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macOS Sierra review: Siri and Optimized Storage features add convenience but can frustrate, as Siri lacks third-party tie-ins, and iCloud storage is too limited — For the last few years, nearly all of OS X's biggest updates have come in response to iOS. First, the Mac got iOS's apps.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for Mac with real-time collaboration features and more, alongside the launch of macOS Sierra — Alongside its public release of macOS Sierra, the latest major operating system release for Mac, Apple today updated its Pages, Keynote …
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
New federal rules for autonomous vehicles aim to avoid patchwork of state laws, include 15-point safety assessment to cover ethical, conflict situations on road — The White House vs. robot cars — So far, manufacturers of self-driving cars have operated in uncharted waters …
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| Josh Smith / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google adds natural language search, improved spell checking to Drive and enhances multi-column support in Docs — (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog) — Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast CEO says the company plans to debut a wireless service by mid-2017, using leased Verizon airwaves and Comcast's 14M+ Wi-Fi hot spots — It will run on Verizon airwaves and also lean on Wi-Fi — Comcast just solidified long-rumored plans to launch its own MVNO cellular service.
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For 250 popular items tracked over several weeks, Amazon ranked its own and affiliated products higher about 75% of the time, even when cheaper options existed — Amazon bills itself as “Earth's most customer-centric company.” Yet its algorithm is hiding the best deal from many customers.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales — Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google sends out invites for October 4 “made by Google” hardware event in San Francisco, will livestream it on YouTube — Google today tweeted out an indication that it will unveil new devices on October 4. People have been expected Google to show new mobile devices …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tinder integrates with Spotify and lets potential matches view users' favorite songs and artists — Tinder has revealed the next step in its mission to help users meet their perfect match, as Spotify opens up its catalog of songs to the perennially popular dating app.
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| Bloomberg: |
In China, women launch 55% of Internet companies, and make up 17% of investing partners in VC firms — Photographer: Wang Zhang/AFP/Getty Images — Downtown Beijing. — The largest venture capital fund ever raised by a woman isn't in Silicon Valley or even the U.S. It's in Beijing … | Amelia Heathman / WIRED UK: |
WhatsApp adds @-mention support in group chats, will notify even if the chat is muted, expands group sizes from 100 up to 256 participants — You can now ‘@’ a user in a group chat to make sure they see the message — An update to the messaging tool WhatsApp now allows users to tag people … | Sensor Tower App Marketing Blog: |
Pokémon Go loses top grossing iPhone app spot in US to Clash Royale, ending a 74 day streak, which is the third-longest streak ever — Seventy-four days after rocketing to the top of the U.S. App Store's Top Grossing chart for iPhone, Niantic's Pokémon GO has ended its run as the highest grossing app in the country.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
New York federal judge rules Bitcoin is money in case involving defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx connected to a broader investigation into JPMorgan hack — A federal judge in New York has ruled that bitcoin constitutes a form of money. — The ruling comes from the ongoing case involving … Sponsor Posts
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