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Ashley Madison had approximately 31M male members, 5.5M female members, but likely only 12K women actively used the site — Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site — When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles were fake.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon lays off dozens of Fire engineers, scales back and reorganizes its hardware-development center Lab126 — Amazon Curtails Development of Consumer Devices — Amazon is scaling back its efforts to develop consumer devices, laying off dozens of engineers at its secretive …
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IDC: In Q2, Apple Watch shipped 3.6M units with 19.9% market share, just behind Fitbit with 4.4M units for 24.3% market share — Apple Debuts at the Number Two Spot as the Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 223.2% in 2Q15, Says IDC — In its first appearance in the wearables market …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 6S will animate UI with Apple Watch-like Motion wallpapers — Apple is preparing to bring some motion from the Apple Watch to the iPhone 6S. One of the new device's differentiators over its predecessor will likely be a spiced up set of animated wallpapers, according to three sources …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley unveils two sub-$200 Android Obi smartphones for Asia, Africa, and Middle East markets, will be available October — Former Apple CEO John Sculley launches a line of stylish smartphones — Like most consumer items, the lower the price point of a phone, the less exciting the design.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Leaked images reveal Microsoft's 5.2-inch Lumia 950 and 5.7-inch 950XL, to launch in October — Leaked images reveal Microsoft's new flagship Lumia phones — Microsoft is preparing to launch two new Lumia flagship devices at an event in October. While we've seen some images emerge along …
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| Ronda Scott / Evernote Blog: |
Evernote Food apps for iOS and Android to be retired September 30 — Evernote to end support for Evernote Food apps — Two years ago, we created Evernote Food to help people chronicle the universal experience of enjoying great food. Food's most popular features were clipping recipes and snapping photos of meals.
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| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Y Combinator has funded over 940 companies so far, eight of which have a valuation over $1B — YC stats — We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are.
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Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV got XKeyscore software from NSA in exchange for German surveillance data — A Dubious Deal with the NSA — Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA - and promised data from Germany in return.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Facebook testing M, an AI-based, human supervised virtual assistant inside Messenger that can complete tasks such as purchasing on your behalf — Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana — Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Qasar Younis, former Y Combinator graduate and creator of Talkbin which was acquired by Google in 2011, named Y Combinator COO — Meet Y Combinator's New COO — To appreciate the rapid growth at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, consider this: In 2009, it shepherded 42 startups through its boot camp.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Uber China closes $1B round, valuing the unit at $7B — Uber China closes $1 billion fundraising round: sources — Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] China arm has closed its $1 billion fundraising round early, according to two people with knowledge of the matter … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pushbullet's file sharing app Portal now available for iPhone; allows transfer of files from computer to iOS over WiFi — Portal Lets You Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Thumbdrive — Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via …
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