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Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information — Twitter Is Killing Twitter To Save Twitter — Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
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Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery — Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
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| Georgina Prodhan / Reuters: |
Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it — Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin — Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement … | Samsung Tomorrow: |
Samsung will roll out security update to fix Galaxy keyboard vulnerability in coming days, says likelihood of successful exploits using vulnerability is low — Information Regarding the Keyboard Security Issue and Our Device Policy Update — Samsung takes all security threats very seriously.
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Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68 — Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut — Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon — Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers' transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Ad Tech Vet Ben Barokas Launches Sourcepoint to Block Ad Blockers — Ad-blocking software for Web surfers isn't new. But there's a growing chorus of people who insist that ad blockers are no longer a niche group, but a large subset of Internet users — and big enough to hurt Web publishers that depend on ad revenue.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter …
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New York City criticizes Verizon for slow FiOS rollout: 40K requests pending with 75% outstanding for over one year — New York City Criticizes Verizon on FiOS Delivery — Verizon promised New York City to deliver FiOS to anyone who wanted it by 2014 — New York City says Verizon … | David Morgan / Reuters: |
FAA expects to finalize commercial drone rules by June 2016, FAA deputy administrator Michael Whitaker testifies — FAA expects to clear U.S. commercial drones within a year — U.S. commercial drone operations could take flight on a large scale by this time next year … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first — Google Confirms Acquisition Of Agawi, A Specialist In Streaming Native Mobile Apps — Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place …
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
HP introduces new laptops: Pavillion x2, with USB-C, 32GB for $299, 3 new Envy models with 14- to 17-inch screens from $630, available July — HP announces back-to-school Envy and Pavilion laptops with USB-C and detachable screens — The convertible Pavilion x2 highlights HP's assortment …
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Twitter planning first ever major marketing campaign, which will aim to better explain the purpose and benefits of the service — Twitter Said to Plan Marketing Campaign, New Live Events Feature — Twitter Inc. is working on a marketing campaign to better explain how to use its services, people with knowledge of the effort said.
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Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2 — Exclusive: Apple mines big profits from Watch band — Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Moments will not be available in Europe until an opt-in choice is offered due to regulators' concerns about facial recognition — Facial-Recognition Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe — Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe …
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SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World — Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key — Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look. Everything in the line …
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