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| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Peeple, a Yelp-like app that lets you rate other people, to launch in late November with no opting-out once you've been rated — Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not — You can already rate restaurants, hotels …
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The Verge, Brian Solis, BBC, SiliconBeat, Slate, GeekWire, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Telegraph, Guardian, TechSpot, The Mary Sue, Scripting News, Gizmodo UK, The Register, Peeple - Facebook, UPROXX, Fortune, BGR, The Week, Fusion, New York Magazine, Gothamist and London Evening Standard
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon to stop listing Apple TV and Google Chromecast for sale on October 29 citing the need to “interact well” with Prime Video — Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices — Amazon.com Inc. is flexing its e-commerce muscles to gain an edge on competitors …
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MacRumors, The Verge and 9to5Mac
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New Stagefright Bugs Leave More Than 1 Billion Android Users Vulnerable — In July, a security researcher revealed that Android phones could be hacked with a simple text, thanks to a series of bugs in the Android operating system that are now commonly known as Stagefright.
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Zimperium Mobile Security Blog, The Verge, Ars Technica, BGR, CNET, eWeek, The Next Web, Threatpost, AndroidGuys, The Register, Techaeris and Forbes
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Nest is releasing its Weave communication protocol for other connected devices to use — Ever since Nest Labs first started selling its learning thermostat in 2011, consumers have responded to its simplicity and the fact that it just works. It wasn't the first thermostat on the market …
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Nest, Re/code, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Telegraph, Gizmodo UK, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Engadget, EH Network, Android Central and SlashGear
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Tweetbot 4.0 released as a new universal iOS app, adding activity tab and fully redesigned iPad version — Tweetbot 4 is the new best way to use Twitter on iOS — There was a time when I'd swear by Tweetbot. Tapbots' quirky iOS Twitter client won a ton of people over way back in 2011 …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Mike Lynch, Founder of Autonomy, Sues Hewlett-Packard for $150 Million — The legal wrangling surrounding Hewlett-Packard's much-maligned takeover of Autonomy, a British data intelligence company, shows no signs of ending. — On Thursday, Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy …
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ZDNet, SiliconBeat, Reuters, Re/code, Fortune, VentureBeat, TechEye and Bloomberg Business
| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Microsoft's real-time language translator coming to Skype as baked-in feature on Windows PCs … Microsoft is about to start building its real-time language translation tool directly into Skype for Windows PCs, meaning the 100 million users already on the service will soon be able to have video chats …
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Skype Blogs, The Verge, PCWorld, ABC News, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Fire Hose, Windows Central, MSDN Blogs and WinBeta
| Lauren Hockenson / The Next Web: |
Tinder rolls out Super Like globally; tests show users are 3x more likely to find a match, and conversations last 70% longer when the feature is used — Tinder takes the ‘Super Like’ Worldwide — Tinder is adding an extra swipe for eager folks looking to make connections.
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TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, ITProPortal, Tech Insider, Fusion, CNNMoney, Quartz, Engadget, Digiday and iPhone Hacks
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google Ads SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy: we need to deal with ad blocking as an industry by defining what an acceptable ad is and improving the user experience — Google Ads Boss: ‘We Need to Deal With’ Ad Blocking as an Industry — Sridhar Ramaswamy, Google's top advertising executive … | Office Blogs: |
Outlook on the web begins rolling out support for email likes and contact @mentions — Likes and @Mentions coming to Outlook on the web — Over the last several years, social networks have changed the way we communicate. In our personal lives, we show our approval by “Liking” … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
LG reveals Watch Urbane with LTE, the first Android Wear device with cellular capability, and V10 smartphone with secondary display, dual front-facing cameras — LG unveils new V10 smartphone, Urbane smartwatch — The new smartphone features an independent second screen …
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LG Newsroom, The Verge, Android Authority, LG Newsroom, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Police, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, BBC, VentureBeat, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, PhoneDog.com and Engadget. Tweets: @pierce
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Verizon's Mobile Video Service Go90 Launches To Public — Verizon's new mobile video service go90, which is aimed at capturing a younger demographic who spends more time watching video on their phones than with traditional TV, is launching publicly today on both the iTunes App Store and Google Play.
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