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Facebook Heavily Promotes Live Video But Struggles To Deal With Its Visceral Aftermath — Last night, at 10:06 P.M., a woman by the name of Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds went live on Facebook for roughly ten minutes. During that time, she chronicled the last conscious moments of her boyfriend …
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Facebook begins testing opt-in end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger — Just a few years ago, end-to-end encryption was a nerdy niche: a tiny collection of obscure software let you encrypt communication so only your recipient could read it, but the vast majority left you no option …
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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Yahoo's Firefox search deal includes a clause allowing Mozilla to walk away from a new buyer and still be paid $375M per year through 2019 — The contract clause — personally struck by the CEO — is a “hairy” one for bidders. — Under terms of a contract that has been seen by Recode …
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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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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft makes its Power BI web publishing feature available to all users for free — Microsoft today is announcing that it's making the “publish to web” feature in its Power BI cloud-based business intelligence tool generally available at no additional cost for both free and pro users.
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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 … | 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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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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