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Twitter's new SDK Fabric represents an audacious plan to live inside every app — Twitter's Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps — Twitter is releasing a new software development kit today at its developer's conference. It's called Fabric. It does lots of very pretty things …
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Twitter introduces Fabric, an SDK for mobile developers — Introducing Fabric — Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps. — The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common …
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Behind Twitter's Move to Become a Mobile-Services Shop — Twitter is looking to have its Google moment, the time when the tech giant began pushing to become more than just an Internet search engine. — For Twitter, this means staking a claim on the mobile universe as smartphones …
Tweets: @rsarver, @rzkeller, @ethankurz, @sacca, @bewickwren, @thirdweil, @scottmaustin and @daiwaka
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| iFixit: |
iPad Air 2 Teardown — Step 1 — iPad Air 2 Teardown Just add air? That would be too easy. Apple has packaged all kinds of revised hardware into its thinnest tablet yet: Fully laminated, 9.7" IPS Multi-Touch LCD with a 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi and antireflective coating A8X 64-bit CPU … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google aims to reinvent email with Inbox, a marriage of Gmail and Google Now, currently invite-only — Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google — The new Gmail app from the Gmail team isn't technically just an email app, at least if you ask them.
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Mark Zuckerberg gives 30-minute public interview in Chinese at Tsinghua University — Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone's Mind — Think you're too busy to learn another language? Well, you're not the CEO of a $205 billion company, and apparently, even this rather demanding …
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Google dominates search advertising but will likely be eclipsed in native ad category — Peak Google — Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example …
Tweets: @mikiszikszai, @binarybits, @joshelman, @mdudas, @fmanjoo, @pkafka, @theory and @cookie
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Behind Google's $120M purchase of mobile enterprise startup Divide, one of NYC's biggest exits of 2014 — How 3 First-Time Founders Turned One-Third Of Their Employees Into Millionaires — And No One Found Out About It — On May 19, Google acquired a startup for $120 million in cash and stock … | Bloomberg: |
Christian Bale confirmed to play role of Steve Jobs, shooting will begin in next couple of months — Christian Bale Didn't Have to Audition for Jobs Film Role — Actor Christian Bale didn't have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
iMac with Retina display review: A best-in-class screen makes it worth the high price — When Apple held one of its big keynotes last week, it was easy to think of it as “iPad day.” Sure enough, the company announced some upgraded tablets, but it was a desktop, of all things, that stole the show.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
New Nintendo 3DS review: vastly improved performance and 3D effect, but unusably bad cameras and outdated display tech — New Nintendo 3DS review — Portable games consoles are still a thing. — As the Wii U flounders, it's almost easy to forget that Nintendo has another console plugging away … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Strengthens Pull of Its Orbit With Each Device — Late in 2012, when Tim Cook was relatively fresh on the job as Apple's chief executive, he made a sudden and potentially risky shuffle in the firm's executive ranks. He fired Scott Forstall, who had been in charge of Apple's mobile operating system … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google's DeepMind Acqui-Hires Two AI Teams In The UK, Partners With Oxford — Earlier this year Google acquired DeepMind in the UK to expand the work that it is doing in artificial intelligence, and today the company announced that it is making some more significant moves to build this out even further.
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| Sam Sabri / Windows Phone Central: |
Free Xbox Music streaming on Windows 8.1 and web will be discontinued in December — The free Xbox Music streaming you've been enjoying on Windows 8.1 and on the web will be discontinued on December 1st, 2014. This doesn't impact you if you're using the Xbox Music Pass …
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| Maeve Duggan / Pew Internet: |
Pew survey: 40% of US internet users have experienced online harassment, 18% in severe form — Online Harassment — Summary of Findings — Harassment—from garden-variety name calling to more threatening behavior— is a common part of online life that colors the experiences of many web users.
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| AppleInsider: |
Apple to drop SSL 3.0 support for push notifications on Oct. 29 due to POODLE vulnerability — In response to a recently discovered vulnerability with SSL version 3.0, Apple on Wednesday announced through its developer website that it will be removing support for the protocol on its Apple Push Notification server.
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| Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: |
Windows 10 to get two-factor authentication built-in — Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS. — The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 … | Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Illumio, exiting stealth, aims to secure both your data center and the cloud — Illumio acts like access management for computing workloads; users can run Illumio to ensure that the right workloads get transmitted to the appropriate servers, whether they are on the cloud or on bare metal.
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