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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.| 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.
Tweets: @ldignan
| 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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| 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.| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
FAA releases recommended rules for registering drones that weigh more than 250 grams — This Is How the FAA's Mandatory Drone Registration Program Will Work — Since it was announced last month, the drone hobbyist community has been wondering how the Federal Aviation Administration …
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New York Times, USA Today, Computerworld, GeekWire and Insurance Journal
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dell does a Superfish, ships PCs with self-signed 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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| 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
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple ‘Investigating’ iPad Pros Unresponsive After Charging, Recommends Restart as Interim Fix — Shortly after the launch of the iPad Pro, buyers began complaining about an issue that caused the iPad Pro to become unresponsive after charging, requiring a hard restart to restore functionality.
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| 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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Satisfaction, CNET and App Advice
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EFF and Visualizing Impact launch Onlinecensorship.org to collect reports on content takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services — Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites — New Project Will Gather Users' Stories of Censorship from Around the World
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