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Google Plus is officially gone after its mobile apps are rebranded as Google Currents

The Verge

Google Plus, the company’s failed social network, is officially gone as of today. After Google Plus personal accounts were shut down last year , Google announced that it would be replacing the social network for enterprise users with Google Currents. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Some T-Mobile customers’ call records may have been accessed in a recent breach

The Verge

T-Mobile suffered a security breach in December that may have exposed call-related information and phone numbers for some of its customers. T-Mobile said in a statement emailed to The Verge that it had notified “less than 0.2 T-Mobile says it “identified this attack in early December and quickly shut down the incident.”

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T-Mobile investigating report of customer data breach that reportedly involves 100 million people

The Verge

T Mobile may have suffered a customer data breach | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. T-Mobile confirmed Sunday that it’s looking into an online forum post that claims to be selling a large trove of its customers’ sensitive data. After reviewing samples of the data, Motherboard reported it appeared authentic. “We

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T-Mobile CEO calls latest data breach ‘humbling,’ claims it’s committed to security

The Verge

A recent T-Mobile data breach coughed up the information of more than 50 million people , including some who aren’t current customers or never were. This is T-Mobile’s fifth incident in four years. That includes this one, two in 2020 , plus one each for 2018 and 2019.

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Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

GeekWire

But today, Seattle’s shared bicycles have all but disappeared from city streets as mobility companies that were already losing money absorb the shock of the coronavirus crisis. Seattle’s newly vacant streets reflect broader shifts in the largely untested micro-mobility industry. A micro-mobility test lab.

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Z2 vets raise $5M to grow Seattle studio Starform and launch social games

GeekWire

Its unannounced first project, a team-based 5v5 arena game for PC and mobile, is currently in a closed beta. Starform was founded in 2018 by Lou Fasulo, Taylor Daynes, Josh Rosen, and Jason English, all of whom formerly worked at the Seattle-based mobile studio Z2 before its acquisition by King in 2015.

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Starbucks says nearly a quarter of all US retail orders are placed from a phone

The Verge

Almost a quarter of all transactions at Starbucks stores in the US are mobile orders through the company’s app, an earnings document revealed yesterday. Starbucks launched “Mobile Order & Pay” in 2015 , combining the company’s existing payment system with new online ordering features that let you order ahead for pickup at stores.

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