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Sources: Apple to unveil three iPhones this fall, including two revamped models and new high-end model with curved OLED display; high-end model could be delayed — Apple is testing a revamped iPhone with an all-screen front, curved glass and a stainless steel frame alongside upgrades to the current models.
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Steve Ballmer launches USAFacts, a project to provide an online database of spending across federal, state, and local governments — Guess what Steven A. Ballmer has been up to for the last several years. (No, not just cheering for the basketball team he owns, the Los Angeles Clippers.)
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal teams up with Android Pay for mobile payments — PayPal is joining forces with Google's Android Pay mobile payments platform, the companies announced this morning - an effort aimed at allowing PayPal to expand its footprint both within mobile applications as well as at brick-and-mortar retailers.
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Tweets: @brianroemmele and @tim_stevens
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Redesigned Google Earth brings interactive guided tours and 3D maps view to Chrome browsers and Android devices, coming to iOS and other browsers later — Just in time for Earth Day, Google has redesigned Google Earth for web and Android. The new version adds new features that let users …
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Tweets: @googleearth and @google
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung S8/S8+ review: gorgeous design, build quality, great camera, but fingerprint scanner is in awkward spot, Bixby's useless, preinstalled apps are annoying — The new S8 and S8 Plus aren't perfect, but they are damn close — People “aren't excited by new phones anymore.”
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Tweets: @vladsavov, @stevekovach, @dcseifert, and @stevekovach
| Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline: |
How Celebrity Net Worth's traffic plunged after Google took its data for Featured Snippets, even when the site said it could not have access — Google's Featured Snippets are not only often wrong, they're also damaging to small businesses that depend on search traffic.
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Daring Fireball and Boing Boing
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Allegations about cybersecurity company Cylance using bogus malware to close deals shed light on the complex nature of AV product testing in the industry — On the front lines of the antivirus industry's “testing wars.” — Last November, a systems engineer at a large company …
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YouTube. Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @bbaskin, @daviottenheimer, and @martijn_grooten. Thanks:@yurieeka
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches Uber Central, a tool that lets business users order multiple cars at once for customers or clients — Uber finalized a new tool in its business arsenal today called Uber Central that enables business users to order multiple Ubers on behalf of customers or clients from a single app.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snapchat introduces World Lenses, live filters for the rear-facing camera that add AR elements like a cloud, rainbow, and more — Menlo Park, start your photocopiers — Snapchat today is rolling out world lenses, a new twist on its popular face filters that continues to the company's exploration of augmented reality.
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Tweets: @jonrussell and @coryweinberg
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Three month study of 3.1M drivers in US finds they used their phones at least once on 88% of trips — Everyone knows we are all using our phones while driving. A lot. — And now there is hard data to back it up. Zendrive studied actual device use among 3.1 million drivers …
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Zendrive Blog, Fortune, 9to5Google, Newser, Wired, Tech Times, Axios, CBS New York, International Business Times, PC Magazine, Engadget, Mashable, and AOL
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr launches Cabana, a new app for watching videos while video chatting with friends — Tumblr today is launching a new app, called Cabana, which allows a group of friends to video chat and watch videos together, in real time. The app is being introduced under the Tumblr brand …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel discontinues Intel Developer Forum, citing its transition from a PC-centric to a data-centric company as the main reason — In a bit of breaking news this morning, it appears that Intel has decided to cancel their Intel Developer Forum tradeshow going forward, including this summer's expected IDF17.Sponsor Posts
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