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Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week — iTunes may play a role in reports that Apple Music was replacing user libraries with DRM-encumbered files. — Apple on Friday confirmed to iMore that a very small number … | Giuseppe Nelva / DualShockers: |
Microsoft Discontinues Support for Project Spark; Online Services Going Down in August — Today Project Spark Community Manager Thomas Gratz announced on the game/creativity platform's official forums that support for the game is officially being discontinued.
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
How Google Fiber is aggressively competing with cable companies: better service, faster speeds, neighborhood outreach, maybe wireless, and cheaper prices — Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going? — It's a crisp spring Friday in Kansas City and Jim is upset with Google.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans big expansion of Project Tango with focus on indoor mapping and VR, seeks eventual ubiquity for the technology, to showcase progress at I/O — Tango to give phones new sense of their immediate surroundings — Project is crucial part of Google's virtual reality efforts
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, backed by Warren Buffet, and advised by former senior Yahoo executives bids for Yahoo — Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan are also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes. — Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop.| Dustin Slaughter / Motherboard: |
Philadelphia Police Department admits it disguised a license plate surveillance truck as a Google Maps vehicle — The vehicle in question. Image: Dustin Slaughter — The Philadelphia Police Department admitted today that a mysterious unmarked license plate surveillance truck disguised …
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Android VR Placeholder Pops Up In The Google Play Developer Console — Yesterday we reported on a rumor that Google would unveil a new “Android VR” platform at Google I/O next week, along with a standalone headset. Today we're seeing what looks like additional evidence.| BBC: |
Study: 45% of online households in US refrained from some online activities due to security and privacy concerns, 19% experienced an online security breach — Almost half of American households with at least one internet user have been “deterred” from online activity recently because of privacy or security concerns, a survey has said.
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Some Vine stars migrate to Facebook and others as loops for top 10 accounts fall 29% from May 2015 through March 2016, ad buyers direct dollars to competitors — Marketers and ad buyers are also moving away from the Twitter-owned video app — Elton Castee has 1.2 million followers on Vine … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google for Work president Amit Singh moves to company's virtual reality division as vice president of business and operations — Amit Singh, who hopped from Oracle to Google about six years ago to help establish its Google for Work cloud tech, is now jumping to the company's new virtual-reality team.
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Amazon launches programmable $19.95 AWS IoT Button based on Dash hardware, that can be integrated with services like Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Uber or Slack — Amazon has revealed a programmable Dash Button which can be assigned to any product or purpose, a customizable version of its one-touch reordering gadgets.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's $45 Charm fitness bracelet with color-coded LED alerts launches in South Korea, Italy, France, and Russia — Samsung has today officially launched its latest stab at the wearables market with the introduction of its new “Charm” activity band, available in a handful of markets.| New York Times: |
Sources: Apple and Didi were in contact for more than a year, closed the $1B deal in three weeks after CEOs met in April to discuss cooperation — HONG KONG — A $1 billion investment by Apple in a Chinese ride-hailing app is a rounding error for the Silicon Valley giant … | Julia Love / Reuters: |
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