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It looks like Apple is getting ready for a world without the home button.

All is right with the world again. Taylor Swift and Apple have kissed and made up, and the pop singer confirmed today that 1989, the best-selling album of 2014, will be available on the company’s music streaming service, which launches June 30.

Facebook today said it will make Messenger available to people who don’t have accounts with the social network, making clear how it plans to greatly extend the reach of the service.

Slack, a chat app for businesses, announced today that it now has 1.1 million daily active users, with 300,000 of them paying for premium features, such as unlimited chat history and third-party integrations.

Facebook has gotten so good at recognizing people from images that it doesn’t even need to see their faces anymore.

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Google today took a stand against revenge porn, saying it will honor requests to remove intimate images and videos shared without the consent of subjects from its search results. It will make a web form available in the coming weeks for people to submit their requests.

Google is taking its YouTube videos, traffic data, and information about local businesses and neatly packaging them into a Ramadan guide for observing Muslims.

Move over, Alexander Hamilton. The US Treasury Department has announced that the $10 note will be refreshed in 2020 with the portrait of a woman featured on it. A process to determine which woman will soon be underway.

When Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion last year, the search giant declared its intentions to extend its reach into consumers’ homes. But one major challenge at the time was that connected gadgets for the most part operated in silos, unable to communicate with each other.

Taco fans, rejoice: The taco emoji is finally here.

As people who’ve flocked to the suburbs can attest, sooner or later, city life just wears down on you. It’s cramped. The traffic’s a mess. And of course, the rent’s too damn high.

By now, most people know that their comments, likes, clicks, and shares on Facebook affect what they ultimately see on the social network. But Facebook revealed today that it has tweaked its news feed algorithm to also take into account the time people spend on posts, even if they don’t take any actions. That’s right, Facebook knows when you’re lurking.

African rhinos could go extinct in the wild within 20 years. Demand for their horns—especially prized in Vietnam and China for their supposed medicinal powers—drove poachers to kill 1,215 rhinos in South Africa in 2014, a number that’s steadily risen the last seven years. But one biotech startup is hoping to dampen the $20 billion illegal wildlife trade with lab-made rhino horns. Its first product—a beer brewed with synthetic rhino horn—is expected to hit the Chinese market later this year.

The Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus today showed off a streamlined version of its gaming headset, Rift, that will be available to consumers in the first quarter of 2016.

When Apple launched HealthKit last year, many women were quick to note there was no way for them to track their periods with the tool, which can collect and share data among health and fitness apps. That’s finally changing with iOS 9, which will be released later this fall.

A year after its $3 billion acquisition of Beats, Apple finally debuted its long-awaited music streaming service this week. Given the decline of legal music downloads, the move makes perfect sense. According to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, revenue from streaming music is projected to eclipse downloads by 2018.

When Steve Jobs launched the iTunes Store in 2003, he was credited with saving the music industry, which at the time was struggling to stay afloat in a sea of online pirates. But over the next decade, the idea of owning music became archaic, with more connected consumers choosing to stream their music from YouTube or Spotify instead. So Apple, once an innovator in digital music, fell behind and has been playing catch up ever since.

Apple unveiled new operating systems and a music streaming service today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Below is a live commentary track of the event.

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One day before Apple’s annual developer conference, Sony Music CEO Doug Morris confirmed that Apple will debut a new music streaming service at the event.

Silicon Valley loves to tout the narrative of the whiz kids who dropped out of college and went on to build immensely successful companies (see: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg). The reasoning goes that in a land of meritocracy (debatable), a degree is just not that important anymore.

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Digital marketers know the internet is the future, but online advertising has always been a fraction of the huge budgets spent on TV ads. That’s expected to change by 2019.