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Microsoft promises improvements after backlash over Skype's Snapchat-esque redesign on Android and iOS, to restore native sharing and the status icon — Ever since Microsoft radically redesigned Skype to look more like Snapchat, the video chatting app's rating has plummeted to an average of just 1 star in some regions.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple removing VPN-based ad blockers for third-party apps from the App Store, rejects AdBlock iOS update, says only Safari content blockers are allowed — Update: When reached for clarification, Apple said “This is not a new guideline. We have never allowed apps on the App Store …
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Disney unveils Star Wars: Jedi Challenges, which combines a Lenovo-made mobile AR headset and a smartphone app to allow users to play games including holochess — Disney has teased what Star Wars fans have long been demanding: an augmented reality game that allows you to wield your own lightsaber.
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iFixit teardown confirms Note 7 Fan Edition is just a Note 7 with a new, smaller battery — Like a phoenix from the ashes, Samsung's ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 has emerged from the fires of its battery woes reborn as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fan Edition, a refurbished Note 7 that, hopefully, won't explode.| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Jefferies report says IBM's Watson investment will struggle to return value to shareholders, points to IBM's failed partnership with MD Anderson to show why — IBM's Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing equity research report from Jefferies' James Kisner.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Essential's VP of marketing, Brian Wallace, and head of communications, Andy Fouché, have both left the company recently before it has launched a product — Essential, the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin, has lost one of its top executives, just over a month after it announced its first major product.
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A conflict in the community about how to scale bitcoin, and competing software update proposals like SegWit2x and UASF, could lead to the cryptocurrency split — New proposal SegWit2x aims for compromise ahead of Aug. 1 — Failure to agree could lead to bitcoin splitting into two| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault — Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The lawsuit also implicates the performance management …
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Ruby Corp., Ashley Madison's parent company, says it will pay $11.2M to some US users in data-breach class action suit, won't admit wrongdoing — Ruby Corp. to pay $11.2 million to compensate losses to some U.S. customers, won't admit wrongdoing — The parent of website Ashley Madison …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Benchmark, other Uber shareholders have discussed selling some shares to SoftBank; Benchmark initiated the effort to sell stock before the CEO's ouster — Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, have discussed selling some of their shares … | Business Insider: |
Source: Snap had acquisition talks with AdRoll, which is borderline profitable and on pace for $300M 2017 revenue; Snap actively looking at other ad tech firms — Snapchat is shopping for ad tech companies to help bolster its appeal to marketers, a process that led the company … | Globes Online: |
Deep Instinct raises $32M Series B from NVIDIA, others for its deep learning cybersecurity software that works on devices and does not require cloud connection — The Tel Aviv based startup says it is the first company to apply deep learning to cybersecurity.
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