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Tim Cook talks data encryption and criticizes competitors' stances on customer privacy at Washington event — Apple's Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy — Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washington.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon offers free shipping to all customers on small goods without requiring a minimum order — Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods Without Minimum Order — Not just for Prime members — Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they're in your chat history, the app can't start — Skype users have discovered a rather nasty bug in the app. Sending the characters “http://:” (without the quotes) crashes Skype, and receiving a message with those characters makes it crash any time you try to sign in again.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests “Saved Replies,” A Tool That Lets Pages Respond To Customers With Canned Messages — Facebook is testing a new feature called “Saved Replies,” which will allow business Page owners the ability to write, save and then re-use canned messages when communicating with their customers over Facebook.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Pinterest doesn't plan on taking a cut of retailers transactions with Buyable Pins, will instead make money promoting the pins — Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Scrapbooking With ‘Buy It’ Button — Pinterest, the online social scrapbooking service, has long claimed to help people discover new things in the real world.| Chao Wang / Pinterest: |
Pinterest to launch Buyable Pins in US to let you buy pinned products without leaving the app — Coming soon: Buyable Pins! — We're always looking for ways to help you go out and do the creative ideas you Pin—whether that's figuring out the ingredients for a new dish or installing an app to mix up your workouts.| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Business Insider: |
Sources: nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals; employees quiet on changes due to NDA — Medium, the publishing platform started by one of Twitter's cofounders, is gutting some of its most popular sites — Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap announces augmented reality SDK that supports Unity and Unreal game engines, no release date given but company says “soon” — Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform — Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators … | Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Google Photos Review: best photo backup-and-sync cloud service, but free only applies to images up to 16MP, and videos 1080p or less, more than enough for most — The New Google Photos: Free at Last, and Very Smart — Last Thursday was liberation day for Google Photos … | Laurie Denness / laur.ie's blog: |
Comparison of SSD firmware reliability of different brands after using thousands of drives for five years — SSDs: A gift and a curse — Artur Bergman, founder of a CDN exclusively powered by super fast SSDs, has made many compelling cases over the years to use them.| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD's new 28nm Carrizo chips for mainstream notebooks use half the power of last-gen chips and improve performance 1.5x — AMD's Carrizo chip targets the one thing every laptop user wants: Longer battery life — Think of Intel's Core chips as the giant's massive broadsword … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas in case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood — Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas — Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes … | Hannah Jane Parkinson / Guardian: |
Google is developing a tool called Im2Calories to identify food in pictures and determine its calorie count — Google wants to count the calories in your Instagram food porn — Artificial intelligence technology Im2Calories aims to identify pictures of food posted to Instagram, and tell users the calorie count of their meals| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
Biggest MasterCard issuers reject $19M settlement with Target over hacked credit-card data — Biggest MasterCard Issuers Scuttled Deal on Target Data Breach — Citigroup, Capital One and J.P. Morgan Chase vetoed MasterCard's deal with Target over hacked credit-card data| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
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Opendoor launches service for home buyers, enables them to browse listings, organize a site visit, even make an offer — Is this the future of shopping for a house? — Imagine selling your house almost as soon as you decide to list it, and for a fair price.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sprinklr acquires text analytics software provider NewBrand, its seventh purchase in 18 months — Sprinklr Acquires NewBrand, The $1 Billion Social Startup's Seventh Buy In 18 Months — Sprinklr founder Ragy Thomas believes that patience at large companies for fragmented social media partners is running out.| Adam Gross / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook to remove support for SHA-1 certificate signatures Oct. 1, will require SHA-2 — Moving to a More Secure Standard: Please Update your Apps To Support Certificates Signed with SHA-2 — As part of our commitments to helping developers build secure apps and protecting the people who use Facebook … | National Journal: |
Senate passes the USA Freedom Act to restore and revise some Patriot Act spying provisions, ending bulk collection of US call metadata — Senate Passes Major NSA Reform Bill — The USA Freedom Act, which will restore but reform the expired Patriot Act's spy authorities … | Lisa Rein / Washington Post: |
IRS failed to address computer security weaknesses, making attack on 104,000 taxpayers more likely, watchdog says — A government watchdog told lawmakers Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service has failed to put in place dozens of security upgrades to fight cyberattacks … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sony Mobile cuts 1K jobs, nearly half of staff, in its Sweden R&D and manufacturing center — Confirmed: Sony Mobile Cuts 1,000 Workers In Sweden As Handset Maker Restructures — The shakeout among less successful mobile handset makers continues apace.
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