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Apple's iOS Security Guide confirms 2016 reports that Google Cloud Platform is one of the third-party services Apple uses to store data for its iCloud services — - The collaboration is around storing iCloud users' data. There's no indication Apple is also relying on Google for additional computing work.
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Sources: Apple planning three new iPhones for this fall: a high-end near-6.5" OLED model, updated iPhone X, and cheaper phone with Face ID, edge-to-edge screen — Company aims to boost sales after iPhone X missed expectations — All models to have facial recognition, edge-to-edge screens
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Sources: Cellebrite, popular with governments and law enforcement for hacking into devices, is telling potential clients that it can unlock iOS 11 devices — In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers …
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Profile of Circle, a Goldman Sachs and Baidu-backed cryptocurrency-focused financial services firm, as it buys crypto exchange Poloniex, source says for ~$400M — Circle, a cryptocurrency-focused financial-services firm, will announce today that it is buying crypto exchange Poloniex …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube Live gets automatic English captions, live chat replays, and location tagging — YouTube today announced a trio of new features for its YouTube Live streaming service. — Arguably the most interesting of the new features is automatic captions. YouTube has offered captioning functionality since 2006.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Troy Hunt releases new Pwned Passwords API to securely check your login data against a database of 500M+ leaked passwords; 1Password among first to use the API — A new system that securely checks whether your passwords have been made public in known data breaches has been integrated into the widely used password manager, 1Password.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
One-time Flickr rival 500px acquired by Visual China Group, the “Getty of China”, which had been one of its strategic investors — 500px, the photo-sharing site that once proposed to take on Flickr and Getty, has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), a strategic investor in 500px via previous financings.| The Khronos Group: |
Khronos Group is bringing Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL, to macOS and iOS in collaboration with Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop — Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop join forces with Khronos to release open source SDKs and runtime libraries … | Sead Fadilpaši / CryptoNews: |
Hacker who stole 37K ETH, then worth ~$7M, during CoinDash's ICO in July by changing wallet address on site, has inexplicably returned ~30K ETH, now worth ~$26M — Israel-based Coindash, a social trading platform, recently announced via its blog that 20,000 Ethereum tokens had been transferred …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit reports Q4 revenue of $570.8M, versus an estimated $588.9M, and 5.4M wearable devices shipped, compared to 6.5M in Q4 2016; stock drops 12%+ after hours — Fitbit, which has increasingly had to fend off competition from devices like the Apple Watch and is increasingly making moves …
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Alphabet correspondence with SEC details how Page treats each business separately and Google's Pichai can make some financial decisions without Page's approval — - Just-published correspondence between Alphabet and the SEC details how often CEO Larry Page receives the financial information … | Selena Larson / CNNMoney: |
Supreme Court to begin hearing email privacy case on Tuesday in the battle between Microsoft and US government over data stored on foreign servers — When should CEOs get involved in public policy — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Tuesday in a digital privacy case that could have broad global consequences.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Sony announces 5.7" Xperia XZ2 and 5" XZ2 Compact with 18:9 aspect ratio, Snapdragon 845, 19MP camera, on sale next month in UK for £699 and £549 respectively — Sony has longed to find lasting success in the smartphone market, but none of the devices it released in the past few years have done the job.
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