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On July 7, one day after its release, Pokémon GO had more Android installations than Tinder in US, and by July 8 it was on 5.16% of US Android devices — Unless you're been living under a rock or hiding in some tall grass you've probably heard of Pokémon GO, the app that has taken America by storm.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Although Pokémon Go's sudden success is driven by nostalgia, Pokémon's mechanics are uniquely suited for augmented reality — Basically everyone is Pokémon Go-ing according to Twitter, and I'm sure basic resources like power and water will soon start to shut down because key staff are out chasing Pikachu.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
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Microsoft updates Skype Bot platform with group support, adds support for new Slack and Facebook features to Bot Framework — Microsoft is updating its Microsoft Bot and Skype Bot platforms with new capabilities, as well as additional support for Facebook and Slack bot features.| Jacob Donnelly / CoinDesk: |
As Bitcoin “halving” cut miner rewards by 50% on Saturday, experts ponder possible effects on Bitcoin price, mining industry — It's an event that brings equal parts predictability and uncertainty. — For close to a year, bitcoin miners and investors have been preparing for an event nicknamed ‘the halving’.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Seeking to replace microSD with a faster successor, Samsung announces world's first removable UFS memory cards, but no devices support them yet — What comes after microSD cards for removable storage? Samsung has the answer: UFS. The company announced today the world's first removable UFS … | Bradley Klapper / Associated Press: |
White House says ISIS Twitter traffic dropped 45% after two years of sustained alternative messaging by the US and its partners — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies … | Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
Home-cooking startup Josephine's struggle with murky laws and regulations raises questions about the future of the food-sharing economy — Politicians talk big about supporting innovation, but as home-cooking startup Josephine discovered, the system isn't designed that way.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba and Chinese automaker SAIC announce the RX5, a $22.3K connected car that uses Alibaba's Yun operating system to connect into various internet services — Alibaba has officially announced its move into the automobile space after it unveiled its first “internet car” in collaboration with SAIC … | John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Deleted Tweet archive PostGhost shut down after Twitter cease and desist — PostGhost was a nascent website that archived the tweets of the famous, rich, and important. The site got popular for finding and storing the deleted Tweets of politicians and even Lindsay Lohan who plead with the English PM to #remain.| Jennifer Baker / Ars Technica: |
BT, Vodafone, and other European telcos publish “5G Manifesto” seeking lighter net neutrality regulation to encourage next generation network investment — BT, Vodafone, and chums all flex muscles, press for lighter regulation. — BRUSSELS—A coalition of nearly 20 telcos including BT … | Jerry Beilinson / Consumer Reports: |
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Fails Consumer Reports Water-Resistance Test — The phone is supposed to survive 30 minutes in 5 feet of water. In our testing, it didn't. — Commercials for the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge showed hip-hop's Lil Wayne pouring Champagne over the phone and dunking it in a fish tank.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inside Google and Microsoft's efforts to catch Amazon in the cloud computing services space — For months and months, as Google's brain trust searched for the ideal candidate to lead the company's come-from-behind bid for its biggest new opportunity since Larry Page and Sergey Brin began putting ads … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Facebook Messenger's end-to-end encryption not on by default because of inability to store keys in browsers and the firm's reluctance to make big UX changes — Privacy nerds got some good and some bad news on Friday, when Facebook became the latest major company to embrace encryption … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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