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Sources: revamped Apple Music with more intuitive interface, expansion of online radio service, and more to debut at WWDC after mixed reviews and exec shakeup — Apple to Revamp Streaming Music Service After Mixed Reviews, Departures — Music service to get new interface at developers conference.
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Tweets: @tapbot_paul, @mattgemmell and @jamesliamcook
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IBM makes its five-qubit quantum computer available as a cloud service for students and researchers to test — IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer — Quantum computing is computing at its most esoteric. It's an experimental, enormously complex … | Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
Why a slowing upgrade cycle and other factors suggest iPhone sales growth won't recover — iPhone Warning Signs — Apple has spent years proving iPhone doubters wrong. Those who made a habit of calling for the iPhone's demise have watched the product go on to bring Apple over $600 billion …
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| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Apple hires Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google's X lab and former head of technology at Nest, to work on health projects — Apple Nabs Nest's Former Head of Technology — Apple has hired famed robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google's X lab and former head … | Eric Auchard / Reuters: |
Security expert says 272.3M email credentials being traded in Russian underworld: 57M Mail.ru, 40M Yahoo, 33M Hotmail, and 24M Gmail — Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services - expert — Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts …
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Opera's ad blocker comes to its stable release channel and Opera Mini for Android — Opera today announced that its built-in ad blocker, which was previously only available in the experimental developer release channel, is now coming to all of its desktop users.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Satellite TV company Dish gets into the phone repair business, will now make on-site visits to swap your broken iPhone screen or battery — Dish, the satellite TV company, will now come repair your broken iPhone — Dish is getting into smartphone repairs.
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DISH, DSLreports, Tech Times, AppleInsider, MacNN, Fortune, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Register, 500ish Words, The Next Web, About DISH, PC Magazine, CNET, PCWorld, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker and BGR. Tweets: @rakeshlobster
| Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu: |
UK startup EngageSciences acquired by Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy's Wayin — UK-based marketing platform EngageSciences has been acquired by US company Wayin, which is headed up by Sun Microsystems co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy. — No financial details have been disclosed …
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| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Vulnerabilities found in image processing library ImageMagick place countless web servers at risk; active exploitation confirmed — ImageMagick vulnerabilities place countless websites at risk, active exploitation confirmed — Metasploit modules will be released on Wednesday
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ImageMagick, PCWorld, ZDNet, Help Net Security, Naked Security, Ryan Huber, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, The Hacker News, The Register, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News. Tweets: @hdmoore
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Italian IoT platform Solair — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Solair, an Italy-based IoT service that was founded in 2011 (and not the U.S.-based company that makes retractable awnings). — Solair already used Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Inquirer, Solair, theWHIR.com, TechHive, Investor's Business Daily, Tech Times, Neowin, eWeek, ZDNet, CNET, Engadget, SiliconANGLE and VentureBeat. Thanks:@anectolts
| Michael Nunez / Gizmodo: |
Former contractors who curated Facebook's “trending” news section describe preferred media outlets, “Twitter” censorship, layoffs, more — Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some.
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Tech Insider, Daring Fireball, Re/code and New York Magazine
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See also Mediagazer| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BBM video calling now available for iOS and Android in US and Canada, will be rolled out globally in July — BlackBerry brings video calls to BBM on Android and iOS; North America only for now — Ailing mobile giant BlackBerry has announced that it's pushing the video-call feature … Sponsor Posts
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