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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2016 to be held May 18-20 at Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View — Google's I/O 2016 conference announced for May 18th-20th — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that the company's annual I/O developer's conference has been scheduled for May 18th through the 20th.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @jrraphael and @saschasegan
| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Periscope streams will now play directly in the Twitter timelines on iOS — Live Periscope feeds will show up on Twitter for iOS — Like GIFs and Vines before it, Periscope streams will now show up and play directly in the Twitter timeline on iOS. If you happen to miss the live stream …
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Medium, The Twitter Blog, Forbes, Digital Trends, Washington Post, Macworld, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Daily Dot, TechCrunch, SlashGear, PC Magazine, Fast Company, Small Business Trends, MacNN, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, USA Today, Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, MacStories, Tech Times, PhoneDog.com, The Next Web, Gizmodo, App Advice, Guardian, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, Re/code, Digiday, Wired.co.uk and TechSpot
Tweets: @kirstinestewart and @abarge
See also Mediagazer| Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
VLC Now Available for Apple TV: Our First Impressions — VLC is now available for the Apple TV. Just like every other version of VLC, the Apple TV version aims to play video files and streams in “their native formats without conversions”. Felix Kühne, lead iOS developer for VLC, writes on his blog:
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VideoLAN, feepk@videolan, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @greyham
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber updates its API with Trip Experiences, a way for 3rd party apps to serve content, ads to its users during their trips with their permission — Uber wants to feed you all kinds of content during your next ride — Uber, realizing it had hundreds of millions of people in its back seats …
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Tweets: @andyjayhawk, @mhbergen and @mikeisaac
Thanks:@chrissaad| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Mozilla to Completely Shut Down Its Persona Login System in November 2016 — Mozilla's Ryan Kelly has announced that the foundation will completely disavow its former brainchild and shut down the Persona single-sign-on system on November 30, 2016. — Launched in 2011, the Mozilla Persona service …
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Mozilla Mailing Lists, Engadget, Digital Trends, PCWorld, gHacks Technology News, FierceCIO News, ZDNet, TechSpot, Neowin, The Next Web, ITworld.com and Phoronix. Thanks:@campuscodi
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google Opens Virtual Reality Division, Apps Move to Enterprise Unit — As Facebook and Microsoft have plowed ahead with virtual reality, Google has looked like it's behind. But, in 2016, it may be serious about catching up. — The search giant is forming its own dedicated division …
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| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Tinder CEO Sean Rad on his temporary ouster, company culture, sexual harassment suit, and why he believes the service has applications beyond dating — Is Controversial Tinder CEO Sean Rad Ready To Grow Up? — “These are the hottest girls I've ever seen!”
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The California Sunday Magazine, Digital Trends, Tech Insider, Business Insider and Engadget
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @stevekovach, @mims and @laurlandry
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
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Tweets: @austincarr and @aminatou
| David Curry / Digital Trends: |
Moto to focus on high-end smartphones, with Moto G, E being merged with Lenovo lineup; 2016 Moto phones will have fingerprint scanners, 5-inch+ screens — All Motorola flagships will feature a fingerprint scanner in 2016 — Lenovo has confirmed the roadmap for Motorola …
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Android Police, PCWorld, GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Tech News Today, Mashable, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneDog.com, Fone Arena and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @robaeprice
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Two suspected members of DD4BC, a DDoS extortion group, apprehended in Europol raids — Law Enforcement Cracks Down on DD4BC Group — Europol announced on Tuesday that a couple of individuals suspected of being tied to the DD4BC cybercriminal group have been identified as part of an international law enforcement operation.
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Grindr sells 60% stake to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech at a $155M valuation — Grindr Sells Stake to Chinese Company — Grindr, the popular dating and social networking app for gay men, has found itself a match. — The company on Monday said it had sold a majority stake …
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Grindr, Mashable, BBC, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Fortune, Business Insider, Guardian, VentureBeat, VatorNews, CNNMoney, Engadget, The Independent, SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post: |
Some police forces score citizens' threat level with Intrado's Beware software based on your medical, criminal history, and social media posts — The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ — FRESNO, Calif. — While officers raced to a recent 911 call …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Monitoring service Datadog raises $94.5M Series D led by Iconiq Capital — Investors Feed Datadog A Hefty $94.5 Million Round — Every startup needs a steady diet of funding to keep it strong and growing. Datadog, a monitoring service that helps customers bring together data from across …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, FierceCIO News, Reuters, Business Wire and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @clofresh
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Netherlands Forensic Institute claims it can access encrypted emails on PGP BlackBerrys — Cops Say They Can Access Encrypted Emails on So-Called PGP BlackBerrys — Dutch investigators have confirmed to Motherboard that they are able to read encrypted messages sent on PGP BlackBerry phones …
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