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Sources: Apple plans to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps in push toward platform unification, aims to let developers expand iOS apps to Macs in late 2018 — Aim is to let developers expand iOS apps to Mac computers — Apple customers have complained some Mac apps get short shrift
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase temporarily disables Bitcoin Cash trading on its subsidiary GDAX exchange after $BCH prices topped $8.5K compared to ~$3K on other exchanges — Update : We're still waiting to hear directly from Coinbase on exactly what went wrong, but the company put out a series of tweets confirming …
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase CEO says Bitcoin Cash price increase before the announcement warrants internal investigation into whether someone at Coinbase profited from inside info — Today we announced support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH). It appears the price of Bitcoin Cash on other exchanges increased in the hours before our announcement.
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| Rick D. / NEWSBTC: |
Coinbase enabled trading of Bitcoin Cash on Tuesday; users who had Bitcoin at the time of fork on August 1 will have equal balance in Bitcoin Cash — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinBase announced today that they will allow full support for Bitcoin Cash. The news comes following a bull run …
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| Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone: |
Reporter describes new demos of Magic Leap's mixed-reality headset and talks with founder Rony Abovitz about the science behind it — Rony Abovitz talks with Glixel about the tech and ambitions behind new MR Goggles — Magic Leap today revealed a mixed reality headset that it believes reinvents …
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| Steven Tweedie / Business Insider: |
Magic Leap reveals its Magic Leap One “Creator Edition” AR headset, which it says is coming in 2018 — Magic Leap updated its website on Wednesday morning, revealing its highly anticipated augmented reality smart glasses for the first time. — Billed as the Magic Leap One …
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| CNBC: |
European Court of Justice rules that Uber is a transport service, not an information service; decision means EU states can use national laws to regulate Uber — Uber is a taxi company, according to a landmark ruling from Europe's highest court. — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) …
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| Justin O'Beirne: |
How Google Maps has created data of buildings and “Areas of Interest” from its aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery to take a 6+ year lead over Apple — HOW FAR AHEAD OF APPLE MAPS IS GOOGLE MAPS? — TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE — Over the past year …
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google Play Store to require apps to target SDK no more than one year older than current release starting late 2018; new, native apps must offer 64-bit in 2019 — The Play Store created some controversy last month after announcing plans to remove apps that used Accessibility Services …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC holdings, says he wants to avoid the conflict of interest that comes with his influence and position — Charlie Lee, the former director of engineering at Coinbase, is selling almost all of his holdings in Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency that he founded in 2011.
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| Jessica Elgot / The Guardian: |
UK government to make high-speed broadband a legal right by 2020, obliging internet providers to offer speeds of at least 10Mbps all over the country — Government says internet providers will be legally obliged from 2020 to meet user requests for speeds of at least 10Mbps
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out latest Windows 10 test build with Timeline feature and begins work on enabling Progressive Web Apps on Windows 10 with Edge — Microsoft's latest ‘Redstone 4’ test build, 17063, includes includes its promised Timeline feature, the start of Edge support for Progressive Web Apps …
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