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Microsoft announces Windows 10 will launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, partners with Xiaomi to test the OS on Mi 4 devices — Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages — Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport: Unlock Windows 10 devices and apps with your finger, iris, or face — Microsoft today announced biometric authentication is coming to Windows 10. Windows Hello will let you unlock your Windows 10 device, whether it be a PC, tablet, or a smartphone, with your finger, iris, or face.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Sources: Apple offers to share viewer data with partners for online TV service to enable better ad targeting — Apple offers to share TV data to entice programming partners — Apple is offering to share data with programming partners to get them on board with its cable-like TV network package, The Post has learned.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook now offers free friend-to-friend payments in its Messenger app using debit cards, to roll out to Android, iOS, and desktop in US over coming months — Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages — When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Nvidia announces developer kit for self-driving car platform Drive PX, available in May for $10K — Nvidia Announces Drive PX, Its Self-Driving Car Platform — A developer kit for Nvidia's self-driving car platform, the Drive PX, will go on sale in May for $10,000, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nomad's Pod is a $60 portable Apple Watch battery pack that ships in June — Nomad's Pod Is A Clever Portable Backup Battery For Apple Watch — The Apple Watch isn't available yet, but that hasn't stopped accessory makers from coming out of the woodwork to pre-announce a thriving ecosystem of companion devices for the wearable.
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| Fast Company: |
Tim Cook talks about his friendship with Steve in an excerpt from “Becoming Steve Jobs”, available March 24 — THE STEVE JOBS YOU DIDN'T KNOW: KIND, PATIENT, AND HUMAN — According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, he first learned about Steve's need for a liver transplant in January 2009.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees solid Q1 with $1.11B in revenue, 517K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.97 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company shared within its first quarter 2015 financial report today. — Adobe aims to hit nearly six million paid subscribers by the end of 2015 …
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Apple leases 260K square feet of additional Cupertino office space in new mixed-use center near Campus 2 — Apple snaps up Main Street Cupertino office buildings, and they're nothing like the spaceship — Apple Campus 2 might be grabbing all the headlines, but it's not the only real estate play for the Mac maker in its hometown.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Uber now lets developers embed its ridesharing service into any app — Uber just made it so any app can request a ride for you. — Today the company updated its API, introducing a feature called “Request endpoints.” Ignoring the technical jargon detailed here, the feature enables third-party apps to … | Ron / WinBeta: |
Bing Distill is Microsoft's version of Yahoo Answers, website is live and you can request an invite — At the beginning of this year, we reported that Microsoft was working on curating human answers in a new service called Bing Distill. The word distill, for those curious, means … | Kate Kaye / AdAge: |
Bitly launches deep links to help brands and marketers link directly to mobile apps — With New Feature, Bitly Links Can Now Open Apps — Company Considers Data Licensing but Privacy, Data-Protection Obstacles Remain — Bitly is best known as the firm that helps keep Twitter posts at or below 140-characters.| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Ustream opening up its internal SDK and API to developers, enabling anyone to build Meerkat-like apps, by invitation only for now — Ustream's New Live-Broadcasting SDK Lets You Build Your Own Meerkat — Call it a sign of the times: hot on the heels of Meerkat's sudden boom … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Premera Blue Cross of Washington state, Oregon and Alaska hit by sophisticated hack this January, with up to 11M affected by breach — Premera Blue Cross hit by “sophisticated” hack, 11M affected — Summary:The multi-state health insurance company was attacked in January and is working …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter Is Limiting Porn In Top Search Results — Users can still tweet adult images and links, but “Top” searches for terms like “#porn” and “#vagina” draw very few results. Update: Twitter tells BuzzFeed News the limited search results seem to the be the result of a bug.Thanks:@fwd
| Christina Rogers / Wall Street Journal: |
Ford plans to offer the ability to update its new Sync 3 infotainment system over Wifi and LTE 4G, using Microsoft's cloud-based Azure platform — Ford to Use Microsoft for Wireless Updates in Next-Generation Cars — Ford Motor Co. is turning to longtime partner Microsoft Corp … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
FiftyThree raises $30M to push its Paper and Pencil creativity tools in enterprise and education — FiftyThree, the company behind popular drawing app Paper and a smart stylus called Pencil, has raised $30 million to help push its presence in the enterprise and education realm.
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