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| Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows: |
Windows 10 available for PCs and tablets from July 29, users qualified for free upgrade can reserve it today — Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29 — Today, I'm excited to share the availability date for Windows 10. In fact, I thought I'd let Cortana, the world's most personal digital assistant, share the news.
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Thanks:@brandonleblanc| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Windows 10 upgrade info: list of deprecated features; Cortana in US, UK, China, France, Germany, Italy, Spain at launch; auto-update forced in Home edition — Microsoft explains what you'll lose by upgrading to Windows 10 — Microsoft announced today that it will be launching Windows 10 on July 29th … | Facebook: |
Facebook to allow OpenPGP public keys in profiles, can be used for encrypting notification emails — Securing Email Communications from Facebook — It's very important to us that the people who use Facebook feel safe and can trust that their connection to Facebook is secure …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Intel Agrees to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion — On-again-off-again deal is latest acquisition in active semiconductor sector — Intel Corp. agreed to buy Altera Corp. for roughly $16.7 billion in cash, a long-discussed deal seen helping Intel defend a crucial business.
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| Guemmy Kim / The Official Google Blog: |
Google launches My Account hub for managing privacy and security settings across all its services — Keeping your personal information private and safe—and putting you in control — We've all been there at some point or another... Everyday, we make choices that affect our privacy and security online.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Asus ZenWatch 2 brings a choice of sizes to Android Wear, offers 18 different combinations of colors and materials — Asus brings a choice of sizes to Android Wear with ZenWatch 2 — The only way for Computex, Asia's foremost tech exhibition, to get going is with a deluge of announcements … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Asus' new Transformer Book comes with Windows 10, USB Type-C, and 14 hours of battery life — Among an avalanche of products revealed today at Computex Taipei, Asus has announced the Transformer Book T100HA, the follow-up to its inexpensive T100 Windows 8 2-in-1 device.| Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores drop AT&T iPhone subsidies this month as Verizon changes coming — Apple today has informed employees of significant changes to how iPhones are sold via AT&T and Verizon Wireless, according to sources. As we reported last month, Apple has indicated that iPhones sold via AT&T …
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Lego launches Minecraft rival Lego Worlds on Steam Early Access — Blockbuster available today, £11.99. — Surprise! Lego has launched its own sandbox-style Minecraft rival, named Lego Worlds. — It's available now to download via Steam Early Access, priced £11.99.
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| Killian Bell / iPhone Hacks: |
Ryan Seacrest's Typo settles with BlackBerry, will no longer sell smartphone keyboards for devices under 7.9 inches — Typo to kill its iPhone keyboard for BlackBerry settlement — BlackBerry has today confirmed that it has agreed to a settlement with Typo, the creator of the BlackBerry-style keyboard case for iPhone.
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BlackBerry Press Room, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, ZDNet, iMore, ABC News, 9to5Mac, Globe and Mail, TechCrunch, Reuters, iLounge, Cult of Mac, PhoneDog.com and Mashable. Thanks:@gautamp777
| Jeremy Kirk / PCWorld: |
Report: Vulnerability in firmware of Macs from mid-2014 and earlier allows hackers to install rootkit malware — Apple vulnerability could allow firmware modifications in older Macs, researcher says — A zero-day software vulnerability in the firmware of older Apple computers could be used … | Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business: |
Supreme Court tosses out conviction of man imprisoned for Facebook threats, says law requires that government consider intent — Facebook Threat Conviction Thrown Out by U.S. Supreme Court — A divided U.S. Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a Pennsylvania man for using graphic language …
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| Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft buys Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder GmbH, the startup behind the Wunderlist to-do list app, for $100M-$200M — Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder — Purchase is part of company's new effort to enhance its line of mobile apps, source says| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
Nvidia's new graphics card pushes for better 4K — Nvidia announced a new flagship graphics card delivering smoother 4K graphics for PC gamers, plus new G-Sync screen technology for smoother gaming on laptops.
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