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Adult site Brazzers forum hacked, 800K account details leaked including emails, usernames and plaintext passwords — Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. Although the data originated from the company's separate forum …
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| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
LG unveils V20 5.7-inch phone with Android 7.0 Nougat, secondary “ticker” screen, 3200mAh removable battery, available in Korea this month, other regions later — LG's latest big-screened handset boasts a metal body and removable battery — along with new cameras and a secondary ticker display.| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Sources: Microsoft working on a Slack competitor called Skype Teams; service to include threaded messages, channels, DMs, video calls, meeting scheduling, more — It was recently reported that Microsoft wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion. Slack, for those unfamiliar …
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Thanks:@pradeepviswav| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IDC: Fitbit leads wearables as Apple Watch shipments drop 58% YoY; basic wearable devices like simple fitness bands rise 48% YoY; smart wearables down 27.2% YoY — According to new data from IDC, Apple Watch shipments plunged nearly 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
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Business Wire, 9to5Mac, Silicon Valley Business …, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, IDC, The Register and Fortune. Tweets: @w_scottweiss
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: Apple to announce new wireless earbuds called AirPods, which will target the premium headphone market and use custom “Bluetooth-like” low-power tech — Apple's new wireless earbuds, expected to be announced this week as “AirPods,” are said to feature a custom-designed wireless chip …
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches restaurant delivery service in London via the Prime Now app; delivery is free on all orders over £15 — Back in July we reported that Amazon was set to launch a restaurant delivery service in London for its Amazon Prime customers and now the e-commerce giant has done just that.
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Thomson IR, The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What to expect from Sony's Sept. 7 event: quieter PS4 Slim with updated DualShock controller, more powerful PS4 “Neo”, and an update on PlayStation VR — Slim PS4, upgraded “Neo” console, and more should be discussed. — Sony stayed strangely quiet about its upcoming hardware plans …
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The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Polygon, Digital Trends, Stuff, The Verge, Business Insider and Polygon
| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google tests mobile Shop the Look ads for apparel and home products in search results, which offer products via partners like LIKEtoKNOW.it, Polyvore, Curalate — Google is mixing up the mobile shopping experience in search again with a new format called shop the look.
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Inside AdWords, Ubergizmo, The Verge, TechCrunch and internetretailer.com
| Chase Gunter / Federal Computer Week: |
ITIF releases review of Clinton's and Trump's positions on tech; Clinton provides specifics, Trump lacks articulated policy — With the presidential election fast approaching, technology-minded groups are delving into the agendas put forth by the presidential candidates.| David Smith: |
Indie developer maps App Store revenue from paid to ads, says advertising in his apps made up around 10% of sales in 2012 whereas now it accounts for nearly 80% — I've been thinking this past week (as I often do) about the ever-changing landscape of the App Store.
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MacStories, TechCrunch and Daring Fireball
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Huawei Honor 8 smartphone review: great performance for price, solid camera, excellent battery life, but is buggy, has subpar LTE performance, slow to charge — Huawei's budget sub-brand Honor is the subject of increasing chatter in phone geek circles of late.
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| Emma Hinchliffe / Mashable: |
Instagram kills its photo maps feature, citing low usage — Instagram is taking away your photo maps. — The photo-sharing app has begun to kill its photo map feature, with some users already seeing the option removed when visiting other profiles. — Instagram confirmed the changes to Mashable on Tuesday.
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The Next Web, Macworld, Social Media Today, Refinery29, Engadget, The Verge, SocialTimes, Ubergizmo, Fortune, SlashGear and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest hires Li Fan, former head of image search at Google and VP of search at Baidu, to lead engineering — Pinterest announced that it has hired Li Fan as its new head of engineering, where it's likely that she'll utilize her experience in image search, infrastructure …
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Digital Trends and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon updates Fire TV and Fire TV Stick with personalized recommendations from streaming sites like HBO and Netflix; Alexa voice search now works in 75+ apps — Amazon announced an update to Fire TV and its smaller companion, the Fire TV Stick, which will bring expanded Alexa-powered voice search … Sponsor Posts
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