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SAP is acquiring big data startup Altiscale for over $125 million

Apple releases iOS 9.3.5 to patch security flaws following targeted attacks

Facebook open-sources A.I. software for segmenting objects in images

Twitter launches button letting you send direct messages from any website

HTC Vive slightly beats Oculus Rift when it comes to developer loyalty

Steve Wozniak: An iPhone without a headphone jack would ‘tick off a lot of people’

Google Search removes ‘mobile-friendly’ label, will start negatively ranking mobile interstitials in 2017

Disbelief LLC is the new name of the studio that helped ship Oculus Dreamdeck

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Code extension for debugging websites on iOS devices

Google starts rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to Nexus devices

GitLab launches Issue Boards, an open-source task management tool that resembles Trello

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Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and that’s a problem

Google will kill Chrome apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux in early 2018

Apple releases iOS 10 public beta 6

Google secretly acqui-hired mobile app development startup Apportable

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Google has hit 3 billion app installs — and may overtake Facebook

Google is opening a San Francisco office for its Launchpad Accelerator

Microsoft open-sources PowerShell and extends it to Linux

Unity makes it easier to release games for Facebook

‘A.I. is still rather nascent,’ says Intel executive Diane Bryant

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Edge address bar keyboard shortcut

Twitter’s Crashlytics can now track out-of-memory iOS app crashes

WordPress 4.6 arrives with streamlined updates, native fonts, and editor improvements

Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update and new Skype Preview

Facebook will waive fees for Account Kit SMS confirmation messages through August 2018

Salesforce acquires data analytics company BeyondCore

Apple releases iOS 10 public beta 5

How to restore the backspace key as a keyboard shortcut to go back in Chrome

Why I prefer Google AMP pages to Facebook Instant Articles

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with File Explorer notifications

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If they could build an app, I could too: A non-programmer’s path to programming

Microsoft again pushes back end of support for Skylake devices on Windows 7 and 8.1

AWS launches Usage Plans for API Gateway service

AWS cuts prices of Elastic Block Store snapshots by 47%

Logitech launches Pop Home Switch to take on Amazon’s Dash Button

Google Docs and Sheets now support Split View on the iPad Pro

Peter Thiel’s Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk

Apple releases iOS 10 public beta 4

Chrome will block ‘behind the scenes’ Flash content in September, make HTML5 default in December
