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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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Thurrott.com, WZor.Net, Neowin, Pocketnow, WinBeta, ITworld.com, CIO.com, Pureinfotech, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, DailyTech, InfoWorld, MacNN, TechnoBuffalo, PCWorld, FierceCIO News, MSDN Blogs, BetaNews, TechSpot, CNET, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, BGR, The Tech Report and blog.chron.com
| 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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Waze, Haaretz, Android Police, The Verge, Tech.eu, Street Fight, New York Times, Wired, Digital Trends, Phandroid, TechSpot, USA Today, Engadget, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Tech Times, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Next Web, WebProNews and New York Magazine. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| 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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