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| Joe Siegrist / The LastPass Blog: |
LastPass warns it was hacked, says secure vault storing user passwords was not accessed, but account email addresses, password reminders, more were compromised — LastPass Security Notice — We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber failed to win delivery deals with Apple, Starbucks as its push into logistics proves costly and complex — The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver? — Investors are counting on Uber to upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis, but progress has been slow so far
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| Will Ruben / Facebook: |
Facebook launches Moments, an app to privately sync photos with friends on Android and iOS, available in US for now — Introducing Moments: A Private Way to Share Photos With Friends — With a phone at everyone's fingertips, the moments in our lives are captured by a new kind of photographer: our friends.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe announces 2015 Creative Cloud updates and the new integrated Adobe Stock image service for additional fees — Adobe Announces 2015 Creative Cloud Updates, New Integrated Adobe Stock Service — Adobe today announced that all of its Creative Cloud desktop apps, including Photoshop … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is building a special version of Minecraft for HoloLens — We got a closer look at Microsoft's HoloLens during Build in April, but the company is showing off the gaming aspects of its headset today. Microsoft has built a new version of Minecraft specifically for its HoloLens headset.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Evernote CEO Phil Libin is planning to step down, and working to find his replacement — CEO Change Brewing at Evernote — Evernote CEO Phil Libin has long said he wants to build a 100-year company. Now he's actively looking for his own replacement to take the startup into its second decade.
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| Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg Business: |
Fitbit raises IPO goal by 37% to $655.6M at $17-19 per share, could value it at up to $3.9B — Fitbit Boosts IPO Goal by Up to 37% on Health-Device Demand — Fitbit Inc. co-founder James Park. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg — Fitbit Inc., the maker of wearable devices …
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| Michelle Starr / CNET: |
PlayStation Vue expands to San Francisco and Los Angeles; a la carte channels like Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima coming in July — PlayStation Vue announces a la carte service, coming to SF and LA — Sony's PlayStation live TV streaming service is launching tonight in new markets … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming—Google built itself a Twitch killer — A slick interface, huge user base, and tons of content should have Twitch worried. — NEW YORK—YouTube Gaming is coming! YouTube's Twitch Killer was announced on Friday, so we stopped by the YouTube Space in Manhattan …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Privacy groups opt out of US talks on face recognition, say they can't achieve minimum rights for consumers — Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition — A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
OS X El Capitan preview: a series of minor, but welcome improvements — When Apple revealed that the next version of OS X would be called “El Capitan,” I couldn't help but laugh. I think we all did. I mean, here we were expecting the company to name its new operating system after another national park …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Maps Now Warns You If You Are Navigating To A Place That Will Be Closed When You Arrive — Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as few would.
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| Darlene Storm / Computerworld: |
UK tech firm designs system using emoji instead of PIN numbers for online banking, says they are harder to hack, easier to remember — Will banks allow four emojis to replace PIN numbers? — Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin... that is just one combination of emojis that a person might use … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is hiring editors to curate content for News app and work with publications to quickly surface breaking stories, according to a company job listing — Apple News curation will have human editors and that will raise important questions — Apple hasn't talked about it publicly … | Jon Gertner / Fast Company: |
Behind the scenes at US Digital Service and 18F, part of Obama's new digital corps which is attracting top Silicon Valley talent — Inside Obama's Stealth Startup — President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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