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Google Maps adds Your Timeline view, showing where you've been on any given day — Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you've explored — Have you ever wanted a way to easily remember all the places you've been — whether it's a museum you visited during your last vacation or that fun bar you stumbled upon a few months ago?
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Beta testers can no longer post app reviews in prerelease iOS versions — It appears that Apple is disallowing iOS 9 beta users to submit app reviews — positive or negative — with the latest build released on Tuesday, a feature that was becoming an increasingly irritating thorn in the side …
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Microsoft launches short-form email app Send, that works like instant messaging, on iPhone, coming later to Android and Windows Phone — Introducing Send—designed for in-and-out email — Sometimes you just need to send a quick, short note to your co-worker.
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| Jena McGregor / Washington Post: |
Ex-Google engineer stirs debate about sharing salary details in Silicon Valley after revealing she made an internal salary spreadsheet, to management's dismay — In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be less taboo — Talking openly about salaries is still viewed as taboo …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Early Apple Watch sales beat the original iPhone and iPad, likely earning over $1B in revenue; June was the best month of sales for the Watch so far — Early Apple Watch sales beat the original iPhone and iPad, but no firm numbers yet — Nobody expected Apple to tell us how many Apple Watches it sold last quarter.
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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Microsoft's Edge browser performs as well as competitors in most tests, sees big improvements in WebGL performance — Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance — In what seems like forever ago, Microsoft's Project Spartan was announced at the January 21st event in Redmond.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Mobile App Prototyping Tool Pixate — Google has acquired mobile app prototyping tool Pixate today, both companies have confirmed. Pixate had raised $3.8M from Accel Partners in 2013. It had popped out of the Y-Combinator oven previously (YC S12).| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Huawei says it shipped 48.2M smartphones in the first half of 2015, a 39% increase YoY — Huawei says smartphone shipments jumped 39 percent in first half — HONG KONG — China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the world's fourth-biggest smartphone manufacturer … | Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk: |
Jimmy Wales launches charitable social network TPO.com — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and mobile network The People's Operator are launching a new charitable social network called TPO.com. — The ad-free social network is primarily designed to make it simple for people to donate to charity.
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| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Appeals court: Facebook cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used to gather info on 381 users suspected of Social Security fraud — Facebook must hand over New York users' info to prosecutors, court rules — Facebook Inc cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used …
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| Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
New York Times will offer free articles on the Starbucks app starting next year — Starting next year, the Starbucks app will have reading material from The New York Times. — The feature will be made available to My Starbucks Rewards members, and may even reward them for reading NYT articles in-app.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Home Services, an on-demand handyman service, expands to a total of 15 metro regions and adds a custom-jobs option — Amazon Expands Its On-Demand Home Services Marketplace, Adds Support For Custom Service Requests — Amazon Home Services, Amazon's own Angie's List competitor of sorts … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Senate Bill Seeks Standards For Cars' Defenses From Hackers — A few years ago, the notion of hacking a car or truck over the Internet to control steering and brakes seemed like a bad plot point from CSI: Cyber. Today, the security research community has proven it to be a real possibility …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay to take over engineering for all premium devices, including Surface, Windows Phone, Xbox, and HoloLens — Further consolidation coming across Microsoft devices, services — Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay is taking over engineering for all of Microsoft's premium devices.
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