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June 24, 2015, 9:10 AM
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Bloomberg Business:
Google X working on wearable that can measure pulse, heart rhythm, skin temperature, more; device meant to be prescribed to patients or used for clinical trials  —  Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband  —  The device can measure pulse, heartbeat rhythm and skin temperature, and also information like light exposure, noise levels.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
iOS 9 can now automatically delete and reinstall apps on devices with insufficient space to update OS  —  iOS 9 Includes New Auto App Delete/Reinstall Feature for OS Updates on Devices With Insufficient Space  —  Developers who are installing the second beta of iOS 9 have discovered …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Samsung is actively disabling Windows Update on at least some computers  —  Samsung is actively disabling Windows Update on at least some of the computers it sells.  Microsoft MVP Patrick Barker made the discovery and documented the details on his blog after trying to help a user troubleshoot issues with his Samsung machine.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Google finally makes ‘Undo Send’ an official feature of Gmail on the Web  —  In what could be described as one of the longest “experimental” periods of any product feature, Google is finally bringing the life-saving “Undo Send” option to the main settings on the Web version of Gmail.
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Box to offer integration with IBM content management and security tools as part of a wide-ranging cloud partnership  —  Box And IBM Ink Wide-Ranging Cloud Partnership  —  IBM is going Levie.  —  This evening, Box and IBM announced a partnership that will see their technologies integrated, and their cloud products commingled.
Vlad Dudau / Neowin:
Lenovo unveils the Ideacenter Stick 300: a $130 PC on a stick running Windows  —  Lenovo is introducing a brand new PC-on-a-stick device, called the Ideacenter Stick 300.  The new device is designed to be taken anywhere and can transform almost any display into a Windows computer.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Task Manager Todoist Releases Completely Revamped Android App  —  Popular task manager Todoist just received a major Android update with a completely overhauled user interface and very efficient new features.  First, the company switched to Material design in order to make a more polished app …
Raymond Wong / Mashable:
360fly is building affordable 360-degree cameras for VR, first-gen model will be available in August for $400  —  360Fly could do for VR what GoPro did for action cameras  —  “GoPro's done a good job,” 360fly's CEO Peter Adderton told Mashable.  “They own the [action camera] space.
Michael Bolin / Facebook Code:
Facebook open-sources Nuclide, an IDE built on Atom, Github's text editor  —  Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience  —  At this year's F8, Facebook's developer conference, our infrastructure team talked about Nuclide, a project designed to provide a unified developer experience …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
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Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Instagram upgrades search, revamps Explore page with trending hashtags and places in the US
Ian Austen / New York Times:
BlackBerry Q1: misses expectations with an adjusted loss of $28M on $658M revenue, 1.1M devices sold
Jens Hansegard / Wall Street Journal:
Tidal loses interim CEO after less than three months in the job, its second since launch
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Verizon Completes Its Acquisition of AOL For $4.4B
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