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Apple Shares Tips on Avoiding App Store and iTunes Phishing Emails
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Apple Shares Tips on Avoiding App Store and iTunes Phishing Emails

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Apple last week shared a new support document that’s designed to help App Store and iTunes users avoid phishing emails that mimic legitimate emails from Apple. In the document, Apple outlines techniques to identify an actual App Store or iTunes email, which the company says will always include a current billing address, something scammers are unlikely...
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There’s always a bigger fish
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There’s always a bigger fish

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Spotify plays the long game with Family and Student Plans even as revenue per user drops
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Spotify plays the long game with Family and Student Plans even as revenue per user drops

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Spotify’s “Family Plan,” a variation of which launched in 2014, as well as its “Student Plan” appear to be driving a significant portion of the company’s growth and improving retention, as the company points to it multiple times in its filing for a direct listing on public markets today. But that also comes at a cost of decreasing the amount of revenue...
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Five iOS Apps Worth Checking Out – February 2018
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Five iOS Apps Worth Checking Out – February 2018

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Over on our YouTube channel, we’re continuing on with our new monthly series that highlights new, interesting, and useful apps that we think are worth checking out. Because there are so many apps available on the iOS App Store, it can be hard to find new content, and it’s also easy to overlook great older apps. Our app lists are designed to include...
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Even with double the subscribers, Spotify says Apple will always have an edge owning the app store
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Even with double the subscribers, Spotify says Apple will always have an edge owning the app store

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Spotify just filed for a direct listing in the U.S., sidestepping the traditional IPO process, and now we’re starting to see some of the true financial guts of the company — and some of the significant risks it faces from challenging services from Apple and Google. Apple, for example, charges apps a percentage of revenue for subscriptions processed...
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Apple Moves iCloud Data and Encryption Keys for Chinese Users to China
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Apple Moves iCloud Data and Encryption Keys for Chinese Users to China

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Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country’s latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its Chinese iCloud users in data centers run by a state-owned company called Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co, despite concerns from human rights activists. In...
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MoviePass Founders Say Subscription Service ‘Would Never Have Happened’ Without iPhones in New App Store Feature
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MoviePass Founders Say Subscription Service ‘Would Never Have Happened’ Without iPhones in New App Store Feature

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Apple today on the iOS App Store shared a new interview with the founders of MoviePass, touching on the service’s origins and its integral ties to the iPhone and modern smartphone app development. MoviePass debuted in 2011, but grew in popularity last August when the company dropped its subscription price to $9.95/month, which lets customers see one...
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Porsche’s EV lead takes shots at Tesla while hyping the Mission E
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Porsche’s EV lead takes shots at Tesla while hyping the Mission E

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Porsche is readying its Mission E for launch, with a 2019 target sales date. The all-electric Tesla Model S competitor has a lot of car fans excited, and has been drawing covetous looks since the concept’s unveiling back in 2015. Now that launch is drawing closer, however, we have some new info about the car, how it charges and its performance. Porsche...
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Afghan president offers to recognise the Taliban | News
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Afghan president offers to recognise the Taliban | News

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has offered to recognise the Taliban as a legitimate political group, as part of a proposed process he said could lead to talks aimed at ending more than 16 years of war.  Ghani’s offer on Wednesday, made at the start of an international conference aimed at creating a platform for peace talks, adds to a series of...
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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn
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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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LinkedIn wasn’t built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 more countries to make itself more meaningful to people’s lives while laying the foundation for a lucrative business. Businesses will be able to post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Jobs dashboard, Facebook Marketplace,...
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Apple Watch Series 3 Can Now Track Skiing and Snowboarding Activity
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Apple Watch Series 3 Can Now Track Skiing and Snowboarding Activity

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Apple has announced that skiers and snowboarders can use Apple Watch Series 3 to track their activities starting today. Third-party apps snoww, Slopes, Squaw Alpine, Snocru, and Ski Tracks have each been updated to take advantage of custom workout APIs released in watchOS 4.2 that enable tracking of specialized metrics: Total vertical descent and...
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Square’s bets beyond a register brought in $253M last year as it posts a largely positive fourth quarter
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Square’s bets beyond a register brought in $253M last year as it posts a largely positive fourth quarter

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Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million on its Cash card in December, putting it on a potentially $1 billion run rate. That would offer another significant avenue for Square to snap up additional customers as it looks to chip away at the alternatives...
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These will be the first cities getting 5G from Sprint and T-Mobile
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These will be the first cities getting 5G from Sprint and T-Mobile

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Just last week, AT&T announced the first handful of cities where it’ll roll out its 5G network later this year. Today at Mobile World Congress, T-Mobile and Sprint did the same. Sprint’s first 5G networks will go live in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Washington, DC and Houston. T-Mobile will fire up 5G in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas...
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Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the smartphone camera

