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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google I/O 2016 to be held May 18-20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre 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.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google opens VR division, to be headed by VP of Product Management Clay Bavor; apps division now under SVP Diane Greene, head of enterprise operations — Google Opens Virtual Reality Division, Apps Move to Enterprise Unit — As Facebook and Microsoft have plowed ahead with virtual reality, Google has looked like it's behind.
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| 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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VideoLAN, feepk@videolan, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @greyham
| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Periscope streams will now play directly in 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, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, The Verge, Fast Company, Phandroid, Washington Post, Cult of Mac, Small Business Trends, SlashGear, MacNN, Tech Times, Macworld, AppleInsider, PCMag India feed, The Daily Dot, MobileSyrup.com, Digiday, Gizmodo, MacStories, SocialTimes, Wired.co.uk, The Next Web, WebProNews, PhoneDog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Marketing Land, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, App Advice, Guardian, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat and Re/code
Tweets: @abarge and @kirstinestewart
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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Tweets: @mhbergen, @andyjayhawk and @mikeisaac
Thanks:@chrissaad| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Skype to add group video calling on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, currently in beta — Skype adds mobile group video calling on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile — Skype is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its free video calling feature with the addition of mobile group video calling …
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| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
EA announces Origin Access, $4.99 monthly subscription for PC games — Electronic Arts' EA Access is now available for Windows PC games as Origin Access, a subscription for EA's Origin digital distribution platform, the company announced today. Origin Access costs $4.99 per month …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify And Genius Team To Stream The Backstory On Music Tracks — Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profile as a platform for more than just music listening. And to that end, it has linked up with Genius, the startup that annotates music lyrics …
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Spotify, Re/code, PC Magazine, The Verge, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice. Tweets: @joshconstine
| 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, gHacks Technology News, PCWorld, ZDNet, Digital Trends, FierceCIO News, The Next Web, Neowin, TechSpot, ITworld.com and Phoronix. Thanks:@campuscodi
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Group that hacked CIA Director John Brennan's AOL account has now allegedly hacked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's phone, Internet, email — Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief — One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director's AOL email account …
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Washington Times and The Verge
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Two suspected members of DD4BC, a DDoS extortion group, apprehended in Europol raids — Law Enforcement Cracks Down on DD4BC Group — Europol announced on Tuesday that a couple of individuals suspected of being tied to the DD4BC cybercriminal group have been identified as part of an international law enforcement operation.
| 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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GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, Android Police, PCWorld, Mashable, Droid Life, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneDog.com, Tech News Today, TechnoBuffalo and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @robaeprice
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Lyft partners with National MedTrans Network and announces 3rd-party web app, Concierge, to cater to seniors without smartphones; pilot program in NYC — Lyft Announces Partnership To Help Seniors Without Smartphones Get Around — Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have always …
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Lyft Blog, Engadget, Tech Times and CNNMoney
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