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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple releases public beta of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra — Two days after releasing the second developer betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra for testing, Apple today is launching its public beta program for the forthcoming updates, allowing a broader cross section of users to test out the new features …
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Controversial livestreams become more frequent on Facebook Live, putting the company's rules and judgment under scrutiny — A video of the aftermath of a fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer was temporarily removed from Facebook. The company has said the removal was due to a “technical glitch.”
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See also Mediagazer| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Lyft launches Lyft Premier, a luxury on-demand service available in NYC, LA, and San Francisco, which costs twice as much as a standard journey — Over the coming months, we are going to be seeing a lot more pink mustaches on Audi, BMW, and Mercedes vehicles. — Today, Lyft is launching Lyft Premier.
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Microsoft to split chief operating officer duties between five executives as current COO Kevin Turner leaves — Turner had served as head of Microsoft's sales team for the past 11 years. — Kevin Turner, the former Walmart executive who has led Microsoft's sales team for the past 11 years …
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| Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu: |
Antivirus software firm AVG acquired by Avast Software for $1.3 billion — Antivirus software company AVG Technologies has been acquired by rival Avast Software for $1.3 billion. — Both companies were founded in the Czech Republic and expanded globally with AVG going public in 2012.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google tests a type of encryption in Chrome called Ring-LWE that could be immune to attacks from quantum computers — For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable event that might just break everything.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires Anvato, a platform used by broadcasters for encoding, editing, publishing and distributing video; the team will join Google's Cloud Platform — Google is getting deeper into the tech side of the video and broadcasting business. The company today announced that it has acquired Anvato …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Android co-founder Rich Miner cutting back at Google Ventures to lead Google's new education project — Earlier this year I was in an elevator with Rich Miner, the Android co-founder who has been a general partner with Google Ventures since the corporate venture capital group was formed in 2009.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Users can now set Spotify or Pandora as the default music player on Amazon Echo, Dot, or Tap — Amazon is making its Echo speaker a little more convenient to use for the millions of Spotify and Pandora listeners out there. You can already play music from streaming music services by speaking commands like “Play ______ on Spotify.”
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung expects Q2 operating profit of $7B, its highest in 2 years, on strong Galaxy S7 sales — Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday its second-quarter operating profit likely rose 17.4 percent from a year earlier, its highest in more than 2 years as Galaxy S7 smartphone sales propelled mobile earnings.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Dating app Bumble to launch BumbleBizz for swipe-based professional networking this fall — I hate networking. Or at least the type of networking that consists of awkward happy hours where no one knows each other and you're approached every five seconds by some over-eager “networker” …
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| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Homee, an app that helps you select furniture, comes out of beta, announces $5M Series A from Founders Fund and Sean Rad — Let's face it, you're never going to win the HGTV Dream Home. My family has entered the maximum number of times for the last decade and has nothing to show for it.
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