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Facebook rolls out Reactions to all, adding Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry buttons to Like; each button has same impact on News Feed ranking for now — Facebook Enhances Everyone's Like With Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry Buttons — Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions.
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| Liz Stinson / Wired: |
Behind Facebook's decision to narrow Reactions down to a set of six, the design of the icons, and their layout in posts — Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here — Your News Feed is about to get a lot more expressive. After months of user testing in a handful of countries … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall's OS X 10.12 launch — Apple currently plans to use its next major release of the Mac operating system, known as OS X 10.12, this fall to continue to expand Siri across its product lines. Last year, Apple implemented Siri … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Starts Highlighting AMP Pages In Its Mobile Search Results — Smartphones and networks are constantly getting faster, but somehow the mobile web now feels slower than it ever did. That's largely thanks to all the ads and trackers that most sites now use (and maybe the abundance of large GIFs, too).
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Microsoft launches Hub Keyboard for Android with app content sharing, built-in translation, multi-item clipboard, and contacts integration — Microsoft Hub Keyboard Brings App Content Sharing to Android — Microsoft Garage this week released a new keyboard replacement app for Android called Hub Keyboard.| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case — Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech? — IPhone maker is seeking to use First Amendment as a defense — Case may set precedent for considering software as expression
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| Erik Crouch / Tech in Asia: |
Xiaomi launches Mi5 with 5.15" Full HD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and 16MP camera for $413, only available in China for now — Xiaomi's Mi5 flagship looks like one of the best phones on the market — Xiaomi Mi5. Image by Xiaomi. — Xiaomi today announced the launch of the Mi5, the company's latest flagship smartphone.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud Pulse, A Dedicated App For Music Creators, Arrives On iOS — SoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service's dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market where apps tend to release on iOS first, Pulse first debuted on Android back in November.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor — Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Spotify to transition its service from its own servers to Google Cloud Platform over the next 18 months — Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google's Cloud—Lucky for Google — Spotify is moving itself onto the Googlenet. — A decade ago, the Swedish startup built its seminal streaming music service atop …
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Lightroom Android 2.0 launches, becoming the first mobile app to support RAW photo capturing using DNG format on devices with the capability — Lightroom on Android 2.0 is the World's First End-to-End Mobile RAW Photo App — Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
ASUS settlement with FTC over router flaws from 2014 requires 20 years of security audits — Asus lawsuit puts entire industry on notice over shoddy router security — FTC takes aim at insecurity that's rampant in the “Internet-of-things” industry. — In February 2014 … Sponsor Posts
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