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Google's bare-bones FaceTime competitor Duo launches for iOS and Android, won't connect with other communication apps from Google like Hangouts, upcoming Allo — Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video-calling app that unites iOS and Android users?
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Minecraft gets Oculus Rift support as part of an update to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta — Minecraft has landed on the Oculus Rift as part of a free update to the Windows 10 Edition beta. Anyone who owns the PC or Mac version of Minecraft is automatically granted access …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note7 review: the best big phone on the market though expensive and loaded with bloatware — There is no greater evidence of The Future of Computing than the big-screened smartphone. Big phones have become the de facto personal computers for many people …
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| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Source: Snapchat to buy recommendation app Vurb for around $110M plus retention payouts totaling nearly as much — Snapchat is tiptoeing into search. — The company is acquiring recommendation app Vurb for around $110 million plus additional team retention payouts totaling nearly as much …
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| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Oculus Rift to ship in Europe and Canada September 20 and is now available for pre-order there — Now that Oculus has caught up with the pre-order backlog for its VR headset, the Facebook-owned company has decided it's time to make the Rift available in more places.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India's WhatsApp rival Hike raises $175M led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation — India has a new tech unicorn. Hike, a four-year-old messaging app, today announced that it has closed $175 million in funding led by new investors Chinese internet giant Tencent and manufacturing firm Foxconn.
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft consolidates its separate two-factor authentication apps into one new app, Microsoft Authenticator, for Android and iOS — As promised, Microsoft has updated and renamed its previous account verification app for Android and iOS, Azure Authenticator, to Microsoft Authenticator.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google is discontinuing Google+ Hangouts On Air on September 12, pushes users to YouTube Live — Google today quietly announced that Google+ Hangouts On Air will no longer be available on September 12. Four weeks from now, Google users will be asked to use YouTube Live instead.
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Postmates has failed to make Uber-for-anything cheap, passes the expense to customers in fees that often don't match the “estimate” — In late June, Shawn Cook had a cold and needed some cough medicine. The mobile game developer turned to on-demand delivery startup Postmates …
Tweets: @nikiscevak, @mikeisaac, @juliacarriew and @caseynewton
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Linux bug lets attackers remotely hijack unencrypted internet traffic on phones running Android 4.4 or later — Off-path attack means malicious hackers can be located anywhere on the Internet. — An estimated 80 percent of Android phones contain a recently discovered vulnerability …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Salesforce says it has acquired data analytics startup BeyondCore — Salesforce just bought another data analytics startup called BeyondCore, adding to its buying spree this year. — The announcement was made through BeyondCore's blog post and confirmed by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's tweet.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
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