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Sources shed light on Apple's augmented reality team, which is working on several products including AR glasses and AR camera features for the iPhone — CEO Tim Cook is betting on augmented reality, a cousin of VR that he believes will keep his company on top and may even supplant the iPhone.
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| Jon Ostrower / CNNMoney: |
Sources: US to temporarily ban some electronics, excluding phones, from cabins on certain flights from Middle Eastern countries and Africa to US — Airlines that fly from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa to the U.S. must require passengers to check in almost all electronic devices rather …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Instagram now lets you save a video of your livestream to your phone's camera roll after you finish broadcasting — Instagram Stories received live video support in January, but it provided an ephemeral experience, disappearing after 24 hours. While you could save recorded photos …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
How Instagram's product and staff have evolved over the last few years, from its break with square photos to ramping up from 50 to 500+ employees — When the photo phenom found the courage to mess with success, growth went bang and innovation took off. Can it also burst Snapchat's bubble?
Tweets: @suziedomnick and @fastcompany
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Maps for Android now lets you record your parking location, time left at the meter — Google Maps has just added a handy feature that will help users remember where they parked. This appears as a new menu option when you tap the blue dot, and will place a “P” icon on the map so you can find your way back to your spot.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
At least 318 Cisco switch products are vulnerable to flaw that was found upon examination of WikiLeaks' Vault 7 files; no patch is currently available — Bug relies on telnet protocol used by hardware on internal networks. — Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Adding to recent departures, Uber vice president of maps and business platform, Brian McClendon, plans to leave amicably on March 28 — The number of executive departures from Uber is growing. — Jeff Jones, Uber's president of ride sharing, has left the company after just six months, Uber said on Sunday.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
eBay announces 3-day guaranteed-delivery program for 20M+ items, rolling out in US this summer — The e-retailer introduced a three-day Guaranteed Delivery program, heating up the battle over quicker shipping. — Fast shipping is — finally — no longer all about Amazon.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
DoorDash to add six robots to its food delivery fleet in Redwood City this Thursday for short-distance orders of up to two miles — This Thursday, the on-demand delivery company DoorDash's human couriers will begin working alongside a new type of coworker: robots.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Adobe launches Experience Cloud for enterprises, and unveils Advertising Cloud to help companies manage ads across search, social, mobile, and TV — Adobe is betting its marketing and analytics knowhow will apply to a broader part of the enterprise. Adobe will now compete more directly with Salesforce, Oracle, IBM and others.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank has scrapped a planned $100M investment in Andy Rubin's Essential Products smartphone startup, which would have valued it at $1B — Masayoshi Son's decision to scrap deal with creator of Android software reflects unpredictable style — SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped … | Bloomberg: |
Vodafone's India unit and Idea Cellular to merge, creating the largest carrier in the country, valued at about $23B with nearly 400M customers — Enlarged company has valuation of about $23.2 billion — Idea shares fall after initially surging in Mumbai trading
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