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What's Apple Really Up To? Keeping You in Apple World. — Today, at its annual developers conference, WWDC 2014, Apple laid out the first step in its latest plans — new versions of its mobile and Mac operating systems, iOS and OS X, respectively. The second step will come in the fall … | Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
The Winners and Losers at Apple's WWDC Keynote — With 200 million iPads and 500 million iPhones sold to date, Apple can cause some serious waves when it throws its weight around. Here's a look at who should be cheering after today's keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's WWDC Delivers Developer Fanservice — Apple's WWDC keynote this morning laid out some welcome consumer-facing features coming to iOS and OS X. But the biggest announcements by far were the ones in which Apple delivered developers a wish list of items that nailed every major pain point in the ecosystem.| Chris Dannen / Fast Company: |
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Apple Drops Google For Bing As “Spotlight” Search Provider In iOS 8 & Mac OS X “Yosemite” — Bing has gained another win with Apple, becoming integrated into a new version of Spotlight in Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X “Yosemite” operating system and in the coming iOS 8 mobile operating system.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Big Win For DuckDuckGo: Apple Adding To Safari As Private Search Option — DuckDuckGo, the search engine that positions itself as a completely secure and private search engine, is getting a big boost. Apple is making it part of Safari in the next versions of Mac OS and iOS as an option that users can choose.| David Yanofsky / Quartz: |
Safari in OS X Yosemite demo shown to truncate URLs in address bar to domain name level — Apple just took another step towards obscuring the way the web works — At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference today the company rolled out a new look for its web browser, Safari.| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
OS X Yosemite Public Beta Limited to First Million Registered Users — Earlier today as Apple was unveiling OS X Yosemite for the first time at the Worldwide Developers Conference, software chief Craig Federighi announced that there would be a public open beta for the new operating system ahead of its launch this fall.| Duncan Campbell / The Register: |
Details of GCHQ's secret base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East revealed — REVEALED: GCHQ's BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE — Snowden leaks that UK.gov suppressed — Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britain's covert surveillance programme …
Tweets: @theregister and @csoghoian
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 8 to Include Battery Usage Per App and Much More — During today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Tim Cook and other Apple executives gave us a fast-paced, broad-ranging look at some of the features we can expect with iOS 8, including improvements to Messages …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Kurt Wagner / Mashable: |
Myspace Is Embarrassing Users With Old Photos to Win Them Back — Myspace wants you back — even if it requires a little blackmail — The social network is emailing users old photos of themselves in hopes of enticing them to return to Myspace. The emails include one or two old photos …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Intel Bets On Surface Pro 3-Like “2-In-1″ Devices — Today at the Computex event in Taiwan, Intel unveiled a reference design '2-in-1′ device, raising the profile of tablet-hybrids. The chip maker, increasingly betting on mobile in the face of a immiserated personal computer market … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones — Ostendo's Tiny Projectors Are Designed to Display Crisp Video, Glasses-Free 3-D Images — In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head. — Instead, imagine stepping into an empty room … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Raises Another $66.5M From Andreessen Horowitz and IVP At A $500M Valuation — Well that was fast. — It was a little more than four months ago that Zenefits raised a $15 million Series A Round from Andreessen Horowitz to power explosive growth in its cloud-based HR platform.
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Reddit, Imgur and Boing Boing launch anti-NSA surveillance campaign — The Reset the Net campaign aims to encourage direct action, urging visitors to install privacy and encryption tools — Some of the world's largest websites are planning a coordinated day of action on Thursday to oppose mass surveillance online.
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| Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Wall Street Journal: |
Law enforcement requests to monitor cellphones stay sealed long after investigations end — Sealed Court Files Obscure Rise in Electronic Surveillance — The U.S. government requests thousands of orders for electronic surveillance every year, and the vast majority stay sealed from the public.
Tweets: @jenvalentino and @natewessler
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation — Looks like home-remodelling and design site Houzz is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at VCExperts, indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million …
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Fidelity Said to Be Competing to Lead Uber Round at $17B — Fidelity Investments is competing to lead Uber Technologies Inc.'s new financing in a round that could value the ride-sharing service at about $17 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.| Rich Trenholm / CNET News: |
HTC One E8 is a plastic M8, coming early June — The HTC One E8 has been confirmed to bring its polycarbonate shell to “selected markets” in “early June.” — The HTC One E8 replaces the M8's brushed metal case with plastic to bring the price down. — HTC
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