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Apple to disable plug-ins like Flash, Java, Silverlight, and Quicktime by default in Safari 10, to focus on HTML5 content — In Safari 10, set to ship with macOS Sierra, Apple plans to disable common plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime by default in an effort to focus …
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200+ page dossier on Donald Trump allegedly authored by Democratic strategist Warren Flood leaks a day after Washington Post reported the DNC had been hacked — A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee …
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BGR, The Smoking Gun, Varonis Blog, Wired, Digital Trends, Nextgov, Inquirer, TechSpot, Help Net Security, F-Secure, Tech Insider, Defense One, Fox News, Motherboard, CNET, TechCrunch, Forbes, InfoWorld, Guardian, The Merkle, eWeek, The Register, Ars Technica, New York Times and Softpedia News. Tweets: @trevortimm
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Sources: Didi Chuxing raises $7B round, including the $1B announced by Apple, valuing it at over $25B — Ride-sharing company will have more than $10 billion in cash on hand to fend off U.S. competitor — HONG KONG—China's homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc. has raised $7 billion … | Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft's Project Bletchley is an Azure-powered enterprise blockchain architecture with blockchain middleware and “cryptlets”, which can add info to contracts — Microsoft today unveiled a new project designed to make it easier for businesses across a wide range of industries …
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Dating app Bumble is partnering with Spotify so you can swipe based on someone's favorite music — Bumble, the fast growing female-led dating app, is partnering with Spotify. — Bumble users will soon have the option of connecting their dating profile to their Spotify account so it can include …
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GAO report raises privacy and accuracy concerns with FBI's facial recognition program, which now has over 173M driver's license photos and 411M photos total — The watchdog said it had “concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology” and the “protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.”| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Fleksy announces its team is joining Pinterest, its keyboard app will remain in App Store, and it plans to open source some of its technology for the blind — Pinterest announced today that it has acquired the team behind the smart keyboard app Fleksy. The visual search engine company is not picking up the technology.| Marty Swant / Advertising & Branding: |
YouTube debuts new tools for SMBs to make video ads, including Director, a free app with a number of templates and editing tools — YouTube wants to turn video ads on its platform into a DIY possibility for small- and medium-sized businesses. — Today, Google is launching three ways …
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| Shirley Halperin / Billboard: |
Q&A with Apple's Iovine, Reznor, Cue, and Kondrk on Apple Music, Beats 1, and YouTube's “disingenuous” business model, and more — Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of internet software and services, helps introduce the new iOS software at an Apple event … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent nears $9B+ deal to buy Clash of Clans maker Supercell Oy from SoftBank; deal could be disclosed as early as next week — Transaction would exceed $9 billion — HONG KONG— Tencent Holdings Ltd. is nearing a more than $9 billion deal to buy Supercell Oy … | Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
“Spam King” Sanford Wallace is sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $100K+ fine for bombarding over 550K Facebook users — Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed “spam king” who has bedeviled Web users since the dawn of the public Internet two decades ago, has been sentenced …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Morgen Peck / Backchannel: |
Profile of Vitalik Buterin, inventor of Ethereum, the cryptocurrency rivaling Bitcoin and inspiring a movement — Vitalik Buterin invented the world's hottest new cryptocurrency and inspired a movement—before he'd turned 20. — I met Vitalik Buterin for the first time in Miami, during a Bitcoin conference in 2014.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
IBM, The Weather Company use machine learning to create hyper-local, short-term weather forecasts with a resolution of between 0.2-1.2 miles — Their new, hyper-local predictive model, called Deep Thunder, will use historical weather data to train machine learning models.
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Engadget, MarketWatch, Digital Trends, PR Newswire and Finance Daily
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AT&T brings WiFi calling to Android phones, starting with LG's G4, seven months after introducing it to iOS devices — AT&T is bringing Wi-Fi calling to Android devices, starting first with LG's G4. The company introduced the feature for iOS devices last October … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sapho, makers of single-purpose enterprise “micro apps”, raises $9.5M Series A led by Alsop Louie — We are in the middle of a major wave of startups building software to improve workplace productivity; now a company focused on making legacy enterprise apps more useful (and used) … | Bloomberg: |
Dropbox says it is now cash-flow positive but not profitable, not in rush to IPO — Drew Houston said at the Bloomberg Technology Conference that the company is cash-flow positive. — Since attaining a $10 billion valuation from investors in 2014, Dropbox Inc. has become a symbol of unicorn startup exuberance.
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