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Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information — Twitter Is Killing Twitter To Save Twitter — Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery — Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
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| Georgina Prodhan / Reuters: |
Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it — Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin — Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key — Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look. Everything in the line …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao Officially Found Liable For Roughly $276,000 In Court Fees From Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao not only lost on all counts of a high-profile sexual discrimination case earlier this year, but Judge Harold Kahn has officially ordered the interim Reddit CEO to pay more than a quarter …
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Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68 — Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut — Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EFF's 2015 Data Privacy Report Lauds Apple, Dropbox, Slams Verizon — Digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published its fifth annual Who has your back? report into online service providers' transparency and privacy practices when it comes to government requests for accessing user data.| Samsung Tomorrow: |
Samsung will roll out security update to fix Galaxy keyboard vulnerability in coming days, says likelihood of successful exploits using vulnerability is low — Information Regarding the Keyboard Security Issue and Our Device Policy Update — Samsung takes all security threats very seriously.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Ad Tech Vet Ben Barokas Launches Sourcepoint to Block Ad Blockers — Ad-blocking software for Web surfers isn't new. But there's a growing chorus of people who insist that ad blockers are no longer a niche group, but a large subset of Internet users — and big enough to hurt Web publishers that depend on ad revenue.
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Business Insider, BGR, PE Hub Blog, LinkedIn, 9to5Google and AdExchanger. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Dean Hudson / SoundCloud Developers: |
SoundCloud introduces rate limits to its API, limiting developers to 15K play requests per day, effective July 1 — Introducing Rate Limits — At SoundCloud, we're building an ecosystem where creativity thrives. Developers are an important part of that ecosystem.
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The Next Web and The FADER. Tweets: @heybengray, @mikekasprzak, @soundclouddev and @brian_lovin
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
HP introduces new laptops: Pavillion x2, with USB-C, 32GB for $299, 3 new Envy models with 14- to 17-inch screens from $630, available July — HP announces back-to-school Envy and Pavilion laptops with USB-C and detachable screens — The convertible Pavilion x2 highlights HP's assortment …
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FAA expects to finalize commercial drone rules by June 2016, FAA deputy administrator Michael Whitaker testifies — FAA expects to clear U.S. commercial drones within a year — U.S. commercial drone operations could take flight on a large scale by this time next year … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first — Google Confirms Acquisition Of Agawi, A Specialist In Streaming Native Mobile Apps — Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place …
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Digital Trends, The Information, Ubergizmo, Android Authority, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Droid Life, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Business Insider
Tweets: @jandawson and @jessicalessin
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Moments will not be available in Europe until an opt-in choice is offered due to regulators' concerns about facial recognition — Facial-Recognition Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe — Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe …
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New York City criticizes Verizon for slow FiOS rollout: 40K requests pending with 75% outstanding for over one year — New York City Criticizes Verizon on FiOS Delivery — Verizon promised New York City to deliver FiOS to anyone who wanted it by 2014 — New York City says Verizon … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Former EMC, HP exec Dave Donatelli to lead Oracle's converged hardware group, report once again to Mark Hurd — Dave Donatelli, ex of EMC, ex of HP, to lead Oracle hardware — That thing F. Scott Fitzgerald said about there being no second acts in American lives? It clearly does not hold for Dave Donatelli.
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