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November 18, 2014, 6:00 PM
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Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
With some 650M MAUs, Facebook gives Groups its own app with more control over notifications, no ads for now — The new Groups app makes Facebook about your friends again — Imagine you have an online service for chatting with friends, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 650 to 700 million monthly active users.| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
Uber exec, at NYC dinner with CEO present, suggested digging up dirt on critical journalists — Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists — Senior vice president Emil Michael floated making critics' personal lives fair game. Michael apologized Monday for the remarks.
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says exec's remarks on targeting the press “a departure from our values” — Uber CEO Condemns “Terrible” Comments — “We should lead by inspiring our riders, our drivers, and the public at large,” Travis Kalanick said in an 11-tweet tweetstorm this afternoon.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology — Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets …
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will soon let third-party products use its Lightning port, opening up new possibilities for accessories — Last week at Apple's yearly briefing for accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone/iPad (MFi) licensing program, the company unveiled new Lightning connectors and specs …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Far from killing it, native apps have made the open web even stronger — Native Apps Are Part of the Web — Christopher Mims, writing in the WSJ, “The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It”: … I can't believe someone is still writing this in 2014. Users love apps, developers love apps …
| Cho Mu-hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung to launch flexible display, cut number of smartphone models by 25-30% in 2015 — Samsung to launch flexible display, cut smartphone models in 2015 — Summary: Samsung Electronics will launch a flexible display for handsets and release 25 to 30 percent less handset models next year …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code — The most recent update to WhatsApp's Android app includes a surprising feature: strong end-to-end encryption, enabled by default. It's the strongest security any major texting app has offered, even compared with similar tools … | James Trew / Engadget: |
Create your own smart home with littleBits' house-friendly kit — Ever since littleBits' snap-together circuits got the ability to speak to the internet, they were crying out to be used for home-automation. Today, littleBits itself is making that a dead cert, by launching a “Smart Home Kit.”
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
OS X Yosemite update fails to solve Mac Wi-Fi mess — Apple today released the first update to OS X Yosemite that included fixes for unspecified Wi-Fi problems and improved reliability for connecting to Microsoft Exchange corporate email servers. — But Mac owners who had said that Yosemite crippled … | Cliff Edwards / Netflix: |
Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 — World's Leading Internet Television Network to Offer Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-Up Comedy Specials and TV Shows for Low Monthly Price — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service …
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
More Than 90 Percent of U.S. Households Have Three or More Devices Pinging the Internet — How much do Americans love the Internet? — Well, Ericsson counted all the ways. — It turns out that 90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
Google and Stanford researchers create image recognition software that goes beyond recognizing individual objects, teaches itself to identify entire scenes — Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently …
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| Lizzie Widdicombe / New Yorker: |
Inside 10x, a talent agency representing superstar programmers — The Programmer's Price — Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent. … “Technically, we have an open marriage, but so far there's just Michael and me.” — BUY OR LICENSE »
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
WeMail Raises $1M From Twitch, Reddit Founders For Intelligently Designed Mobile E-mail — Sure, there have been plenty of attempts at re-thinking e-mail on mobile devices. But that's no reason not to try, try again. — A pretty experienced team of founders who have sold companies … | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Ex-BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins named CEO and Chairman of wireless charging startup Powermat — Ex-BlackBerry chief joins Powermat as CEO — Thorsten Heins, who departed BlackBerry in late 2013, will now lead the wireless-charging company. — Former BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins …
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
Intel to combine PC and mobile divisions as market shifts — Intel will combine its PC and mobile processor divisions under one roof, reflecting a changing market in which the line between tablets and laptops has blurred. — The chip maker will form a new division at the start of next year called … | Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
EFF and Mozilla back new certificate authority “Let's Encrypt” offering free SSL certificates — EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates — A new organization supported by Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others is working … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Cisco Releases OpenSOC Security Analytics Framework as Open Source — OpenSOC Big Data Security Analytics Framework Consumes and Monitors Network Traffic and Machine Exhaust Data of a Data Center — In an effort to help organizations create an incident investigation tool that meets …
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IBM launches IBM Verse web-based email service, free for individuals, commercial version for business — IBM Launching Web-Based Email Service — Company to Offer IBM Verse Free to Individuals and Hopes to Sell Commercial Version to Businesses — International Business Machines Corp …
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