twitter homepages for users have remained fairly consistent over the years, with a single profile pic
Even though Waze is now under Google’s umbrella, it’s continued to operate as if nothing has changed, other than the fact that it now has a billion dollars. To that end, it’s just rolled out a new release for Android and iOS with some welcome new features, most significantly an aut
Valve’s Linux-based Steam Machines gaming console starts shipping today to a few beta testers. SteamOS, it’s Linux for gamers, is scheduled to be released to everyone at the same time. If you’re very, very lucky, and live in the United States, you may be one of 300 selected beta te
The deal tells Truecaller users if the person calling them has a Twitter account, and even allows limited Twitter functionality from within the Truecaller smartphone client. Truecaller, a Swedish company that runs a reverse-lookup phone directory so users can see who’s calling them, is particularly
Spire Technologies, a big data firm based in Bangalore, has closed $8 million in a Series A funding round from a yet-unnamed institutional investor. The new capital will be used for product development and company expansion. Spire Technologies, a big data startup based in Bangalore that helps custom
Mass-produced mobile devices with flexible, and eventually foldable, screens may be as far as a decade away, according to Max McDaniel, chief marketing officer of Applied Materials’s display business group. Samsung Electronics’s Galaxy Round smartphone retails in Korea for about $1,000.
