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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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Digital Trends, Business Insider, Mashable, PhoneDog.com, Patently Apple, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, InvestorPlace, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Quartz, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat, Laptop Mag, International Business Times, Neowin, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, iLounge, The Verge, SlashGear, Fortune, AppleInsider, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @markgurman, @stevestreza, @tomcoates, and @stevesi
| 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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BuzzFeed, Fortune, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, Slate, CNET, Business Insider, Quartz, Digital Trends, The Register, USA Today, CNBC, ZDNet, The Verge, International Business Times, Macworld, East Bay Times, CBS Philly, Daring Fireball, Neowin, Droid Life, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, The Loop, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, Patently Apple, Mashable, Motherboard, Cult of Mac, 680 NEWS, PhoneDog.com, Fortune, CNBC, MacRumors, MacStories, 9to5Mac, New York Magazine, ValueWalk, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and ExtremeTech
Tweets: @caseynewton, @reneritchie, @marcoarment, @mgsiegler, @dsilverman, @joshconstine, @arainert, @reckless, @bzamayo, @itsnicolenguyen, and @backlon
| 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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iPhone Hacks, Ars Technica, Wired, The Register, Business Insider, Digital Trends, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, ValueWalk, The Verge, Road to VR, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Tech Times, New York Magazine, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, On MSFT, International Business Times, Android Authority, TechSpot, and Robert Scoble's Augment …. Tweets: @joannastern
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Tweets: @rollingstone and @mcwm
| New York Times: |
Job ads aimed at age groups on platforms including Facebook raise questions of age discrimination, prompt lawsuit; Amazon, LinkedIn change methods after query — This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
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The Verge, The Next Web, and Mashable
Tweets: @ericuman, @propublica, @charlesornstein, @ericuman, @digiphile, @sarahfrier, @nytmedia, and @lpolgreen
| Rob Goldman / Facebook: |
Facebook says aged-based targeting for employment is an accepted industry practice, disagrees with allegations that the ads are discriminatory — Our view on age-based targeting for employment ads — In the last year ProPublica has uncovered a number of different flaws in our advertising systems.
| 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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PhoneDog.com, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Android Police, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, and MacDailyNews
| 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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help.twitter.com, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Android Central, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Police, Gizmodo, MacStories, and Engadget
Tweets: @twittersafety, @jack, @mathowie, @kevinbankston, and @caseynewton
| 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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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, CNET, The Verge, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Business Insider, Techdirt, Bloomberg, Mashable, Bloomberg, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @randpaul, @ronwyden, @dnvolz, @eff, @dnvolz, @mkraju, @emptywheel, @eff, @freedomofpress, @dnvolz, and @jakesherman
| 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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| 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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Pokémon GO, Tech Times, CNET, NBC Bay Area, PhoneDog.com, International Business Times, Android Central, MacStories, Neowin, Ubergizmo, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, Engadget, and Twinfinite. Tweets: @pokemongoapp
| Facebook Design: |
Facebook to stop using “disputed” labels on false news, will show fact checks as Related Articles after tests proved the latter method resulted in fewer shares — Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing says it has raised $4B, which will be used for AI and international expansion — China's Didi Chuxing, the country's top ride-hailing company, said today that it has raised $4 billion in new capital to support a range of new initiatives including international expansion.
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Recode, Bloomberg, Didi Chuxing.EN, and Axios
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jonrussell, @vijayshekhar, and @mikeisaac
| 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, Silicon Valley Business …, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Axios
Tweets: @delrey and @benbajarin
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
IAB data shows digital ad spending during first half of 2017 grew 23% YoY to $40.1B, as mobile ad revenue reached $21.7B or 54% of the total — Digital ad spending continued to grow during the first six months of 2017, according to the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report.| 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.| 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: @a_greenberg, @josephfcox, @mattblaze, @kimzetter, @normative, @troyhunt, @tarah, @eff, @ncweaver, @withinrafael, @erratarob, @tomwarren, @josephfcox, and @mattblaze
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Assistant SDK to Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and UK and adds device-specific voice control for smart homes — The software development kit (SDK) for Google Assistant is expanding to additional countries today, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
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Google Developers Blog, Android Authority, The Verge, and Android Central. Tweets: @actionsongoogle
| 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, CNBC, Axios, TechCrunch, GeekWire, and GeekWire
Tweets: @upshotnyt, @nytimes, @gabriel_zucman, and @dmccabe
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