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| Faryaab S. / SamMobile: |
Early build of Android L with TouchWiz previewed on the Samsung Galaxy S5 — Exclusive Preview: Android L on Samsung Galaxy S5 — At Google I/O 2014, Google announced the next iteration of its Android operating system - Android L. As the operating system itself was still in early stages …
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Gigaom, Gizmodo, PC World, Engadget, BGR, IntoMobile, Geek.com, 9to5Google, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, Phones Review, Android and Me and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @markgurman
| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
Apple expands employee benefits, increasing parental leave and educational reimbursements — Apple unveils new perks to attract talent — Apple employees are getting a few new perks today (and no, it's not free iPhone 6s). — On Thursday morning the companys head of HR, Denise Young Smith …
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AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider, App Advice, MacNN, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @samfbiddle
| New York Times: |
JPMorgan Chase Says More Than 76 Million Accounts Compromised in Cyber Attack — A cyber attack this summer on JPMorgan Chase compromised more than 76 million household accounts and seven million small-business accounts, making it among the largest corporate hacks ever discovered.
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, Business Insider and SC Magazine
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| Sébastien Page / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Apple launches tool to check Activation Lock status; lets you see if an iPhone/iPad is stolen — Apple releases tool to check the Activation Lock status of iOS devices — Apple recently released a tool that lets anyone check the Activation Lock status of iOS devices.
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Engadget, ReadWrite, Gigaom, The Verge, New York Times, ZDNet, BetaNews, Slate, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, The Daily Dot, Mashable, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, Redmond Pie, CIO.com, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, CNNMoney.com, Tech Times, TIME, Tech in Asia, iPhone, AppleTell, TUAW, SlashGear, The Register, BGR, Inquirer, The Next Web, iMore and 9to5Mac
| Todd Krabach / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook officially launches its mobile Like Button for native iOS and Android apps — Mobile Like Button now Available to Everyone — On average, the Like and Share Buttons are viewed across almost 10 million websites daily. At f8 this year, we let developers preview the Like Button on iOS mobile devices.
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Marketing Land, AllFacebook, 9to5Google, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and Android Central. Tweets: @kashhill
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Celebrities Threaten Google With $100 Million Lawsuit for “Facilitating” Hacked Nude Photos — In a letter that rips Google for acting “like the NFL” and turning a blind eye, a lawyer representing celebrities warns of consequences — Marty Singer, representing over a dozen celebrities whose iCloud accounts … | Bloomberg: |
France's Iliad Said to Plan Bid for Bigger T-Mobile Stake — Iliad SA (ILD) is planning to bid for a bigger stake in Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. unit than it sought in July, as the French telecom carrier approaches a self-imposed deadline to reach a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Evernote announces a new web client, artificial intelligence, better presentations — SAN FRANCISCO — The connected note taking app company Evernote today announced that it has completely redesigned its web client for simplicity and creativity. — Previously, the web client had been thought …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Security researchers publicly release code to Github for “practically unpatchable” exploit BadUSB — The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose — It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
LG website referenced software development kit for an unannounced webOS SmartWatch — LG is working on a webOS SmartWatch — “LG SmartWatch gets more powerful with the new Web-centric platform” — The world's favorite abortive mobile operating system, webOS, refuses to go away quietly.
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Electronista, The Next Web, Wearable World News, MobileSyrup.com, DailyTech, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, Re/code, Gizmodo, Phandroid, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, PC World, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Inquirer, Engadget, CNET, Android Police and Android Central. Tweets: @backlon
| Nick Statt / CNET: |
Microsoft may have named it Windows 10 to maintain compatibility with app software from '90s — Is this why Microsoft named it Windows 10? — Seemingly everyone on the Net has a theory as to why Microsoft skipped the name “Windows 9” and jumped to 10. Here's one explanation that actually makes sense.
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BGR, Business Insider, TechSpot, Gizmodo, eWeek, Engadget, PC World, InfoQ, WinBeta, Inquirer, Gizmodo UK, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and Neowin
| James Temple / Re/code: |
Fertility app maker Glow raises $17M Series B led by Formation 8 — Glow Raises $17 Million, Offers More Evidence That the App Helps Women Conceive — Glow, which develops apps designed to help women manage their reproductive health, has raised $17 million in a Series B round … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Cyanogen Inc seeking funding at a $1B valuation after spurning Google buyout offer, plans phone with Indian OEM Micromax — The Information: Cyanogen Inc. Turned Down Buyout From Google, Seeking Funding On $1 Billion Valuation — In the seemingly never-ending saga of companies believing that … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Twitter for Mac gets long-overdue update adding multi-photo viewing and DM photos — Twitter for Mac has received a rare update that adds months-old features, such as support for viewing and posting multiple photos in a single tweet and attaching pictures to a direct message, to the app.
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Macworld, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Cult of Mac and Ubergizmo
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less — Google's Scott Jenson, an interaction and UX designer who left the company only to return to the Chrome team last November, has revealed a project underway at the company called The Physical Web to provide …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Announces Stricter Guidelines For Research And Experiments On Its Users — After a study on whether emotional manipulation in the News Feed could make people sad turned into a PR disaster, Facebook has now set up a formal review process for pre-approving research on its users …
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Facebook, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, Guardian, PC World, ReadWrite, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Fortune, Bloomberg, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Verge and Washington Post. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Pioneer finally brings CarPlay equipment to mass market, Spotify app update adds CarPlay support — The CarPlay situation has been murky. Since being announced in the spring, most manufacturers have been quiet on when CarPlay equipment will actually be available to purchase.
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The Verge, ZDNet, Macworld, Engadget, MacRumors, TechSpot, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iMore, Cult of Mac, Gigaom, Neowin and TUAW
| iClarified: |
iPhone 6+ with 802.11ac shows substantial speed improvements over iPhone 5s's 802.11n — iPhone Wi-Fi Speed Test: 802.11ac iPhone 6 Plus vs. 802.11n iPhone 5s [Video] — We've posted a new video test comparing the Wi-Fi speeds of the 802.11ac iPhone 6 Plus versus the 802.11n iPhone 5s.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Intel responds to pressure from anti-feminist campaign #GamerGate, pulling ads from Gamasutra — Intel buckles to anti-feminist campaign by pulling ads from gaming site — #GamerGate supporters try to silence calls for video game equality — Intel has pulled an advertising campaign …
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Re/code, Computer Business Review, Slate, Ars Technica, Boing Boing, Flavorwire, The Mary Sue and GamesIndustry.biz. Tweets: @gamasutra. See also Mediagazer
| John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
Apple veteran Steve Dowling chosen as Apple's interim head of PR, succeeding Katie Cotton — Code/red: Apple Taps Interim PR Boss — // HAPPENING TODAY — Rocket Internet's IPO, and it's not going well. — The 55th anniversary of the premiere of “The Twilight Zone.”
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Macworld, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and App Advice. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski
| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
While operating as an FBI informant, LulzSec's Sabu led attacks against targets in 30 countries including UK, Australia, Brazil — An FBI informant led hacks against 30 countries—now we know which ones — A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant targeted more than two dozen countries …
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Netflix will finance four major feature films starring Adam Sandler to appear exclusively on Netflix — With Four New Adam Sandler Films, Netflix Takes Aim at Theaters — Netflix plans to announce on Thursday that it has struck a deal with the comedian Adam Sandler to produce and star …
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