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Facebook changes News Feed to automatically detect “clickbait” headlines, rank stories lower if they “withhold or distort information” — Facebook says it plans to marginalize what it considers to be “clickbait” news stories from publishers in its news feed …
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Sources: Apple is talking to TV firms about building a TV guide for Apple TV and iOS, letting viewers browse available in-app content, play shows with one click — Tim Cook doesn't want to sell you TV anymore. He wants to tell you what's on TV. — Last year, Apple shelved its plan to sell you TV.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Apple is launching an invite-only bug bounty program in September with a few dozen researchers — It's one of the last major tech companies to start paying for exploits — Apple is planning a new bug bounty program that will offer cash in exchange for undiscovered vulnerabilities in its products …
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TechCrunch, iMore, Securosis Highlights, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, CNET, Globe and Mail, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileSyrup.com and The Loop. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Blake Krikorian, co-founder of Sling Media and former board member at Amazon, has died at 48 — The Slingbox founder had been involved with Microsoft, Amazon and dozens of startups — Blake Krikorian, longtime and much beloved Silicon Valley entrepreneur, died yesterday.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dashlane and Google unveil OpenYOLO, an open-source API for apps to securely access passwords stored in password managers — Password management is one of the key defenses — or key weaknesses — when it comes to protecting your data and identity online, and today Dashlane …
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Dashlane Blog, PR Newswire, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Android Police, Greenbot, Liliputing and AgileBits Blog
Tweets: @inafried and @swiftonsecurity
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Valve will license its SteamVR Tracking system used in HTC Vive to developers for free, allowing custom motion controllers for the Vive headset — A new Valve program will let companies use the HTC Vive virtual reality tracking system for their own hardware.
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Steam Community, Engadget, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, SlashGear, VRFocus, Road to VR, UploadVR, Polygon and Blue's News
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Sources: Rackspace Hosting is in advanced sale talks with one or more private-equity firms, could reach deal this week; firm could be valued at up to $4B — Move comes two years after cloud-computing company says it would explore deal amid heightened competition
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TheStreet.com, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, theWHIR.com and Fortune
Tweets: @davecbenoit, @maxclark and @ingridlunden
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Jim Prosser, Twitter's head of corporate and policy communications, leaves for financing and loan startup SoFi — Twitter's communications team is changing very quickly. — Twitter is losing another key member of its communications team. Jim Prosser, the company's head of corporate …
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Breitbart, SiliconBeat and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jimprosser, @vindugoel, @mattrosoff, @caseynewton and @kurtwagner8
| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Hortonworks reports Q2 revenues of $43.6M, up 46% YoY, but below estimates of $45.2M, loss widens to $64.2M from $43M last year; stock down $25%+ after hours — Big Data is still producing big losses for Hortonworks Inc., one of the few publicly held Big Data companies …
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Hortonworks, Tech Trader Daily, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, ZDNet and Reuters
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Xbox One S teardown reveals upgraded hard drive and integrated power supply with device receiving a repairability score of 8/10 — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide
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Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, DualShockers, Ubergizmo, Kotaku, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Digital Trends, Windows, Engadget, WinBeta, The Verge, MSPoweruser and Windows Central. Tweets: @allgamesdelta
| Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: |
LinkedIn beats Q2 expectations as it prepares to merge with Microsoft, posts revenues of $933M, up 31% YoY, $119M loss related to tax expenses — LinkedIn's reported a strong second quarter with revenue and and earnings that beat estimates, about two months after Microsoft announced … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
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