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Apple Watch Series 2 review: serious fitness tracker with GPS, better performance, but display not visible in direct sunlight, software glitches remain — A GPS sensor and better water resistance make the new Apple Watch a serious fitness tracker — Let's call it what it is: a fitness tracker.
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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: @guardian, @joshconstine and @danroan
| Signe Brewster / TechCrunch: |
A look at the experience of riding in Uber's autonomous vehicles as the company begins passenger testing with a fleet of 14 cars in Pittsburgh — Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car.
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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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Tim Cook favors AR over VR, suggests it may be more commercially viable because it allows users to be more “present” — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he favors augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR), and suggested the emerging technology …
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Tweets: @philiped and @brianroemmele
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple hires former Time Warner Cable exec Peter Stern as VP of cloud services, 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.| 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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Tweets: @eldsjal, @neilswmurray, @jyarow and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| 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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Tweets: @windowsdev and @maryjofoley
| Wired: |
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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Tweets: @digiphile, @rondeibert, @eff, @josephfcox, @ronwyden, @csoghoian, @dangillmor, @bringmetheax and @torproject
| 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.
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Tweets: @businessinsider and @hannahkuchler
See also Mediagazer| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon reintroduces the Echo Dot at $50, down from the $90 launch price, and adds a white option and discounted packs to encourage bulk purchases — We already knew it was coming - thanks to an accidental tweetAmazon posted earlier this week - but now it's official: Amazon's connected speaker Echo Dot … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
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| 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.| 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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See also Mediagazer| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules, which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News — Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authorsSponsor Posts
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