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June, 2016
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20 June
Facebook stays friends with Peter Thiel
Facebook shareholders aren’t un-friending Peter Thiel this year. A month after the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook backer said he was bankrolling a series of lawsuits against Gawker Media, Facebook’s shareholders decided he should stay on the board. Thiel was re-elected alongside seven other board members, including Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist; Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix; and Erskine …
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20 June
Adobe improves Photoshop’s aware
If there’s an overarching theme to the set of new capabilities in Photoshop CC 2015.5 and Creative Cloud, it’s efficiency. There’s little here that you couldn’t do before, but Adobe’s concentrated on reducing the number of clicks required to produce results and speeding up aspects of Photoshop. It also includes the continuation of its aggressive push to attract designers to …
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20 June
Everything you need to know about Amazon X
You’ve seen that face before. That actor… so familiar, yet it’s driving you nuts because you can’t place the face. Wasn’t he in that thing? With that gal? And that song! The one playing in the background while the two characters meet-cute. It’s so great! But what is it? Sure, you might be able to Shazam it — if not …
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20 June
New York passes bill banning entire home short
A bill passed by the New York Senate last week could see short-term Airbnb stays brought to an end, at least for whole apartments. If New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the bill, Airbnb rentals for less than 30 days that lease entire homes in class A multiple-dwelling buildings without the owner present for the stay will be prohibited under …
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20 June
Fitbit wants to help you get a better night’s sleep
A new feature inside of the Fitbit app looks to help improve the sleep habits of millions of Fitbit owners. While a majority of the company’s products already offer sleep tracking and let users create custom sleep goals, a new Sleep Schedule will now allow for even more control. The new feature, which will arrive today as part of an …
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20 June
Man pleads guilty to online harassment due to abusive Facebook comments
Zane Alchin, 25, has pleaded guilty to using a carriage service (in this case, the internet) to menace, harass or cause offence, a crime detailed under section 474.17 of the Criminal Code. After a friend of Alchin’s had posted a screenshot of a woman’s Tinder profile on Facebook in August last year, Alchin had written a number of abusive posts …
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20 June
Taylor Swift piles on music industry’s assault against YouTube
The US music industry has been beating the drum against YouTube, and now Taylor Swift is falling in step. Swift has joined an open letter to Congress with 185 other artists, the three major labels, the main trade organization for indie labels and other music industry groups. (Check the full list below. You’re sure to find at least one musician …
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20 June
Spotify passes 100 million active listeners
A lot of people listen to Spotify. The music streaming service said its user base of active listeners has passed 100 million. The majority of those are “free” users who listen to streams with commercial breaks, but the company also claims the largest paid subscriber base in the music industry, with 30 million paid subscribers. Although it might be the …
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20 June
5G gets a shot in the arm from the FCC
US regulators are setting the stage for the next era in wireless. The Federal Communications Commission next month will vote on a proposal to help identify and free up wireless spectrum at very high frequencies that could be used to power fifth-generation, or 5G, cellular networks. The agency will do as it did with the development of 4G LTE and …
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