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Sources: this year's iPhones will be thinner with same size displays, lose headphone jack, have improved water resistance; big changes expected for 2017 models — Tech giant plans to break with tradition of overhauling its design every two years; headphone plug likely to disappear
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Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators — Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds. — There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
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Tweets: @msuster, @gereezi and @annarussett
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Twitter's new Engage app makes it easier for celebs to handle their fans, by filtering out some interactions — A decent chunk of Twitter's early success came from its adoption by major celebrities as a way to speak directly to their fans — with the occasional chance for those fans to speak back.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram doubles monthly users to 500M in 2 years, with 300M checking daily, but the rate of growth for images shared per day is slowing — Photos transcend language barriers, leading Instagram to hit a major milestone today, Its growth is actually accelerating over time …
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Instagram Blog, TIME, Digital Trends, Bloomberg, VatorNews, SiliconBeat, GeekWire, Android Authority, Guardian, PCWorld, International Business Times, The Verge, Vanity Fair, MobileSyrup.com, Inquirer, Windows Central, SocialTimes, Globe and Mail, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Engadget, Marketing Land, The Drum, 9to5Mac, TalkAndroid.com, VentureBeat, Fortune, Cult of Mac, CNET, Neowin, Droid Life and Pocketnow. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV — Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works.| Wall Street Journal: |
Document lists deals with media firms and celebrities for Facebook Live, totaling $50M+ on nearly 140 contracts; BuzzFeed is highest paid at $3.05M for one year — Nearly 140 contracts with video creators total more than $50 million — Facebook Inc. is paying an array of media companies …
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Tencent and its partners to pay $8.6B for a majority stake in Supercell, in a deal that values the Finnish game maker at $10.2B — Chinese internet major's deal to buy stake from Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion — HONG KONG—Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google will soon list possible health conditions when you search for symptoms, will start rolling out the changes on mobile in coming days — From sport results to maps, Google Search now shows a lot more than just 10 blue links. Especially useful on mobile, Knowledge Graph aims … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
FAA unveils new rules for low-altitude drones weighing less than 55 pounds, letting US firms operate drones with just a certificate and test rather than license — This morning the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled “Part 107,” a new set of rules to govern the use of drones by commercial operators.
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| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank President Nikesh Arora to step down; some duties will be taken over by Ron Fisher, a current board member, and Baer Capital Partners founder Alok Sama — Former Google executive has been under pressure from investors — TOKYO—Under fire from investors, SoftBank Group Corp. President Nikesh Arora …
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Tweets: @nikesharora, @danprimack, @danprimack and @kaylatausche
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine — Docker, which is hosting its sold-out developer conference in Seattle this week, today announced a major addition to its core Docker Engine. While the company previously split up many of the features it takes …
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eWeek, Computerworld, internetnews.com, InfoWorld, DevOps.com, ZDNet, Docker Blog, GitHub, SiliconANGLE and The Register
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Photos app in iOS 10 can distinguish 7 facial expressions, generate 33 Moments categories, and detect 4,432 searchable objects — This is not documented anywhere, so I took the liberty to jot some of these down. Next time when testing, you would have a better idea...| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Flow, an IFTTT-like tool for managing workflows, launches on iOS; Android version in works — Microsoft Flow, the company's recently launched workflow management tool, has now arrived on mobile in the form of an iOS application. Essentially a direct competitor to IFTTT …
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Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Flow, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, The Register, MacRumors, Neowin, The Next Web, MacStories and App Store. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
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Pearl, a startup with 50 Apple alumni, plans slew of devices to retrofit cars to enable latest autonomous driving capabilities, starting with a rear-view camera — Pearl Inc. introduces rear-view camera beginning in September — Startup plans to offer technology to retrofit current autos
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