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Microsoft makes its Wunderlist successor, To-Do, available in preview as part of Office 365; Wunderlist will “eventually” be retired — Microsoft's ‘Project Cheshire,’ the successor to its Wunderlist to-do app, is now in public preview for many Office 365 users on a variety of devices.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook copying Snapchat's features reduces the competition to who has the stronger network, illustrating how monopolies are bad for innovation — The shamelessness was breathtaking. — Having told a few jokes, summarized his manifesto, and acknowledged the victim of the so-called …
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Inside Building 8, Facebook's moonshot lab working on a brain interface that translates thoughts into words and a project to use skin vibrations to “hear” words — The social network finally unveils what its secretive Building 8 hardware lab has been working on for the past year.
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Facebook updates its Surround 360 camera lineup with two models: larger x24 and smaller x6, both capable of shooting 8K video, with pricing and availability TBD — The freedom of VR with the fidelity of real life — Facebook today announced the second generation of its Surround 360 video camera design …
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sources: Nintendo to launch a mini version of its SNES console in time for Christmas 2017, after the success of its mini NES console — Major factor for NES mini discontinuation. — Nintendo will follow up its smash hit NES microconsole with a mini version of the SNES, sources close to the company have confirmed to Eurogamer.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify brings its half-price student tier to 33 new countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Japan, and New Zealand — Hot on the heels of Pandora's public launch of its on-demand streaming service, Pandora Premium, rival Spotify is looking to make its service more appealing … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch expands viewer subscriptions with $9.99/month and $24.99/month tiers, now an opt-in beta for partners — Confirming an earlier leak, the Amazon-owned live streaming service Twitch is today announcing an expanded lineup of subscription offerings, which introduces two new levels beyond the original $4.99 per month plan.
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Microsoft now lets users use phone authentication instead of passwords to access accounts — Microsoft's Authenticator app can now save you a step when logging into anything that requires a Microsoft Account. According to a blog post from the company's identity division … | Ricky Villacrez / GSMArena.com: |
Instagram on Android gets offline mode for users to see, comment on, save, and Like content previously loaded, among other features — At Facebook's annual developer conference in San Jose, Instagram announces the Android app will be getting offline capabilities that will allow …
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| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
Trump's newly signed executive order to reform H-1B visas may make outsourcing less viable but could bring more educated and better paid tech workers to US — SAN FRANCISCO — H-1B visa holders could get a lot more expensive and a lot better educated under a new executive order signed … | Motherboard: |
A look at Retina-X and FlexiSpy, spyware companies whose surveillance software is used by ordinary people to tap each other's phones — This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Xiaomi announces 5.15-inch Mi 6 with Snapdragon 835, 12MP dual-cameras, 6GB RAM, 3,350 mAh battery, no headphone jack, starting at $360 — Xiaomi has announced its latest flagship phone, the Mi 6, at an event in Beijing. While Xiaomi drew widespread attention last year …
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