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Google debuts AI-powered job search results in the US that tap into listings from LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, Facebook, company websites, others — Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search …
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| William Turton / The Outline: |
Leaked recording reveals how Apple's Global Security team uses investigators, rigorous screening, and embeds security members in product teams to prevent leaks — SECRECY AT APPLE — Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Trump meets with tech execs, says US gov't must “catch up” with private sector; Cook calls for coding in schools; Bezos favors more adoption of commercial tech — The leaders of Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who met with Trump on Monday, have a few asks of their own.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Live video replays and says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of May — Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone shooting video. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Swiss encrypted email provider ProtonMail launches ProtonVPN with Tor support and free subscription tier for single device access — ProtonMail has officially launched its first new standalone service, three years after the company's original encrypted email service went to market.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nokia debuts $59 Nokia Body Scale, $129 Nokia BPM+ blood pressure monitor, and revamps Health Mate fitness apps — Nokia today unveiled a new smart scale and digital blood pressure monitor as part of the company's “rebirth,” Cédric Hutchings, Nokia's VP of Digital Health …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon tests Prime Wardrobe, a new service that lets customers try up to 15 pieces of clothing at a time, with bigger discounts the more they keep — Prime Wardrobe is currently in beta. — Following in the footsteps of a host of e-commerce startups, Amazon's fashion division is testing … | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple files more claims in lawsuit against Qualcomm, accusing it of operating an “illegal business model”, and seeking to void patent claims — IPhone maker files more claims against Qualcomm in lawsuit — Apple cites May Supreme Court ruling against double-dipping
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| David Schneider / IEEE Spectrum: |
TOP500 fastest supercomputers: China's Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe 2 take top two spots as Switzerland's GPU-based Piz Daint replaces US' Titan in third place — In June, we can look forward to two things: the Belmont Stakes and the first of the twice-yearly TOP500 rankings of supercomputers.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's privacy-focused Firefox Focus web browser for Android blocks ad trackers and can erase your browsing history, but lacks tabs and uses Yahoo search — Late last year, Firefox introduced a new,private web browser for iPhone, called Firefox Focus. The browser by default blocks ad trackers …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at Ether, which has risen 4,500% since the beginning of the year, is used in ICOs, and is likely to pass Bitcoin's total value soon — The price of Bitcoin has hit record highs in recent months, more than doubling in price since the start of the year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Neighborhood social network Nextdoor says it's used in 160K neighborhoods, of which 145K are in US, and expands to Germany — Nextdoor, the social network that connects you with people in your neighborhood, is taking another step up in its global growth, after launching in the Netherlands and the UK last year.
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