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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AccuWeather iOS app sends user's location info to data monetization firm, even with location sharing turned off — A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user's explicit permission to a firm designed to monetize user locations.
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Tweets: @mikeymikey, @zittrain, @zackwhittaker, @upright, and @charlesarthur
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon to start throttling video on smartphones on all unlimited data plans to 720p, with the cheapest “Go Unlimited” plan limiting video to 480p — Cheapest plan limits video to 480p, and there's no way to watch 1080p on a phone anymore — Well, now we know why Verizon Wireless was …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DJI announces mandatory firmware fix for Spark, says drones must be updated by September 1 or be grounded — After software malfunction sent Sparks falling out of the sky — Drone maker DJI announced yesterday that it's pushing out a firmware fix in response to a pernicious problem …
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Mynewsdesk, Engadget, sUAS News, Quartz, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, Mashable, Pocket-lint, PetaPixel, SlashGear, The Register, BBC, Digital Photography Review, Fortune, MacRumors, and MacRumors. Tweets: @gigastacey
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Chrome Enterprise subscription service for $50 per Chrome OS device per year, includes support for Microsoft Active Directory, VMware's AirWatch — Google is launching a new enterprise service for large businesses that want to adopt Chrome OS devices.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Sources: disagreements led to Apple scaling back on car project; team now focused on campus shuttle using a commercial vehicle to test autonomous driving tech — SAN FRANCISCO — As new employees were brought into Apple's secret effort to create a self-driving car a few years ago …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Verge, SlashGear, and InvestorPlace
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce beats estimates with Q2 revenue of $2.56B, up 26% YoY, on track to hit its $10B annual revenue run rate target — Earlier this year it looked as though Salesforce was starting to position itself as a company that would hit $10 billion in annual revenue run rate later this year … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Medium will pay writers based off number of “claps” they get, from subscribers' $5/mo. fee, expands the number of authors who can publish paywalled articles — [Jeb gif] — Medium plans to start letting more and more authors publish paywalled articles.
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
DOJ says DreamHost warrant was too broad, states it has no interest in records relating to 1.3M IP addresses of visitors to anti-Trump site — The US Department of Justice is rescinding its request for IP logs that would have revealed visitors to a website used to plan a protest during Donald Trump's inauguration.
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The Verge, CNET, assets.documentcloud.org, and Silicon Republic
| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
GoDaddy's Blake Irving stepping down as CEO at end of 2017; COO Scott Wagner to be new CEO — With the events that happened in Charlottesville, we felt the Daily Stormer went too far, crossed the line: GoDaddy CEO — GoDaddy named chief operating officer Scott Wagner its new CEO on Tuesday …
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Reuters, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and TheDomains.com
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to cease work on its GigJam lightweight collaboration service, before it exited preview — Microsoft is halting work on its GigJam collaboration service in September, two years after its initial launch and before it ever exited preview. — Microsoft is throwing in the towel …
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GigJam, PCWorld, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Petri, MSPoweruser, and Seeking Alpha
| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Samsung's Bixby launches in more than 200 countries including the UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, is currently available in US English and Korean — But it only recognizes English and Korean — Samsung's voice assistant Bixby is now accessible in more than 200 countries worldwide …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, Samsungmobilepress.com, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, TalkAndroid.com, International Business Times, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Android Police, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Android Central, Fone Arena, Inquirer, Android Beat, SlashGear, and Pocket-lint
| The Shield: |
500+ apps, downloaded 100M+ times, removed by Google from Play Store or updated after it was discovered that an ad SDK they used could serve as spyware backdoor — The Lookout Security Intelligence team has discovered an advertising software development kit (SDK) called Igexin that had the capability …
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ZDNet, Ars Technica, International Business Times, Fortune, and Inquirer
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