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Google to block all NPAPI plugins on Chrome in January

Google has outlined further details of its plans to completely remove plugins that make Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) from the Chrome ecosystem by September 2015. As it currently stands, all...

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Someone finally managed to hack the Nintendo 3DS

This week, 22-year-old Jordan Rabet sat down at his keyboard and told his many Twitter followers the good news: his year-long project to crack the 3DS' security was finally at...

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E-commerce startup Bigcommerce raises a whopping $50 million

E-commerce startup Bigcommerce has just secured a fresh $50 million in funding to make sure it continues growing like wildfire, the company announced today. The startup offers a cloud-based platform...

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Apple now accepts UnionPay payments in China

Apple has announced that it is now accepting UnionPay as a payment option for App Store customers in China. Established in 2002, UnionPay is the most popular payment card company in...

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Oculus VR launches mobile SDK in preparation for Samsung’s Gear VR

The Samsung Gear VR, a mobile virtual reality headset powered by Oculus technology that uses a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone for its display, will be available in North America...

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The FCC questions the reasoning behind AT&T’s fiber rollout pause

The fallout from President Barack Obama's push to reclassify internet access as a public utility was immediate, and no one reacted faster the nation's telecom giants. Most issued remarks that...

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Ted Cruz compares Obama’s net neutrality proposal to Obamacare

Senator Ted Cruz had perhaps the most memorable reaction to Obama's Monday announcement about net neutrality: reclassifying broadband under common carrier laws was "Obamacare for the internet." Beyond the fact...

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Amazon finally brings e-book sharing to the Kindle

Amazon has announced a Kindle update that will let you share books with someone else. The new Family Library feature gives you access to another Amazon user’s Kindle library. Amazon...

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Lambda is Amazon’s new event-driven compute service

Continuing to roll out new compute services at an impressive clip, Amazon Web Services has introduced a way for programmers to trigger operations in their AWS deployments without running a...

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Unshackled raises $3.5 million to help immigrant entrepreneurs in the US

Unshackled, a new $3.5 million fund, has a plan to help entrepreneurs who have great ideas but who need help securing work visas so they can remain in the U.S....

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