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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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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 …
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| 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.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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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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| 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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| 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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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 … | 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 … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
TechCrunch Apple reporter Darrell Etherington hired by Apple for PR — TechCrunch's lead Apple reporter Darrell Etherington quietly stopped writing for the news site at the end of June, and we've learned that he left to take up a job in Apple's PR office in Toronto, Canada.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources early preview of its Windows Bridge toolkit for porting iOS apps to Windows 10, with final version later in fall — Microsoft open sources its iOS toolkit for building Windows 10 apps — Microsoft is making an early version of its ‘Project Islandwood’ bridge … | 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?Sponsor Posts
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