Tech News Today 1539

Twitter's new app Engage seems to be doing more to enrage people than engage them. At Vidcon, Twitter also announced that your videos on Twitter and Vine can now be 140 seconds long. Helsinki-based Supercell, the mobile gaming outfit responsible for Clash of Clans and Boom Beach among many others, just sold an 84.3% stake of the company to China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd for $8.6 billion dollars (Tencent’s largest acquisition to date). We also talk to Michael Coren from Quartz about what the price of LEDs has to do with indoor farming, and whether or not health apps are silicon snake oil.

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Links

• Introducing Twitter Engage
• Twitter is making a huge video push — and tweaking Vine’s six-second limit in the process
• Tencent Seals Deal to Buy ‘Clash of Clans’ Developer Supercell for $8.6 Billion
• Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone
• Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
• Ex-Apple Engineers Want to Join the Move Toward Autonomous Cars
• Instagram doubles monthly users to 500M in 2 years, sees 300M daily
• The head of the American Medical Association calls many health apps pure “snake oil”
• E-book settlement credits are rolling out…