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Dropbox breach from 2012, which prompted password resets last week, is now known to have affected 68M+ accounts, and leaked user emails, hashed passwords — Hackers have stolen over 60 million account details for online cloud storage platform Dropbox. Although the accounts were stolen during …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Ultra-slim Windows 10 notebooks, 13-inch convertible Chromebook, and first curved screen laptop launched by Acer — Acer has launched the new Chromebook R 13 and the Windows 10-powered Swift and Spin notebooks with Intel's new seventh-generation processors.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Instagram now lets you pinch to zoom on photos and videos in feed, on profiles, and in the Explore tab on iOS — You can finally, at long last, zoom in on Instagram photos (and videos). … Revolutionary. — Instagram notes that the feature is coming to iOS today.
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| David McCabe / The Hill: |
Obama to host White House Frontiers tech conference in Pittsburgh in October, guest-edit Wired Magazine's November issue as a tie-in — The White House will host a conference on innovation in October, it announced Tuesday, as President Obama moves to cement his legacy on tech issues.
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| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches $20/mo 2TB iCloud storage plan ahead of iPhone 7 event — Apple has launched a new 2TB iCloud storage tier a little over a week out from the iPhone 7 launch event. The new 2TB plan, which is its largest plan available, will set users back $19.99 a month.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Google to use Okta as its preferred identity provider for Google Apps enterprise customers — Google Apps will use Okta as its preferred identity provider for enterprise customers — Identity management vendor Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users' identities in the cloud.
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| Associated Press: |
LA judge dismisses key claims in lawsuit against headphone maker Beats by former partner Noel Lee ahead of scheduled trial next week — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has dismissed the key claims in a lawsuit alleging that headphone maker Beats Electronics duped one of its early partners …
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
An early look at using Siri to control third-party app functions, like paying with Square Cash or sending messages with LinkedIn — We used Apple's voice-controlled assistant to send messages with LinkedIn and make mobile payments with Square Cash — You're going to have a lot more to talk about with Siri this fall.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google launches In Apps, a way to search within apps on Android phones, works with Gmail, Spotify, and YouTube; support for more apps coming soon — Google has announced a new way to locate content within apps on Android phones. “In Apps” is a search tab that allows this, a new addition to the Google app for Android.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon expands Dash Buttons beyond the U.S. and into the U.K., Germany, and Austria — Amazon has finally launched its consumer goods-ordering Dash Buttons program outside the U.S., with the news that it's now available in the U.K., Germany, and Austria. — The internet giant first introduced …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Compass raises $75M round at a $1B+ valuation, led by Wellington Management Capital, for real estate listings — New York-based real estate startup Compass is raising yet another round of funding, this time at a valuation above $1 billion. — The new financing was led by Wellington Management Capital … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Corning unveils scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass SR+ for wearable devices, available in products later this year — In 2015, Corning announced “Project Phire,” a new material that combines the strength of Gorilla Glass with the scratch-resistance of sapphire, and as of today, the result of that project is ready to launch.| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook will let users save offers to new Offers tab, remind about those expiring, let brands use ad-targeting for offers, is working on unique redeem codes — Facebook will now let people save offers to a new Offers tab, remind them when one is about to expire and give brands more control over who can use them.
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HTC invests $5M in VR gaming startup Steel Wool Studios; startup founders say they will be free to develop for all VR platforms including Rift, PlayStation VR — HTC is continuing to invest heavily in building up the virtual reality ecosystem that it hopes to one day dominate.
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