Net neutrality and Title II win in court, as ISPs lose case against FCC
Appeals court decision upholds FCC's net neutrality order. — The broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules and the r...
Apple announces iOS 10 with “Raise to wake”, expanded use of 3D Touch, homescreen widgets for apps, redesigned lock screen with richer notifications
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Apple opens up Siri to app developers through an API in iOS 10
Apple announced today that it will be opening up Siri to third-party developers through an API, giving outside apps the ability to activate from Siri's voice commands, and potentially endowing Siri wi...
iOS 10 Tidbits: Individual Read Receipts, Wake Alarm, Music Storage Optimization, and More
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Apple announces all-new Music app with lyrics support coming with iOS 10
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
iMessages for iOS 10 adds third-party iMessage Apps, rich media, “emojification” of words, bubble and full screen effects, and more
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Apple's new Home iOS app consolidates control over home devices, integrates with Siri, allows users to define actions based on entering geofenced areas
Matt Burns / TechCrunch :
Apple unbundles its native apps like Mail, Maps, Music and more, puts them in the App Store
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Apple boasts using differential privacy techniques, like sub-sampling and noise injection, to collect data while protecting user privacy, but some are skeptical
Apple, like practically every mega-corporation, wants to know as much as possible about its customers.
iOS 10 adds voicemail transcriptions, phone spam detection, and an API for VoIP apps
James Vincent / The Verge :
LinkedIn's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft
“Let me explain why.” — Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his employees Monday morning, ticking off a list of reasons behind …
Playstation VR launching in the US October 13th for $399, will cost $499 when bundled with the camera and Move controllers
Sony's step into the world of high-end VR finally has an exact release date: October 13th. The company showed off the PlayStation VR at its E3 press conference this evening …
Apple's Photos app for iOS 10 will cluster photos by people and scene objects using computer vision and generate video scene summaries set to music
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Google unveils Springboard, a search and recommendation tool for Google Apps, and redesigns Sites
At its Atmosphere enterprise-focused event in Tokyo today, Google is showing off a redesign of its Google Sites service for creating and posting sites you share with colleagues …
Apple announces iOS 10: developer preview available today, public beta in July, final release this fall
Everything you need to know about Apple's upcoming iOS release Mark Wilson / BetaNews : Apple doesn't seem to have decided which devices will support iOS 10 Darren Orf / Gizmodo : iOS 10 Will Make The...
Apple unveils macOS Sierra with Siri, Apple Pay support, auto unlock, universal clipboard
After 15 years of large cats … Amir Efrati / The Information : Apple's Machines Can Learn Too Brian Fagioli / BetaNews : Apple renames OS X to macOS — upcoming ‘Sierra’ version will get Siri, Apple Pa...
How Microsoft hopes to turn your Xbox into a PC with Xbox Play Anywhere
It was a rare sunny day in Seattle and Phil Spencer seemed very pleased. Sitting across from me in a meeting room at Microsoft's sprawling Redmond campus, the head of Xbox smiled as he talked …
Microsoft to let Xbox Live users create clubs, control memberships, will provide a BBS-like service to help players find others to play against, by end of year
Players will have the ability to form groups of gamers around the globe and control their membership
Apple's new file system for all its operating systems supports encryption natively, lets you create system snapshots, clone files and directories, more
Copy-on-write metadata, native encryption, instant cloning, snapshots, and more. — Though the feature wasn't mentioned in Apple's WWDC 2016 keynote …
Social analytics service ThinkUp to shut down July 18, citing API restrictions from Facebook and Instagram, and Twitter API changes
We have some tough news: We're going to be shutting down the ThinkUp service on July 18 and issuing a refund then for the balance of all member subscriptions.
Sources: FanDuel and DraftKings are in merger talks as both face legal battles
At their peaks, both companies had valuations over $1 billion — New York is expected to allow fantasy sports by NFL's start — DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc., the two biggest daily fantasy sports...
Meta raises $50M series B at around $300M valuation to expand into new markets like China, build its next generation AR headset, the Meta 3
The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware …
Mac users will be able to pay online in Safari using Apple Pay, authenticating with their iPhone's Touch ID
Online shopping is about to get even easier. — At WWDC today in San Francisco, Apple finally announced that Apple Pay is coming to the web this fall.
Sources: Russian government hackers had access to computer network of the Democratic National Convention for about a year, stole opposition research on Trump
Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database … Tweets: @philiprucker , @jason_koebler and @csoghoian Tweets:...
Apple previews major update with macOS Sierra
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Apple debuts watchOS 3 with faster app loading, swipe-up Control Center, Scribble handwriting recognition, Activity Sharing, SOS feature, more
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Project Scorpio is a 4K-capable, VR-ready Xbox One launching next fall
Andrew Webster / The Verge :
Apple's Swift Playgrounds for iPad is designed to teach kids programming concepts, coming this fall for free
Apple unveils updated tvOS with single sign-on feature, dark mode, YouTube Siri search, more; new apps launching soon include Sling and Fox Sports Go
Matt Burns / TechCrunch :
Tech companies seek to address publishers' ad-blocking problem with tools to circumvent ad-blockers, like Admiral which recently raised $2.5M
Technology companies are selling software designed to counteract the effects of ad-blocking — As consumer adoption of online ad-blocking tools continues … Tweets: @sapna , @tombrenn and @seanammirat...
Profile of Eugene V. Kaspersky, who, as a Russian owner of top global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs, constantly has to allay suspicions of Kremlin influence
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times :
Instagram competitor Storehouse is shutting down July 15
Nate Swanner / The Next Web :
Former Twitter executive Katie Jacobs Stanton is headed for genomics startup Color as CMO
A few years ago, I made one of my first …
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