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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AccuWeather iOS app sends user's location info to data monetization firm, even with location sharing turned off — A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user's explicit permission to a firm designed to monetize user locations.
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Tweets: @mikeymikey, @zittrain, @zackwhittaker, @upright, and @charlesarthur
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sources: disagreements led to Apple scaling back on car project; team now focused on campus shuttle using a commercial vehicle to test autonomous driving tech — SAN FRANCISCO — As new employees were brought into Apple's secret effort to create a self-driving car a few years ago …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, and InvestorPlace
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon to start throttling video on smartphones on all unlimited data plans to 720p, with the cheapest “Go Unlimited” plan limiting video to 480p — Cheapest plan limits video to 480p, and there's no way to watch 1080p on a phone anymore — Well, now we know why Verizon Wireless was …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DJI announces mandatory firmware fix for Spark, says drones must be updated by September 1 or be grounded — After software malfunction sent Sparks falling out of the sky — Drone maker DJI announced yesterday that it's pushing out a firmware fix in response to a pernicious problem …
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Mynewsdesk, Engadget, Digital Trends, sUAS News, Quartz, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, Mashable, PetaPixel, SlashGear, The Register, BBC, Digital Photography Review, Fortune, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, and MacRumors. Tweets: @gigastacey
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Chrome Enterprise subscription service for $50 per Chrome OS device per year, includes support for Microsoft Active Directory, VMware's AirWatch — Google is launching a new enterprise service for large businesses that want to adopt Chrome OS devices.
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Google, VentureBeat, Mashable, SlashGear, Android Police, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, TechRepublic, Marketwire, CNBC, and Seeking Alpha
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Code42 says it will end its cloud backup service Crashplan for Home on Oct 23, 2018 and focus instead on its business services — If you rely on Crashplan as a remote backup for your computer, you're going to have to find an alternative in short order. Code42 is phasing out its Crashplan …
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Code42, AppleInsider, Data on the Edge, TechCrunch, iMore, The Wirecutter, Backblaze Blog, TidBITS, MacRumors, The Verge, and MacDailyNews
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce beats estimates with Q2 revenue of $2.56B, up 26% YoY, on track to hit its $10B annual revenue run rate target — Earlier this year it looked as though Salesforce was starting to position itself as a company that would hit $10 billion in annual revenue run rate later this year … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Medium will pay writers based off number of “claps” they get, from subscribers' $5/mo. fee, expands the number of authors who can publish paywalled articles — [Jeb gif] — Medium plans to start letting more and more authors publish paywalled articles.
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3 min read, Ubergizmo, Poynter, Boing Boing, and Motherboard
Tweets: @_tessr, @medium, @mathowie, @malwarejake, @alistairmbarr, @markmilian, @hunterwalk, @ow, @ev, @caseynewton, @ev, @alex_danco, and @caseynewton
| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Hulu expands Live TV beta to Xbox 360, says it will unify its two iOS apps into a single app, but still no support for Roku yet — The Xbox 360 may be a thoroughly dated device at this point, but it is long from being forgotten. The previous-generation Microsoft console just got support …
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Hulu, The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Central, The Verge, Engadget, Engadget, and On MSFT
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to cease work on its GigJam lightweight collaboration service, before it exited preview — Microsoft is halting work on its GigJam collaboration service in September, two years after its initial launch and before it ever exited preview. — Microsoft is throwing in the towel …
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GigJam, The Register, PCWorld, Business Insider, Petri, MSPoweruser, and Seeking Alpha
| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
GoDaddy's Blake Irving stepping down as CEO at end of 2017; COO Scott Wagner to be new CEO — With the events that happened in Charlottesville, we felt the Daily Stormer went too far, crossed the line: GoDaddy CEO — GoDaddy named chief operating officer Scott Wagner its new CEO on Tuesday …
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Reuters, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and TheDomains.com
| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
DOJ says DreamHost warrant was too broad, states it has no interest in records relating to 1.3M IP addresses of visitors to anti-Trump site — The US Department of Justice is rescinding its request for IP logs that would have revealed visitors to a website used to plan a protest during Donald Trump's inauguration.
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The Verge, CNET, assets.documentcloud.org, and Silicon Republic
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