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iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch — The inside story of the Apple Watch: the people who made it, why it's important, and just how much the world's largest company has riding on it. — The post iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch appeared first on WIRED.
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Microsoft releases Office Lens document scanning app for iPhone, opens Android preview — Office Lens comes to iPhone and Android — Just over a year ago, we introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone—and over that time the app has become one of the most popular free apps on Windows Phone …
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Chrome and Firefox to stop trusting digital certificates issued by Chinese certificate authority following breach of trust — Google Chrome will banish Chinese certificate authority for breach of trust [Updated] — Draconian move follows the issuance of certificates masquerading as Google domains.
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European regulators scrutinise Apple over music streaming plans — Matthew Garrahan in New York and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco — European regulators are scrutinising Apple's dealings with record labels, amid an intensifying battle over the future of free, ad-supported music streaming services such as Spotify.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Audit of TrueCrypt software finds minor issues, no deliberate backdoors or severe design flaws — Truecrypt report — A few weeks back I wrote an update on the Truecrypt audit promising that we'd have some concrete results to show you soon. Thanks to some hard work by the NCC Crypto Services group, soon is now.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Comcast offering 2Gbps broadband service starting in Atlanta next month, twice as fast as Google Fiber — Comcast leapfrogs Google Fiber with new 2Gbps internet service — One way to answer critics and competitors alike is to simply do better, and for once Comcast is doing exactly that.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Snapchat cuts off third-party apps, expands bug bounty program, releases transparency report, and apologizes for past mistakes — Snapchat's Non-Vanishing Message: You Can Trust Us — A rare interview with Snapchat tech executives about a transparency report, a bug bounty program, a third-party app ban...and apologies
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Twitter Buys TenXer For Under $50M To Improve Its Tools For Engineers — Social network Twitter has long been under fire for some of its internal issues when it comes to products and how engineers work to develop and improve them. Now it's made an acquisition that could help it improve things on that front.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe's Slate Is A Visual Storytelling App For The iPad — With Slate, Adobe is launching a new text- and photo-centric storytelling app for the iPad today. — About a year ago, Adobe launched Voice, its first standalone storytelling app that lets users record their own stories …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Airbnb now offers about 1,000 listings in Cuba, limited to US travelers — The online lodgings marketplace offers about 1,000 listings for U.S. travelers — Airbnb operates in 190 countries and 34,000 cities around the world, but its latest addition could be a momentous one.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Meerkat usage has dropped due to competition from Periscope, poor stream recommendations, and because it's no longer featured in the App Store — Here's why Meerkat's popularity is suddenly plunging — After bursting onto the scene through the trend-spotting site Product Hunt and winning … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's ARC Beta runs Android apps on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac, and Linux — “App Runtime for Chrome” takes a big step toward making Android a universal binary. — The ARC Welder is a Chrome app that makes Chrome apps. It shows up in the app list.| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Ford is experimenting with its own app-based ride-hailing service called the Dynamic Shuttle — Ford Is Chasing Tesla And Uber Into The Future — Ford CEO Mark Fields says the legacy car manufacturer is trying to think like a startup. — Ford — In the race to define the … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber hires Joe Sullivan to be its first chief security officer, luring him away from Facebook — Uber Hires a Security Chief From Facebook — Silicon Valley is home to some of the world's brightest technical minds. And from Apple to Google, every big company covets the talent of its competitors.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Andreessen Horowitz Leads $20 Million Round for Honor to Take Care of Seniors — The stereotype goes both ways: Old fogies don't have much interest in technology, and the technology industry doesn't much care about serving seniors. — But that's changing, with a new startup called Honor …
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
They can't all be unicorns: Once-hyped cloud startup Nebula goes out of business — Nebula, a once-hot startup co-founded in 2011 by an ex-NASA CTO and funded to the tune of $38.5 million by some of Silicon Valley's foremost venture capitalists, has gone out of business. — They can't all be unicorns.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Social+Capital and Kleiner Perkins deal fell apart because Social+Capital wanted to reorganize and run KPCB — Why The Kleiner Perkins-Social+Capital Deal Fell Apart — In January, reports surfaced that Social+Capital was in “acquisition” talks with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.Sponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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