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Apple acknowledges reports of music files lost while using iTunes, plans update with more safeguards next week — iTunes may play a role in reports that Apple Music was replacing user libraries with DRM-encumbered files. — Apple on Friday confirmed to iMore that a very small number … | Giuseppe Nelva / DualShockers: |
Microsoft Discontinues Support for Project Spark; Online Services Going Down in August — Today Project Spark Community Manager Thomas Gratz announced on the game/creativity platform's official forums that support for the game is officially being discontinued.
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| Dustin Slaughter / Motherboard: |
Philadelphia Police Department admits it disguised a license plate surveillance truck as a Google Maps vehicle — The vehicle in question. Image: Dustin Slaughter — The Philadelphia Police Department admitted today that a mysterious unmarked license plate surveillance truck disguised …
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Tweets: @mattblaze, @dannyyadron, @joshk and @chrismessina
| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
How Google Fiber is aggressively competing with cable companies: better service, faster speeds, neighborhood outreach, maybe wireless, and cheaper prices — Forget self-driving cars and drones. Five years later, where is Google's broadband business going? — It's a crisp spring Friday in Kansas City and Jim is upset with Google.
Tweets: @mhbergen
| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Android VR Placeholder Pops Up In The Google Play Developer Console — Yesterday we reported on a rumor that Google would unveil a new “Android VR” platform at Google I/O next week, along with a standalone headset. Today we're seeing what looks like additional evidence.| Wall Street Journal: |
Some Vine stars migrate to Facebook and others as loops for top 10 accounts fall 29% from May 2015 through March 2016, ad buyers direct dollars to competitors — Marketers and ad buyers are also moving away from the Twitter-owned video app — Elton Castee has 1.2 million followers on Vine … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Amazon launches programmable $19.95 AWS IoT Button based on Dash hardware, that can be integrated with services like Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Uber or Slack — Amazon has revealed a programmable Dash Button which can be assigned to any product or purpose, a customizable version of its one-touch reordering gadgets.
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| BBC: |
Study: 45% of online households in US refrained from some online activities due to security and privacy concerns, 19% experienced an online security breach — Almost half of American households with at least one internet user have been “deterred” from online activity recently because of privacy or security concerns, a survey has said.
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| Julia Love / Reuters: |
Apple says it has invested $1B in Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it has invested $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, a move that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said would help the company better understand the critical Chinese market.
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Tweets: @travisk, @jessicalessin, @neilcybart, @danprimack, @jyarow and @gruber
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google for Work president Amit Singh moves to company's virtual reality division as vice president of business and operations — Amit Singh, who hopped from Oracle to Google about six years ago to help establish its Google for Work cloud tech, is now jumping to the company's new virtual-reality team.
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| Trista Kelley / Bloomberg: |
SWIFT warns of a new hacker attack on a commercial bank similar to Bangladeshi heist, says it is part of a wider highly adaptive campaign targeting banks — Hackers used malware to target PDF reader of commercial bank — Warning comes after cyber heist from Bangladesh central bank
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ZDNet, BAE Systems Threat …, SWIFT, New York Times, CNET, Ars Technica UK, SiliconANGLE, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, SecurityWeek, The Register, Help Net Security, NPR, ITworld.com, PYMNTS.com, The Hacker News, Out-Law News, Business Insider, The Next Web, Inquirer, Forbes and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @reutersbiz, @wsj and @rootkovska
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's $45 Charm fitness bracelet with color-coded LED alerts launches in South Korea, Italy, France, and Russia — Samsung has today officially launched its latest stab at the wearables market with the introduction of its new “Charm” activity band, available in a handful of markets.| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft adding fingerprint support to Windows 10 Mobile this summer — Biometrics is an increasingly popular technology that provides convenient access to systems, services, and resources. Microsoft Windows added Biometrics support back in 2012. The Windows Biometric Framework (WBF) …
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