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June 18, 2015, 3:20 PM
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
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.
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
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.
Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling  —  FCC's new net-neutrality rules went into effect Friday  —  The Federal Communications Commission's new net-neutrality rules are already having an effect.  —  Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier …
Julia Love / Reuters:
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 …
CNBC:
Fitbit opens at $30.40 in market debut, 52% above its IPO price  —  Fitbit opens 52% higher in market debut  —  Fitbit CEO: We're more than just wearables  —  Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park, shares how one customer got really into counting steps, and the company's mission.
Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:
Xbox 360 game-streaming is coming to Windows 10  —  As if backwards compatibility on the Xbox One wasn't enough, Microsoft's also going to let you stream and play those older games on Windows 10 PCs.  In a private demo of the recently announced Xbox One updates, the company confirmed to Engadget …
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.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos  —  Storyful and Google News Lab today are launching YouTube Newswire, a dedicated YouTube channel meant to serve as a resource for journalists looking for user-generated videos from around the world …
Katy Steinmetz / TIME:
Why the California Ruling on Uber Should Frighten the Sharing Economy  —  This week a ruling from the California Labor Commission was made public because popular ride-sourcing company Uber appealed it.  A San Francisco-based driver named Barbara Ann Berwick brought a case alleging that she is an employee …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web  —  Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Vimeo overhauls Cameo into a simple video editor for iOS  —  Vimeo is today releasing a huge update to Cameo, stripping the app down to its core elements and making the entire experience about editing video.  The new app doesn't resemble the old Cameo at all, and the changes are for the better.
Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld:
HP announces back-to-school Envy and Pavilion laptops with USB-C and detachable screens  —  The convertible Pavilion x2 highlights HP's assortment, which also offers choices between AMD and Intel CPUs.  —  Executive Editor, PCWorld  —  HP's new crop of back-to-school laptops debut when summer …

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After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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