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Motorola unveils $399 Motorola X Style with Universal LTE in US, $299 Moto X Play globally, and an upgraded, waterproof, and customizable $179 Moto G — Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G — The Moto X Style will be known as the Pure Edition in the US, and will be sold directly to consumers.
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Two Weeks After Content Policy Update, Reddit's Head of Community, Jessica Moreno, Has Left the Company — Reddit's head of community, Jessica Moreno, has left the company. She is the fourth senior female employee to exit in less than a month. — Moreno and her husband … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal — Product Hunt has made a splash as a new place for startups to market new products, Shopify offers a way for them to easily start selling their products online, and Shyp takes the pain …
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T-Mobile adds free Apple Music cellular streaming, offers free next-gen iPhone upgrades to iPhone 6 buyers — Summer for T-Mobile this year has meant announcing a series of promotions and plans dubbed #UncarrierAmped. Today, the company launched the latest, and last of these moves.
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
OnePlus 2 announced: available Aug. 11, starts at $329 before taxes, with 5.5" 1080p display, Snapdragon 810, 13MP f/2.0 rear camera, USB-C, fingerprint sensor — OnePlus 2 officially announced: everything you need to know — OnePlus 2 officially announced: everything you need to know by … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 2: Impressive specs for the price with thoughtful software additions, fingerprint unlock sensor works as advertised — The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship phone can be — There are more options than ever for getting a good, cheap smartphone, and last year's OnePlus One was a standout.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Visa Invests in Stripe at $5 Billion Valuation and Strikes Commercial Deal, Too — Credit card companies think they have found an ally in the increasingly competitive world of online payments. Its name is Stripe. — Visa has inked a commercial agreement with the payments startup …
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Android users can now say ‘Ok Google’ to send messages via WhatsApp, WeChat, NextPlus, Telegram, and Viber — In April, Google launched custom voice actions on Android, allowing users to control select third-party apps simply by starting with the “Ok Google” command.| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
German regulator orders Facebook to allow pseudonyms — Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe. — The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible …
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Microsoft to open its New York City flagship store this fall — Microsoft's first New York City flagship retail store will be opening this fall on Fifth Avenue. — Microsoft is going to open its flagship Microsoft Store in New York City on Fifth Avenue this fall.| Gus Lubin / techinsider.io: |
Business Insider launches new tech site, Tech Insider, with original reporting by 30+ journalists on tech, science, innovation, culture — Welcome to Tech Insider! — There has never been a better time to be alive. — Contrary to what you might have heard, people are healthier, safer, happier, and smarter than ever.| Mehedi Hassan / Microsoft News: |
Microsoft Arrow Launcher for Android currently in private beta, APK leaks online — This is Microsoft's Arrow Launcher for Android (download APK) — Microsoft is currently working on a new Android app, and it's an Android launcher. The company's latest app is Arrow Launcher and it is currently …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google search now lets you avoid lines by showing the busiest times at millions of places and businesses — Google search today gained a brilliant new feature that has the potential to save you a lot of time. You can now see “popular times” (read: the busiest, most crowded …
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Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons — More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race — Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Now Lets Developers Bring Their Own Security Keys To Compute Engine — Starting today, developers who use Google's Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys …
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