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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 as early as 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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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms Geekbench analysis that shows it manages power demands on iPhones with older batteries to avoid shutdowns, saying it added the feature last year — Because of a Reddit post and the loose interpretation of subsequent benchmark tests posted by Primate Labs' John Poole, the …
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| New York Times: |
Job ads aimed at age groups on platforms including Facebook raise questions of age discrimination, prompt lawsuit; Amazon, LinkedIn change methods after query — This article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization.
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| Rob Goldman / Facebook: |
Facebook says aged-based targeting for employment is an accepted industry practice, disagrees with allegations that the ads are discriminatory — Our view on age-based targeting for employment ads — In the last year ProPublica has uncovered a number of different flaws in our advertising systems.
| 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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing says it has raised $4B, which will be used for AI and international expansion — China's Didi Chuxing, the country's top ride-hailing company, said today that it has raised $4 billion in new capital to support a range of new initiatives including international expansion.
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| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Didi Chuxing to fully acquire third-party payment firm 19Pay for $45M in a bid to expand into financial services — China's largest ride hailing firm Didi Chuxing, which ranks as the second most valuable company on China Money Network's China Unicorn Ranking, has agreed …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter now lets users set up third-party apps, such as 1Password or Authy, for two-factor authentication as an alternative to SMS — Twitter has announced an important change to how it handles two-factor authentication for new logins on its service. Twitter now lets you use third-party apps …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Mozilla releases Firefox for Fire TV, touts ability to launch popular video sites like YouTube amid Amazon-Google feud over YouTube access on Amazon's devices — An alternative workaround to the Amazon-Google feud — Amid Amazon and Google's bitter and self-defeating feud over the right … | 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 — Over the past year, we've been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London …
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| Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post: |
Plan to vote on bill for long-term reauthorization of key NSA surveillance program loses support from House Republicans — House Republicans have abandoned plans to vote on a long-term reauthorization of a powerful government authority to conduct foreign surveillance on U.S. soil …
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| Facebook Design: |
Facebook to stop using “disputed” labels on false news, will show fact checks as Related Articles after tests proved the latter method resulted in fewer shares — Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Niantic Labs adds support for more advanced AR to Pokemon Go on iOS through Apple's ARKit developer tools — A very good reason to keep AR mode on all the time — Niantic Labs, the developer of mobile augment reality hit Pokémon Go, today announced that an update of its iOS version …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Walmart is developing a text message-based personal shopping service that delivers household items in under 24 hours and an Amazon Go-style smart store — This ain't your grandpa's Walmart. — When Walmart paid $3 billion for Jet.com and its founder Marc Lore …
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list two ProShares bitcoin-backed ETFs that would track newly-introduced bitcoin futures contracts — NYSE Arca, an exchange owned by New York Stock Exchange's parent company, has resubmitted an application with the SEC to list a pair of Bitcoin-backed exchange-traded funds … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it has hired Barney Harford, former CEO of online travel site Orbitz that was acquired by Expedia in 2015, as its COO — Harford becomes company's second-highest ranking executive — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi worked with Harford at Expedia — Barney Harford …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Assistant SDK to Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and UK and adds device-specific voice control for smart homes — The software development kit (SDK) for Google Assistant is expanding to additional countries today, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
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Google Developers Blog, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Android Authority
Tweets: @actionsongoogle, @androidcentral, and @verge
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Password manager maker Keeper sues Ars Technica and reporter Dan Goodin for story on a vulnerability in Keeper software, first highlighted by Google researcher — The vulnerability was fixed, but Keeper now demands that the allegedly defamatory article is pulled offline.
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Naked Security. Tweets: @a_greenberg, @dangillmor, @josephfcox, @mattblaze, @troyhunt, @tarah, @eff, @normative, @kimzetter, @erratarob, @ncweaver, @withinrafael, @tomwarren, @josephfcox, and @mattblaze
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
IAB data shows digital ad spending during first half of 2017 grew 23% YoY to $40.1B, as mobile ad revenue reached $21.7B or 54% of the total — Digital ad spending continued to grow during the first six months of 2017, according to the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates rules to let small businesses use template-based apps under certain conditions, will waive dev fee in 2018 for government and nonprofit apps in US — Apple today announced it's amending the App Store guideline that banned apps created using templates and other app generation services.
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