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Adobe Lightroom 6 arrives with facial recognition, HDR, improved editing tools, mobile apps — Adobe launches Lightroom 6 photo app update as rival Aperture bites the dust — Adobe has launched a major upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, its desktop photo management and editing app … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim — When Apple released the latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this month, it claimed to have fixed a significant flaw, a backdoor named Rootpipe, that had been resident on its computers since 2011.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
FAQ: Google's mobile friendly algorithm update, rolling out today, explained — Mobilegeddon Checklist: How To Prepare For This Week's Google Mobile Friendly Update — The Google Mobile Friendly Update launches tomorrow, a day that many including ourselves here at Search Engine Land are calling “Mobilegeddon.”
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Amazon launches Amazon Destinations for booking short hotel getaways in select markets — Amazon Travel Launches New Brand, Amazon Destinations — Amazon's new and expanded hotel service is called Amazon Destinations and it is currently available on desktop and mobile.
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Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M — Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has been on a mission to turn around its beleaguered handset business by focusing more on software, and it looks like it has taken a significant step in that direction, specifically around file security and DRM.| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Twitter begins automatically filtering notifications of abusive mentions, broadens violent threats policy, and introduces temporary account suspensions — Twitter to filter notifications for all accounts in effort to cut down on abuse — Social network moves to ban indirect threats …
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Fashion marketplace Poshmark raises $25M Series C from Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and others, expects $200M in sales this quarter, debuts Apple Watch app — Fashion Marketplace Poshmark Raises $25 Million More, Heads To Apple Watch — Three years ago, fashion marketplace Poshmark launched …
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Over 1,500 iOS apps, including apps by Citrix, Alibaba, Rotten Tomatoes, still have HTTPS-crippling bug, weeks after it was first disclosed — 1,500 iOS apps have HTTPS-crippling bug. Is one of them on your device? — Apps downloaded two million times are vulnerable to trivial man-in-the-middle attacks.| Erik Larson / Bloomberg Business: |
Aereo to settle broadcasters' copyright claims of more than $99M for $950K — Aereo Settles Broadcasters' Copyright Claims for $950,000 — Aereo Inc., the online-TV service brought down by a U.S. Supreme Court copyright ruling, agreed to pay Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and other broadcasters …
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Mobile-First Word Processing App Quip Adds Chat Rooms, Making It More Like Slack — Products like Slack, Hipchat, Yammer and Asana have been slowly picking apart the world of enterprise communication, giving workers new, easier to use, and frankly more fun platforms to speak to each other and work on documents together.
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Shyp, an on-demand mailing service, raises $50M Series B round led by KPCB, valuing the company at more than $250M — Shyp, an On-Demand Mailing Service, Raises $50 Million — From private rides to hamburgers to marijuana, there is perhaps no better time in history to get anything delivered …
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Pwnie Express demos new tool to detect stingray devices and other monitoring hardware used by law enforcement — This machine catches stingrays: Pwnie Express demos cellular threat detector — An exclusive first look at Pwnie's new tool for catching cellular network attacks.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
YouTube app to stop working on older Apple TVs, iOS, Google TVs, older smart TVs, and gaming consoles by late May as Google retires YouTube Data API v2 — YouTube App No Longer Available on Older Apple TV, iOS Devices — YouTube today announced changes to its YouTube Data API …
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