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Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote — - This stream is best experienced on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using Safari on iOS 10 or later; a Mac using Safari on macOS Sierra 10.12 or later; or a PC using Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. Streaming to Apple TV via AirPlay requires an Apple TV …
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote in San Jose — Live from the Apple keynote, where we expect news about iOS 12, MacOS, and more. Event Details Apple's annual developer conference will kick off with a keynote at 1PM ET / 10AM PT on June 4th at the San Jose Convention Center.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad, says it will focus on performance improvements and support all devices capable of running iOS 11 — Apple has officially announced iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose. We'll update our story below with details as they're announced.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Apple partners with Adobe for AR file format, called USDZ, which will be supported by Adobe's Creative Cloud services — Apple is getting more serious about augmented reality. — The company on Monday said it's partnering with Adobe on a new file format for AR, called USDZ.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Apple's App Store now sees 500M weekly visitors and is about to pass $100B paid out to developers, after crossing the $50B paid threshold in June 2016 — Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off WWDC 2018 with a bunch of App Store stats. Arguably the biggest number he shared was that Apple this week …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5B; Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, to be the new CEO of Github — Microsoft is acquiring GitHub. After reports emerged that the software giant was in talks to acquire GitHub, Microsoft is making it official today.
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| New York Times: |
Facebook gave 60+ device makers, including Apple, Amazon, and Samsung, deeper access to users' personal info than previously known, through private APIs — The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.
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| Ime Archibong / Facebook Newsroom: |
Facebook says device-integrated APIs allowed vendors to recreate Facebook-like experiences, were governed by strict contracts, and are being faded out — The New York Times has today written a long piece about our device-integrated APIs — software we launched 10 years ago to help get Facebook onto mobile devices.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
New G Suite features unveiled, including interoperability between Hangouts Meet and other video conferencing systems like select Skype, Cisco, Polycom products — The new feature is one of multiple G Suite updates Google announced, improving interoperability with third-party enterprise tools.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Isaac robot platform with Jetson Xavier robot processor that it says delivers 30 trillion+ operations per second, for $1,300 — Nvidia launched its Nvidia Isaac robot platform today to power the next generation of autonomous machines, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Asus announces 6" ROG phone with a 90Hz display, a 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 chip, and gaming accessories including an attachable fan; price and availability TBD — This is the latest, zaniest attempt at making gaming phones happen — Asus is starting off Computex 2018 on a high-spec note with the announcement of its ROG Phone.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Source: Twitter disbands live video unit, folds it into content partnerships team; ex-Head of News Peter Greenberger and exec Todd Swidler are leaving — Global video-partnerships head Todd Swidler, head of news Peter Greenberger are leaving the company — Twitter has disbanded …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Ticketfly's breach exposed 26M+ email addresses of users, along with home and billing addresses as well as phone numbers, analysis of leaked data shows — The data breach of the ticket and event company Ticketfly exposed the email addresses and other personal data of more than 26 million people … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
PlayVS, a startup that provides an esports platform and league for high schools, raises $15M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates — PlayVS, the startup building esports infrastructure at the high school level, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round.
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Forbes, ESPN, The Esports Observer, and socalTECH.com
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Qulian Technology, maker of enterprise-focused blockchain called Hyperchain, announces the completion of $234M Series B, drawing scrutiny from Chinese regulator — Qulian Technology, a China-based blockchain platform developer, has announced the completion of a 1.5 billion Chinese yuan ($234 million) Series B funding round.| Dan Romero / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase opens an office in Japan, announces its aim to roll out the cryptocurrency exchange in the country — As part of our effort to accelerate the global adoption of cryptocurrency, today we're announcing the launch of Coinbase's office in Japan. Under the leadership of the highly-respected … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
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