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Facebook implements News Feed ranking changes favoring friends and family over publishers, lists the “cores values” underlying this move — After the conservative trends fiasco, Facebook is pushing itself to a new standard of transparency. The company is publishing a formal …
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Microsoft's Windows 10: Anniversary Update to hit August 2; 350 million devices and counting — Microsoft will release Windows 10 on August 2 across the more than 350 million active devices where it is now running, and on other coming new PCs, phones and more.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber to track driver behavior like high speed and abrupt braking, give feedback to improve safety — The software is aimed at improving driver safety, but could raise privacy concerns — Uber Technologies Inc. has developed new technology to track when drivers of the ride-hailing app go too fast …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google Project Zero researchers uncover severe vulnerabilities in 25 Symantec and Norton products, exposing millions of users; patches issued — If you use a Symantec or Norton product, now would be a good time to update. — Much of the product line from security firm Symantec contains …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Amazon to subsidize Android phones for Prime members by showing lock screen ads and pre-installing Amazon apps — Amazon today said it would begin offering Prime members significant discounts on select unlocked Android smartphones, in exchange for the ability to pre-install Amazon apps and show customers more ads on the phones.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @vladsavov, @benbajarin and @richdemuro
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC spins its Vive VR unit into a wholly owned subsidiary of the company; focus will be on investment, growing the VR ecosystem — HTC has decided to take its most valuable asset, the Vive VR headset and the budding ecosystem developing around it, and turn it into a separate business.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is giving students a free Xbox One with Surface Pro 4 purchases — Microsoft is tempting students to buy a Surface Pro 4 this week with a new promotion running at its retail stores in the US. The software maker is taking $300 off when students buy a Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying routers for “Wave 2” features of 802.11ac specification including MU-MIMO support, 160MHz channels, more — Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying routers for faster speeds and denser networks. — The Wi-Fi Alliance industry group is now certifying products … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Huawei MateBook review: sleek appearance and fast performance is let down by design quirks and poor battery life, hard to recommend as a laptop replacement — In the world of tablet computing, there are two camps. There's the Microsoft Surface (and its clones) camp, which attempts …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Mozilla launches Codemoji, a web-based game that illustrates how ciphers work through emoji — Sure, people will tell you that encryption is important to maintaining your online privacy, but how do you wrap your head around the concept? Mozilla wants to help.
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Sources: Airbnb planning $500M-$1B round from major investors plus a sale of about $200M in employee shares in effort to delay IPO past 2017 — Room-rental site raising up to $1 billion at $30 billion valuation; employees separately selling $200 million worth of shares
Tweets: @m_delamerced
| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google Fit for Android updated with overhauled design, improved goals, and a configurable widget — It's been a long time since we last saw an update to Google Fit, but after some subtle hints during the Android Wear presentations during Google I/O, it was fairly obvious something big was in the works.
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