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Apple's planned iOS 9 ‘Home’ app uses virtual rooms to manage HomeKit accessories — Apple's plan to manage upcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories could revolve around a new iOS app called “Home,” according to sources familiar with the app. Introduced at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness — Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.| Pew Internet: |
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Delta cuts off over a dozen travel sites including Hipmunk and TripAdvisor from its flight and fare data, as travel sites fear more airlines may follow suit — Travel Websites Allege Delta Air Lines Is Shutting Them Out — Carrier says it reserves right to decide where and how flight, fare data is displayed| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff — Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars — This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo Shipped Record 18.7M Smartphones in Q4 2014, But Profit Dropped 37% — Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 million smartphones in its most recent Q4 2014 quarter.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix To Roll Out A New, More Immersive Web Interface Starting In June — Netflix confirms today that it will roll out a new user interface on the web to all users worldwide beginning next month. A number of Netflix customers are already seeing the updated look-and-feel, however, according to various reports.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Many iCloud services down or slow to respond - 11 different services affected — Apple's system status page is showing a substantial issue with iCloud services, the issues affecting eleven different serices and persisting for four hours and counting at the time of writing.
| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Flickr's image-recognition tech tagged photos of faces, including black people, with “ape” and “animal”, images of Dachau concentration camp as “jungle gym” — Flickr faces complaints over ‘offensive’ auto-tagging for photos| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Lycos puts patents covering search engine tech, online ads, and games up for sale; plans to release new products incorporating IoT hardware in coming weeks — Internet search pioneer Lycos puts patents up for sale — Lycos, one of the Internet's original search engines … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Stripe is in talks to raise at a $5B valuation, just seven months after its last round that valued the company at $3.5B — Stripe to Land $5 Billion Valuation in New Investment — In Silicon Valley, the rich keeping get richer. — Stripe, the online payments company … | Charles Clover / Financial Times: |
Huawei launches Lite OS, an operating system for the Internet of Things — Huawei launches ‘internet of things’ operating system — Huawei, the Chinese telecoms group, has launched an operating system designed to work exclusively with internet connected objects — from cars to watches to toothbrushes …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google Webmaster Tools Rebrands To Google Search Console — Google announced they have renamed Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console. — The ten year old name for the toolset designed for webmasters, publishers and business owners is changing to Google Search Console. Why?| Neha Dimri / Reuters: |
Shopify prices IPO at $17 per share, sells 7.7M class A shares raising about $131M, valuing the company at about $1.27B — Canadian software maker Shopify valued at $1.27 billion at IPO price — Canadian e-commerce software maker Shopify Inc (SHOP.N) (SH.TO) said its U.S. initial public offering …
| Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Private bus startup Leap suspends service after the California Public Utilities Commission serves company with cease-and-desist order amid permit dispute — Leap Transit shut down by the state for operating illegally — The state has forced Leap Transit to halt operations for running its luxury bus line without a permit.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
About 20K secure websites will be unavailable to browsers fixed for Logjam under their current settings — ‘Logjam’ browser vulnerability fix will block thousands of websites — Researchers have discovered a new browser and website encryption vulnerability called Logjam, and there's good news and bad news.
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The Daily Dot, Skyhigh Networks, Wall Street Journal, CloudFlare, The Logjam Attack, Schneier on Security, darkREADING, V3.co.uk, Help Net Security, Darknet, The Geek Byte, The Register, Threatpost, Computerworld, PandoDaily, SecurityWeek, bit-tech.net, Electronista, The Next Web and Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @matthew_d_green
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to replace Helvetica Neue in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 with Apple Watch's San Francisco font — Apple plans to refresh iOS 9, OS X 10.11 using new Apple Watch font — Apple is currently planning to use the new system font developed for the Apple Watch to refresh the looks of iPads …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Tilt, formerly Crowdtilt, has raised new funding valuing the company at $400M, as it eyes international markets — Tilt's Global Ambitions Grow As It Reaches A $400M Valuation — This year — like many rapidly growing startups — is a year of major international expansion for Tilt … Sponsor Posts
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