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Sources: this year's iPhones will be thinner with same size displays, lose headphone jack, have improved water resistance; big changes expected for 2017 models — Tech giant plans to break with tradition of overhauling its design every two years; headphone plug likely to disappear
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Removing headphone jack from phones is something that no one is asking for and has serious drawbacks including poor compatibility and accessibility, DRM audio — Another day, another rumor that Apple is going to ditch the headphone jack on the next iPhone in favor of sending out audio over Lightning.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Twitter and Vine to support 140 second videos, will share revenue with influential Vine creators — Vine is expanding its video limit to 140-seconds. — There are a lot of places you can go on your phone to watch videos — Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat are a few popular options.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 phones get NFC support as Microsoft rolls out update to Wallet, available to Windows Insiders now, will be generally available late summer — Microsoft is starting its rollout of tap-to-pay to certain U.S.-based Windows Insiders; general availability in the U.S. is ‘later this Summer.’| Wall Street Journal: |
Document lists deals with media firms and celebrities for Facebook Live, totaling $50M+ on nearly 140 contracts; BuzzFeed is highest paid at $3.05M for one year — Nearly 140 contracts with video creators total more than $50 million — Facebook Inc. is paying an array of media companies …
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See also Mediagazer| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
FAA's new rules for low-altitude drones weighing less than 55lbs mean US firms need certificate instead of license, operators must maintain visual line of sight — This morning the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled “Part 107,” a new set of rules to govern the use of drones by commercial operators.
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See also Mediagazer| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Burner, the disposable phone number service, launches Ghostbot, a bot that autoresponds to unwanted texts to discourage conversations — Dating is a bleak, bleak endeavor. Between seemingly endless swipes, missed IRL connections, and no one being emotionally available, it's dark out there …
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Burner, Macworld, PC Magazine, Complex AU, Brit + Co, Vocativ, TechCrunch, TIME, Guardian, Yahoo, Refinery29, Lifehacker, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Fast Company. Tweets: @jstrauss. Thanks:@beckylew_
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram doubles monthly users to 500M in 2 years, with 300M checking daily, but the rate of growth for images shared per day is slowing — Photos transcend language barriers, leading Instagram to hit a major milestone today, Its growth is actually accelerating over time …
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
The kernel of iOS 10 preview released last week was not encrypted, puzzling researchers — When Apple announced a new version of its mobile operating system in San Francisco last week, executives boasted of features such as a smarter Siri and improved copy and paste.| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
PlayStation Vue live TV service now available on Roku, hits Android devices next week — The app for Sony's live TV service, which offers a variety of TV channels nationwide starting at $30 per month, is now available for download on Roku streaming sticks, boxes and TVs, with an Android mobile app coming soon.
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Pearl, a startup with 50 Apple alumni, plans slew of devices to retrofit cars to enable latest autonomous driving capabilities, starting with a rear-view camera — Pearl Inc. introduces rear-view camera beginning in September — Startup plans to offer technology to retrofit current autos
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr launches live video support in partnership with YouTube, YouNow and others; 15 media partners committed to publishing videos, including MTV — Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works.| Michael Riley / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Clinton Foundation among organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers, government investigators find — Trump, Democratic camps said briefed on effort to steal data — Democrats hire security firms to confirm ID of attackers — The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker builds container orchestration right into its core Docker Engine — Docker, which is hosting its sold-out developer conference in Seattle this week, today announced a major addition to its core Docker Engine. While the company previously split up many of the features it takes …
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Unicode 9.0 now available with 7.5K new characters, six new scripts, 72 new emoji, and support for lesser-used languages — Version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. Version 9.0 adds exactly 7,500 characters, for a total of 128,172 characters. These additions include six new scripts and 72 new emoji characters.
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Emojipedia, BetaNews, Windows Central, Globe and Mail and Neowin
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Google will soon list possible health conditions when you search for symptoms, will start rolling out the changes on mobile in coming days — From sport results to maps, Google Search now shows a lot more than just 10 blue links. Especially useful on mobile, Knowledge Graph aims … | Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Supreme Court upholds USPTO rules that have helped challenge questionable patents — Affirms quicker and cheaper procedures for contesting patents in front of Patent Office — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday blessed new government procedures for challenging patents … | Wall Street Journal: |
Tencent and its partners to pay $8.6B for a majority stake in Supercell, in a deal that values the Finnish game maker at $10.2B — Chinese internet major's deal to buy stake from Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion — HONG KONG—Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd … Sponsor Posts
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