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AirPods automatically appear as a new speaker option on Apple TVs running tvOS 11 developer beta — When you pair AirPods to your iPhone, the wireless earbuds are automatically paired to iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches with the same iCloud account thanks to automatic setup.
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Sources: Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos, Safra Catz, other tech execs, to visit White House June 19 for first meeting of The American Technology Council — Meeting at White House comes despite Paris climate discord — Trump-created council given goal of modernizing government| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber is in advanced talks to acquire the engineering team of Luxe, a car-parking startup which has raised a total of $75M+ — While Uber Technologies wrestles with a string of controversies, the ride-hailing company is in advanced talks to acquire much of the engineering team …
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Sources: Verizon will cut about 15% of AOL-Yahoo staff, or as many as 2.1K jobs, after merger closes — The proportion of jobs being made redundant across AOL and Yahoo is around 15 percent globally, we have confirmed with our sources. — This shakes out to as many as 2,100 jobs being lost as part of the corporate merger.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Yahoo shareholders officially approve $4.48B sale to Verizon; deal will close on June 13th — Yahoo's shareholders have officially approved the company's sale to Verizon for $4.48 billion. The deal is expected to close Tuesday. — Once the deal closes, Yahoo and AOL will merge into a combined entity called “Oath.”| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Android O Developer Preview 3 with final APIs — Google today launched the third Android O developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com and via the Android Beta Program. The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the Nexus 5X … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Softbank is buying robotics firms Boston Dynamics and Schaft from Alphabet — Here's a surprise turn of events: Softbank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to acquire Israel-based cybersecurity company Hexadite, sources say for $100M, to bolster its advanced threat detection services — Yet more activity in the world of cybersecurity. Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Hexadite, an Israeli startup that uses AI to identify and protect against attacks.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, in a 2013 email, advised employees on when sex is permissible for a Miami company celebration — “Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS ...” — In what is arguably an unusual email for the very top executive to send to employees, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick advised …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Teardown of new 4K 21.5-inch iMac reveals removable RAM and modular CPU not soldered onto the logic board, but the components are still very difficult to access — iFixit has published a teardown of the new 4K 21.5-inch iMac, which reveals that - surprisingly - Apple's smallest …
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iFixit, 9to5Mac, BGR, Other World Computing Blog, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Tech Times, Cult of Mac, Tom's Guide, Business Insider, iMore, The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, and Inquirer. Tweets: @ifixit
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Amazon ends its unlimited data storage plan for Amazon Drive, now offers up to 100GB for $11.99 a year or up to 1TB for $60 — Time to check you don't have auto-renew turned on — Amazon has killed off its generous unlimited cloud storage deal for Amazon Drive.| Diana Goovaerts / Wireless Week: |
Cisco: global average IP traffic from smartphones will reach 14.9GB/mo per device in 2021, compared to 3.5GB/mo per device in 2016 — A massive rise in mobile data traffic has been playing out over the past several years, but a new forecast from Cisco indicates the global average internet traffic …
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