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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team — WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple hires head of Mercedes-Benz R&D, other auto experts for new secret research lab — Apple has hired former president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Johann Jungwirth to join the company as Director of Mac Systems Engineering. The hire was confirmed by Jungwirth's LinkedIn page … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Pay will be accepted for US government services starting in September; Apple also working to make Apple Pay work with government credit cards — Apple Pay Coming To Federal Institutions Starting In September — Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the White House summit on cybersecurity …
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| Katie Zezima / Washington Post: |
Obama signs executive order Friday urging companies to share cybersecurity-threat information with one another and the government — Obama to sign executive order on sharing cybersecurity threat information — SAN FRANCISCO - President Obama will sign an executive order Friday … | Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Galaxy S6 may have Microsoft's Skype, OneNote, OneDrive, and Office Mobile app preinstalled — Exclusive: Galaxy S6 software will bring some amazing changes — Software has always been the Achilles heel for Samsung. The Korean manufacturer has always been at the forefront of making amazing hardware …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service — Updated: Google is shutting down its Google Helpouts service on April 20, 2015, the service's website has now been updated to reflect. — Earlier this morning, we noticed the mobile applications for Google Helpouts …
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Mattel partners with Google to build $30 Cardboard VR-based View-Master, for sale in fall — View-Master rides Google Cardboard into virtual reality — NEW YORK — The iconic View-Master stereoscopic photo viewer you had as a kid is catching up to the digital age.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest bans all affiliate links, asks power users to monetize in other ways — Updated 12:07 a.m. with more details from Pinterest. — As Pinterest's monetization plans materialize, the social network is pulling the plug on affiliate networks. — Pinterest warned select “power pinners” …
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Thanks:@harrisonweber. See also Mediagazer| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
“Shopping cart” patent beaten by Newegg comes back to court, loses again — Patent troll won't get more money from Avon, Victoria's Secret—or anyone else. — As patent reform moved into the political spotlight during the last Congress, one patent that kept coming up was the “online shopping cart.”
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's App Store now allowing marijuana-related apps that enforce geolocation checks and rejecting apps depicting gun violence in screenshots — Apple's App Store Says No To Guns But Yes To Weed — Apple's definition of morality is on display this week with a couple of changes to its policies regarding App Store submissions.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile experiences network problems in Northeast US — No wireless provider is immune from the random service outage. Not even “Uncarrier” T-Mobile. Today, the company experienced significant problems in the Northeast US for a number of hours, with customers reporting disruptions … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Department of Justice obtains first guilty plea in Megaupload criminal case after three years, sentences programmer Andrus Nõmm to one year in prison — Megaupload programmer pleads guilty, sentenced to a year in prison — Andrus Nõmm “was aware that copyright-infringing content was stored” on-site.
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