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| Annalee Newitz / Gizmodo: |
Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site — Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles were fake.| IDC: |
IDC: In Q2, Apple Watch shipped 3.6M units with 19.9% market share, just behind Fitbit with 4.4M units for 24.3% market share — Apple Debuts at the Number Two Spot as the Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 223.2% in 2Q15, Says IDC — In its first appearance in the wearables market … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon lays off dozens of Fire engineers, scales back and reorganizes its hardware-development center Lab126 — Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices — Amazon is scaling back its efforts to develop consumer devices, laying off dozens of engineers …
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Facebook testing M, an AI-based, human supervised virtual assistant inside Messenger that can complete tasks such as purchasing on your behalf — Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana — Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley unveils two sub-$200 Android Obi smartphones for Asia, Africa, and Middle East markets, will be available October — Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches a line of stylish smartphones — Like most consumer items, the lower the price point of a phone, the less exciting the design.| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator has funded over 940 companies so far, eight of which have a valuation over $1B — YC stats — We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's 5.2-inch Lumia 950 and 5.7-inch 950XL, to launch in October — Leaked images reveal Microsoft's new flagship Lumia phones — Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we've seen some images emerge along …
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Tweets: @evleaks, @tomwarren and @zpower
| ZEIT ONLINE: |
Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV got XKeyscore software from NSA in exchange for German surveillance data — A Dubious Deal with the NSA — Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA - and promised data from Germany in return.
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| Ronda Scott / Evernote Blog: |
Evernote Food apps for iOS and Android to be retired September 30 — Evernote to end support for Evernote Food apps — Two years ago, we created Evernote Food to help people chronicle the universal experience of enjoying great food. Food's most popular features were clipping recipes and snapping photos of meals.
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9to5Mac, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Ausdroid and TechCrunch
| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Qasar Younis, former Y Combinator graduate and creator of Talkbin which was acquired by Google in 2011, named Y Combinator COO — Meet Y Combinator's New COO — To appreciate the rapid growth at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, consider this: In 2009, it shepherded 42 startups through its boot camp.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available — Google's Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile video combined with autoplay and social media's reach bring unexpected horror to users' feeds — Twitter, Facebook Users Unwittingly Shown Video of Virginia Shooting — Soon after Vester Lee Flanagan allegedly gunned down two TV reporters while they were on air Wednesday morning …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google confirms it triggers recruiting tool when people search for specific programming terms — ‘Puzzles Are Fun. Search On’: Google Cops to Secret Recruiting Tool Baked Inside Search — How does the world's best search engine recruit programming whizzes? Through search, naturally.
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The Memo, The Hustle, Inquirer, Dice Insights, Android Authority, Inc.com, Ubergizmo, Engadget and BGR
Tweets: @grady_booch and @sbhnkhld
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pushbullet's file sharing app Portal now available for iPhone; allows transfer of files from computer to iOS over WiFi — Portal Lets You Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Thumbdrive — Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via …
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