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Facebook rolls out Reactions to all, adding Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry buttons to Like; each button has same impact on News Feed ranking for now — Facebook Enhances Everyone's Like With Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry Buttons — Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions.
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| Liz Stinson / Wired: |
Behind Facebook's decision to narrow Reactions down to a set of six, the design of the icons, and their layout in posts — Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here — Your News Feed is about to get a lot more expressive. After months of user testing in a handful of countries … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is buying mobile tool vendor Xamarin — In a move many have been anticipating, Microsoft is buying mobile tool maker Xamarin for an undisclosed amount. — In a move that was expected and rumored for a long time, Microsoft is buying tool maker Xamarin.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall's OS X 10.12 launch — Apple currently plans to use its next major release of the Mac operating system, known as OS X 10.12, this fall to continue to expand Siri across its product lines. Last year, Apple implemented Siri …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Fiber coming to San Francisco for some apartments, condos, and public housing units, will use existing fiber networks — Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco — Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends … | Kate Kochetkova / Kaspersky Lab: |
What is known about the Lazarus Group: Sony hack, military espionage, attacks on Korean banks and other crimes — The morning of November 24, 2014 is engrained into the collective memories of Sony Pictures Entertainment employees. On that day, an unknown cybergang hacked the company's server …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com sites now automatically support Google's AMP to speed up mobile page loading; self-hosted WordPress sites can enable AMP with a plugin — WordPress Sites Now Support Google's AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster — Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says functionality removed from the Apple Pencil in iOS 9.3 will return in next beta — Apple Pencil Navigation Functionality to Return in Next iOS 9.3 Beta — The early iOS 9.3 betas removed key functionality from the Apple Pencil, an unpopular move that eliminated its ability to be used for navigation.| Juan Garzon / CNET: |
OnePlus 3 will launch by end of June, to be sold in US and other markets as unlocked phone — Exclusive: The OnePlus 3 will launch by June … Juan Garzón/CNET| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Google to add Chromecast-like features to TV sets, starting with Vizio, could become available as early as spring — Google to Add Casting to TV Sets, Starting With Vizio (Exclusive) — Move could signal shift in company's living-room strategy — Google is getting ready …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google Docs now lets you edit and format text using your voice — Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago. — “We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft launches Hub Keyboard for Android with app content sharing, built-in translation, multi-item clipboard, and contacts integration — Microsoft Hub Keyboard Brings App Content Sharing to Android — Microsoft Garage this week released a new keyboard replacement app for Android called Hub Keyboard.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Andreessen Horowitz Names Nicira And VMware Veteran Martin Casado Its Ninth General Partner — As Andreessen Horowitz looks to ramp up its investing in enterprise software and infrastructure, the venture firm is looking to a past founder who scored it one of its best exits ever for help.
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Same-day delivery startup Deliv raises $28M Series B led by UPS — Same-Day Delivery Startup Deliv Gets Funding Boost From UPS — For United Parcel Service, investment is an opportunity to observe a market in which it doesn't yet compete — Same-day delivery startup Deliv Inc. is getting … | Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon Studios Paid Staggering $15M for Woody Allen's Next Film — EMAIL ME — The untitled movie, starring Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart, was acquired sight unseen — and at three times what Sony Pictures Classics paid for Allen's previous film.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
If Apple is forced to break its iPhone security, it would cast doubt over the ability to avoid surveillance in a future with more and more connected devices — The Apple Case Will Grope Its Way Into Your Future — To understand what's at stake in the battle between Apple and the F.B … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business: |
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