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Apple's smartwatch likely to come in multiple sizes and designs, contain over ten sensors, including ones for health and fitness — Apple Plans Multiple Designs for Smartwatch — Wrist Device Will Include More Than 10 Sensors Including Ones to Track Fitness
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| Michael Gold / Reuters: |
Apple's smartwatch to launch as early as October with 2.5" screen, wireless charging, pulse sensor, sources say — Taiwan's Quanta to start mass production of Apple's smartwatch in July: source — (Reuters) - Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc will start mass production of Apple Inc's first smartwatch in July …
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House passes amendment to cut NSA's ‘backdoor search’ funding — Following a push from Representatives Justin Amash and Thomas Massie, the House of Representatives has passed an amendment to stop at least some of the surveillance programs at the National Security Agency.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Yo App Hacked By College Students — A Georgia Tech student, together with two of his room mates, claims to have hacked Yo, the Poke-like app which has set some Silicon Valley alight (though not others) in the last 48 hours. [See update below: Yo has confirmed it has been hacked].
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Significant enhancements coming to AppleCare+, Apple IDs, iOS support — Apple's vice president of AppleCare and technical support initiatives, Tara Bunch, held a Town Hall meeting for for AppleCare employees earlier this week, according to several employees in attendance who asked to remain anonymous.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Adam Bain taking over business development at Twitter; Gabriel Stricker to head its media unit — Bain Officially Gets Biz Dev, While Media Unit Moves to Stricker at Twitter (Plus TV Memo!) — As Re/code reported last week, Twitter sales leader Adam Bain will take over business development at Twitter …
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| Evan Selleck / Android Beat: |
Android Wear shows off its Stacks, Replies, Pages and interface in new video — Android Wear was announced just over three months ago, and since then we've seen plenty of little details find their way online, most of which focused on the software. In a new video released … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
Google buys Alpental, a startup focused on 5G technologies and led by former Clearwire researchers — Google just quietly bought this stealthy Seattle startup led by ex-Clearwire researchers — Sometimes startups attract corporate attention after releasing cutting-edge products, or nailing down key customers.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Product Hunt, used by some VCs to spot new tech products, grows to 26K subscribers in 7 months — Here's What Every Major Silicon Valley Investor Is Using To Find The Next Big Thing — Recently, tech blogs went crazy over a simple app called “Yo” that reportedly raised $1 million from Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Maps ‘City Tours’ feature hidden in iOS 8 betas, works like a guided Flyover video — Although deeper changes to Maps are in the works, Apple did announce a new City Tours feature for iOS 8 discreetly on one of the keynote slides. This feature is not normally available in the current iOS 8 betas … | Neil McAllister / The Register: |
Android to drop Dalvik VM for high-performance ART in next version — Code changes proclaim death of OS's original code runtime — The next version of Google's Android smartphone OS may ship with a new code execution engine that improves performance and battery life, if a new report is to be believed.| Daniel Bader / Mobile Syrup: |
BlackBerry Passport, formerly known as ‘Windermere’, coming in September — John Chen announced during BlackBerry's quarterly earnings report that the company's next phone will be called Passport. Previously known as ‘Windermere’, the often-leaked QWERTY device will sport … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos — Shortly after he introduced the new Fire phone on Wednesday, I spoke with Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, about the device and Amazon's goals in the smartphone business. — Here is an edited transcript of our discussion.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
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