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More of Google’s Project Loon internet balloons will crash into U.S. backyards soon

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The Washington Post pointed out this week that the head of Google’s Project Loon, the initiative that sends large balloons flying around the world to beam internet signals to people on the ground, admitted in an MIT Review interview published earlier this week that the company is planning to launch the project in the U.S.

From the MIT Review article:

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Apple Pay won’t replace your wallet any time soon

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Today is Apple Pay day, finally extending to iOS users a capability that Google and several others have already tried, unsuccessfully, to make mainstream.

For several reasons, Apple’s foray into mobile payments appears to have a good shot at succeeding where others have fallen short. Some point to the iPhone’s massive market share. Although more Android devices may be in the hands of consumers overall, everyday Android users who don’t read technology news and reviews obsessively might not know if their phones have an NFC chip or even how to set up Google Wallet. But with the homogeneity of iOS, everyone with an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus will have that capability.

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Ending soon: Hacker Monthly, WordPress Starter Kit, and NYOP Designer Bundle [Deals]

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Users of Hacker News submit articles for online publishing. Every month, the editors select from the top voted articles and print them in magazine format. Cult of Mac Deals is offering you a three year digital subscription to Hacker Monthly that you can …
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Android Root Apps May Soon Be More Difficult To Write, For Security’s Sake – ReadWrite

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Android Root Apps May Soon Be More Difficult To Write, For Security's Sake
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The Android security model has always had sandboxes that protect user data from other applications. By changing the flow through which data progresses through root apps, Android engineers are attempting to make it more difficult for malicious apps to …
Future Android security feature could break many root appsAndroid Community

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