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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Apple launches Apple News+ in US and Canada, a subscription service with news pubs like WSJ and 300+ mags, for $9.99/month and free sharing with family accounts — The new subscription service is launching in the US and Canada today — Apple has just revealed its new Apple News Plus service …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple News+ will surface WSJ stories of general interest; subscribers will have access to 3 days worth of business and financial news in WSJ's archives — Apple News+ was officially announced earlier today, allowing users to pay $9.99 per month for access to 300 magazines and select newspapers.
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| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Apple News+ is a fine way to read magazines, but its UX's roots in Texture makes finding content from newspapers and digital news outlets difficult — Few entities have the potential to help improve news production and consumption more than Apple. This falls short of hopes.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple Card has a rotating security code that is protected by Touch ID or Face ID, helping better prevent credit card fraud — Apple's new credit card has a curious security feature that will make it much more difficult to carry out credit card fraud. — The aptly named Apple Card …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
McDonald's is acquiring Dynamic Yield, which uses machine learning to personalize online shopping such as recommending products; source says deal worth $300M+ — McDonald's is announcing an agreement to acquire personalization company Dynamic Yield. — The announcement does not include a price …
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Images hidden in iOS 12.2 offer a first look at Apple's new “Powerbeats Pro” wireless sport earbuds with an AirPods-like case — Last week, a report suggested that Apple is planning to release a “truly wireless” version of Beats Powerbeats headphones next month.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple announces Apple TV+, its new ad-free streaming service with original content from Spielberg, JJ Abrams, and others, coming to 100+ countries in the fall — At Apple's March special event, Apple has revealed its much-awaited Apple TV Channels streaming video service to the world …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces an ad-free game subscription service, Apple Arcade, bundling 100+ paid offline-playable iPhone and iPad games, coming this fall, pricing TBD — Apple wants to tilt the balance from ad-laden freemium gaming titles towards upfront gaming experiences that can be downloaded across platforms on iOS and macOS.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Uber to acquire Middle East rival Careem in a $3.1B deal with $1.7B in convertible notes and $1.4B in cash — - Uber's $3.1 billion agreement to buy Careem consists of $1.7 billion in convertible notes and $1.4 billion in cash. — Dubai-based Careem claims more than 30 million registered users …
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Tweets: @uber_comms and @ryan_browne_
| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Kaspersky: ASUS pushed a malicious backdoor to ~500K Windows machines for at least five months last year, after its live software update tool was compromised — The Taiwan-based tech giant ASUS is believed to have pushed the malware to hundreds of thousands of customers through … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Pentagon memo: docs about Google's Project Maven are exempt from disclosure via FOIA inquiries because they constitute “critical infrastructure security” info — In September 2017, Aileen Black wrote an email to her colleagues at Google. Black, who led sales to the U.S. government …
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @franticgoat, @digiphile, @openthegov, @samfbiddle, @emilymanna, and @samfbiddle
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
The history of Medium, told through a timeline of tweets, articles, and Ev Williams' own statements about the site — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me seven times, well...how much money do you have, again? — Less than a year after Medium abruptly canceled …
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