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Apple ordered to stop iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus sales in Beijing, as regulator finds it violated design patent; Apple says devices are still on sale during appeal — Intellectual property regulator rules the design is too similar to a Chinese phone — BEIJING—Beijing's intellectual property regulator …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Hacker moved $50M+ worth of Ethereum from The DAO project into an alternative wallet; the funds are frozen and owners should be able to recover stolen funds — A hacker appears to have moved digital money worth more than $50 million from an experimental virtual currency project that recently raised …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief — Snapchat doesn't just care about video. — The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How Marissa Mayer's spending at Yahoo to spur growth, in defiance of deals with activist investors to cut costs, led to auction of core assets, board shakeup — Embattled CEO failed to produce pledged savings, plunged deeper into turnaround; more room in the parking lot| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Due to objections from Apple and others, Unicode did not approve a suggested rifle emoji in the latest Unicode 9 update coming this June — You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.
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| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Uber says it has reached profitability in all of its developed markets, claims China accounts for one third of its daily trips — Uber says it has now reached profitability in all its developed markets, underscoring the business case for the new ride-hailing models that are disrupting the transportation industry.| Molly McHugh / The Ringer: |
Snapchat acknowledges it may have copied artists' works for its filters — Monday morning, Argenis Pinal did what many of us do: He grabbed his phone, swiped to Snapchat, opened the app, and started flipping through the filters. Puppy, princess, face morph, and ... oh. The Joker. His Joker.
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Kickstarter paid dividends to its shareholders this spring, an unusual move for a non-public VC-backed startup — The company quietly made the first payment this spring and continues to say that it has no plans to go public. — In early March, Kickstarter quietly sent shareholders a dividend.
Tweets: @thestalwart and @bryce
| Katherine Noyes / PCWorld: |
Google opens dedicated machine learning research center in Zurich to focus on machine intelligence, natural language processing, and machine perception — It will focus primarily on machine learning — Google has made no secret of its AI ambitions, and on Thursday it announced the next step … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Nonprofit Crisis Text Line counseling service receives $23.8M in grants, led by Reid Hoffman with Steve Ballmer, Pierre Omidyar, others participating — Crisis Text Line, a free, around the clock text-messaging support line for people in crisis, is getting a massive new round of grants …
Tweets: @melindagates and @omidyarnetwork
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Ammon, Idaho piloting open access fiber network project the lets residents sign up for an ISP - or switch ISPs - almost instantly, via city-operated website — Ammon's open access fiber network will let customers change ISPs in minutes. — Most cities and towns that build … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces experimental “containers” feature that lets Firefox users log in to sites using different identities within the same browser — Mozilla's Firefox browser is getting a new experimental feature today that aims to help you segregate your online identities and allow …
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Digital Trends, CNET, PCWorld, Business Cloud News, TechSpot, SecurityWeek, SlashGear, The Mozilla project, Tom's Hardware and Techdows
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