Source: new entry-level iPhone will have a starting point of 32GB storage instead of 16GB
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iPhone users will be able to sign up to be organ donors from the Health app in iOS 10
Apple's next software update for the the iPhone will make it easier for users to register as organ donors. The company is adding the new feature to its Health app, and will let users sign up to becom...
BlackBerry confirms it will no longer manufacture the BB10 BlackBerry Classic smartphone
Former mobile phone giant BlackBerry has announced it will cease manufacturing its BB 10-powered BlackBerry Classic smartphone. — The news comes less than a week after we revealed that the Canadian ...
Comcast to allow Netflix onto its X1 video platform later this year, a major move in a relationship that once stoked net neutrality concerns
The move means the once contentious pair have declared a truce. — Cable giant Comcast will allow popular web video streaming service Netflix onto …
Twitter tests sports coverage starting with Wimbledon stream featuring video and scrollable tweets on dedicated Live page
Twitter is streaming Wimbledon, our first glimpse at live sports on Twitter. — Twitter wants to get into the business of streaming live sports …
Microsoft launches free standalone Skype Meetings for businesses; calls limited to 10 participants, down to 3 after 60 days
Microsoft today launched Skype Meetings, a new audio and video conferencing tool specifically designed for small businesses. Skype Meetings is essentially a stripped …
New CEO of Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life Media, says it's facing FTC probe after 2015 breach and allegations of using “fembots” and fake profiles
The parent company of infidelity dating site Ashley Madison, hit by a devastating hack last year …
Starship to begin testing six-wheeled autonomous delivery robots in UK, Germany, and Switzerland
There are big brands which think the robots could rock the industry. — Try not to step on them — the autonomous robot delivery guys which will soon appear on the streets of cities in the UK, Germany...
Google buys machine learning startup Moodstocks to help your phone's camera identify objects
Google announced today that it has acquired Paris-based Moodstocks, a startup that has developed machine learning technology to bolster the image recognition features on smartphones.
Huawei sues T-Mobile over 4G FRAND patent infringement
Huawei alleges that Bellevue-based T-Mobile would not make a deal to license several 4G patents from the Chinese telecom company, and is still using those technologies, according to a lawsuit filed Tu...
Bret Taylor, former Facebook CTO and co-founder of FriendFeed, is joining Twitter's board
This board now looks radically different from the one that allowed Twitter to stagnate. — Twitter has appointed another new board member: Bret Taylor, the former chief technology officer at Facebook...
FBI recommends not to indict Hillary Clinton for email misconduct, finds 110 emails in 52 email chains contained classified info at the time sent
until Hillary Clinton Jason Koebler / Motherboard : Reminder: Public Officials Using Private Email Servers Is Indefensible Lucia Maffei / TechCrunch : FBI recommends no charges for Hillary Clinton ove...
Google's DeepMind AI to use 1M anonymous NHS eye scans in five-year project to spot common diseases earlier
known as diabetic … Gareth Halfacree / bit-tech.net : DeepMind partners with the NHS for eye-scan project Karl Utermohlen / InvestorPlace : Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL) DeepMind to Help Diagnose Eye Disease...
TinyCo, maker of “Marvel Avengers Academy” and “Family Guy: The Quest For Stuff” mobile games, bought by gaming company SGN for an undisclosed sum
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Appeals court rejects challenge to CFAA anti-hacking law, gives broad leeway to prosecute password theft; critics say ruling may affect routine password sharing
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Popular South Korean Snapchat clone Snow has self-destructing messages, “stories” video sharing, and is gaining traction in China, where Snapchat is blocked
here are the two apps side by side Claire Reilly / CNET : There's no escape: Your parents are using Snapchat Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter : An 11-Month-Old Snapchat Copycat App Called ‘Snow’ Is Exploding ...
Cyber security startup Darktrace raises $64M in financing at a valuation of over $400M
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Millions of Chinese live-streaming daily events, with most popular “showrooms” attracting 400K people at a time, earning top streamers $100K+/month
One popular video featured the nation's richest man playing poker. Startups and web giants alike are cashing in by selling virtual gifts … Tweets: @nanduan , @vinodkraju , @kimfox , @davidramli and @...
Twitter estimates that it has 10 million users in China
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Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy talks about how Amazon hatched the idea for AWS in 2003
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Analyzing the top reasons to remove the headphone jack from the next iPhone, from better audio quality via Lightning to thinness, more
Jason Snell / Six Colors : Tweets: @jsnell , @stevesi and @lukasb Tweets: Jason Snell / @jsnell : Count me as a “remove the headphone jack” skeptic. https://sixcolors.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @steve...
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