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Apple Music's new student membership option discounts the service by 50% — Amid news that Apple Music is getting a makeover come this summer, Apple today launched a new plan to boost subscribers to its streaming music service and competitor to Spotify, SoundCloud, Tidal and others.
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Music Business Worldwide, MacRumors, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, TechSpot, MobileSyrup.com, Pocket-lint, PhoneDog.com, eWeek, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, The Daily Dot, AppAdvice.com Latest, FACT Magazine, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, TechHive, BGR, Fortune, Phandroid, TIME, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, RAIN News, The FADER, Android Authority, MacNN, Neowin, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iLounge, Engadget, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, MAC blog and MacStories. See also Mediagazer
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music Connect social network to be demoted in iOS 10 overhaul — Apple Music Connect, a social interaction feature between artists and listeners that was a cornerstone of the Apple Music launch last summer, will be demoted in an iOS 10 overhaul this fall.| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Internal documents show Palantir losing some top-tier clients and on track to turn over 20% of its staff in 2016 — Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Company … A trove of internal — documents and insider interviews has pulled back the curtain on one of Silicon Valley's …
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Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @alanna, @tomgara, @dangillmor, @paullewis, @benpopper, @williamalden, @brian_solomon, @johnpaczkowski, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, @jwherrman, @fmanjoo and @mattzeitlin
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm issues fix for 5 year old Android security flaw that exposes SMS, call history; Android versions prior to 4.3 mostly affected — Critical Qualcomm security bug leaves many phones open to attack — Fix still isn't available for most users, and many will probably never get it.
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FireEye, eWeek, Digital Trends, Android Police, TechWorm, InfoWorld, The Next Web, Inquirer, Neowin, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, PhoneArena, CSO and Softpedia News
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon promises to fill all racial gaps in Prime Same Day delivery service, not launch in new regions until it can cover all zip codes there — Amazon to Fill All Racial Gaps in Same-Day Delivery Service — Congressional Black Caucus responds to online retailer's plan
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
FCC officially approves Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, with conditions FCC chairman outlined last month — FCC Approves Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks … The FCC has formally approved the acquisition of Time Warner Cable …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Warner's Q1 music streaming sales up $72M, making it the biggest source of revenue, more than 50% from outside US; downloads down $17M, physical copies down $6M — Streaming music has become Warner Music's biggest business — Another milestone in the music industry's shift to streaming … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition system moves forward, as judge rules that Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act is applicable — Lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition system moves forward — A lawsuit alleging that Facebook photo tagging violates user privacy has cleared a crucial early hurdle.| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Android N splits MediaServer into distinct pieces, each with access to only a specific subsystem, to prevent Stagefright-like exploits — Android N splits up mediaserver to prevent future Stagefrights — The Stagefright security exploit definitely sent the Android world in a tumble.
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Android Developers Blog, Ubergizmo and 9to5Google
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Pocket adds Like and Repost functions to the Recommendations feed in its iOS and Android apps — There's a lot to ♥ in your new Recommended feed! — A few months ago, we introduced the ability to follow your friends and incredible curators on Pocket to see what they're recommending.
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The Verge, MacRumors, Android Police, Lifehacker and iMore
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Sources: Didi Kuaidi, Uber's China rival, close to raising $2B at a valuation of about $25B — Uber's China Rival ‘Close to Raising $2 Billion in New Funding’ — Funding said to exceed previous $1.5 billion target on demand — Didi said to be valued at about $25 billion by investors| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Google and Honeywell resolve patent dispute over Nest's thermostats — Google and multinational manufacturer Honeywell have resolved their long-running patent dispute over the thermostats produced by Nest Labs, the two companies announced today. Honeywell first filed a patent infringement suit …
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