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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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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| 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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Samsung's Q2 disappoints with 7th straight profit decline; revenues fall 8.4% as wrong sales forecast leads to glut of unsold Galaxy S6 and shortages of S6 Edge — Samsung Sees Seventh Straight Profit Decline — The world's largest smartphone maker by shipments said operating profit likely fell about 4%| 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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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung announces 2TB consumer-oriented SSDs; 2TB 850 Evo for $800, and 850 Pro for $1,000 — Samsung brings 2TB solid-state drives to your home PC — You no longer have to bend over backwards to get more than a terabyte of fast, flash-based storage in your home computer.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed — The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. — The device - which features a programmable array of red LED lights …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Desperate For Ad Data, Twitter Offers Animated Balloons For Your Birthdate — Twitter's ads would work a lot better if it knew how old you are. So in an obvious data grab, Twitter will show animated balloons on your profile when it's your birthday if you're willing to give it your birthdate.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Hands on with ZTE's first US flagship Nubia Z9: 5.2-inch 1080p borderless display, 16 MP back, 8 MP front camera; prices start at $564, available in Q3 — ZTE's Nubia Z9 shows China can bring great smartphones to the US — Here in the US, it's been hard to get excited about smartphones from China.
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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.| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Amazon must face trademark lawsuit by high-end watchmaker Multi Time Machine, which claims search results were misleading users — Amazon must face trademark lawsuit over search results — Amazon.com Inc must face a trademark lawsuit brought by a watchmaker which says the online retailer's search results …
| 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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