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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55 — Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. — The statement reads: … Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 due to his poor health, and shortly afterwards underwent surgery to remove the bile duct growth.
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| Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary: |
Reddit is fatally broken, should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod motivations with the company, kill controversial subreddits — The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
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See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech — Reddit's refugees are, by some accounts, the worst of an already bad lot. They're the people who deride any hint of anti-racism or anti-sexism as “social justice warrior” (or SJW) antics … | Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year — Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
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See also Mediagazer| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
New study finds 90% of tech patent lawsuits in first half of 2015 were filed by patent trolls — Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high — Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.” — New patent statistics show that patent litigation … | Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Exploit for second Flash vulnerability found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expects to release a fix in the next week — Second Flash Player zero-day exploit found in Hacking Team's data — The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers.
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Negative App Store reviews involving iOS and OS X betas aren't fair to developers; Apple should filter or prevent them, and users should send feedback privately — On Negative App Store Reviews During Betas of iOS and OS X — Earlier this week, Apple released the first public betas …
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iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, TechWorm, Business Insider, Tech Times and ABC News. Tweets: @marcoarment
| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google Photos continues syncing photos when app has been deleted from device; stops only when settings in Google Play Services have been changed — Use the Google Settings app to turn photo backup on and off, even after Google Photos is uninstalled — Backing up all of your photos somewhere online is a good idea.| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
Behind the new Crypto War: governments and tech companies face off over encryption backdoors — The rise of the new Crypto War — James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark. — “The law hasn't kept pace with technology … | Reuters: |
Sources: FTC looking into claims Apple treats rival music streaming services in its app store illegally under antitrust law — FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store — U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment …
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Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Daily Dot, Macworld, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, PC Magazine, Patently Apple, Tech Times, iMore, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider and MacRumors. Tweets: @pkafka
| Katherine Rushton / Daily Mail: |
Google has received over 281K right to be forgotten requests to remove 1.1M links, deleted 602K of them — More than 280,000 people ask Google for the right to be forgotten and request more than a MILLION pages are wiped from the search engine's results — The massive scale …
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| Amy Phillips / Pitchfork: |
Apple created music videos in-house with Drake, Pharrell, Eminem, and M.I.A. for Apple Music — M.I.A. Audiovisual Project “Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border” Coming to Apple Music — The launch of Apple Music hasn't only included a new radio station, social network, and streaming service.Sponsor Posts
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