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Facebook debuts Spaces, its social VR platform that lets up to four users hang out in VR, available in beta for Oculus Rift, to expand to other VR platforms — More than three years after its acquisition of Oculus, Facebook is a product even more deeply intertwined with people's online identities.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Camera Effects developer platform: Frames Studio for simple picture effects, available now; AR Studio for creating masks, scene effects, in beta — Facebook will rely on an army of outside developers to contribute augmented reality image filters and interactive experiences to its new Camera Effects platform.
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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft buys Intentional Software, which develops productivity scenarios for future workplaces; founder, ex-Microsoft exec Charles Simonyi, to rejoin the firm — Microsoft is acquiring Intentional Software, a Bellevue, Wash.-based productivity-app vendor whose well-known founder is a programming expert and former Microsoft manager.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork apps for Mac and iOS free for all users; formerly they were free with the purchase of a new Mac or iOS device — Apple today updated several of its Mac and iOS apps, making them available for all Mac and iOS users for free.
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| Katie Burke / Automotive News Automakers Feed: |
Uber loses VP of Global Vehicle Programs Sherif Marakby, who came to the company last April after a 25-year career at Ford — Sherif Marakby, vice president of global vehicle solutions at Uber, left his post at the ride-hailing company on Monday. — Marakby, who joined Uber in April 2016 …
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