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Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused — In light of the ongoing net neutrality battle, many people have begun looking to Google and its promise of high-speed fiber as a potential saving grace from companies that want to create an “internet fast lane.”
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| Benedict Evans: |
WWDC takeaways: Apple continues to remove restrictions on developers with Extensions and Cloud Drive, views the cloud as “dumb storage”, more — Digesting WWDC: cloudy — I've spent the last couple of days sifting through the announcements at WWDC. Apple claims 4000 new APIs, and it certainly feels like it.
| Tom Brewster / Guardian: |
UK proposes life sentences for hackers who threaten national security — Life sentences for serious cyberattacks are proposed in Queen's speech — Any cyberattackers who cause ‘loss of life, serious injury or damage to national security’ could face full sentence
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft: Software update unlocks more GPU bandwidth on Xbox One — The system update does not turn the system white... only the employee models do that. — The June system update rolling out to Xbox Ones worldwide this week includes surface-level features like external hard drive support, as we mentioned this morning.
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's New iPhone Ad Stars A Bunch Of Health Gadgets That Are Not An iWatch — Somewhere in my basement I have a Presidential Fitness Award signed by George H.W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think I had to do 50 pushups or something to qualify — it's a good thing that I took the test … | Katrina Brooker / Newsweek: |
Cover story: behind the scenes with Greylock Partners — How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook — One sunny day in March, Gagan Biyani, the young and hugely ambitious CEO of Sprig—a company so new you probably have never heard of it—stepped into the main conference room at 2550 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
Tweets: @chrisyeh, @nicoleperlroth, @jyarow, @gregbensinger, @greylockvc, @mikeolson, @jerrychen, @johnolilly, @christianhern, @newsweek, @sg and @ebekiel
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Nags Another New Partner, Blaming Verizon for Slow Streams — Earlier this year, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Comcast, then complained about it. — Here's a new version of the story: In April, Netflix signed a Web traffic deal with Verizon.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple introduces MFi specs for Lightning cable headphones, support arriving in future iOS update — We've learned Apple has quietly introduced a new specification for manufacturers in its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program that allows them to create headphones that connect to iOS devices using …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
U.S. Marshals Seize Cops' Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU — A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn Tuesday when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them.
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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
Sprint, T-Mobile Move Closer to a $32 Billion Deal — Sprint Would Buy T-Mobile for Around $40 a Share in Merger That Likely Would Face Regulator Scrutiny — Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. have agreed on the broad terms of a merger worth around $32 billion and are working toward a final agreement …
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung Z's Tizen OS demoed on video — Samsung unveiled its first Tizen-powered smartphone yesterday, the Samsung Z, which is slated to go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of this year. The Samsung Z, being the first commercial Tizen phone, runs what is the final consumer version of Tizen …
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| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Sources: Fab slowly shutting down; remaining NY employees to be gradually let go over 6 months — Fab.com Is Probably Dead This Year — There hasn't been a single piece of good news from Fab.com in a very long time. Layoffs, mismanagement, plummeting morale, and executive reshuffles …
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Business Insider, PandoDaily, Consumerist, Mashable, WebProNews and Re/code
Tweets: @betashop, @betashop, @mattlynley, @samfbiddle and @mattlynley
| Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro: |
Microsoft Touts New PCs, Windows Phones at Computex — At Computex in Taiwan on Wednesday, Microsoft touted the over 40 new Windows PC and Windows Phone handset designs showcased by its hardware partners at the show. As you might imagine, the devices vary wildly, with more hardware makers coming … | Molly Wood / New York Times: |
Report: Online TV viewing up 246% over last year, outpacing online video, up 43% — TV Apps Are Soaring in Popularity, Report Says — When it comes to online video, people may not want to cut the cord. Instead, they want to take the cord with them. People are streaming broadcast television … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Amazon's 3D Smartphone Is Coming June 18 — Amazon is holding a product annoucnement on June 18. — It's probably for the long-rumored Amazon smartphone. — Developing...refresh for updates. — The company posted this video to YouTube that teases the product: — Join the conversation about this story »
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Tweets: @amazon and @dannysullivan
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Justice Department Plans to Begin a Review of Music Licensing Rules — The music industry has been complaining loudly in recent years about outdated federal regulation. Now it finally has a chance to do something about it. — On Wednesday, the Justice Department plans to announce …
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VatorNews, Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge and musictechpolicy.wordpress.com. Tweets: @sisario
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