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All Apple Stores to reduce third-party accessories selection to items sold in packaging co-designed by Apple, starting next week — All Apple Stores revamping third-party accessory selection with Apple designed boxes — Apple-designed packaging for the Mophie Juice Pack and Logitech iPad Keyboard
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Ellen Pao apologizes again, announces new role of Moderator Advocate to be moderators' contact with Reddit, pledges improvements to mod tools — We apologize — We screwed up. Not just on July 2, but also over the past several years. We haven't communicated well …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Instagram is uploading images at 1080x1080 resolution instead of 640x640 and confirms it's rolling out displaying at that resolution on iOS and Android devices — Instagram photos are now bigger — if you know where to look — Just over a week ago, I wrote plaintively …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Sheryl Sandberg Joins SurveyMonkey's Board — Sheryl Sandberg is taking a seat on the board of SurveyMonkey, her late husband's online survey and polling company. — Ms. Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of the book “Lean In,” unexpectedly lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, while on vacation in May.
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| Steve Ragan / CSO Online: |
Hacking Team, which sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments, breached; attackers release 400GB of internal documents, source code, and emails — Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data — Firm made famous for helping governments spy on their citizens left exposed
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| Steve Ragan / CSO Online: |
As more details about Hacking Team's deals with repressive regimes like Sudan emerge from breach, company responds with vague denials and threats on Twitter — Hacking Team responds to data breach, issues public threats and denials — On Sunday evening, someone hijacked the Hacking Team account …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Debuts Dedicated Mobile Apps For Its Dropbox Competitor, Cloud Drive — Amazon has quietly expanded its Cloud Drive service - a competitor to Dropbox, Google Drive and other online file hosting services - to mobile platforms, with the release of dedicated apps on iTunes, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft will finalize Windows 10 RTM build this week to send to OEMs ahead of July 29 launch — Microsoft to finalize Windows 10 this week — Microsoft is planning to finalize Windows 10 this week, ahead of its official launch later this month.
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| Orr Hirschauge / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Waze to test carpooling service in Israel; drivers limited to 2 rides a day, can charge for gas, car wear and tear, but not generate profit — Google Tests Carpooling Service for Commuters in Israel — Google has thrown its hat into the hotly contested ride-sharing ring …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Eddy Cue: Apple ‘working’ to bring back music Home Sharing with iOS 9 — Last week, we noted that Apple's latest iOS 8.4 release with Apple Music removes support for the long-existing Music Home Sharing feature. This function allows an iOS device user to stream music from a computer running iTunes on their own WiFi network.
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| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Google releases Material Design Lite, a web framework for making Material Design-style websites — Google Developers, the team at Google which creates tools and learning materials for developers to take advantage of, has released a front-end web framework for building sites to the Material Design specification.
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Sony Xperia Z4 tablet review: incredibly thin and light, and near-flawless performance, but useless keyboard dock makes it too expensive — Sony Xperia Z4 tablet review: a great device saddled with a terrible dock — Sony's tablets have quietly been getting better over the years.Sponsor Posts
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