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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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Tweets: @rickm18, @digitalmaverick, @trengriffin, @funnelfiasco, @ronellsmith and @therickwilson
See also Mediagazer| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC votes in favor of giving consumers the right to block robocalls and spam text messages — FCC Moves to Prevent Robocalls and Spam Texts — Under new plan, phone carriers can block robocalls and automated text messages to cellphones and landlines — WASHINGTON—The Federal …
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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 … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
The DxO One is a $599, 20.2MP, 1-inch camera that attaches to your iPhone lightning port; preorders open now for September delivery — The DxO One makes your iPhone better than most compact cameras — We all take pictures with our phones but some of us want to grow the experience up a little.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Tech Times, iPhone Hacks and SlashGear
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on news, Twitter, Friendster, founders as CEOs, and the future of Nuzzel — We talked to the CEO who some people think owns the one thing Twitter needs most — A few days ago, the Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca was talking on Periscope about Nuzzel, the newsgathering app.
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| 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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Inquirer, BetaNews, TechCrunch, The Verge, Electronista, Laptop Mag and PCWorld
| Nick Arnott / iMore: |
A look at the OS X and iOS security vulnerabilities that make up XARA and what to do until Apple fixes them — XARA, deconstructed: An in-depth look at OS X and iOS cross-app resource attacks — Does the Indiana University XARA whitepaper make your head hurt?
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International Business Times, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Mashable, The Loop, SecurityWeek, TIME and HOTforSecurity. Tweets: @1password
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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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SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, Mattermark, USA Today, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid, US News, Fast Company, MarketWatch, tech.co and CNBC
Tweets: @jeff, @joshmedia and @starkupnation
| 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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Engadget, PCWorld, The Register, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and GSMArena Blog
| 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.
| Dean Hudson / SoundCloud Developers: |
SoundCloud introduces rate limits to its API, limiting developers to 15K play requests per day, effective July 1 — Introducing Rate Limits — At SoundCloud, we're building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem.
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Music Business Worldwide, The Next Web, The FADER and FACT Magazine
Tweets: @heybengray, @mikekasprzak, @soundclouddev and @brian_lovin
| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Former EMC, HP exec Dave Donatelli to lead Oracle's converged hardware group, report once again to Mark Hurd — Dave Donatelli, ex of EMC, ex of HP, to lead Oracle hardware — That thing F. Scott Fitzgerald said about there being no second acts in American lives? It clearly does not hold for Dave Donatelli.
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