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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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Jane Manchun Wong. More:
Android Police, Engadget, Telegraph, Thurrott, BetaNews, CNET, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, and Neowin
Tweets: @rizzn, @wongmjane, @ekp, @mayazi, and @martinsfp
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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Engadget, Thurrott, The Verge, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, CNBC, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @markgurman, @apollozac, and @stevesi
| Jake Newby / RADII: |
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, TechNode, Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechSpot, The Verge, Telegraph, CNET, Tech.co, Boing Boing, Mashable, Business Insider, Engadget, KrASIA, BetaNews, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @allanxia, @mykecole, @tom_bcgh, @esyudkowsky, @halagorani, @fabiochiusi, @rationalmale, @carnage4life, @zakiscorner, @evilsocket, and @rao2z
| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
Tweets: @seema_econ, @seema_econ, @sotarauta, @drjohnbeard, and @johncarreyrou
| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Profile of Lambda School, an online coding program that is free in exchange for a share of post-graduation income, has 2,700 students, and is growing 10%/month — Early this summer, the tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious.
Tweets: @gregoryjbarber, @austen, and @nathanmart
| Gregor Hohpe / Martin Fowler: |
A closer look at software architecture lock-in, which many developers consider their archenemy, in its many forms like vendor lock-in, product lock-in, and more — A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective …
Tweets: @chupchap, @mjasay, @aloneguid, @mweagle, @krues8dr, and @martinfowler
| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Inside Amazon's plans to integrate Alexa deep into in-car systems, as it prepares to announce the second version of the Alexa Auto SDK this week — Competing with Apple and Google when you don't have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience.Thanks:@technologizer
| Jason Perlow / ZDNet: |
IBM's move to open source key tech in its Power processor could benefit IoT device makers, Apple, and Microsoft, while Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and AMD could lose — It's a heck of an announcement by Big Blue, and this is a heck of a list. — At the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in San Diego …
Tweets: @jperlow
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Android and Windows have also been targeted by the websites that sought to infect iPhones of Uighur ethnic minority in China — The unprecedented attack on Apple iPhones revealed by Google this week was broader than first thought. Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation …
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iMore, Forbes, Engadget, Boing Boing, MSPoweruser, Business Insider, Inquirer, Gizchina, Softpedia News, The Overspill, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, TechSpot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Slashdot, Firstpost Tech, TechCrunch, iOS Hacker, The Daily Dot, TechCrunch, Born's Tech and Windows World, and Newser
| Song Jingli Tue / KrASIA: |
Tencent invests $125M in Kuaikan World, which runs a Chinese comics app and an online community for fans of comics; Kuaikan's app has 200M+ users and 40M+ MAUs — Beijing-based Kuaikan World, which runs a comic app and a community for comic fans, announced via its WeChat channel on Tuesday …
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Asia Times, chinaknowledge.com, Caixin Global, Pandaily, and DealStreetAsia
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Kaszek Ventures, which focuses on Latin America and has raised $600M across two new funds, putting their total capital under management at ~$1B — Kaszek Ventures, the investment firm that has been one of the primary architects of the recent boom in startup financing and growth …
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Reuters, Crunchbase News, and Crunchbase News
| Tarun Pathak / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: Nokia leads in facilitating Android updates, with 96% of smartphones sold since Q3 running Android Pie, followed by Samsung's 89% and Xiaomi's 84% — - Key brands had fewer than a third of their sub-US$200 smartphones updated to the latest Android version.
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The Verge, Technology Personalized, Phandroid, TechSpot, and Firstpost Tech. Tweets: @campuscodi
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