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July 9, 2015, 6:45 PM

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Jacob Frantz / Facebook:

Facebook launches controls to let you choose friends and pages you see at the top of your News Feed; feature available on iOS now, desktop and Android later — Updated Controls for News Feed — News Feed is a personalized stream of stories that you build from the people and Pages you've connected to on Facebook.

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

You Can Now Just Tell Facebook What You Want to See in News Feed

More: Engadget, Business Insider, ABC News and WebProNews

Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:

Office 2016 for Mac exits preview and is now available for Office 365 subscribers, to be released as a one-time purchase this September — Office 2016 for Mac is here! — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

Slack:

Slack adds emoji reactions that let users “like” messages using any emoji — 722 ways to say “I got your message” — Since the launch of Slack, people have asked for a way to “fave” or “like” messages — a simple, public way to acknowledge or approve a message.

More: Re/code, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Business Insider, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Verge and Fortune

Tweets: @ow, @fox, @ow, @zpower, @slackhq, @mezzoblue and @lauraolin

Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK:

IBM unveils world's first functional 7nm test chip, targets 50% power/performance improvement from 10nm chips — Beyond silicon: IBM unveils world's first 7nm chip — With a silicon-germanium channel, and EUV lithography, IBM crosses the 10nm barrier. — IBM, working with GlobalFoundries …

TechCrunch:

iOS 9 And OS X El Capitan Are Now Available To All As Public Betas — As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS.

More: Apple, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Macworld, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, Ars Technica, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iOS 9 Beta 3 released with News app, Apple Music, high quality music streaming over cellular, folders that separate selfies and screenshots, more

More: Techvibes Global News, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, The Verge, Fortune, BGR, Computerworld, SlashGear, Fone Arena, MacRumors and The Next Web

Micah Singleton / The Verge:

Facebook says it's not building a streaming music service — Facebook is denying a report from Music Ally stating that it has plans to launch a streaming music service in the next few months. A Facebook spokesperson told The Verge, “we have no plans to go into music streaming.”

More: Music Ally, Billboard, Telegraph, Guardian, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SocialTimes, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Inquirer, SlashGear, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and iLounge. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

More Hacking Team details emerge from breach: Mexico and Italy top client list, product demo for Bangladeshi death squad, attempts to break UK market, more — Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More — Late Sunday, hackers dumped online …

More: The Reykjavik Grapevine, Engadget, Forbes, Firedoglake, RT, Ars Technica UK and The Register. Tweets: @ioerror

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:

Google Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ brings new larger prism, Intel Atom CPU, optional external battery pack — We told you last week that Google is internally referring to its next iteration of Google Glass as “Enterprise Edition” or “EE,” and now we've uncovered information about the soon-to-be-launched device's hardware.

More: USA Today, Daily Mail, bizjournals, PhoneDog.com, Business Insider, Dice Insights, TechnoBuffalo, Inquirer, TechSpot, Android Beat, Android Authority, ResearchBuzz, Wearable Tech Insider, Fone Arena, SlashGear, Computerworld and Android Police

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:

OPM says sensitive information of 21.5M individuals was taken in another hack last year, separate from breach that compromised data of 4.2M federal employees — Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals — WASHINGTON — The Office of Personnel Management revealed …

More: U.S. Office …, ABC News, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Journal, USA Today, Engadget, Guardian, TIME, Associated Press, PCWorld, Washington Post and Wired

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Amazon Launches AWS Device Farm, Lets Developers Test Android And Fire OS Apps On Real Devices — Starting next week, Android and Fire OS developers will be able to use a new cloud-based service from Amazon to test their apps on physical smartphones and tablets.

More: VentureBeat, Amazon.com, ProgrammableWeb.com, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google and FierceMobileIT News. Tweets: @caseynewton

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

Uber files motion opposing class action lawsuit by drivers who want to be classified as employees instead of independent contractors — Uber To Judge: There's No Such Thing As A Typical Driver — Uber filed a motion to oppose the class certification of a suit brought against the company …

More: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TechCrunch, CNET, USA Today, The Next Web and Los Angeles Times. Thanks:@jmbooyah

Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat:

T-Mobile claims it now has more subscribers than Sprint, cuts roaming charges in Mexico and Canada — The upstart U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile today announced it's extending its U.S mobile plan to cover Mexico and Canada. — That means U.S. smartphone users won't have to pay roaming fees …

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