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Tesla engineer joins Apple's growing team of automated car experts — Consumer electronics company Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has hired a senior engineer from electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O), according to a LinkedIn posting, as part of Apple's effort to build a team of experts in automated driving.| Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog: |
Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission — Sorry! — We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Ashley Madison hackers: we still have 300GB of employee emails, internal docs, some user chats and pictures, more, but will not dump all of it — Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’ — For the past week, international media has reported on the hack of extramarital site Ashley Madison …
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Amazon's new Alexa Lighting API opens up Echo voice control for smart lighting to developers — Amazon gives smart bulb devs the keys to Alexa's voice — Amazon is further opening up its Alexa voice-control system, the engine at the heart of the Echo speaker, to smart lighting companies.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google no longer requires new Android devices to ship with Google+, Google Newsstand, Google Play Games, and Google Play Books Books apps pre-installed — Your new phone will have less Google bloatware, and that's awesome — You might have heard that the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 comes without Google+ preinstalled.| Kev Needham / Mozilla Add-ons Blog: |
Mozilla to introduce new API for Firefox to make it easier to port extensions from other browsers, to deprecate certain classes of add-ons 12-18 months from now — The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons — Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons.
| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Google integrates Twitter into its desktop search results — Google and Twitter are getting a little friendlier; you can now view tweet feeds from various accounts and hashtags right from Google.com on the desktop. — You can search something like “The Next Web Twitter” and Google will pull up a feed of our latest tweets.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Apple stock falls more than 5% as markets correct over slowing global growth concerns — Dow falls 350 points as global growth concerns weigh — Market rout continues: How to play the dip — Portfolio managers Chad Morganlander of Stifel, and Jim Lacamp of UBS, discuss Thursday's market selloff … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Comcast releases its livestreaming app, Xfinity Share, allowing all Xfinity subscribers to broadcast to other subscribers' TVs and smartphones — Comcast releases its livestreaming app to all subscribers — Comcast says its livestreaming app did very well during its limited release …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV outsold by Amazon's Fire TV in 2014, now the fourth most popular streaming device — According to recent data released by Parks Associates, Apple TV currently is the fourth most popular streaming media device based on 2014 sales, down from third place in 2013.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New data uncovers the surprising predictability of Android lock patterns — Like “p@$$w0rd” and “1234567” many Android patterns are easy to guess. — Marte Løge — The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used …
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