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iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch — The inside story of the Apple Watch: the people who made it, why it's important, and just how much the world's largest company has riding on it. — The post iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch appeared first on WIRED.
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Microsoft releases Office Lens document scanning app for iPhone, opens Android preview — Office Lens comes to iPhone and Android — Just over a year ago, we introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone—and over that time the app has become one of the most popular free apps on Windows Phone …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Snapchat cuts off third-party apps, expands bug bounty program, releases transparency report, and apologizes for past mistakes — Snapchat's Non-Vanishing Message: You Can Trust Us — A rare interview with Snapchat tech executives about a transparency report, a bug bounty program, a third-party app ban...and apologies
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Comcast offering 2Gbps broadband service starting in Atlanta next month, twice as fast as Google Fiber — Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service — One way to answer critics and competitors alike is to simply do better, and for once Comcast is doing exactly that.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A16Z and FirstMark Capital raised special purpose vehicle funds to invest solely in Pinterest — In Silicon Valley Frenzy, VCs Create New Inside Track — Pinterest board member raised $200 million in three days to buy more shares—with startup's blessing
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Chrome and Firefox to stop trusting digital certificates issued by Chinese certificate authority following breach of trust — Google Chrome will banish Chinese certificate authority for breach of trust [Updated] — Draconian move follows the issuance of certificates masquerading as Google domains.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Audit of TrueCrypt software finds minor issues, no deliberate backdoors or severe design flaws — Truecrypt report — A few weeks back I wrote an update on the Truecrypt audit promising that we'd have some concrete results to show you soon. Thanks to some hard work by the NCC Crypto Services group, soon is now.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Twitter Buys TenXer For Under $50M To Improve Its Tools For Engineers — Social network Twitter has long been under fire for some of its internal issues when it comes to products and how engineers work to develop and improve them. Now it's made an acquisition that could help it improve things on that front.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20 Million Round for Honor to Take Care of Seniors — The stereotype goes both ways: Old fogies don't have much interest in technology, and the technology industry doesn't much care about serving seniors. — But that's changing, with a new startup called Honor …
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| Financial Times: |
European regulators scrutinise Apple over music streaming plans — Matthew Garrahan in New York and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco — European regulators are scrutinising Apple's dealings with record labels, amid an intensifying battle over the future of free, ad-supported music streaming services such as Spotify.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Ford is experimenting with its own app-based ride-hailing service called the Dynamic Shuttle — Ford Is Chasing Tesla And Uber Into The Future — Ford CEO Mark Fields says the legacy car manufacturer is trying to think like a startup. — Ford — In the race to define the … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber hires Joe Sullivan to be its first chief security officer, luring him away from Facebook — Uber Hires a Security Chief From Facebook — Silicon Valley is home to some of the world's brightest technical minds. And from Apple to Google, every big company covets the talent of its competitors.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Meerkat usage has dropped due to competition from Periscope, poor stream recommendations, and because it's no longer featured in the App Store — Here's why Meerkat's popularity is suddenly plunging — After bursting onto the scene through the trend-spotting site Product Hunt and winning … | Aditya Pasumarty / The Venmo Blog: |
As promised, Venmo launches multifactor authentication for users on iOS, Android, and the web — Updates to Venmo Security — We're pleased to announce that multifactor authentication (MFA) is now available for all Venmo users on the web or the latest iOS and Android apps.| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Airbnb now offers about 1,000 listings in Cuba, limited to US travelers — The online lodgings marketplace offers about 1,000 listings for U.S. travelers — Airbnb operates in 190 countries and 34,000 cities around the world, but its latest addition could be a momentous one.
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