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Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge receive record-breaking pre-orders

 Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge receive record-breaking pre-orders The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have already broken Samsung’s previous pre-order record by receiving a combined 20 million pre-orders. A “top executive” at a leading mobile carrier in Europe told the Korea Times that there had been “15 million [pre-orders] of the S6 and five million of the S6

HTC One (M7) Android Lollipop update news updated: T-Mobile announces March 10 rollout

HTC One (M7) Android Lollipop update news updated: T-Mobile announces March 10 rollout The HTC One (M7) is getting the Android 5.0 Lollipop update continues to roll out across the US. T-Mobile has just joined the Lollipop update party with the announcement that the T-Mobile HTC One M7 update will begin on March 10. Meanwhile, owners of

Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors

Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors Annoyed by those promoted tweets on your Twitter feed? Hopefully, Twitter will make these ads more relevant to you in the near future. Today, the company released Partner Audience, a new ad-targeting feature to let publishers select intended demographics such as “cereal buyers” and

Facebook releases Stetho, a powerful debugging tool for Android

Facebook releases Stetho, a powerful debugging tool for Android Developers often struggle with quickly discovering problems in large native code bases and figuring out how to fix them, particularly when developing for Android. Facebook might have a solution. Today, the company announced a new tool for debugging Android code called Stetho. Developers can use Stetho to get

Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, says watchdog

Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, says watchdog cebook’s privacy policy violates European law, according to a study commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission, and released today, The Guardian reports. Conducted by the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT at the University of Leuven, the report says the social network’s updated policies, which came into effect last month,

Facebook and Internet.org release the 2014 State of Global Connectivity report

Facebook and Internet.org release the 2014 State of Global Connectivity report Internet.org is Facebook’s push to offer internet access globally especially to developing nations. Today, it released its 2014 State of Connectivity. The report shows that only 37.9 percent of the global population use the internet at least once a year. The largest percentage of

5 ways to tackle the complexity of your next big project

5 ways to tackle the complexity of your next big project Large, complex organizations often suffer from a major challenge — their product development feels like a big black box. When you’re launching an MVP at a 5-person startup, it’s relatively easy to track the progress of the product and get your team in the

Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS

Facebook launches interactive design tool, Origami Live for iOS Last year Facebook releasedOrigami for OS X for designing interactive user interfaces. But, for some reason you couldn’t actually prototype those interfaces on iOS. Today, the company fixed that. Origami Live for iOS lets you run those prototypes on the device you’re probably building those interfaces

Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included

Facebook’s Bug Bounty program paid $1.3 million last year, with Oculus and Moves now included Facebook has announced that it paid 321 hackers worldwide last year over $1 million to help spot security flaws in the social network’s software. That brings the total amount of money awarded since the program started in 2011 to over

Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US

Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US Facebook is rolling out a new mechanism to help combat suicide in the US. This means that posts on the social networking site that appear to be suicidal will trigger a series of notifications offering help. The announcement, made in a post on