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| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
How HBO's “Silicon Valley” accurately portrays and satirizes Silicon Valley: extensive research and expert consultants — When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy.
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| Rex Sorgatz / Backchannel: |
Matching characters from HBO's “Silicon Valley” to real tech world personalities — The absolutely definitive, supremely authoritative, person-to-person mapping of “Silicon Valley” characters to real tech world personalities. — When we say that a television show is “realistic,” what do we mean?
Tweets: @jess, @karaswisher, @davemcclure and @msquinn
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
What to expect at WWDC 2016: Siri SDK, Siri on the Mac, next versions of iOS and MacOS previewed, Apple Music revamp, refinements to tvOS and watchOS — WWDC is almost here — and this year, Apple has more to talk about than ever. That's because WWDC is Apple's software show …
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Brian Roemmele, 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Macworld, CNNMoney, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Tech Times, 512 Pixels, Redmond Pie, Six Colors, CNET, Macworld, Six Colors, Six Colors, iMore, iMore, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, AppleInsider, AppAdvice.com Latest, Engadget, Popular Science, MacStories, MacDailyNews, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, MacRumors, TIME, Yahoo, Gizmodo, Macworld, Polygon, TechCrunch and Quartz. Tweets: @benthompson
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
With just the last 4 digits of @deray's SSN, a hacker rerouted texts to another device, bypassing two-factor authentication protecting the activist's accounts — Did you know that someone only needs your name and the last four digits of your Social Security number to hack your phone number?| Konstantin Kakaes / MIT Technology Review: |
Why no high tech, high volume gadget like the iPhone can be made entirely in the US: cost, manufacturing capacity, and China's hold on rare earth elements — Political candidates opposed to free trade say Apple should make phones in the United States. Let's see what that would look like.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
How PayPal is trying to catch up in digital payments space after losing ground under eBay — After a lost decade, the newly independent company is making big investments again. — During the gloomy spring of 2009, few tech companies were under a darker cloud than online auction giant eBay ebay .
Tweets: @fortunemagazine
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What to expect from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, and others at E3 2016 — Keep track of the press conference madness and more with our rundown. — The Electronic Entertainment Expo may be a bit smaller this year, thanks to some high-profile publisher departures.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Score Assured, a startup which lets landlords vet potential tenants based on data from their social media accounts, faces backlash — A UK startup has developed software for landlords that lets them analyze potential tenants using data from their social media accounts.
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CNET, Washington Post, ExtremeTech, Gothamist, The Daily Dot and Digital Trends
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Moments now #1 in App Store after Facebook warns users it will delete Synced photos on July 7 — Facebook is continuing its heavy-handed push to get users to install its private photo-sharing app Moments. The company's latest move - warning people some of their photos will be deleted …
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The Verge, CNET, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Fortune, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Daily Dot, Engadget, MacRumors, iMore, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Sensor Tower App … and SocialTimes
Tweets: @davidbyttow, @kevinmarks, @mulligan and @joshelman
| Nikolai Tschacher / Coding, Learning and IT Security: |
Researcher created typo versions of popular programming language packages to execute code on 17K hosts — Edit: It seems that the blog post and the thesis caused quite some interest. Please contact me under the following mail address, since my mail server on this VPS is constantly down :/ tschachn [|
Tweets: @tdierks
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Links shared in Facebook Messenger can be uncovered by anyone through querying Facebook's API — Facebook has a link problem. Earlier this week, a security researcher named Inti De Ceukelaire detailed a curious fact about how Facebook Messenger treats privately shared links.| Julia Love / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon to launch $9.99/mo standalone streaming music service late summer/early fall — Amazon.com Inc is preparing to launch a standalone music streaming subscription service, placing it squarely in competition with rival offerings from Apple Inc and Spotify, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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ZDNet, Tech Times, Patently Apple, AppAdvice.com Latest, MobileSyrup.com, Fone Arena, AppleInsider, MacNN, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, Android Police, Liliputing, GeekWire, 9to5Google, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, PhoneDog.com, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Engadget, The Verge, Neowin, CNET, iMore, iPhone Hacks, Tech Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and Forbes. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Gawker files for bankruptcy, sources say it already has a firm bid from Ziff Davis for under $100M, will fight Thiel/Hogan case and continue operations — Gawker and Nick Denton say they won't pay Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel $140 million. — Peter Thiel is getting closer to his goal …
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Recode, Forbes, New York Times, Tech Times, Gizmodo, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Drum, Ars Technica, The Verge, New York Times, Politico, The Next Web, New York Post, TechCrunch, Techdirt, Consumerist, Business Insider, Engadget, New York Magazine, Breitbart, MacDailyNews, VentureBeat, Wired, Digital Trends, WebProNews, Vanity Fair, GamesIndustry.biz, Motherboard, VatorNews, Vox, NPR, The Hill, Boing Boing, International Business Times, SiliconBeat, Reuters, Deadline, MacNN and Tampa Bay Times
Tweets: @rmac18, @nicknotned, @adrianchen, @jayrosen_nyu, @natesilver538, @felixsalmon, @newyorker, @rafat, @felixsalmon and @marypcbuk
See also Mediagazer| Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept: |
NSA deputy director: agency couldn't crack San Bernardino shooter's iPhone because it hadn't invested in exploiting iPhone 5c, and is looking to exploit IoT — The National Security Agency is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence—including the possibility …
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The Verge, The Merkle, Motherboard, Digital Trends, Recode, Engadget and ZDNet. Tweets: @cunchem
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