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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2016 to be held May 18-20 at Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View — Google's I/O 2016 conference announced for May 18th-20th — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that the company's annual I/O developer's conference has been scheduled for May 18th through the 20th.
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Sundar Pichai, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Android Authority, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget, Android Police and PCWorld. Tweets: @sundarpichai
| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Periscope streams will now play directly in the Twitter timelines on iOS — Live Periscope feeds will show up on Twitter for iOS — Like GIFs and Vines before it, Periscope streams will now show up and play directly in the Twitter timeline on iOS. If you happen to miss the live stream …
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Medium, The Twitter Blog, Digital Trends, Washington Post, AppleInsider, Macworld, The Daily Dot, The Verge, PC Magazine, SlashGear, MacNN, TechCrunch, Small Business Trends, Fast Company, Marketing Land, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, Tech Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, iMore, WebProNews, MacStories, App Advice, PhoneDog.com, The Next Web, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Re/code, SocialTimes, TechSpot, MobileSyrup.com, Digiday and Wired.co.uk
Tweets: @kirstinestewart and @abarge
See also Mediagazer| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber updates its API with Trip Experiences, a way for 3rd party apps to serve content, ads to its users during their trips with their permission — Uber wants to feed you all kinds of content during your next ride — Uber, realizing it had hundreds of millions of people in its back seats …
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Uber Global, Gizmodo, Fortune and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @andyjayhawk, @mhbergen and @mikeisaac
Thanks:@chrissaad| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Mozilla to Completely Shut Down Its Persona Login System in November 2016 — Mozilla's Ryan Kelly has announced that the foundation will completely disavow its former brainchild and shut down the Persona single-sign-on system on November 30, 2016. — Launched in 2011, the Mozilla Persona service …
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Mozilla Mailing Lists, Engadget, Digital Trends, PCWorld, gHacks Technology News, FierceCIO News, ZDNet, TechSpot, Neowin, The Next Web, ITworld.com and Phoronix. Thanks:@campuscodi
| Graham Spencer / MacStories: |
VLC Now Available for Apple TV: Our First Impressions — VLC is now available for the Apple TV. Just like every other version of VLC, the Apple TV version aims to play video files and streams in “their native formats without conversions”. Felix Kühne, lead iOS developer for VLC, writes on his blog:
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feepk@videolan, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web and MacRumors. Tweets: @greyham
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Tinder CEO Sean Rad on his temporary ouster, company culture, sexual harassment suit, and why he believes the service has applications beyond dating — Is Controversial Tinder CEO Sean Rad Ready To Grow Up? — “These are the hottest girls I've ever seen!”
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The California Sunday Magazine, Tech Insider, Business Insider and Engadget
Tweets: @stevekovach, @mikeisaac, @mims and @laurlandry
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
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Digital Trends, New York Magazine, Mashable, Engadget, Telegraph, Wired.co.uk, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Phandroid, Refinery29, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Tech Times, Tech Insider, Daily Mail, BGR, The Next Web and Business Insider
Tweets: @austincarr and @aminatou
| David Curry / Digital Trends: |
Moto to focus on high-end smartphones, with Moto G, E being merged with Lenovo lineup; 2016 Moto phones will have fingerprint scanners, 5-inch+ screens — All Motorola flagships will feature a fingerprint scanner in 2016 — Lenovo has confirmed the roadmap for Motorola …
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Android Police, PCWorld, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Mashable and AndroidGuys
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Grindr sells 60% stake to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech at a $155M valuation — Grindr Sells Stake to Chinese Company — Grindr, the popular dating and social networking app for gay men, has found itself a match. — The company on Monday said it had sold a majority stake …
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Grindr, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNET, BBC, Business Insider, Guardian, VentureBeat, VatorNews, CNNMoney, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch and The Independent. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post: |
Some police forces score citizens' threat level with Intrado's Beware software based on your medical, criminal history, and social media posts — The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ — FRESNO, Calif. — While officers raced to a recent 911 call …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Monitoring service Datadog raises $94.5M Series D led by Iconiq Capital — Investors Feed Datadog A Hefty $94.5 Million Round — Every startup needs a steady diet of funding to keep it strong and growing. Datadog, a monitoring service that helps customers bring together data from across …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, FierceCIO News, Business Wire, Reuters and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @clofresh
| Wafa Ben Hassine / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
An assessment of Twitter's new abuse policy: the good, the bad, and the ugly — Twitter's Policy Reboot: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — Twitter has struggled with how to deal with harassment and abuse on its service for years. Former CEO Dick Costolo went so far as to say …
| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
Google appeases Pakistani censors with country-specific version of YouTube — For the first time in several years, residents of Pakistan can openly watch YouTube—just not the YouTube that the rest of the world is watching. — Google, which purchased the video-streaming website in 2006 …
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Google Asia Pacific Blog
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 9.3 beta adds multi-user support, only for schools, adds Apple School Manager service, updated Classroom app, Night Shift mode that emits less blue light — iOS 9.3 brings multi-user mode to iPads, along with more features and fixes — Multi-user mode is targeted toward schools, first beta is out today.
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Re/code, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Next Web, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Guardian, ABC News, Business Insider, Mashable, PC Magazine, BGR, CIO.com, Computerworld, The Mac Observer, SocialTimes, Quartz, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, Neowin, TechSpot, Inquirer, BetaNews, USA Today, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, EdSurge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Macworld, iMore, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, iMore, TIME, The Next Web, MacRumors, 512 Pixels, Tech Insider, SlashGear, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, MacNN, Mashable, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, PhoneDog.com, Engadget and MacStories
Tweets: @markgurman, @chrismessina and @ow
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