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Automattic, in move away from PHP, launches new, open sourced admin interface for WordPress.com built on Node.js and React, releases Mac OS X app — WordPress.com Gets a New Face and Joins the JavaScript Age — The popular blogging site WordPress.com unveiled a new admin interface today …
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Tweets: @chrismessina, @mattpodwysocki, @hugogiraudel, @rauchg and @markdalgleish
| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Square starts shipping its chip card reader with Apple Pay support; Samsung Pay now supports Chase cards — Square rolls out readers to accept Apple Pay — NEW YORK — Square is rolling out new mobile payment readers to 100 local businesses around the country, allowing such merchants …
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Samsung Tomorrow, squareup.com, Visa Europe, MacRumors, The Verge, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Macworld, MacRumors, Engadget, iMore, SlashGear, Engadget, The Next Web, Droid Life, SiliconBeat, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, Phandroid, InvestorPlace, O'Grady's PowerPage, Apple World Today, 9to5Mac, Android Police, Android Authority, Pocketnow, Android Beat, Tech Times, The Verge, SamMobile and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with easily cloneable root certificates — Root certificate debacle that hit Lenovo now visits the House of Dell. — In a move eerily similar to the Superfish debacle that visited Lenovo in February, Dell is shipping computers that come preinstalled …
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Joe Nord personal blog, The Verge, Errata Security, CSO, Computerworld, Fortune, TechWeekEurope UK, Laptop Mag, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Redmond Pie, Neowin, Graham Cluley, The Tech Report, Inquirer, Engadget, InfoWorld, WinBeta, gHacks Technology News, Errata Security, Threatpost, Digital Trends, TechSpot, ExtremeTech and Windows Central. Tweets: @jeremiahg
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler — At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler.| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Snapchat launches Story Explorer to let users view multiple perspectives of moments in Live Stories, starting in New York and Los Angeles — Inside Snapchat's newest feature: Story Explorer — Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel grabs his iPhone, opens his Venice company's app and taps an icon for “Los Angeles.”
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See also Mediagazer| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Compare for mortgages in partnership with Zillow and LendingTree, available only in California for now — Google Launches Mortgage Shopping Tool In California, More States Coming Soon — Google is now a licensed mortgage broker in California.| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
FAA drone task force recommends registration for pilots, not individual drones — If the FAA accepts the task force recommendations, registration will be mandatory prior to the operation of any UAS weighing more than half a pound.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
AWS launches EC2 Dedicated Hosts to let users run many instances on each server — Amazon Web Services (AWS), the biggest public cloud infrastructure provider, today announced the availability of a new service called EC2 Dedicated Hosts. The feature can help companies run the software …
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| Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land: |
Google received 15.7M copyright related URL takedown requests over one week in November, almost double from 8.2M last year — Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month — The number of URL copyright removal requests sent to Google continues to climb at a rapid rate.| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
More control: Amazon Echo gains advanced trigger commands with IFTTT — It's easier than ever to create custom voice actions with an Amazon Echo and If This Then That: See how using the new trigger command puts Alexa to work for you. — It's easier than ever to create custom voice controls … | Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
By delivering flu shots and hiring its first health advisor, Uber signals intent to shake up health care — The Uber Will See You Now — Jessica Funcannon getting a flu vaccination shot from Nurse Jerry Palacios at her workplace during the UberHealth day in Chicago last year.| Skype Blogs: |
Skype 6.6 for iPhone and iPad brings phone number, date and address detection, and improved multitasking — When we're on our phones and tablets we're often doing several things at once, from researching a holiday, planning nights out, sending emails or messaging friends - we switch in and out of the apps that help us get things done.
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