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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
iPad Pro review: not a laptop replacement, too bulky, disappointing and costly optional keyboard case, few optimized apps — Mossberg: The iPad Pro can't replace your laptop totally, even for a tablet lover — I am a tablet man, specifically an iPad man. I do love my trusty, iconic, MacBook Air laptop.
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Tweets: @counternotions, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @stevesi, @benbajarin, @stevekovach and @stevekovach
| iFixit: |
iPad Pro teardown: A9X chip, 78% larger display offer 2x performance of iPad Air 2, 4-speaker setup costs battery capacity, adhesive pull tabs under batteries — iPad Pro Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPad Pro shows you no longer have to choose between performance of x86 and ARM's battery life, outperforms latest MacBook Airs with lower cost, better display — The iPad Pro — First impressions last a lifetime, goes the adage. You're going to have to forget your first impressions of the iPad to understand the iPad Pro.
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hands-On With Facebook Notify, A Push Notification News App And Twitter Alternative — Facebook's filtered News Feed was never very good at real-time news. So today Facebook released Notify, an app for reading customizable breaking news, info, and entertainment push notifications right on your lock screen.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, and Techmeme — Here's Notify, Facebook's New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers — Facebook is already dominating peoples' phone time …
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See also Mediagazer| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Court documents show university helped FBI identify Silk Road 2 and possibly child porn suspect; Tor claims FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to deanonymize users — Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects — An academic institution has been providing information …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's Project Oxford APIs offer face tracking, emotion sensing, voice recognition, and spell checking — Microsoft's Azure gets all emotional with machine learning — Project Oxford AI services detect emotions, identify voices, and fix bad spelling.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
In-N-Out files lawsuit agains DoorDash claiming trademark infringement and unfair competition — In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash — Fast food restaurant In-N-Out, known for its delicious burgers and secret sauce, is suing food delivery startup DoorDash, TMZ reported earlier today.
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Tweets: @matthan, @stevenlevy, @adampegues, @aoxuetang, @ashkanmizani15, @mdudas and @paulg. Thanks:@ebencuya
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's new ‘About me’ tool lets you control personal information shown by Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and more — Google has launched a new tool called About me that lets you see, edit, and remove the personal information that the company's services show to other users.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Angies's List considering $500M IAC acquisition offer after earlier reports suggested board had no interest — IAC makes $500 million acquisition offer for Angie's List but is rebuffed [Updated] — IAC/InterActiveCorp has put forth a proposal to acquire Angie's List for $8.75 per share in an all-cash deal.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bluetooth will improve in 2016 with up to 4x range, 100% boost in speed, mesh networking support, says Bluetooth Special Interest Group — IoT drives the Bluetooth roadmap: Faster, bigger range, and mesh networking support in 2016 — With the rise of ubiquitous computing and the burgeoning Internet …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Fidelity marks down its Zenefits shares by 48% and its Dataminr shares by 35% after investing in both companies earlier this year — Snapchat Isn't the Only Startup in Fidelity's Crosshairs — Fidelity Investments has become one of the most active investors in privately-held startups …
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Business Insider and Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @tedr, @danprimack, @eringriffith, @mdudas, @shiraovide, @jeremys and @iankar_
| The Intercept: |
Prison phone services provider Securus Technologies breached, compromising 70M call recordings including 14K conversations between inmates and attorneys — Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Eyefluence raises $14M for eye-tracking technology that lets your gaze manipulate user interfaces on VR and AR devices — Eyefluence raises $14M for eye-popping eye-tracking technology for VR — Eyefluence has an eye-popping technology straight out of science fiction.
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TechCrunch and Gamasutra
| BBC: |
Co-founder of South Korea's most popular chat app KakaoTalk resigns after being accused of failing to prevent child abuse imagery being spread via the service — KakaoTalk chat app boss quits after child porn row — The co-founder of South Korea's most popular chat app has resigned …
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The Korea Heald, The Daily Dot and Tech in Asia
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Roku introduces the $50 Roku SE, with 1080p playback and compatibility with Roku's library of 3K apps, to debut for $25 on Black Friday — Roku Introduces Low-Cost Streaming Player, to Sell for $25 On Black Friday — Roku isn't just discounting its existing streaming players for Black Friday … | Financial Times: |
Microsoft launches German data centers controlled by a third-party to shield customers from US government surveillance — Microsoft unveils German data plan to sidestep US snooping — Murad Ahmed in Berlin and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Microsoft will allow foreign customers …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Fiverr raises $60M to help lure freelancers online — and removes $5 minimum charge — Fiverr, a microtask marketplace for people to buy and sell just about any type of digital service, has raised $60 million in funding to “aggressively attract the vast majority of freelancers who still operate offline,” the company said.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Airbnb pledges to work with cities, a week after it won fight over Prop. F in San Francisco and warned other cities against rules curtailing its services — Airbnb Pledges to Work With Cities and Pay ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes — SAN FRANCISCO — A week ago, Airbnb fired off a warning shot …
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Fortune, The Airbnb Blog, Re/code, Tech Insider, Consumerist, Fusion and Tnooz. Thanks:@mikeisaac
| Bloomberg Business: |
Alibaba Singles' Day sales were a record-breaking $14.3B, compared to last year's $9.3B — Why Alibaba Is Having Singles' Day in Beijing for First Time — Company's market value has plummeted $55 billion this year — ‘American Idol’ Adam Lambert to perform at Singles' Day event
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New York Times, Fortune, TechSpot, Tech Times, Business Insider, TIME, Alizila, Telegraph and GeekWire
| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
NextVR, which broadcast a Democratic debate and the NBA opener in VR, gets $30M from Comcast, TWC, and others in round led by Formation 8 — Comcast, Time Warner Invest in Virtual Reality — Media companies' venture arms join $30.5 million funding round for NextVR
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