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| Jacob Frantz / Facebook: |
Facebook launches controls to let you choose friends and pages you see at the top of your News Feed; feature available on iOS now, desktop and Android later — Updated Controls for News Feed — News Feed is a personalized stream of stories that you build from the people and Pages you've connected to on Facebook.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
You Can Now Just Tell Facebook What You Want to See in News Feed — Facebook has come up with a new, simple approach to determine what you want to see at the top of your News Feed: It's going to ask you. — The social network, which is known for its ever-evolving News Feed algorithm …
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Office 2016 for Mac exits preview and is now available for Office 365 subscribers, to be released as a one-time purchase this September — Office 2016 for Mac is here! — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.
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| Slack: |
Slack adds emoji reactions that let users “like” messages using any emoji — 722 ways to say “I got your message” — Since the launch of Slack, people have asked for a way to “fave” or “like” messages — a simple, public way to acknowledge or approve a message.
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| TechCrunch: |
iOS 9 And OS X El Capitan Are Now Available To All As Public Betas — As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
IBM unveils world's first functional 7nm test chip, targets 50% power/performance improvement from 10nm chips — Beyond silicon: IBM unveils world's first 7nm chip — With a silicon-germanium channel, and EUV lithography, IBM crosses the 10nm barrier. — IBM, working with GlobalFoundries …
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it's not building a streaming music service — Facebook is denying a report from Music Ally stating that it has plans to launch a streaming music service in the next few months. A Facebook spokesperson told The Verge, “we have no plans to go into music streaming.”| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google Glass ‘Enterprise Edition’ brings new larger prism, Intel Atom CPU, optional external battery pack — We told you last week that Google is internally referring to its next iteration of Google Glass as “Enterprise Edition” or “EE,” and now we've uncovered information about the soon-to-be-launched device's hardware.| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber files motion opposing class action lawsuit by drivers who want to be classified as employees instead of independent contractors — Uber To Judge: There's No Such Thing As A Typical Driver — Uber filed a motion to oppose the class certification of a suit brought against the company …
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
T-Mobile claims it now has more subscribers than Sprint, cuts roaming charges in Mexico and Canada — The upstart U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile today announced it's extending its U.S mobile plan to cover Mexico and Canada. — That means U.S. smartphone users won't have to pay roaming fees …
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| Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times: |
OPM says sensitive information of 21.5M individuals was taken in another hack last year, separate from breach that compromised data of 4.2M federal employees — Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals — WASHINGTON — The Office of Personnel Management revealed … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Band gets RSS-powered web apps that anyone can create — Microsoft has been investing heavily in its Band wearable device recently. Third-party apps, golf tracking, and a series of improvements in recent months have positioned the Microsoft Band as a more powerful fitness accessory.
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