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Judge clears way for AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner

One of the largest telecommunications mergers of all time has just been approved. On Tuesday, AT&T received judicial approval to move forward with its $85 billion deal to acquire media giant Time Warner, ending a contentious antitrust lawsuit leveled by the U.S. Justice Department last year. In a ruling handed down by U.S. District Judge […]

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MacBook Pro, backpack may have saved passenger’s life in Fort Lauderdale shooting spree

A MacBook Pro inside a backpack might have saved a passenger’s life in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting this afternoon that left five dead and eight wounded. “The backpack saved my life,” Steve Frappier said, speaking on CNN’s “AC360.” “[I] dropped and the backpack was still on my back and I was turned in such […]

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Officials look into Friday’s Mirai-based DDoS, cite Apple’s HomeKit security protocol

Following up on the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday that temporarily took down large chunks of the Internet, it looks like Apple’s controversial “walled garden” approach to its HomeKit devices may have worked out. As detailed in recent reports, the attack, which also targeted unprotected “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, focused […]

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Pebble debuts its new appstore later today

Last Friday, via its Twitter account, Pebble announced that the release date for the new Pebble appstore would be today, Feb 3rd, at 10 AM PST. So, only a few hours to go until Pebble owners can start playing with the new goodies. The announcement indicates that only the iOS update to the Pebble companion […]

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Mavericks Feature Highlight: Safari Push Notifications

We all know about Notification Center in OS X, one of the many iOS like features that has crossed over to the desktop, but what are Safari Push Notifications? While it was mentioned in the Mavericks keynote, it hasn’t received too much fanfare or attention, probably because hardly anybody is using it yet, and by “anybody” […]