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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 … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
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See also Mediagazer| 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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Withings' Activité and Activité Pop Updated With Swim Tracking Capabilities — Withings' Activité and Activité Pop are two of only a handful of activity trackers on the market that are entirely waterproof, and as of today, the two devices are able to be used to track swimming.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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