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Apple's planned iOS 9 ‘Home’ app uses virtual rooms to manage HomeKit accessories — Apple's plan to manage upcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories could revolve around a new iOS app called “Home,” according to sources familiar with the app. Introduced at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Logjam vulnerability downgrades HTTPS encryption, affects tens of thousands of web and mail servers; browser fixes coming; NSA may have used it to crack VPNs — HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers — Diffie-Hellman downgrade weakness allows attackers to intercept encrypted data.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to replace Helvetica Neue in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 with Apple Watch's San Francisco font — Apple plans to refresh iOS 9, OS X 10.11 using new Apple Watch font — Apple is currently planning to use the new system font developed for the Apple Watch to refresh the looks of iPads …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Spotify's new version adds podcasts, video, playlists tailored to user's day, and “Running” feature that matches BPM to pace, launching in US, UK, more, today — Spotify Introduces Video Clips, Podcasts, And Activity-Based Playlists — Spotify has just unveiled the newest version …
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Microsoft looks to be building a new light-weight email app called Flow — Summary:Microsoft appears to be building an app for fast, light-weight, real-time conversations called Flow, which is likely to debut on iPhone, according to leaked information. — Microsoft seems to be developing …
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| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis leaves to study at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Matthew Panzarino to continue as editor — TechCrunch's Top Editor Tsotsis Steps Down — Alexia Tsotsis will be stepping down from her high-profile job as co-editor of TechCrunch today.
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Flickr's image-recognition tech tagged photos of faces, including black people, with “ape” and “animal”, images of Dachau concentration camp as “jungle gym” — Flickr faces complaints over ‘offensive’ auto-tagging for photos| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June — Netflix confirms today that it will roll out a new user interface on the web to all users worldwide beginning next month. A number of Netflix customers are already seeing the updated look-and-feel, however, according to various reports.
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| Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
Shopify prices IPO at $17 per share, sells 7.7M class A shares raising about $131M, valuing the company at about $1.27B — Canadian software maker Shopify valued at $1.27 billion at IPO price — Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc (SHOP.N) (SH.TO) said its U.S. initial public offering …
| Charles Clover / Financial Times: |
Huawei launches Lite OS, an operating system for the Internet of Things — Huawei launches ‘internet of things’ operating system — Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, has launched an operating system designed to work exclusively with internet connected objects — from cars to watches to toothbrushes … | Xbox Wire: |
Xbox One over-the-air TV tuner now available in the US and Canada for $59.99 — Over-the-Air TV Tuner Available Now for Xbox One in the U.S. and Canada — Today, we're excited to deliver one of the most requested live TV features on Xbox Feedback to our fans.| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Payments company WePay raises $40M in Series D round to go global, brings total raised to $75M — Payments company WePay raises $40 million to go global — WePay, a company that processes payments for websites, has raised $40 million in new funding to expand globally.
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Leaked docs show Cisco altered sales records in Russia, source claims intent was to dodge Western sanctions; Cisco denies attempting to violate sanctions — After Sanctions, Cisco Altered Sales Records in Russia … After Western sanctions began shutting down sales of high tech internet equipment …
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NetApp to Lay Off 500 Workers in Restructuring — Move follows disappointing results for April quarter, weak projections for current period — NetApp Inc. is laying off about 500 workers as the data storage specialist grapples with internal and external problems that hurt results in its fourth fiscal quarter.
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