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Apple to Revamp Streaming Music Service After Mixed Reviews, Departures — Music service to get new interface at developers conference. — Apple Inc. is planning sweeping changes to its year-old music streaming service after the first iteration of the product was met with tepid reviews …
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Apple hires Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google's X lab and former head of technology at Nest, to work on health projects — Apple Nabs Nest's Former Head of Technology — Apple has hired famed robotics expert Yoky Matsuoka, one of the co-founders of Google's X lab and former head …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
IBM makes its five-qubit quantum computer available as a cloud service for students and researchers to test — IBM Is Now Letting Anyone Play With Its Quantum Computer — Quantum computing is computing at its most esoteric. It's an experimental, enormously complex … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Satellite TV company Dish gets into the phone repair business, will now make on-site visits to swap your broken iPhone screen or battery — Dish, the satellite TV company, will now come repair your broken iPhone — Dish is getting into smartphone repairs.
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| Michael Nunez / Gizmodo: |
Former contractors who curated Facebook's “trending” news section describe preferred media outlets, “Twitter” censorship, layoffs, more — Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some.
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Microsoft acquires Italian IoT platform Solair — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Solair, an Italy-based IoT service that was founded in 2011 (and not the U.S.-based company that makes retractable awnings). — Solair already used Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera's ad blocker comes to its stable release channel and Opera Mini for Android — Opera today announced that its built-in ad blocker, which was previously only available in the experimental developer release channel, is now coming to all of its desktop users.| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Vulnerabilities found in image processing library ImageMagick place countless web servers at risk; active exploitation confirmed — ImageMagick vulnerabilities place countless websites at risk, active exploitation confirmed — Metasploit modules will be released on Wednesday
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ImageMagick, PCWorld, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Ryan Huber, The Register, Help Net Security, Naked Security, The Hacker News, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek and Softpedia News. Tweets: @hdmoore
| Natalia Scalzaretto / Reuters: |
Brazil judge overturns 72-hour suspension of WhatsApp — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge on Tuesday overturned a suspension of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging application that affected some 100 million users, after many people voiced frustration at the second such freeze in five months in the South American country.| Ricardo Castro / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter's new Connect tab on iOS and Android suggests accounts to follow based on tweets you like, popular local accounts, and more — A better way to connect with people — Twitter connects you with the people you're interested in —whether that's someone across the world who shares …
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Tech Times, MacRumors, Fone Arena, The Daily Dot, Daily Mail, Social Media Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Adweek, TalkAndroid.com, Fortune, Mashable, 9to5Google, GeekWire, SlashGear, Marketing Land, BetaNews, Engadget, Android Authority, WebProNews, iMore, Droid Life, Android Police, SocialTimes, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, The Verge and The Next Web
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber Offers, which gives users ride rebates for purchases at select merchants, tested at national level for the first time with ProFlowers for Mother's Day — Uber Offers get merchants to pay for your ride — Uber wants to be your car, and the billboard.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Ellen Pao and other prominent Silicon Valley women launch new nonprofit Project Include to help collect and share data on diversity in tech companies — Women in Tech Band Together to Track Diversity, After Hours — SAN FRANCISCO — Ellen Pao spent the last few years spotlighting …
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