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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google launches Allo messaging app with Smart Reply and Google Assistant for iOS and Android — If you're going to unveil a new messaging app, it had better do something unique. At this point, finding a place amongst entrenched options like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and iMessage is not an easy task.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature, will store all non-incognito messages by default — The app will log conversations by default after all — When Allo was announced at Google's I/O conference earlier this year, the messaging app was presented as a step forward for privacy.
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| AT&T: |
AT&T unveils plan for multi-gigabit Internet delivered over shaped radio transmissions that are guided by power lines; field trials set for in 2017 — Urban, Rural and Underserved Parts of the World Could Benefit from AT&T's Innovative Wireless, Multi-Gigabit-Speed Internet Connectivity …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
macOS Sierra review: Siri and Optimized Storage features add convenience but can frustrate, as Siri lacks third-party tie-ins, and iCloud storage is too limited — For the last few years, nearly all of OS X's biggest updates have come in response to iOS. First, the Mac got iOS's apps.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
macOS Sierra's Optimized Storage iCloud syncing for Desktop and Documents folders is buggy and may not suit everyone's workflow — So that's it for the era of the big X. Version 10.12 of the operating system that runs the Mac is here, and with it, a new/old name: macOS.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| ProPublica: |
For 250 popular items tracked over several weeks, Amazon ranked its own and affiliated products higher about 75% of the time, even when cheaper options existed — Amazon bills itself as “Earth's most customer-centric company.” Yet its algorithm is hiding the best deal from many customers.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces second $40B share buyback program, raises quarterly dividend by 8.3% to $0.39/share — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote Login Software maker raises quarterly payout by 8.3% to 39 cents — Existing repurchase program to be completed by year's end| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Researchers find North Korea has only 28 TLDs on .kp domain after misconfigured nameservers allowed TL;DR project to obtain all the top-level DNS data — North Korea is the most repressive, secretive state in the world. There's no free press, no independent media, and scarce few people have access to the Internet.| Mike Klein / Sunlight Foundation Blog: |
Sunlight Foundation exploring merger or alliances with other organizations, will discontinue tool building and database maintenance — The board of directors of the Sunlight Foundation has reached some important conclusions about our future. We want to share them with our friends, funders …
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| Josh Smith / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google adds natural language search, improved spell checking to Drive and enhances multi-column support in Docs — (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog) — Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more.| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
IHS estimates iPhone 7 $649 base model costs Apple $225 to make, up 18% YoY — According to a new teardown from IHS Markit, the cost of the new device jumped about 18 percent from last year's model. — James Martin/CNET — All that new tech crammed into the new iPhone 7 isn't coming cheap for Apple.
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Thanks:@jeskillings| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe reports Q3 record revenue of $1.46B, up 20% YoY, record Marketing Cloud revenue of $404M, and Digital Media annualized recurring revenue rises to $3.70B — Adobe shared its third-quarter earnings report today, revealing (for the third quarter in a row) “record” $1.46 billion in revenue and $0.75 (non-GAAP) earnings per share.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast CEO says the company plans to debut a wireless service by mid-2017, using leased Verizon airwaves and Comcast's 14M+ Wi-Fi hot spots — It will run on Verizon airwaves and also lean on Wi-Fi — Comcast just solidified long-rumored plans to launch its own MVNO cellular service.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales — Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
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