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Facebook stays friends with Peter Thiel

Facebook shareholders aren’t un-friending Peter Thiel this year. A month after the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook backer said he was bankrolling a series of lawsuits against Gawker Media, Facebook’s shareholders decided he should stay on the board. Thiel was re-elected alongside seven other board members, including Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist; Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix; and Erskine …

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Adobe improves Photoshop’s aware

If there’s an overarching theme to the set of new capabilities in Photoshop CC 2015.5 and Creative Cloud, it’s efficiency. There’s little here that you couldn’t do before, but Adobe’s concentrated on reducing the number of clicks required to produce results and speeding up aspects of Photoshop. It also includes the continuation of its aggressive push to attract designers to …

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​Fitbit wants to help you get a better night’s sleep

A new feature inside of the Fitbit app looks to help improve the sleep habits of millions of Fitbit owners. While a majority of the company’s products already offer sleep tracking and let users create custom sleep goals, a new Sleep Schedule will now allow for even more control. The new feature, which will arrive today as part of an …

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Spotify passes 100 million active listeners

A lot of people listen to Spotify. The music streaming service said its user base of active listeners has passed 100 million. The majority of those are “free” users who listen to streams with commercial breaks, but the company also claims the largest paid subscriber base in the music industry, with 30 million paid subscribers. Although it might be the …

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5G gets a shot in the arm from the FCC

US regulators are setting the stage for the next era in wireless. The Federal Communications Commission next month will vote on a proposal to help identify and free up wireless spectrum at very high frequencies that could be used to power fifth-generation, or 5G, cellular networks. The agency will do as it did with the development of 4G LTE and …

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