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Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change” — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time …
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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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus 5 unveiled with Snapdragon 835, 16MP dual-camera, 8GB RAM model $539, 6GB RAM model $479, on sale online June 27, available in select popup stores today — After several weeks of teasing and leaks, OnePlus has today officially announced the OnePlus 5, its latest flagship smartphone.
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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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| 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
| 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 …
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PayPal and Venmo now allow instant bank transfers, amid competition from Square Cash, Zelle, and Apple's P2P payments in iMessages for iOS 11 — PayPal announced this morning a plan to speed up money transfers between its service, Venmo and users' bank accounts for those with supported MasterCard and Visa debit cards.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
South Korean web host Nayana agrees to $1M extortion fee after 153 servers hit by ransomware, after negotiating the sum down from ~$1.6M — WannaCry only demanded $300 from each victim. These hackers extorted $1 million from one South Korean company. — Hackers appear to have pulled off …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A look at AMD's future in servers with today's launch of its EPYC enterprise-class processors, with configurations up to 32 cores and 64 threads per processor — The big news out of AMD was the launch of Zen, the new high-performance core that is designed to underpin the product roadmap for the next few generations of products.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources on details from WH meeting: Cook and Trump discuss immigration reform as tech pushes on H-1B visas, Google talks AI, Amazon/Palantir talk procurement — For many, a meeting at the White House yesterday offered a chance to push their political and business agendas.
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| Corin Faife / Motherboard: |
Status, a messaging app and mobile browser to help users interact with apps on the ethereum network, raises $44M in its ICO — Starting a little before 12pm EST today, Status, a messaging app and mobile browser enabling smartphones to connect to decentralized applications on the ethereum network … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Kickstarter Gold program debuts to bring back popular projects with a twist for new funding, launching today with 50 projects curated by Kickstarter — Kickstarter is bringing back some of its most popular projects in a new initiative called Kickstarter Gold.
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| 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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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Khosla, Sam Altman, and a16z-backed Teespring, once valued at $650M, was valued at ~$11M in latest round — New financing dramatically cuts Teespring's valuation from $650 million as early investors Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures have stakes slashed to pennies on the dollar in the custom T-shirt marketplace.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Netflix tests interactive episodes for kids which allow different storylines to be chosen, available on select smart TVs, Roku, and iOS devices — Can ‘choose your own adventure’ work on TV? — Netflix's first interactive episode arrives on the service today, giving viewers a chance … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Garage debuts Dictate, an add-in for Office that uses Cortana's speech recognition for dictation, competing with Nuance and Windows OS-level solutions — Dictate, a new project from Microsoft's experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Misty Robotics, a spinoff of toymaker Sphero, raises $11.5M Series A led by Venrock and Foundry Group to create a mainstream robot for the home — Hardware startup Misty Robotics has a daunting task ahead of it. The Boulder-based company is working on a robot aimed at mainstream consumers for employment in the home and office.
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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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| 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.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Department of Labor: Zenefits agrees to pay $3.4M in unpaid overtime to 743 of its employees and let the DoL monitor its labor practices to ensure compliance — Insurance software startup Zenefits has agreed to pay $3.4 million in unpaid overtime to 743 of its account executives … Sponsor Posts
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