The New Yahoo Is Starting to Take Shape

When Marissa Mayer took over control of Yahoo, the company was in trouble. They may have been one of the internet 1.0 pioneers, but they missed out on search, were left behind on email, and earned themselves a very bad reputation for dropping the ball with startups they take over. Now things are starting to look very different.

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Samsung Claims 5G Mobile Data Breathrough

Samsung has claimed that they have developed a technology for improving data transmission rates that could become a central part of 5G networks, the successor to the 4G networks now being rolled out around the world.

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Communications Blackout in Syria

Syrian internet and phone services go dark over night, but it remains impossible to ascertain how or why the outage happened.

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Google Nexus 11 Tablet Specs Leak Ahead of Google I/O?

Android tablets have already started to catch up with the dominant iPad, but Google is not one to rest of their laurels, and the rumour mill suggests that the search giant will showcase an 11″ tablet from Samsung at the upcoming I/O conference, inventively named Nexus 11.

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Google Fined for Illegal Data Gathering in Germany

Search and technology giant Google has been fined €145,000 by the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for illegally accessing and recording data from unencrypted WiFi networks in the country with its Street View vehicles.

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