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Apple will remove abandoned apps from the App Store and curb descriptive, search-optimized app names by limiting them to 50 characters — It's cleaning time in the App Store. Apple sent an email to its developer community indicating that there will be some upcoming changes in the App Store.
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| Rafi Letzter / Business Insider: |
Rocket explosion on SpaceX launchpad destroys Facebook's first Internet.org satellite, worth $200M, which was to provide internet coverage to sub-Saharan Africa — A major explosion during a SpaceX prelaunch test Thursday destroyed Facebook's first satellite.
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| Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook says he forecasts repatriation of “several billion dollars” of Apple's overseas cash to the US next year — CEO says Apple could start moving some of its profits from its international operations to the U.S. next year — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Messenger adds Instant Video, which lets you quickly share live video within conversations — Open Messenger in iOS or Android, start a conversation with a friend and the app will offer you the option of adding live video to your chat. — The video starts without sound, but you can turn it on if you want.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, and Founders Fund, with ROIs of 2.6x, 2.3x, and 1.7x on paper for its three funds — Rare look at startup investors' performance shows Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund — Andreessen Horowitz's first three venture funds … | Julia Love / Reuters: |
Sources: Google scraps Project Ara phone but may still bring the technology to market via partners, potentially through licensing — Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components …
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In the 2012 Last.fm hack, details of 43.57M accounts were stolen; 96% of hashed passwords were able to be cracked within 2 hours — LeakedSource has exposed every single mega breach of 2016 including LinkedIn, MySpace, and VK.com but because we are the most effective breach notification service in the world, we're back with more.
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Sources: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM form group to devise ethics for AI, and discuss its impact on jobs, transportation, warfare, and more — SAN FRANCISCO — For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators.| Reuters: |
Sources: Hewlett Packard Enterprise in talks to sell its software division to Thoma Bravo, hopes it can fetch $8B-10B — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) is in talks with buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC to sell its software division, hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Apple issues patch for desktop Safari browser and OS X to fix zero-day vulnerabilities, which are similar to those used in NSO's iOS attack discovered last week — Apple has issued an urgent security update to fix critical vulnerabilities in the laptop and desktop version of the Safari browser …
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| Washington Post: |
Marcel Lehel Lazar, the hacker known as “Guccifer”, sentenced to 52 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and unauthorized computer access — The Romanian hacker who first revealed that Hillary Clinton used a private email address while she was secretary of state …
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| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Baidu and Nvidia to Build Artificial Intelligence Platform for Self-Driving Cars — Chinese search engine Baidu and chipmaker Nvidia announced a partnership Thursday that will focus on using artificial intelligence to develop a computing platform for self-driving cars.
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