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| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions — Apple Music hooks 11 million trial members, App Store has record July — One month after unveiling its new streaming music service, Apple has locked in 11 million trial members …
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Tweets: @jyarow, @mdotbrown, @johnpaczkowski, @simonkhalaf and @jyarow
See also Mediagazer| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones built by Samsung, HTC, and Huawei; affected vendors have provided patches — Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones — Researchers outline how hackers can attack your smartphone to steal your fingerprint on a “large scale” — without anybody noticing.| Bloomberg Business: |
Why Google's antitrust deal with the EU fell apart — Google's $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU — Why the search leader's antitrust deal fell apart August 6, 2015 by Brad StoneVernon Silver Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Source: Google As the global elite gathered at the World Economic Forum …
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @amir, @bradstone, @mhbergen and @bw
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US officials: Russian “state actor” hacked Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system around July 25; no classified data seized — Russia hacks Pentagon computers: NBC, citing sources — NBC News is reporting Russia has hacked computers at the Pentagon, with CNBC's Sue Herera.
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The Next Web, Re/code, CNN, BGR, TechCrunch, US News, Business Insider, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Nextgov and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @jablan and @markurban01
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Outlook email app for Apple Watch makes it easier to see full emails and reply on the watch — Microsoft's Outlook email app arrives on the Apple Watch — Microsoft has been a strong supporter of the Apple Watch, and that's continuing today with the release of Outlook for Apple Watch.| OpenSignal: |
Android fragmentation report finds 24,093 distinct devices from 1,294 different manufacturers — Android Fragmentation Visualized — Fragmentation is both a strength and weakness of the Android ecosystem, a headache for developers that also provides the basis for Android's global reach.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Pornhub, world's largest porn site, introduces a $9.99/month premium tier with no ads, faster playback, higher quality streams, exclusive content — Pornhub Premium: Netflix for porn costs $9.99 per month — Pornhub, the largest pornography site on the Internet, is going premium.
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| Jason Shirk / Microsoft Security Response Center: |
Microsoft expands its Bug Bounty schemes with higher rewards, bonuses, and new eligible software — Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Bounty for Defense, Authentication Bonus, and RemoteApp — I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Microsoft Bounty Programs.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
HBO Now adds Chromecast support to its iOS and Android apps — HBO NOW Adds Support For Google's Chromecast — HBO's over-the-top streaming service may not be making money just yet, but it is rapidly expanding its footprint. Starting today, the service will support Google's Chromecast … | Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Meal delivery service Sprig is the latest on-demand service to switch to classifying its workforce as employees rather than contractors — Another One Bites the Bullet: Sprig Switches to Employee Model — The on-demand meal company Sprig has caved to the pressures of the contractor model …
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The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Sprig Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1 Billion — IBM is adding medical images to the health data its Watson artificial-intelligence can mine to help doctors make diagnoses. — The big technology company announced on Thursday morning that it was buying Merge Healthcare … | Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
8i is a VR video platform that uses off-the-shelf cameras to stitch together 3D light fields — ‘Come Invent This New Medium’: 8i Wants to Be Vine for Virtual Reality — Will we want to socialize in virtual reality? Maybe. Will we want to watch musicians and comedians performing for our entertainment?| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd — 500px, the online photo-sharing community that recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application. Beginning with an update on iOS …
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BetaKit, The Verge and The Next Web
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Beats Expectations In Q2 With $200M In Revenue, Fails To Stem User Exodus — Zynga today beat analyst expectations for revenue and earnings, but its user numbers continued to decline, sending the stock down about 1% in extended trading. — Zynga's daily active user numbers declined 23 percent year …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Nvidia beats Q2 expectations; credits gains to auto, gaming tech growth — The company chief also exhibited excitement for enterprise graphics and cloud initiatives as Nvidia's business customer base has more than tripled in one year to over 300 enterprises.
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