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Facebook to shut down its Notify app for news alerts, will absorb the app's technology into Messenger and other products — Facebook is shutting down Notify, the 7-month-old app that let you subscribe to push notifications from your favorite publishers. More than 70 partners used the app …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi announces Mi Band 2 water-resistant activity tracker, with heart-rate monitor, display, 20-day battery, on sale in China June 7 for about $23 — Xiaomi just unveiled a brand new wearable device, the Mi Band 2. Despite the name, it's the company's third fitness tracking device after the Mi Band and Mi Band Pulse.
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Sources: Apple Display with an integrated external GPU will not be announced at WWDC — An external GPU (eGPU)-powered Apple Display won't be among the things announced at WWDC 2016. — There'd been some speculation on Twitter and rumor reports about Apple possibly introducing a display with an integrated eGPU.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snapchat has 150M daily active users, higher than Twitter's estimated 140M — The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day. — Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter.
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Google launches business-friendly tool that tests your website mobile-friendliness & page speed — Google announced on the Google Small Business blog that they have released a new landing page to test your website's mobile-friendliness and page speed for desktop and mobile all in one place.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft's HoloLens now has apps for email and your calendar — Augmented reality promises many things, from turning your living room into a video game to transforming how we see and experience the world. But first, it has to do the basics, and no company knows this better than Microsoft.
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| Julien Genestoux / Superfeedr Blog: |
Medium acquires Superfeedr, maker of an API for generating and pushing RSS feeds — The web is very different from what it was 8 years ago. We've said it several times: publishing and consuming content are new frontiers for most of the web giants like Facebook, Google or Apple.
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| Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept: |
FBI Kept Demanding Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant — The secret government requests for customer information Yahoo made public Wednesday reveal that the FBI is still demanding email records from companies without a warrant, despite being told by Justice Department lawyers … | Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Pebble's $99 Core music-streaming keychain fitness tracker will integrate Amazon's Alexa — The keychain computer will have Amazon's assistant. But Pebble first tested human concierges doing “anything that's legal” for users — Last week the smart watch company Pebble announced …
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| Max Ciociola / Musixmatch Blog: |
Musixmatch lyric service ends its partnership with Spotify and will focus on its stand-alone product and business model — The partnership between Musixmatch and Spotify began in 2011, when they launched in the App store — We immediately had an incredible amount of success …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases new build of iOS 9.3.2 for 9.7-inch iPad Pro after initial update bricked some tablets — Apple today released a new version of iOS 9.3.2 that's specific to the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, presumably resolving an issue that caused some iPad Pro devices to become bricked after installing the original iOS 9.3.2 update.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: BitTorrent to spin off Sync, its file sharing product, into separate company, will rebrand product as Connect with focus on enterprise — BitTorrent Inc. is saying good-bye to Sync, the file synchronization tool once pitched as an alternative to Dropbox and similar services.Thanks:@jank0
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