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| Xiaoyun Zhang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter simplifies blocking multiple accounts by letting users share and import block lists — Sharing block lists to help make Twitter safer — Today we're making it possible to share block lists on twitter.com. This new, advanced feature makes blocking multiple accounts easy, fast and community driven.
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Sources: New Nest Cam is a slimmed down version of Dropcam; new app has updated UI, slide-down menu, button-heavy interface — This is the Nest Cam and the New Nest App for Android — You know that story from earlier today that suggested Nest may unveil a new wireless camera at next week's event?
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The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear and VentureBeat
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google creates and funds Sidewalk Labs, a startup developing and incubating tech to improve urban life, headed by former deputy mayor of NYC Daniel L. Doctoroff — Sidewalk Labs, a Start-Up Created by Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living — Google's ambitions and investments …
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Larry Page, VentureBeat, The Verge, Business Insider, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Engadget, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business and Forbes. Tweets: @amir
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 code hints 1080p, 240fps, flash coming to iPhone FaceTime cameras — Code found in the first iOS 9 developer betas reveals that Apple is planning to support some significant camera features and upgrades with the new software version. Presumably planned for the next iPhone hardware version …
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BGR, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, PhoneDog.com, Business Insider, Pocketnow, MacNN, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo and Neowin. Thanks:@chancehmiller
| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
Jawbone sues Fitbit over patent infringement, its second suit against Fitbit in two weeks — Jawbone Hits Fitbit With Second Lawsuit in Two Weeks — Fitness trackers from Jawbone and Fitbit are made to count heartbeats. They may soon be put to use counting lawsuits between the two rivals.
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Computerworld, BuzzFeed, ABC News, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Engadget and The Verge
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Video game console maker Ouya in talks to be acquired by Razer — Video game console maker Ouya is in negotiations to sell itself, possibly to Razer — The company, whose app store was pitched as the go-to place for small and independent developers, is negotiating for all employees to remain with the company after the sale.
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TechCrunch, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, MacNN, KitGuru, TechSpot, Android Police, Ausdroid, Engadget, Polygon and Android Central. Thanks:@nickstatt
| Spotify Blog: |
Spotify hits 20M paid subscribers, 75M total active users, has paid $3B in artist royalties — 20 Million Reasons to Say Thanks — What a difference a year makes! At the end of May 2014, we reached 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users.
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Tweets: @neilswmurray and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Messenger platform gets its first game with Doodle Draw, a Draw Something clone — Facebook's Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game — Facebook Messenger's quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iOS 9 extends Continuity to cellular connections; T-Mobile first to offer feature — iOS 9 brings more flexibility to Apple's great Continuity feature — Continuity is one of the best things about going all in on Apple hardware. With it, you can easily send and receive calls or text messages …
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TmoNews, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com and iMore
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
State sponsored sophisticated attack Duqu 2.0 penetrated Kaspersky network, tapped Iran nuke talks — Stepson of Stuxnet stalked Kaspersky for months, tapped Iran nuke talks — Hacker group used a “zero-day trampoline” to scale Kaspersky defenses. — Not long after blowing the lid off …
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Wired, Securelist, Wall Street Journal, Kaspersky Lab. The Power …, Kaspersky Lab US, Forbes, CrySyS Blog, Washington Post, Engadget, PandoDaily, SecurityWeek, RT, The Register, BetaNews, TechWeekEurope UK, eWeek and SlashGear. Tweets: @e_kaspersky
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Apple's failure to develop exciting apps and services that users prefer over third party efforts may threaten its ecosystem — Apple's Junk Drawer Problem — A sampling of BuzzFeed Tech's Apple junk drawers. — Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed — There's a folder on the homescreen of my iPhone affectionately labeled “Apple Crap.”| Rob Gillies / Associated Press: |
iPhone launch, failed Storm, and loss of Verizon contract were devastating for BlackBerry says former co-CEO Jim Balsillie — Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO talks publicly for the first time — TORONTO (AP) — Former BlackBerry co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said Tuesday that Apple's introduction …
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TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer and Fortune. Tweets: @rogerwcheng
| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Payroll giant ADP sues Zenefits for defamation after it cut off clients' access to the startup's service over security concerns — ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation — A conflict between one of the biggest providers of corporate payroll services and one of the world's most highly valued startups spilled into court on Tuesday.
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ZENEFITS, PandoDaily, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat and ZDNet
Tweets: @brianssommer and @ryanchris
| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Gmail for Android now has Oauth support for Yahoo and Microsoft accounts — Google killed its stock email app in favor of Gmail with the release of Android 5.0 Lollipop, but they also made it possible to connect email accounts from other providers including Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Gmail - Google+, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneDog.com and Android Central
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Twitch rolls out a private-message system called Whisper — Psst. We heard something about Twitch that you might enjoy. Lean in. A little closer. A little closer. Perfect: You can now send private messages to friends on Twitch, even if your buddies are watching different streams than you at the time.
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The Official Twitch Blog, The Next Web, Ubergizmo and SlashGear
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Marriott to offer guests Netflix at no extra cost at all properties by the end of 2016 — Marriott is letting guests watch Netflix on their hotel TV — Netflix subscribers staying at Marriott hotels in the US will soon be able to log in to their Netflix accounts just like at home.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Challenges Pinterest With News Feed Buy Button For Shopify Merchants — Facebook wants its ads to sell you stuff directly so you never have to click away to another app or site. Until now, Facebook was testing a Buy Button that does that with just a few selected test merchants …
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Shopify's Ecommerce Blog, The Verge, International Business Times, WebProNews, PCWorld, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Re/code and internetretailer.com
Tweets: @joshconstine and @mdudas
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google on iOS and Android can now use geolocation to answer “When does this restaurant open?” or “How long is this river?” — [WATCH] Google's Amazing Location-Aware Search Finds Answers About Nearby Places — How tall is that tower in front of you?| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 lets app developers make ad blockers for Safari — Ad blocking extensions have been possible on Safari for Mac for a long time, but plugin architecture for Safari on iOS is much more limited. With iOS 9, Apple has added a special case of extension for ad blockers.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Application Management Service BlueStripe — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueStripe, an application management service that helps enterprises monitor and troubleshoot applications that have been deployed across different operating systems, data centers and cloud environments.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, SiliconANGLE and InfoWorld
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