|
June 7, 2016, 3:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is considering two new phones with bendable OLED screens, could be unveiled as soon as MWC in Feb. 2017; one model could unfurl into a tablet — One model said to have screen that folds like cosmetic compact — Samsung said to plan releasing Note 7, skipping a generation
More:
Digital Trends, PCWorld, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Android Police, International Business Times, MacRumors, TIME, TalkAndroid.com, The Huffington Post, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, USA Today, BGR, The Next Web, Engadget, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, Neowin, Inquirer, Liliputing, 9to5Google, Ubergizmo, Computerworld, Pocketnow, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, I4U News, Silicon Republic, Fone Arena, Android Authority, Ars Technica UK, SiliconANGLE, CNET, SlashGear, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Android Central, Phandroid, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint and Android Beat
Tweets: @kaigradert, @rohitharsh and @shiraovide
| Charles Piller / STAT: |
Former employees of Alphabets's Verily life sciences division say its signature projects are plagued by serious scientific shortcomings — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google employees, squeezed onto metal risers and standing in the back of a meeting room, erupted in cheers …
More:
SiliconBeat, Vanity Fair, Gizmodo and Business Insider
Tweets: @dgmacarthur, @medtechtom, @stuartbuck1, @robwensing, @jandawson, @counternotions and @mims
Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
Behind the scenes of Code Conference, which provides a safe cocoon for the tech elite, and leaves outlandish presumptions unchallenged — At 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night, at an exclusive resort along the California coast, Elon Musk blew a lot of millionaires' minds.
More:
tech.co. Tweets: @dseetharaman, @benjrooney, @jason_koebler, @amberatherton, @joshconstine, @anildash, @karaswisher, @ktbenner and @om
| Stefan Etienne / TechCrunch: |
Twitter makes it easier for developers to embed timelines into their web apps or CMS — For developers and publishers, organizing and embedding multiple Twitter timelines is often a calculated effort,but this morningthe social network has added three new ways to make it easier.
More:
The Twitter Blog, The Twitter Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Verge, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, Neowin, Android Beat, Phandroid and Droid Life. Tweets: @twitterdev
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
HTC Vive is now shipping in 24 countries with delivery in two to three days, and demo units expanding to more Microsoft, GameStop, and Micro Center stores — The HTC Vive virtual reality headset is now shipping in 24 countries, with delivery in about two or three business days.
More:
HTC, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, CNET, BGR, Windows Central, GeekWire, Pocketnow, UploadVR, Toni.org, Droid Life and Phandroid. Tweets: @9to5toys
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Snowden doc from 2010 shows UK's MI5 reporting difficulties in making sense of the mass troves of surveillance data, warning of potential intelligence failure — A secret report warned that British spies may have put lives at risk because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data …
More:
BBC, Motherboard, TechCrunch, Boing Boing and Ars Technica UK
Tweets: @ggreenwald, @rj_gallagher and @theintercept
| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active review: durable build is nice and has largest battery Samsung's ever put in a phone, but the design suffers from a cheap look and feel — Everyone says that the two biggest things they want in a smartphone are a tough screen that won't break, and super-long battery life.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Helpshift raises $23M led by Microsoft, Salesforce for a chat tool that helps with CRM in apps — As more of our day-to-day services make the shift to digital platforms, a startup that has built a customer care tool to help us through some of the pain points in mobile apps has closed a Series B round of funding.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In redesigned Snapchat app, Live Stories show alongside publishers' stories on both the Stories and Discover page, and you can subscribe to favorite channels — Snapchat is redesigning the Stories page in an effort to boost views of publishers' content — and to help build the advertising business …
More:
TechCrunch, International Business Times, Marketing Land, Engadget, The Next Web, Adweek, Recode, tech.co and Tech Insider. Tweets: @tconrad. See also Mediagazer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Sprightly app lets you create professional designs from your smartphone — Microsoft is taking on Adobe Spark Post and startups like Canva with its new app Sprightly, available today on iOS. Similar to its competitors, the app promises an easy way for smaller businesses …
More:
App Store, The Fire Hose, MSPoweruser and MSPoweruser
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Twitter officially announces Material Design revamp of its Android app — After A/B testing for the past few weeks, Twitter has officially announced the redesign of its Android app. Version 6. does not add any new functionality, but offers a much cleaner and better organized Twitter experience … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will support Apache Spark big data framework with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI, and Microsoft R Server software and services — Microsoft is supporting Apache Spark with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server software and services.Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:00 PM ET, June 7, 2016.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:Sara Fischer / Axios:
David Ingram / NBC News:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
More:
The Seattle Times, Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business … and New York Post. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@johnhcook
Earlier Picks
| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
| Steve Hendrix / Washington Post: |
| Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal: |
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
More:
Business Wire, Gizmodo, Tech Times, Social Media Today, I4U News, Tubefilter, Mashable, TechSpot, PCWorld, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch and WinBeta. Thanks:@davidocpr. See also Mediagazer