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French presidential candidate Macron's campaign says it was targeted in a “massive” hack, after about 9GB of data was posted to Pastebin — French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped …
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Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3 — Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet. — Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. — The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers' time …
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Possible image of Echo with a built-in touchscreen and camera found on Amazon's servers — Here is the first look at what Amazon's upcoming Echo with a built-in touchscreen looks like. I was able to locate this unfortunately low resolution image on Amazon's servers in a similar manner …
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Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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IDC: worldwide tablet shipments declined 8.5% over the past year, Q1 is the tenth straight quarter in decline — Remember when everyone thought tablets would replace PCs, at least for average consumers? Yeah, that didn't happen. In fact, the opposite is happening.
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Seattle writes its own broadband privacy rules requiring user opt-in before ISPs can share data, pushing back against US government; ISPs must comply by May 24 — Hardly anyone was pleased by the rollback of the broadband privacy rule last month, opening up the possibility of ISPs collecting … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ultrahaptics raises $23M Series B for ultrasound-based “touchless interfaces” that users can feel, bringing total raised to about $40M — As huge tech companies continue to dump money into VR and AR technology looking to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real …
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Square is rolling out debit cards that draw money from users' Square Cash accounts — It's a prepaid card, not a real debit card. But it's like the one Jack Dorsey recently showed off. — Last month, Jack Dorsey teased the launch of a Square debit card.
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Microsoft announces a new event on May 23 in Shanghai, confirms new hardware is coming; in a tweet Panos Panay hints at Surface update — Microsoft is holding an event this month, the company announced tonight, at which it says it will “show the world what's next.”
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Germany's domestic intelligence head says Russia took large amounts of data in 2015 parliament cyberattack; Berlin is exploring legal options for offensive ops — The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency accused Russian rivals of gathering large amounts of political data … | Financial Times: |
Spotify, Deezer, Rocket Internet, others sign letter to European Commission urging antitrust action against Apple and Google — Brussels urged to take action against those abusing mobile and app store dominance — Read next … Spotify and a host of European internet businesses have called … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts scannable Spotify Codes in mobile app to let users easily share music — Spotify has taken a tip from Snapchat with its new feature for sharing music via scannable images. The new Spotify Codes feature creates a unique barcode and album cover image for every song, artist and playlist.
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