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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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| 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: |
iPad Pro review: excellent performance, nice hardware and speakers, but expensive, suffers from iOS 9's limitations, and takes a long time to charge — iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS — There's some promise here, but iOS makes this a very different kind of computer.
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| 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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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.| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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, Computerworld and Gamasutra
| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Tinder's big new update lets you use your job and education to snag a date — Dating app Tinder just released a major new update that lets you add job and education information to your profile. — Tinder will also now display a “smart” snippet of text below the picture of a potential match …
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Washington Post, Tinder Blog, The Next Web, PC Magazine, Gigaom, Wired.co.uk, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge and Engadget
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPad Pro Now Available for Purchase From Apple Online Store — Apple is now accepting orders for the iPad Pro, both through its online storefront and through the Apple Store app. The first iPad Pro online orders will arrive on Friday, November 13 when one-day shipping is selected … | 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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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
US charges three men with widespread hacking whose targets included JP Morgan — Suspects allegedly used Heartbleed to hack into a global financial institution. — On Tuesday federal prosecutors unsealed charges against three men, revealing details of a sprawling criminal enterprise … | Periscope / Medium: |
Periscope gets a revamped global map, ability to skip ahead in replays, and 3D Touch shortcuts — Skip Around The World — We're excited to announce two major updates to Periscope on iOS and Android: a revamped Global Map, and Skip Ahead on replays! — Global Map
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| 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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| Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News: |
NVIDIA announces Jetson TX1 module for autonomous drones, robots, and vehicles, with developer kit available November 12 for $599 — NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Brings Supercomputer Performance To Autonomous Drones, Vehicles — NVIDIA may be a graphics powerhouse when it comes to add-in boards …
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NVIDIA Newsroom, KitGuru, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, Tech Times and The Next Web
| Lora Kolodny / Wall Street Journal: |
CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding platform for consumer goods companies, raises $30M Series C led by Collaborative Fund — CircleUp Banks $30 Million to Help Investors Find Top Food Startups … CircleUp Network Inc., a startup that connects accredited investors with consumer goods and retail businesses …
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