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| Michelle W. / WordPress.com News: |
WordPress announces a major redesign of WordPress.com, and a new desktop app, available for Mac now, Windows and Linux later — Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac — What if WordPress.com helped you... ... update your pages and respond to comments from a desktop app?
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Tweets: @mattpodwysocki, @hugogiraudel, @markdalgleish, @chrismessina and @newsycombinator
| 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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| 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.| 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.| Paresh DaveContact / Los Angeles Times: |
Snapchat's Story Explorer lets you view event-related Snaps from other users, available for New York and Los Angeles Live Stories today — 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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| 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.| 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 … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Slack says it is having sporadic connectivity issues and is investigating — Slack Is Having A Panic Attack — Slack seems to be running intermittently at the moment. — /giphy fail — We first noticed it internally, and then saw reports on Twitter. — @SlackHQ also confirmed the service issue in a tweet:| 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 … | 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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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Startups including Hello Alfred, Magic Leap, and Zenefits are increasing lobbying in Washington to create good will and minimize potential regulatory issues — Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job — WASHINGTON — Last year, the personal butler service Hello Alfred won …
Tweets: @danarubinstein and @erikbryn
| Jonathan Keane / BBC: |
As retailers turn to increasingly affordable facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, privacy concerns abound — Catching a thief by their face — Retail stores are turning to facial recognition technology and customer tracking tools to fight against shoplifters. BBC Future investigates.| 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.
Tweets: @ldignan
| Jackie Dove / Macworld: |
Adobe to close Revel, its cloud-based photo and video sharing service, in February, and will let users transfer files into Creative Cloud Photography plan — Adobe kills off its photo-sharing service Revel — The company is going all-in on the Creative Cloud Photography plan.
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