Facebook's Messenger Lite lights up old Android phones and other top stories.

• Facebook's Messenger Lite lights up old Android phones

  

  Messenger Lite can send pictures and videos, but can't yet make voice calls. Facebook Facebook has a tiny, speedy new messaging app designed for owners of older Android phones.Facebook Messenger Lite, announced Monday, takes up a much smaller amount of a phone's storage -- just 10 megabytes -- than the full-fat app that most users have installed on their phones, and it has been pared back so that it runs peppily..

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• Did Google's Pixel phones just get completely leaked?

  

  Google's next big event is on October 4 -- more than 24 hours away -- but you may not have to wait to get the scoop on the company's new flagship phones. Carphone Warehouse, the UK electronics retailer, appears to have leaked all the major features of both new devices. The best alleged look yet at Google's Pixel and Pixel XL phones. Carphone Warehouse And while we can't vouch for every detail (certainly take them ..

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• Facebook launches Marketplace, a friendlier Craigslist

  

  450 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a whole tab in its app dedicated to peer-to-peer shipping. Facebook Marketplace lets you browse a relevancy-sorted feed of things to buy from people who live nearby, and quickly list your own stuff for sale. Integration with Facebook Messenger lets you haggle or arrange a meet-up, and you know more about who you’re dealing with than on anonymous sites like Craigslist thanks to Facebo..

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• Apple Just Lost Its Patent Retrial To VirnetX

  

  A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp’s patented internet security technology without permission in features including its FaceTime video conferencing application. The verdict came in a new trial in Tyler, Texas that had been ordered by the judge in the case, Robert Schroeder, who last August threw out VirnetX’s $625.6 million win over Apple from a previous trial because he said jurors in that case may have ..

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• Microsoft expands Azure data centers to France, launches trust offensive vs AWS, Google

  

  Companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google continue to compete fiercely in the area of cloud services for consumers, developers and enterprises, and today Microsoft made its latest moves to lay out its bid to lead the race, while also launching a new mission to position itself as the cloud provider that you can trust. Microsoft announced it would build its first Azure data center in France this year, as part of a $3 billion investment that it has made to build its cloud services in Europe. At..

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• Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

  

  Photo Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan used baker’s yeast to identify genes essential for autophagy. Credit Akiko Matsushita/Kyodo News, via Associated Press Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discoveries on how cells recycle their content, a process known as autophagy.Autophagy, derived from Greek, means “self-eating.”“This concept emerged during the 1960s, when researchers first observed that t..

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• Google has until October 31 to reply to EU's Android antitrust charges

  

  BRUSSELS Alphabet's Google has been given until the end of October, the fourth extension, to rebut EU antitrust charges that it uses its dominant Android mobile operating system to block competitors, the European Commission said on Monday.The Commission in April said the U.S. technology giant's demand that mobile phone makers pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser on their smartphones to access other Google apps harms consumers and competition.The EU watchdog had initially set..

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• iPhone 7 Plus review: The dual-lens camera makes it a winner

  

  The iPhone 7 Plus is the best iPhone money can buy, hands down. Like the iPhone 7, it’s not an essential upgrade if you have an iPhone 6s Plus that you’re happy with, or you want to hold out for the 2017 iPhone, which will be the 10th anniversary and, rumor has it, the big switch to OLED. But thanks to the iPhone 7 Plus’s beautiful screen, long battery life, and impressive dual-lens camera, it’s hard to find fault with it today. Hard, but not impossible: The 7 Plus has the exact same issues ..

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• Toys For Bob planned for years to let Skylanders fans create their own 3D-printed toys

  

  Paul Reiche III, the president of Activision Blizzard’s Toys For Bob game studio, has wanted to let fans create their own Skylanders for a while. Ever since the toys-to-life video game debuted in 2011, fans sent letters showing the designs they imagined for their own Skylanders creatures. Today, the company is announcing that fans can finally do that. Activision said that fans can create their own Skylanders in the video game or in a mobile app, and then order a $50 custom 3D printed toy based ..

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