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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
US shuts down biggest torrents site KickassTorrents, arrests owner after Apple hands over his personal details — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
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Corning unveils Gorilla Glass 5, claims 0.6mm thick glass will not break 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters — Glassmaker Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass, the chemically strengthened super glass that dozens of consumer electronics makers use in their devices.
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
How Skype is transitioning from a legacy P2P infrastructure to a new mobile-friendly, cloud-based solution, expecting to complete the transition this year — Good news for those stung by Skype weirdness and reliability issues over the past several months: The problems have been caused …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Apple fixes Stagefright-like vulnerability, which allows attackers to compromise devices via a malicious image, in latest updates to iOS, OS X, tvOS, watchOS — RCE flaw exploitable via image files affects many products — Apple has fixed five issues in OS X and iOS that pose … | Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Sprinklr raises $105M Series F led by Temasek, at a valuation of $1.8B, for its social media management software — Marketing software startup Sprinklr, which last year declared it had topped $100 million in revenue, has raised another $105 million to fuel international growth and, if the occasion arises, to make more acquisitions.| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Airbnb hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to help “craft a world-class anti-discrimination policy” — Airbnb has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder. — CEO Brian Chesky announced the hire in a blog post on Airbnb's website. Holder will help “craft …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
The French National Data Protection Commission serves notice to Microsoft for Windows 10 privacy failings, gives company three months to comply — Strict online privacy laws in the EU continue to bedevil American tech companies. Latest to catch flak is Microsoft, over a handful of objections from a French data protection agency.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Lenovo's Moto Z and Moto Z Force Droids to launch on Verizon July 28, for $624 and $720 — The latest Droids are near. Verizon and Lenovo today announced that the Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid will launch on the leading US carrier on July 28th — a week from today.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
SwiftKey debuts emoji prediction keyboard Swiftmoji, its first product since the Microsoft acquisition — Keyboard app maker Swiftkey, which was acquired by Microsoft for $250 million in February, has officially launched its first product since that acquisition — and it's an emoji-predicting keyboard app, called Swiftmoji.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Bookings, a new Office 365 service for online appointment scheduling — Microsoft this morning announced an expansion to its Office 365 suite with the debut of a new service called Bookings, which will allow customers to schedule appointments with a business using online software.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A history of Facebook Messenger as it reaches 1B monthly users five years after its debut; 17B photos are now sent through the service each month — Facebook's gamble of forcing users to download Messenger has paid off. Despite the backlash, Messenger has doubled its user count in 20 months …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Benjamin Smedberg / Future Releases: |
Firefox will block non-essential, invisible Flash content starting in August — Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.
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