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Leaked recording reveals how Apple's Global Security team uses investigators, rigorous screening, and embeds security members in product teams to prevent leaks — SECRECY AT APPLE — Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts AI-powered job search results in the US that tap into listings from LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, Facebook, company websites, others — Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search …
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| Michael Liedtke / AP News: |
Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change” — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Trump meets with tech execs, says US gov't must “catch up” with private sector; Cook calls for coding in schools; Bezos favors more adoption of commercial tech — The leaders of Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, who met with Trump on Monday, have a few asks of their own.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Live video replays and says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of May — Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone shooting video. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple files more claims in lawsuit against Qualcomm, accusing it of operating an “illegal business model” and seeking to void patent claims — IPhone maker files more claims against Qualcomm in lawsuit — Apple cites May Supreme Court ruling against double-dipping
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus 5 unveiled with Snapdragon 835, 16MP dual-camera, 8GB RAM model $539, 6GB RAM model $479, on sale online June 27, available in select popup stores today — After several weeks of teasing and leaks, OnePlus has today officially announced the OnePlus 5, its latest flagship smartphone.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nokia debuts $59 Nokia Body Scale, $129 Nokia BPM+ blood pressure monitor, and revamps Health Mate fitness apps — Nokia today unveiled a new smart scale and digital blood pressure monitor as part of the company's “rebirth,” Cédric Hutchings, Nokia's VP of Digital Health …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Swiss encrypted email provider ProtonMail launches ProtonVPN with Tor support and free subscription tier for single device access — ProtonMail has officially launched its first new standalone service, three years after the company's original encrypted email service went to market.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon tests Prime Wardrobe, a new service that lets customers try up to 15 pieces of clothing at a time, with bigger discounts the more they keep — Prime Wardrobe is currently in beta. — Following in the footsteps of a host of e-commerce startups, Amazon's fashion division is testing …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Garage debuts Dictate, an add-in for Office that uses Cortana's speech recognition for dictation, competing with Nuance and Windows OS-level solutions — Dictate, a new project from Microsoft's experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal and Venmo now allow instant bank transfers, amid competition from Square Cash, Zelle, and Apple's P2P payments in iMessages for iOS 11 — PayPal announced this morning a plan to speed up money transfers between its service, Venmo and users' bank accounts for those with supported MasterCard and Visa debit cards.
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| David Schneider / IEEE Spectrum: |
TOP500 fastest supercomputers: China's Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe 2 take top two spots as Switzerland's GPU-based Piz Daint replaces US' Titan in third place — In June, we can look forward to two things: the Belmont Stakes and the first of the twice-yearly TOP500 rankings of supercomputers.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Neighborhood social network Nextdoor says it's used in 160K neighborhoods, of which 145K are in US, and expands to Germany — Nextdoor, the social network that connects you with people in your neighborhood, is taking another step up in its global growth, after launching in the Netherlands and the UK last year.
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| Corin Faife / Motherboard: |
Status, a messaging app and mobile browser to help users interact with apps on the ethereum network, raises $44M in its ICO — The company is hoping that its user-friendly app design will help bring cryptocurrency to the masses. — Starting a little before 12pm EST today, Status … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla's privacy-focused Firefox Focus web browser for Android blocks ad trackers and can erase your browsing history, but lacks tabs and uses Yahoo search — Late last year, Firefox introduced a new,private web browser for iPhone, called Firefox Focus. The browser by default blocks ad trackers …
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