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May 29, 2015, 7:10 PM

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David Pierce / Wired:
With Project Jacquard, Google aims to bring touch sensors, haptic feedback, and more to fabric used for everything from jeans to car seats, partners with Levi's  —  Google Is Hacking Our Clothes to Work Like Touchscreens  —  If you want to understand a key piece of Google's vision …
Selena Larson / The Daily Dot:
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple vans are gathering data for in-house mapping database, collecting street-view imagery and taking stills of business storefronts to replace Yelp photos  —  Mystery solved: Apple vans gathering next-gen Maps data, grabbing Street View storefronts + 3D images
CNBC:
Sources: Snapchat in the process of raising $650M in equity at $16B valuation  —  Snapchat stock sale values company at up to $16B  —  Snapchat is in the process of raising $650 million in equity, which would value the company at 16 billion, sources told CNBC.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Jessica Verrilli, Twitter's Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, leaving for Google Ventures after six years  —  Exclusive: Jess Verrilli leaving Twitter for Google Ventures  —  Jessica Verrilli is stepping down as director of corporate development and strategy at Twitter TWTR …
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
iPhone text crash bug also works via Snapchat text chats and Twitter DMs or mentions  —  iPhone text crash bug hits Twitter and Snapchat  —  Unfixed iOS bug allows booby-trapped messages to break Snapchat text chat and can be sent via Twitter direct messages or mentions
Sébastien Page / iDownloadBlog.com:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs  —  Facebook this afternoon confirmed that it will now support animated GIFs in the Facebook News Feed.  Not everyone will see the added functionality immediately, we understand, as the update is still rolling out.
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Hola sells bandwidth and computing resources of idle user machines that make up its free VPN service, used in one case to mount a DDoS attack on 8chan  —  Hola VPN Sells Users' Bandwidth, Founder Confirms  —  Faced with increasing local website censorship and Internet services …
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Salesforce acquires smart calendar app Tempo AI, will shut it down on June 30  —  Salesforce has bought Tempo AI, a startup with a smart calendar app.  —  Tempo AI announced the news today in a post on its homepage.  —  The app is no longer accepting new users and will be shut down on June 30, according to the statement.
More: tempo.ai, Fortune, The Next Web and TechCrunchTweets: @shaig
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple's HomeKit platform will see first accessories launch next week  —  The first home automation products using Apple's new Siri-controlled HomeKit platform will arrive next week, according to sources briefed on Apple's plans.  —  The company first introduced HomeKit last year alongside iOS 8 …
Reto Meier / Android Developers Blog:

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