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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
An exclusive early look at the new standalone Google Photos app on Android — An Exclusive Early Look At The New Google Photos App — We've been hearing for a very long time - virtually ever since Vic Gundotra left Google+, with more rumors springing up recently - that Photos …
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BGR, SlashGear, Tech Times, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, Fone Arena, VentureBeat, Android and Me, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo and Engadget. Tweets: @chrismlacy
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
What could launch at Google I/O 2015: Android M, Chromecast 2, standalone photos product, more — Google Tracker 2015 (I/O edition): Android M, Chromecast 2, and lots more — SPOILER ALERT! We recap upcoming Google projects that could launch at I/O 2015.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram sends “Highlights” email digests to re-engage users, its first promotional emails — An Aging Instagram Tries To Win Us Back With Email “Highlights” — Four and a half years is a lot of pretty pictures. Instagram isn't as young as it used to be, and it doesn't want long-time users to slip away from its app.
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Guardian, Digital Trends, Fone Arena, The Next Web, Engadget, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine and The Verge
| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
NSA bulk phone records collection to end despite USA Freedom Act failure — Even as the Senate remains at an impasse over the future of US domestic surveillance powers, the National Security Agency will be legally unable to collect US phone records in bulk by the time Congress returns from its Memorial Day vacation.
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Los Angeles Times, The Register, Wired and Lawfare
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Former employee of cybersecurity consultancy Tiversa says they extorted clients and fabricated evidence — Did this cybersecurity firm use a data breach for extortion? — In 2007, LabMD was a small but successful medical testing company based in Atlanta, processing lab samples for cancer patients …
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
How Spotify plans to apply to video what it's learned with music — Spotify's Tricky Pivot: Getting Passive Audio Listeners to Actively Watch Video — Spotify on Wednesday unveiled its ambitions to expand from music streaming into video and podcasts. At a splashy press event in New York …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Amazon to stop funneling Europe sales through Luxembourg amid pressure from regulators, increasing its tax burden — Amazon to Stop Funneling European Sales Through Low-Tax Haven — In the continuing battle between European and American tech companies, score one for Europe.
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Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, MacNN, BetaNews, The Register, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Drum, International Business Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Slashdot
Tweets: @pmarca, @glynmoody, @willcritchlow, @glynmoody, @chairman_nick and @willfrancis
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
The science behind Netflix's first major redesign in four years — Back in March, a developer named Renan Cakirerk wrote a small piece of code that made a big impact on Netflix. Cheekily named “god mode,” it addressed one of the most annoying aspects of trying to use Netflix in your browser … | Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry to Lay Off Undisclosed Number of Employees in Device Business — Arm focused on development of smartphone software, applications to be affected — BlackBerry Ltd. said Friday it is laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its device business including those focused … | Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine: |
Four years after ‘Jeopardy’ win, IBM's Watson program has seen applications in 75 industries including finance, healthcare, molecular biology — How Afraid of Watson the Robot Should We Be? — On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers …
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Beyond Search and Wall Street Journal
| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Expedia sells stake in Chinese travel firm eLong to China-based Ctrip for $671 million … Expedia sold its 62.4 percent stake in eLong, a Chinese travel service, to a number of firms for $671 million, the company announced today. Buyers include Ctrip.com, Keystone Lodging Holdings, Plateno Group and Luxuriant Holdings.| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’ — Launched in September 2008, Google's Chrome browser is now dominant in its share of the desktop web browser market, with approximately 1 in 4 Internet users interfacing with the web using the browser.
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