us-hotdailynews: 2015-08-29 U.S. Technology

End of the affair for head of Ashley Madison: He's out of a job
Washington Post
Infidelity Web site Ashley Madison split with chief executive Noel Biderman on Friday, after hackers revealed the company that encouraged people to have illicit affairs wasn't very good at keeping its own customers' secrets. Biderman is the latest in a ...
Insight - Ashley Madison courted several buyers, landed none before attack   Reuters
Adultery website CEO steps down in wake of hacking scandal   MLive.com
Ashley Madison's CEO resigns after massive data hack   USA TODAY
Irish Examiner
Times of India
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Uber Hires Two Hackers to Work on Self-Driving Cars' Defenses
Wall Street Journal
Uber Technologies Inc. wants to make self-driving cars and naturally, it doesn't want people to hack them. The ride-hailing company confirmed on Friday that it had hired two well-known car hackers to help devise its own defenses. Security researchers ...

Uber Hires Two Engineers Who Showed Cars Could Be Hacked   New York Times
Uber Hires Security Researchers Who Hacked Moving Jeep   NBCNews.com
Uber Is Hiring The Two Hackers That Were Able To Hack The Jeep Cherokee   Tech Times
Mashable
Bloomberg
Engadget
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Facebook Launches M
Gazette Tribune
Facebook Launches M In a bold move today, Facebook launched its virtual assistant, M, which will be deemed to be a tough contender for Siri and Cortana. Today, many Facebook users will open their eyes and their messenger applications to a newer ...

Facebook Creates New Record: Hits 1B Active Users in a Day   Zacks.com
Facebook Wants To Be Your Personal Assistant   Refinery29
Facebook Launches "M," The Hybrid Virtual Assistant; Part Human, Part ...   iSchoolGuide
Pulse Headlines
The Daily Star
Pioneer News
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Fortune

Did Huawei just reveal that Android smartwatches will pair with iPhones?
Fortune
Android Wear getting iOS support could be the shot in the arm Google's smartwatch platform needs. Did Amazon just spill the beans about a major Android Wear update? Huawei's long-awaited smartwatch briefly went up for preorders on Amazon on Friday ...

Huawei Watch Available For Pre-Order, Coming to iOS?   PC Magazine
Huawei Watch pre-order confirms Android Wear coming to iOS   ZDNet
Pulled Huawei Watch listing may back claims of Android Wear coming to iOS   Apple Insider
Engadget
TechCrunch
Top Tech News
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Razer is making its own customizable Xbox One controller
Engadget
The Xbox One already has an expensive controller tailor-made for competitive gamers, but Razer believes there's room for another one. Today at PAX, the company announced its new $150 Wildcat controller for Microsoft's latest console. Razer says that it ...

Razer's tournament-grade Wildcat wants to replace your Xbox One controller   PCWorld
Razer's own Xbox One controller is designed with esports in mind   Mashable
Razer is making a $150 Xbox One controller for e-sports gamers   WinBeta
The Verge
GameSpot
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Google's App Search Results Now Look More Like An App Store
TechCrunch
Google has been working for some time to improve how it highlights mobile apps, and the data they contain, in its search results. And now, Android users performing Google searches for apps outside the Play Store will notice a big change in how apps are ...

Amazon Underground aims to be the Netflix of apps   SlashGear
Android 6.0 Marshmallow Adds Per-App Battery Usage In mAh   Ubergizmo
Amazon Underground Makes Paid Android Apps, Games Free   SocialTimes
Food World News
Crimson
Android Headlines - Android News
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Yep, gameplay video shows Lawbreakers is a CliffyB shooter
VentureBeat
Nexon showed off the first gameplay video from Cliff Bleszinski's new first-person shooter game Lawbreakers. In advance of the PAX Prime game fan event in Seattle, the trailer from Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions, the developer, and publisher Nexon ...

Former Gears of War Director Shows Off a Wild New Shooter   Wired
This week in PC gaming: Cliff Bleszinski's LawBreakers defies gravity, XCOM 2 ...   PCWorld
First LawBreakers Gameplay Trailer and Playable Characters Introduced   MMORPG News
Daily Egyptian
Forbes
Engadget
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'XCOM 2' delayed until February 2016
Engadget
XCOM 2 was supposed to launch in November, but apparently planet-wide alien invasions are tricky to schedule. Firaxis has pushed XCOM 2's release date back to February 5, 2016, noting that the game isn't up to the studio's standards quite yet. "We've ...
XCOM 2 Delayed, New Release Date Announced   NDTV
'XCOM 2' Pushed Back To 2016   Forbes
XCOM 2 fans will need to wait until early 2016 to get their hands on the game   Digital Trends
Destructoid
IGN
Cinema Blend
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Instagram won't force square images anymore!
Irish Examiner
While it started out as a kind of amusing quirk, a throwback to using simple film stock, the square orientation of each and every Instagram photo could also be a drag. Considering most smartphone photos were a different shape there was always awkward ...

The tyranny of the square ends as Instagram adds landscape photos   Irish Independent
Instagram images no longer all square   BBC News
Facebook's Instagram to Enable Landscape Mode Pictures   Nasdaq
CNBC
Financial Express
Zacks.com
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Fortune

Why Hasbro wants to crowdfund a gaming hit
Fortune
The leading toy maker is teaming up with Indiegogo in a contest aimed at designers and inventors with ideas for new games. Hasbro has a business proposition for aspiring game makers: Crowdfund a unique party game, and we will make it a hit. The toy ...

Toy maker teams up with Indiegogo to find next hit board-game   FOX10 News
Hasbro Is Crowdfunding Ideas On Indiegogo For Its Next Great Game   Tech Times
Hasbro wants to crowdfund your party game ideas on Indiegogo   Engadget
MarketWatch
Paste Magazine
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