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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.| 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 … | 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.’| 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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| 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.| 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 … | The Unicode Blog: |
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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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
| 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 …
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| 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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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.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Sonos adds lock screen control, 3D Touch shortcuts on home screen, split view, more, in iOS update — Sonos has released a big update to its Controller app for iPhone and iPad that improves the experience on iOS in several ways. Because Sonos speakers stream music from services including …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
SoundCloud says it is debuting video ads on mobile in US — If you tune into SoundCloud on your mobile device in the U.S., video ads are going to cropping up when you're fiddling with the app — SoundCloud is adding video ads, the latest service to roll out the commercial format.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker announces private beta of the Docker Store, a new marketplace for containerized software — At its developer conference in Seattle, Docker today announced the private beta of the Docker Store, a new marketplace for trusted and validated dockerized software.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft brings Docker Datacenter to Azure Marketplace, shows off SQL Server in a Linux container — Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies' on-premises data centers.
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ZDNet, Microsoft Azure, WinBeta, The Fire Hose and TechCrunch
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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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Slate, Android Police, Mashable, BuzzFeed, Social Media Today, YourStory.com, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, BetaNews, tech.co, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, New York Magazine, CNNMoney, SiliconBeat, PhoneDog.com, TechSpot, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Droid Life, Phandroid, Consumerist, Engadget, Reuters, Refinery29, CIO.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, Fortune, Motherboard, MacRumors, 500ish Words, Investor's Business Daily and AppleInsider. See also Mediagazer
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo's new iOS app, Yahoo Radar, helps with researching trips to US cities, will use data from user's inbox, more; no plans for Android version — Yahoo has launched an application to make it easier for people to plan their next trip. Called Yahoo Radar, it brings the company's search …
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