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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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| 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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CBS News, Ars Technica, BBC, Politico, The Verge, The Hill, CSO, Office of Inadequate Security, TechSpot, The Register, Business Insider, CNET and FedScoop. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| 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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