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LinkNYC removes browsing from NY kiosks after complaints people were monopolizing spots and watching porn, is working with city officials on options — The Wi-Fi kiosks were designed to replace phone booths and allow users to consult maps, maybe check the weather or charge their phones.
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
LG, Huawei, and Motorola confirm no new Android Wear watches in fall 2016 despite releasing one in Sept. 2015, hinting at a lack of enthusiasm from customers — With the Apple Watch Series 2 and Samsung's Gear S3 hitting the market, rivals such as Motorola and LG are sitting out this holiday season.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub debuts improved comments moderation and project management features, tweaks API for better 3rd-party integrations, offers early-access program — GitHub is hosting its Universe developer conference in San Francisco today. Unsurprisingly, the company used this event to announce …
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Changes to Rule 41 of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to let FBI hack unspecified number of PCs with single warrant, starting Dec. 1, unless Congress blocks — Digital devices and software programs are complicated. Behind the pointing and clicking on screen are thousands of processes and routines that make everything work.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple hires former Time Warner Cable exec Peter Stern as VP of cloud services, who will report to Eddy Cue — Former Time Warner Cable executive Peter Stern has joined Apple to work on the cloud services team, reports The Wall Street Journal. Stern will serve as a vice president, reporting to iTunes chief Eddy Cue.
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| Michael Kan / PCWorld: |
The World Anti-Doping Agency says Russian cyber espionage group hacked its database, stole medical information about Olympic athletes — The hacking group Fancy Bear has also been blamed for breaching the DNC — The same Russian state-sponsored hackers that allegedly breached …
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Tweets: @jeremiahg, @fancybears, @guardian and @joshconstine
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft will now let devs distribute repackaged Win32 desktop apps through the Windows Store, which was previously limited to Universal Windows Platform apps — The Project Centennial “bridge” for Win32 apps is now ready for production. — Traditional desktop Windows applications …
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Apple stock nears 2016 high on better than expected reports about new iPhone preorders and Samsung's Note7 woes — Apple's (AAPL.O) stock hit a 2016 high on Wednesday, with its market value peaking above $600 billion for the first time since April as Wall Street bet the technology company's newest iPhone …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One, brings free video content from Periscope, Vine, and partners like NFL, NBA, and Bloomberg — Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's vice president of product management Adam Mosseri says News Feed curates 2K stories a day for each user, but only about 10% of them are seen — Facebook says on a given day, the average user on the social network will read about 10 percent of all the stories that are surfaced.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Online payment firm PayU buys India's Citrus Pay for $130M in all cash deal; companies say it is the largest cash exit for a payments company in India — Hundreds of millions of dollars of investment have been put into commerce startups in the fast-growing market of India … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period — In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today, the company's CEO and Founder Daniel Ek hinted that the service has hit the 40 million subscriber milestone.
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See also Mediagazer| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Sapphire Ventures, whose sole investor is SAP, has closed a new $1B late-stage startup fund — Sapphire Ventures has closed on a $1 billion fund to invest in privately held start-ups, easing fears about a downturn in the venture capital industry. — Sapphire Ventures …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
New EU proposals would make VOD content from services including Netflix and Amazon Prime more readily available across all member states — Siim Teller is a big fan of the British Broadcasting Corporation. A 37-year-old Estonian, he got hooked on the documentaries, period dramas … | Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
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