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Google announces Glass Enterprise Edition, which can be used with prescription lenses, has a faster processor and WiFi, an 8MP camera, and better security — Don't call Heather Erickson a glasshole. — Yes, that's Google Glass on her frames. But she's not using it to check her Facebook …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Spark on iOS in US, a feed customized by users who then browse and shop from product images and stories posted by Prime members and sponsors — Amazon today is launching Amazon Spark, a new feature aimed at improving product discovery, which is seemingly inspired by Instagram and its use of shoppable photos.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google publicly launches Hire, a tool to help small and medium-sized businesses manage the job application process, for G Suite users in the US — Google is today lifting the lid on a new app designed to help small and medium-sized businesses find and recruit employees more effectively.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds ability to record multiple 10 second Snaps back-to-back, coming first to iOS, as well as Tint Brush for coloring specific objects in Snaps — Snapchat has a couple of new features rolling out Tuesday, including the ability to record multiple 10 second Snaps continuously …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon has been selling pre-packaged ‘Meal Kits’ to select Amazon Fresh customers, sending Blue Apron's stock down — Amazon's newly-discovered desire to begin offering pre-packaged ingredients for home-cooked meals is already a real thing as a selection of Amazon Meal Kits are available on the company's website.| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
China's censors ramp up filtering of photo and video messages, disrupting apps like WhatsApp and WeChat following the death of political dissident Liu Xiaobo — Internet police step up their ability to filter photos — BEIJING—China's already formidable internet censors have demonstrated a new strength …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Bluetooth SIG releases the specification for Bluetooth Mesh, which allows Bluetooth 4 and 5 devices to communicate in a mesh network — Yay, another smart home standard — There's a long-running fight between wireless standards to be the one and only to connect all the smart devices in your home.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Snap is now selling its Spectacles on Amazon, at the same $129.99 price — Remember when people waited in long lines for them? — After introducing them to the world with buzzy, pop-up vending machine drops and then eventually expanding to direct web orders, Snap has begun selling its Spectacles camera glasses through Amazon.| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google Analytics users can now ask natural-language questions about their data — With natural language, users can quickly get data without having to dig for it from both desktop and Google Analytics' mobile apps. — A little over a year ago, Google teased using natural language to get data from Google Analytics just by asking.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google rolls out new security warnings for G Suite and Apps Script following May's Google Docs phishing attacks — Google today started rolling out new warnings for G Suite and Apps Script to inform users about the potential dangers of new web apps. The company also plans to expand … | Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Mira, which raised $1.5M led by Sequoia, unveils Prism, a $99 AR headset in which screen of inserted iPhone reflects off lens viewed by wearer, shipping in fall — Most college kids around their senior year look for internships or a killer beach house for the summer. — Not the founders of Mira.
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Tweets: @ajs, @npappag, @devindra, @caitlinsays_, and @businessinsider
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Transfer Appliance, a new hardware appliance and service for moving up to 480TB from corporate data centers to Google Cloud Platform via FedEx — Google today announced the launch of its Transfer Appliance, a new hardware appliance and service for moving large amounts of data …
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