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Teardown of new 4K 21.5-inch iMac reveals removable RAM and modular CPU not soldered onto the logic board, but the components are still very difficult to access — iFixit has published a teardown of the new 4K 21.5-inch iMac, which reveals that - surprisingly - Apple's smallest …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
AirPods automatically appear as a new speaker option on Apple TVs running tvOS 11 developer beta — When you pair AirPods to your iPhone, the wireless earbuds are automatically paired to iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches with the same iCloud account thanks to automatic setup.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android O Developer Preview 3 with final APIs — Google today launched the third Android O developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com and via the Android Beta Program. The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the Nexus 5X … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to acquire Israel-based cybersecurity company Hexadite, sources say for $100M, to bolster its advanced threat detection services — Yet more activity in the world of cybersecurity. Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Hexadite, an Israeli startup that uses AI to identify and protect against attacks.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Verizon will cut about 15% of AOL-Yahoo staff, or as many as 2.1K jobs, after merger closes — The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 percent globally, we have confirmed with our sources. — This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Yahoo shareholders officially approve $4.48B sale to Verizon; deal will close on June 13th — Yahoo's shareholders have officially approved the company's sale to Verizon for $4.48 billion. The deal is expected to close Tuesday. — Once the deal closes, Yahoo and AOL will merge into a combined entity called “Oath.”| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber is in advanced talks to acquire the engineering team of Luxe, a car-parking startup which has raised a total of $75M+ — While Uber Technologies wrestles with a string of controversies, the ride-hailing company is in advanced talks to acquire much of the engineering team …
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Amazon ends its unlimited data storage plan for Amazon Drive, now offers up to 100GB for $11.99 a year or up to 1TB for $60 — Time to check you don't have auto-renew turned on — Amazon has killed off its generous unlimited cloud storage deal for Amazon Drive.| Diana Goovaerts / Wireless Week: |
Cisco: global average IP traffic from smartphones will reach 14.9GB/mo per device in 2021, compared to 3.5GB/mo per device in 2016 — A massive rise in mobile data traffic has been playing out over the past several years, but a new forecast from Cisco indicates the global average internet traffic … | Rani Molla / Recode: |
Akamai: US ranks 28th in the world in mobile internet speeds with an average of 10.7 Mbps; UK takes top spot with average of 26 Mbps — We have slower mobile internet than Greece. Greece! — The U.S. lags behind much of the rest of the developed world in mobile internet speeds, ranking 28th.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French search startup Algolia raises $53M Series B led by Accel, says Medium, Twitch, and Periscope are among its 3K customers driving 25B searches a month — French startup Algolia just raised a $53 million Series B round led by Accel, a couple of years after raising $18.3 million with... Accel also leading the round.
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Apple employees on how Siri's progress was crippled by lack of ambitious goals, shifting strategies, and insufficient usage data — Nimble competitors developed new voice-powered products for the home while Apple remained focused on its phone — In a 2.5-hour keynote …
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