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Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
With some 650M MAUs, Facebook gives Groups its own app with more control over notifications, no ads for now — The new Groups app makes Facebook about your friends again — Imagine you have an online service for chatting with friends, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 650 to 700 million monthly active users.| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
Uber exec, at NYC dinner with CEO present, suggested digging up dirt on critical journalists — Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists — Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says exec's remarks on targeting the press “a departure from our values” — Uber CEO Condemns “Terrible” Comments — “We should lead by inspiring our riders, our drivers, and the public at large,” Travis Kalanick said in an 11-tweet tweetstorm this afternoon.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories — Last week at Apple's yearly briefing for accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone/iPad (MFi) licensing program, the company unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs … | Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets …
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess — Apple today released the first update to OS X Yosemite that included fixes for unspecified Wi-Fi problems and improved reliability for connecting to Microsoft Exchange corporate email servers. — But Mac owners who had said that Yosemite crippled … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Far from killing it, native apps have made the open web even stronger — Native Apps Are Part of the Web — Christopher Mims, writing in the WSJ, “The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It”: … I can't believe someone is still writing this in 2014. Users love apps, developers love apps …
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code — The most recent update to WhatsApp's Android app includes a surprising feature: strong end-to-end encryption, enabled by default. It's the strongest security any major texting app has offered, even compared with similar tools …
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
Intel to combine PC and mobile divisions as market shifts — Intel will combine its PC and mobile processor divisions under one roof, reflecting a changing market in which the line between tablets and laptops has blurred. — The chip maker will form a new division at the start of next year called … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google and Stanford researchers create image recognition software that goes beyond recognizing individual objects, teaches itself to identify entire scenes — Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently …
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| Cho Mu-hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung to launch flexible display, cut number of smartphone models by 25-30% in 2015 — Samsung to launch flexible display, cut smartphone models in 2015 — Summary: Samsung Electronics will launch a flexible display for handsets and release 25 to 30 percent less handset models next year … | James Trew / Engadget: |
Create your own smart home with littleBits' house-friendly kit — Ever since littleBits' snap-together circuits got the ability to speak to the internet, they were crying out to be used for home-automation. Today, littleBits itself is making that a dead cert, by launching a “Smart Home Kit.”
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| Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker: |
Inside 10x, a talent agency representing superstar programmers — The Programmer's Price — Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent. … “Technically, we have an open marriage, but so far there's just Michael and me.” — BUY OR LICENSE »| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
More Than 90 Percent of U.S. Households Have Three or More Devices Pinging the Internet — How much do Americans love the Internet? — Well, Ericsson counted all the ways. — It turns out that 90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices … | Wall Street Journal: |
IBM launches IBM Verse web-based email service, free for individuals, commercial version for business — IBM Launching Web-Based Email Service — Company to Offer IBM Verse Free to Individuals and Hopes to Sell Commercial Version to Businesses — International Business Machines Corp …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Ex-BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins named CEO and Chairman of wireless charging startup Powermat — Ex-BlackBerry chief joins Powermat as CEO — Thorsten Heins, who departed BlackBerry in late 2013, will now lead the wireless-charging company. — Former BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BitTorrent Opens Its Paygate Premium Content Bundles To All Artists, Giving Creators A 90% Cut — BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file distribution network that has been repositioning itself as a legit friend and home to the creative industries, is today embarking on the latest phase of its strategy … | Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
Square launches old-school physical gift cards, replacing digital ones sent via email … Two years after Square announced it was offering a virtual gift card service, it's nixing the program in favor of physical ones. — That may sound counter intuitive in today's digital-first culture …
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