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Apple acquires Workflow, an automation tool for iOS, will keep three-person team and make app freely available in the App Store — Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks.
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Instagram says it will start blurring “Sensitive Content” that doesn't merit removal and opens two-factor authentication to all — Instagram is already doing a lot to spot and censor posts that violate its community guidelines, like outright porn, but now it's also taking steps … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon has finalized a deal to acquire Middle Eastern rival Souq.com for $650M, below its $1B valuation from February 2016 — Mar 23, 2017, 8:48 amMar 23, 2017, 8:48 am — Amazon continues its march across the globe, and one of its newest targets is the Middle East.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
WikiLeaks releases mostly decade-old documents detailing CIA techniques for compromising Macs and iOS devices using EFI, UEFI, and firmware malware — Earlier this month, when WikiLeaks dumped a cache of hundreds of secret documents allegedly detailing the CIA's hacking operations …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces patent licensing program for connected cars, with navigation, entertainment, and voice recognition features, signs first deal with Toyota — Microsoft is making a fresh attempt to convince companies to use its technology for connected cars.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Medium launches memberships for $5/month, directing early revenue to writers, will eventually give access to exclusive stories and an offline reading list — You don't really get anything yet — Medium has just launched its subscription service, which for $5 per month will give subscribers access to... something, eventually.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger rolls out @mentions within chats and News Feed-style reactions to messages — Group chat will get a bit less chaotic with the global rollout of two Facebook Messenger features it was previously testing in Vietnam. — Users can now @mention friends in a group chat to send …
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Android 2016 security report: 50% of devices in use at the end of 2016 had not received a platform security update in one year — Google has spent the past year working with third-party manufacturers and phone carriers to improve its update system for Android, which is often criticized …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Despite Google's assurances, AT&T, Verizon, others pull ads from Google and YouTube over concerns ads could appear next to content promoting terrorism and hate — SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T says it's pulling its business from Google and YouTube despite the Internet giant's pledge this week …
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Nintendo says a now-fixed “manufacturing variation” was to blame for Joy-Con controller issues — If you, like me and several other Kotaku staff, have run into a consistent left Switch JoyCon signal issue, don't worry: Nintendo says it's not in fact a hardware problem, but a “manufacturing variation.”
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| Ross Rubin / ZDNet: |
Adobe demos three retail-enablement apps for Hololens which use augmented reality to visualise analytics for marketers — An emerging technology group at Adobe has shown off a trio of retail enablement apps that use augmented reality to visualize analytics.
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Profile of Tracer, a phone surveillance tool made by a US firm that is being resold by Moscow-based OpenGSM; sources say Apple has been tracking it since 2015 — As the infamous tourism tagline for Nevada's gambling paradise goes, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.| TechCrunch: |
Google Maps adds feature that lets users share their location with friends and family on an ongoing basis or for a specified period of time — Google Maps has today launched a new feature to allow you to share your location with others. While that might seem creepy, it's not the first to add this type of functionality.
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