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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Apple opens up Siri to app developers through an API in iOS 10 — Apple announced today that it will be opening up Siri to third-party developers through an API, giving outside apps the ability to activate from Siri's voice commands, and potentially endowing Siri with a wide range of new skills and datasets.
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iOS 10 Tidbits: Individual Read Receipts, Wake Alarm, Music Storage Optimization, and More — Apple today announced iOS 10, the next major version of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch software platform. The update is available in beta for Apple developers starting today …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Apple boasts using differential privacy techniques, like sub-sampling and noise injection, to collect data while protecting user privacy, but some are skeptical — Apple, like practically every mega-corporation, wants to know as much as possible about its customers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft to let Xbox Live users create clubs, control memberships, will provide a BBS-like service to help players find others to play against, by end of year — Players will have the ability to form groups of gamers around the globe and control their membership
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
How Microsoft hopes to turn your Xbox into a PC with Xbox Play Anywhere — It was a rare sunny day in Seattle and Phil Spencer seemed very pleased. Sitting across from me in a meeting room at Microsoft's sprawling Redmond campus, the head of Xbox smiled as he talked …
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| Jamieson Cox / The Verge: |
Playstation VR launching in the US October 13th for $399, will cost $499 when bundled with the camera and Move controllers — Sony's step into the world of high-end VR finally has an exact release date: October 13th. The company showed off the PlayStation VR at its E3 press conference this evening …
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| Anil Dash / Medium: |
Social analytics service ThinkUp to shut down July 18, citing API restrictions from Facebook and Instagram, and Twitter API changes — We have some tough news: We're going to be shutting down the ThinkUp service on July 18 and issuing a refund then for the balance of all member subscriptions.
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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Apple's new file system for all its operating systems supports encryption natively, lets you create system snapshots, clone files and directories, more — Copy-on-write metadata, native encryption, instant cloning, snapshots, and more. — Though the feature wasn't mentioned in Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote …
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
LinkedIn's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft — “Let me explain why.” — Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his employees Monday morning, ticking off a list of reasons behind …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta raises $50M series B at around $300M valuation to expand into new markets like China, build its next generation AR headset, the Meta 3 — The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware …
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech companies seek to address publishers' ad-blocking problem with tools to circumvent ad-blockers, like Admiral which recently raised $2.5M — Technology companies are selling software designed to counteract the effects of ad-blocking — As consumer adoption of online ad-blocking tools continues …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FanDuel and DraftKings are in merger talks as both face legal battles — At their peaks, both companies had valuations over $1 billion — New York is expected to allow fantasy sports by NFL's start — DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc., the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies …
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Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed to teach kids programming concepts, coming this fall for free — SAN FRANCISCO June 13, 2016 Apple® today introduced Swift Playgrounds™, an innovative new app for iPad® that makes learning to code fun and easy for anyone.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple unveils macOS Sierra with Siri, Apple Pay support, auto unlock, universal clipboard — Apple has announced the next version of OS X — and the first thing you need to know is that it has a brand-new name: macOS. This particular iteration will be known as macOS Sierra.
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