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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps in push toward platform unification, aims to let developers expand iOS apps to Macs as early as 2018 — Aim is to let developers expand iOS apps to Mac computers — Apple customers have complained some Mac apps get short shrift
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| Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone: |
Reporter describes new demos of Magic Leap's mixed-reality headset and talks with founder Rony Abovitz about the science behind it — Rony Abovitz talks with Glixel about the tech and ambitions behind new MR Goggles — Magic Leap today revealed a mixed reality headset that it believes reinvents …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms Geekbench analysis that shows it manages power demands on iPhones with older batteries to avoid shutdowns, saying it added the feature last year — Because of a Reddit post and the loose interpretation of subsequent benchmark tests posted by Primate Labs' John Poole, the …
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| Justin O'Beirne: |
How Google Maps has created data of buildings and “Areas of Interest” from its aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery to take a 6+ year lead over Apple — Over the past year, we've been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter now lets users set up third-party apps, such as 1Password or Authy, for two-factor authentication as an alternative to SMS — Twitter has announced an important change to how it handles two-factor authentication for new logins on its service. Twitter now lets you use third-party apps …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it has hired Barney Harford, former CEO of online travel site Orbitz that was acquired by Expedia in 2015, as its COO — Harford becomes company's second-highest ranking executive — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi worked with Harford at Expedia — Barney Harford …
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase CEO says Bitcoin Cash price increase before the announcement warrants internal investigation into whether someone at Coinbase profited from inside info — Today we announced support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH). It appears the price of Bitcoin Cash on other exchanges increased in the hours before our announcement.
| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Niantic Labs adds support for more advanced AR to Pokemon Go on iOS through Apple's ARKit developer tools — A very good reason to keep AR mode on all the time — Niantic Labs, the developer of mobile augment reality hit Pokémon Go, today announced that an update of its iOS version …
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| Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post: |
Plan to vote on bill for long-term reauthorization of key NSA surveillance program loses support from House Republicans — House Republicans have abandoned plans to vote on a long-term reauthorization of a powerful government authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook and others may be violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 by letting companies post targeted job ads to limited age groups — This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Walmart is developing a text message-based personal shopping service that delivers household items in under 24 hours and an Amazon Go-style smart store — This ain't your grandpa's Walmart. — When Walmart paid $3 billion for Jet.com and its founder Marc Lore …
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Axios, SlashGear, and Business Insider
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European Court of Justice rules that Uber is a transport service, not an information service; decision means EU states can use national laws to regulate Uber — Uber is a taxi company, according to a landmark ruling from Europe's highest court. — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Password manager maker Keeper sues Ars Technica and reporter Dan Goodin for story on a vulnerability in Keeper software, first highlighted by Google researcher — The vulnerability was fixed, but Keeper now demands that the allegedly defamatory article is pulled offline.
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Naked Security. Tweets: @josephfcox, @a_greenberg, @mattblaze, @troyhunt, @kimzetter, @eff, @normative, @ncweaver, @withinrafael, @erratarob, @tomwarren, @josephfcox, and @mattblaze
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Experts say tax bill, lobbied for by tech giants, will help big tech in short-term but fails to address long-term issues like tech-abetted economic displacement — Let's pretend you have just been picked to run a small island nation. Congratulations! — But don't settle in to your throne quite yet.
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TechCrunch, Axios, CNBC, GeekWire, and GeekWire
Tweets: @upshotnyt, @nytimes, @gabriel_zucman, @dmccabe, and @fmanjoo
| Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: |
Amazon says Music storage subscription service, which let users upload their own music, to be retired on Jan. 15; uploaded music will remain until Jan. 2019 — Amazon is planning to retire its Music storage subscription service, the plan that enabled Amazon customers to upload their own music to the company's servers.Sponsor Posts
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