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| Joe Siegrist / The LastPass Blog: |
LastPass warns it was hacked, says secure vault storing user passwords was not accessed, but account email addresses, password reminders, more were compromised — LastPass Security Notice — We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network.
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Tweets: @csoghoian, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @kevinmitnick and @chrismessina
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber failed to win delivery deals with Apple, Starbucks as its push into logistics proves costly and complex — The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver? — Investors are counting on Uber to upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis, but progress has been slow so far
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9to5Mac, iMore, MacRumors and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dmac1, @benbajarin, @robwensing, @sub8u, @r0h1n and @fmanjoo
| Will Ruben / Facebook: |
Facebook launches Moments, an app to privately sync photos with friends on Android and iOS, available in US for now — Introducing Moments: A Private Way to Share Photos With Friends — With a phone at everyone's fingertips, the moments in our lives are captured by a new kind of photographer: our friends.
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Facebook Code, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Android Soul, Forbes, Mashable, Social Media Today, Agence France-Presse, TechnoBuffalo, Fone Arena, International Business Times, Redmond Pie, The Daily Dot, CNNMoney, Wired, Digital Trends, PCWorld, AndroidGuys, SocialTimes, CIO.com, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, Medium, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, Re/code, GSMArena Blog and The Next Web
Tweets: @msquinn, @rsg and @chrismessina
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is building a special version of Minecraft for HoloLens — We got a closer look at Microsoft's HoloLens during Build in April, but the company is showing off the gaming aspects of its headset today. Microsoft has built a new version of Minecraft specifically for its HoloLens headset.
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BetaNews, GeekWire, Bloomberg Business, SiliconANGLE, CNET, NEWS.com.au, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ReadWrite and AppleInsider. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe announces 2015 Creative Cloud updates and the new integrated Adobe Stock image service for additional fees — Adobe Announces 2015 Creative Cloud Updates, New Integrated Adobe Stock Service — Adobe today announced that all of its Creative Cloud desktop apps, including Photoshop … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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ZDNet, The Register, BetaNews, Android Police, PCWorld, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, Android Police, iMore, Gizmodo UK, Laptop Mag, The Next Web, SlashGear and 9to5Google
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Evernote CEO Phil Libin is planning to step down, and working to find his replacement — CEO Change Brewing at Evernote — Evernote CEO Phil Libin has long said he wants to build a 100-year company. Now he's actively looking for his own replacement to take the startup into its second decade.
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Fortune and Business Insider
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
OS X El Capitan preview: a series of minor, but welcome improvements — When Apple revealed that the next version of OS X would be called “El Capitan,” I couldn't help but laugh. I think we all did. I mean, here we were expecting the company to name its new operating system after another national park …
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9to5Mac, Re/code, USA Today, Ars Technica, iMore, The Loop, Wired, TechCrunch, The Verge, Yahoo Tech, MacRumors, Mashable, iPhone, AnandTech and Laptop Mag
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming—Google built itself a Twitch killer — A slick interface, huge user base, and tons of content should have Twitch worried. — NEW YORK—YouTube Gaming is coming! YouTube's Twitch Killer was announced on Friday, so we stopped by the YouTube Space in Manhattan …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Privacy groups opt out of US talks on face recognition, say they can't achieve minimum rights for consumers — Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition — A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share … | Michelle Starr / CNET: |
PlayStation Vue expands to San Francisco and Los Angeles; a la carte channels like Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima coming in July — PlayStation Vue announces a la carte service, coming to SF and LA — Sony's PlayStation live TV streaming service is launching tonight in new markets …
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Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Verge, GeekWire, VentureBeat and GSMArena Blog. See also Mediagazer
| Benedict Evans: |
Google Play app downloads now 2x iOS, but Android users spend half as much as iOS users, up from 1/4 a year ago; Play revenues may overtake App Store this year — The (lack of) app store metrics — Apple and Google both give headline statistics of how well their respective app stores are doing …
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| Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg Business: |
Fitbit raises IPO goal by 37% to $655.6M at $17-19 per share, could value it at up to $3.9B — Fitbit Boosts IPO Goal by Up to 37% on Health-Device Demand — Fitbit Inc. co-founder James Park. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg — Fitbit Inc., the maker of wearable devices …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is hiring editors to curate content for News app and work with publications to quickly surface breaking stories, according to a company job listing — Apple News curation will have human editors and that will raise important questions — Apple hasn't talked about it publicly … | Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Google Sheets updated with data analysis, visualization tools — At the most visual level, users will be able to preview formula results while typing, revealing both progress and potential errors nearly instantly. — Although it is not the most glamorous of apps in Google's vast catalog … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Zynga Acquires Mark Pincus's Incubator, Superlabs — Zynga has acquired Superlabs, the incubator (or “Pincubator” as Kara Swisher called it in November) founded by Zynga CEO Mark Pincus before returning to company he co-founded in April. — The deal, which is clearly a talent acquisition … | Darlene Storm / Computerworld: |
UK tech firm designs system using emoji instead of PIN numbers for online banking, says they are harder to hack, easier to remember — Will banks allow four emojis to replace PIN numbers? — Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin... that is just one combination of emojis that a person might use … Sponsor Posts
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