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Chinese smartphone maker Doogee shows off its vision for the smartphone camera


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Doogee’s Mobile World Congress press conference is mostly what you’d expect from a company you’ve never heard of: small, low key, in the second basement meeting room at a hotel across from the convention center. It’s a bit like the smartphone farm system, the company’s hoping it can gin up enough awareness to rise above the din of news from the world’s...
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How to Use Control Center’s Apple TV Remote in iOS 11
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How to Use Control Center’s Apple TV Remote in iOS 11

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In iOS 11, it’s possible to add an Apple TV Remote interface to the Control Center that will allow you to quickly navigate and control playback on your 4K Apple TV or fourth-generation Apple TV using your iPhone or iPad. It’s a great solution if you just can’t get on with Apple’s Siri Remote, and doesn’t require you to install an app. In this article,...
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Facebook launches a local news accelerator for publishers
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Facebook launches a local news accelerator for publishers

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Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain more digital subscribers both on and off Facebook. “We often talk to publishers about what the future...
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Memcached Servers Abused for Massive Amplification DDoS Attacks
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Memcached Servers Abused for Massive Amplification DDoS Attacks

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Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of major websites and Internet infrastructure. In recent days, security researchers at Cloudflare, Arbor Networks, and Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 noticed...
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EnvKey wants to create a smarter place to store a company’s API keys and credentials
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EnvKey wants to create a smarter place to store a company’s API keys and credentials

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If an engineer ends up leaving a company, on their own, or for any other reason, the company work is going to have to quickly work to change all of their keys for their credentials and keys application components. That’s a huge hassle, because often times it’s hard to know where they are stored, who can access what, and how to change everything at...
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Wait Times for iPhone Battery Replacements Increasing
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Wait Times for iPhone Battery Replacements Increasing

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Customers aiming to get a battery replacement for an older iPhone with a degraded battery are facing longer wait times than ever, according to new data shared by Barclays. Average wait times for a new battery have jumped up to 2.7 to 4.5 weeks based on a series of Apple Store checks conducted by Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz (via Business Insider)....
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Hunter2 wants to teach engineers to handle web app security with a hands-on approach
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Hunter2 wants to teach engineers to handle web app security with a hands-on approach

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When Equifax was broken into late last year — one of the biggest security breaches in recent history — Fletcher Heisler wanted to make sure engineers got to know exactly what happened right away, and how to fix it. That’s part of the goal of Hunter2, a new online learning platform for engineers that’s designed to teach them how to handle these kinds...
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Apple adds an M. Night Shyamalan thriller to its roster of original shows
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Apple adds an M. Night Shyamalan thriller to its roster of original shows

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Apple will apparently have every kind of show from anyone with any kind of name working in Hollywood when it launches its updated approach to original video content: The latest original on its slate is a 10-episode, half-hour thriller series order that will be executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who is also going to direct the first installment...
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Sonos One’s Alexa support comes to Canada
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Sonos One’s Alexa support comes to Canada

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Sonos One users in Canada can now join their peers south of the border in yelling requests at their connected speakers – a free update issued today enables Amazon Alexa on the Sonos One. The One launched with Alexa support in the U.S., but while the speaker has been available to Canadian buyers since late last year, Alexa voice commands are new with...
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Amazon Acquiring Video Doorbell Maker Ring, but HomeKit Support is Still Coming
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Amazon Acquiring Video Doorbell Maker Ring, but HomeKit Support is Still Coming

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Amazon is acquiring Ring, the company that makes a range of WiFi-enabled home security products that include video doorbells, reports GeekWire. The two companies are expected to officially announce the acquisition news later this afternoon, but provided a statement to GeekWire. “Ring is committed to our mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods by...
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Google’s Flutter app SDK for iOS and Android is now in beta
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Google’s Flutter app SDK for iOS and Android is now in beta

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Flutter is Google’s open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It’s not necessarily a household name yet, but it’s also less than a year old and, to some degree, it’s going up against frameworks like Facebook’s popular React Native. Google’s framework, which is heavily focused around the company’s Dart programming language,...
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Robo-logistics company Magazino raises $25M for its warehouse bots
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Robo-logistics company Magazino raises $25M for its warehouse bots

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German robotics firm Magazino, creator of robots meant to work alongside people in warehouses and the like, has raised $24.8 million to continue development and deployment of its TORU and SOTO robots. The bots are made for the kind of repetitive fetching and transport work that is so common in e-commerce distribution and storage facilities. They’re...
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Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin
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Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin

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Back in 2016, Amazon’s Japanese rival Rakuten acquired Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup that it had previously invested in, to help it work on blockchain technology and applications. Today, one of the first fruits of that deal has come to light. The company is planning a new cryptocurrency called Rakuten Coin — built on blockchain technology...
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