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Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags — Twitter will begin letting you add virtual stickers to the photos you post, the company said today. Hundreds are available at launch, including the standard Unicode emoji and some original work from Twitter.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google launches Cast for Education to let students cast their screens to the classroom projector, debuts quizzes feature for Forms, and opens up VR Expeditions — It's no secret that Google's Chromebooks have seen the most success in the classroom, and have quickly become the de facto education computer … | Dissent Doe / The Daily Dot: |
655K patient records from three healthcare breaches are up for sale on the dark web after hacking victims refused extortion demands — For 655,000 patients who were enjoying a quiet Sunday, life may become a lot more complicated. Their personal, medical, and insurance information is up for sale in a forum on the dark net.
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| Google Research Blog: |
Google announces Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform to make coding physical for kids, still in development — Posted by Steve Vranakis and Jayme Goldstein, Executive Creative Director and Project Lead, Google Creative Lab — At Google, we're passionate about empowering children to create and explore with technology.
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| Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft reaches $10K settlement with a small business over an unplanned Windows 10 update — With about a month left for many PC users to upgrade to Windows 10 at no charge, Microsoft is being criticized for its aggressive — some say too aggressive — campaign to get people to install the new operating system.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft is ending Xbox Fitness, citing content costs, with full shutdown on June 30, 2017 — Xbox One owners are going to have to find another tool for working out in front of the TV: today Microsoft announced plans to shut down its Xbox Fitness service.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft hires M&A banker Qatalyst Partners, could be seeking a sale, new funding, or both — Lyft was last valued at $5.5 billion by investors including GM — Ride-hailing startup Lyft Inc. has hired Qatalyst Partners LP, the boutique investment bank best known …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches human-curated Featured Events, currently for iOS users, in 10 US cities — 550 million people use Facebook Events each month, with 60% of connections to events happening serendipitously in the News Feed. But Facebook is giving hardcore extroverts seeking more parties …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out Slideshow movie-maker feature on iOS to compete with Google Photos and Apple's Memories feature coming in iOS 10 — Most people can't shoot compelling videos, and static photos are boring. That's why the tech giants are all pushing their own versions of automatic movie makers based on your media.
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CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
HPE CEO Meg Whitman announces several organizational changes, including the departure of CTO Martin Fink — CEO Meg Whitman announces more organizational changes less than a year after HP spun off its Enterprise business. — Less than a year after Hewlett Packard spun off HP Enterprise …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's open source .NET Core project, which brings .NET Core and ASP.NET Core to Linux, OS X, and other OSes, reaches version 1.0 — It's been over a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the open source .NET Core project, which aims to bring the core parts of Microsoft's .NET framework … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Uber partners with Pandora to give drivers streaming music option, first 6 months ad-free — As the battle for drivers continues to heat up, on-demand car services are tacking on more benefits to build up their respective armies. Today, Uber is upping the ante with the launch of Pandora music on its driver app.Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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