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Instagram's big redesign goes live with a colorful new icon, black-and-white app and more — Instagram's new icon is pink. Well, it's pink and purple and yellow and orange. It's definitely different. And that's not all the company has changed today. Instagram this morning is rolling …
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WhatsApp releases desktop app for Windows and Mac users, available for Windows 8 and above and Mac OS X 10.9 and above — WhatsApp announced today that it has launched a native desktop app that's available for both Windows and Mac. The Facebook-owned company said that the app supports …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google to ban ads for payday loans and other lending products from July 13 — Google has today announced an update to its AdWords terms and conditions that will ban advertising for some lending products on Google. — The new update will go into effect on July 13 this year …
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| Kelly Fiveash / Ars Technica UK: |
European Commission blocks Three-O2 carrier merger in UK, citing concerns over competition and higher prices — Commissioner Vestager kills takeover plan, citing significant UK competition concerns. — UK mobile operator Three's multi-billion pound bid to merge with O2 has been rejected by competition officials in Brussels.
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
The Google Store Starts Selling Cardboard VR Viewers In Canada, The United Kingdom, France, And Germany — So you've yet to snag a free Google Cardboard VR headset from a trade show. Or a Star Wars promotion. Or a copy of the New York Times, or a late-night talk show host, or even a freakin' porn website.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
GitHub unlimited private repos now cost $7/month for personal accounts and $9/month for organizations — Collaborative source code repository software company GitHub today is announcing changes to its pricing structure. The company is now starting to let paying users maintain an unlimited number … | John Ribeiro / PCWorld: |
Salesforce continues to face outage in many parts of US for over 12 hours, due to database failure in its NA14 instance — CEO Marc Benioff took to Twitter to apologize to users — Salesforce.com was having an outage in some locations on Tuesday, prompting the company's CEO to apologize to users on Twitter.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Disney ends in-house console game production with cancellation of its Infinity series — So much for Disney remaining a big player in the video game world. As part of its second quarter earnings release, the media giant has revealed that it's getting out of the self-published video game business … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla relaunches Firefox Test Pilot to experiment with new features like side tabs — Mozilla is bringing back its Test Pilot program for Firefox. The idea behind Test Pilot is to allow users — and Mozilla's engineers — to test experimental browser features long before they arrive in the browser.
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Nest releases OpenThread, an open-sourced version of its Thread home automation networking protocol — Nest has released an open-sourced version of its Thread protocol, making its home automation network technology more broadly available to developers. The introduction of OpenThread …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How IBM researchers are teaching Watson to analyze and identify cybersecurity threats in hopes of launching to enterprise customers this year — IBM's Watson supercomputer hardly needs any more resumé-padding. It's already won Jeopardy, written a cookbook, and dabbled in revolutionizing healthcare.
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Salesforce to use AWS for its IoT cloud service, expected to launch midyear — The business software company's IoT Cloud is expected to launch after midyear — Salesforce.com Inc. is building a new service on Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud computing facilities, a notable shift for a company … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr launches Labs, an opt-in way to test experimental features; initial set includes themed posts, scheduling, and more — Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr quietly launched a new program today called Tumblr Labsthat will allow users to opt-in to testing out new and experimental features on the site.
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