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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Apple met with top podcasters as concerns grow about its commitment to the medium; lack of sharing tools, analytics, subscriptions remain industry sore points — Podcasts Surge, but Producers Fear Apple Isn't Listening — Steven P. Jobs put his talent as a master salesman to the test when …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will remove Windows 10 upgrade prompts from Windows 7, 8.1 PCs after July 29th — Microsoft is removing its nagging Windows 10 upgrade notifications soon — Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade prompts will become a thing of the past soon. The software giant is planning to remove …
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Tweets: @maryjofoley and @verge
| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Internal documents show Palantir losing some top-tier clients and on track to turn over 20% of its staff in 2016 — Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Company … A trove of internal — documents and insider interviews has pulled back the curtain on one of Silicon Valley's …
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Fortune and Business Insider. Tweets: @counternotions, @mims, @mims, @hautepop, @buzz, @tomgara, @dangillmor, @paullewis, @alanna, @johnpaczkowski, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, @jwherrman, @fmanjoo, @mattzeitlin, @benpopper, @williamalden and @brian_solomon
| Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1080 starting at $600 and available May 27, and 1070 starting at $380 and available June 10; both are faster than the Titan X — Nvidia's monstrous new GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 kick more ass than a Titan X — Latest GeForce cards also push prices that won't break the bank either
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, What's New, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Forbes, Digital Trends, VG247, TechCrunch, Polygon, Kotaku, The Verge, Mashable, AnandTech, The Tech Report, Ars Technica UK, Engadget, Blue's News and Engadget. Tweets: @jon_jeckell
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Amazon's Alexa assistant can be used via Lexi, a $4.99 app that is available on iOS now — New app brings Amazon's Alexa to the iPhone — Amazon started to expand Alexa's reach with the Echo Dot, and now the company's voice assistant is showing up in even more places.
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App Store, The Next Web, CNET, Mashable, Engadget, The Country Caller and SlashGear. Tweets: @thaddeus
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 10 Likely to Include Standalone HomeKit App Designed by Apple — A unified, Apple-designed HomeKit app has been desired by HomeKit users since HomeKit first debuted, and it appears Apple is planning to introduce such an app in the near future, perhaps in iOS 10.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Following highly publicized report of 272M email credentials for sale in Russia, Mail.ru and Google both say 98%+ of credentials on their services are invalid — Garbage in, garbage out: Why Ars ignored this week's massive password breach — When a script kiddie sells 272 million accounts for $1, be very, very skeptical.
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Forbes, Troy Hunt's Blog, Mail.Ru Group, Neowin, Fortune, CSO, CIO.com, Graham Cluley, GeekTime, Redmond Pie, eWeek, PYMNTS.com and Engadget
Tweets: @dfed, @teddundon, @tomwarren, @number5, @lorenzofb and @fennobear
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Dropbox says it's cutting some employee perks including SF shuttle bus, gym laundry service, and unlimited dinner guests in leaked memo — Dropbox cut a bunch of perks and told employees to save more as Silicon Valley startups brace for the cold — When Dropbox employees walked …
Tweets: @joshconstine, @jw, @ia, @stevekovach, @mikeisaac, @asanwal, @strngwys, @bryce, @gaberivera and @buzz
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music Connect social network to be demoted in iOS 10 overhaul — Apple Music Connect, a social interaction feature between artists and listeners that was a cornerstone of the Apple Music launch last summer, will be demoted in an iOS 10 overhaul this fall.
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Telegraph, Tech Times, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, Investor's Business Daily, InvestorPlace, Macworld, AppAdvice.com Latest, iMore, The Verge, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iLounge, Daily Mail, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, TechHive, Consumerist and International Business Times
| Kerry Flynn / International Business Times: |
Facebook testing “Discover” feature for Groups on iOS and Android to simplify finding Groups by category — Facebook Launches ‘Discover’ For Groups To Help You Find More Relevant Connections — More than 1 billion people use Facebook Groups every month.
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Mashable, Fast Company, The Daily Caller, Engadget, The Next Web and New York Times
Tweets: @jendudley, @alecmacgillis and @carlquintanilla
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo announces $500M Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, its second tech startup fund — Lenovo is launching a new $500 million startup fund — Chinese tech giant Lenovo is investing $500 million in startups after it announced a new fund. — Unlike other corporates, Lenovo has a history of making deft investments.
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Reuters, Featured News, InfotechLead, China.org.cn, AndroidHeadlines.com and The Tech Portal. Tweets: @hroeste
| Zac Bowden / WinBeta: |
AdBlock and AdBlock Plus now available for Microsoft Edge on Insider builds — AdBlock and AdBlock Plus appear to have shown up in the Windows Store for Windows Insiders running build 14332 on desktops. Users can now download AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions for use with Microsoft Edge … Sponsor Posts
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