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Jeff Williams named Apple COO, Phil Schiller takes over App Store leadership — Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer — Johny Srouji Named to Executive Team; Phil Schiller Adds Ecosystem Responsibilities — Tor Myhren Joins Apple — Apple® today announced …
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Brazilian judge orders lifting of 48-hour WhatsApp ban, recommends WhatsApp pay higher fine instead; services restored after several hours — Brazil court lifts suspension of Facebook's WhatsApp service — A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens a HoloLens playground for developers at its New York store — Millions of people have seen Microsoft's astonishing HoloLens videos. Far fewer have seen the limited, but still impressive, reality. And that's something Microsoft wants to change.
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Facebook's former director of product on how media and investors overestimated Facebook's “Yelp killer” while overlooking a truly profound shift at the company — How to Swallow $200 Million Accidentally — Analyzing Product Launches for Fun and Profit
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
IBM, JP Morgan, and others build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation — Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain — Several major companies from across both the technology and financial industries—including IBM …
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Google says proposed DMV rules requiring steering wheel, pedals, and licensed drivers with special certification would inhibit progress — California DMV proposes ban on ‘driverless’ cars — Google ‘gravely disappointed,’ says rules would hold back progress
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates SmartScreen tech to block drive-by attacks for Internet Explorer 11 and Edge on Windows 10 — Microsoft expands SmartScreen to block drive-by attacks in IE and Edge on Windows 10 — Last month, Microsoft rolled out the first major Windows 10 update for PCs and tablets.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Continues To Showcase Its Own Apps In The App Store's Top Charts — It seems Apple is continuing to use the App Store's “Top Charts” section to promote its own applications, by allowing apps like iMovie and those from its iWork suite to appear in the Top 10 Free apps on users' iPhones.
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg.com: |
Early iPhone hacker George Hotz is building a self-driving system using off-the-shelf components that controls an Acura ILX — The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage — George Hotz is building a self-driving car by himself.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Tastemade Raises $40 Million From Goldman Sachs To Make Food Videos — Tastemade, the maker of food and lifestyle videos, has raised a $40 million financing round led by Goldman Sachs. Participating investors in the Series D round include, Redpoint Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Media and Scripps Networks.
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| Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: three of the nation's largest apartment landlords in talks with Airbnb on revenue sharing partnership — Rent Your Place on Airbnb? The Landlord Wants a Cut — Revenue-sharing model would allow apartment dwellers to market rooms through lodging website
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Spotify adds curated party playlists and a “mood tuner”, available now for Android and iOS — Spotify can play DJ at your next party — A new feature called Spotify Party plays a lineup of professionally picked tunes and lets you choose your music based on the mood you're hoping to set.
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| Daniel Bader / MobileSyrup.com: |
Canada's Shaw Communications to buy Wind Mobile in deal valued at C$1.6B — Shaw Communications set to purchase Wind Mobile for $1.6 billion — Shaw Communications has announced that it plans to purchase Wind Mobile, which turned six years-old today, for $1.6 billion CAD.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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