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Facebook ordered to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users in Germany and to delete info already forwarded to Facebook from roughly 35M German WhatsApp users — When WhatsApp, the internet messaging app, announced last month that it was starting to share some of its users' online information with Facebook …
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts data-friendly YouTube Go app for Android with offline viewing, Bluetooth sharing, video previews, more and expands public Wi-Fi program in India — Google has introduced a new version of YouTube that is dedicated to users in emerging markets. — ‘YouTube Go’ is initially available in India and Android only.
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Google Translate now converts Chinese into English with neural machine translation — Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI's Mavic Pro drone is extremely small and portable, packing high-end features, 40MPH speed, 27 mins of battery, starts at $749, less than GoPro Karma at $800 — The unit is extremely small and portable, but still packs all the high end features DJI drones are known for
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Major music labels, RIAA, others sue stream-ripping site YouTube-MP3 for copyright infringement — Two weeks ago, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry published research which claimed that half of 16 to 24-year-olds use stream-ripping tools to copy music from sites like YouTube.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Amazon is teaming up with smartlock company August and garage-access startup Garageio to provide in-home package deliveries — Amazon's delivery prowess is impressive; just today, it announced free Prime same-day delivery for my home city of Toronto, and the speed and consistency … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts Daily Mix playlists, which are based on your favorite tunes and play artists familiar to you, unlike Discover Weekly, coming to iOS, Android — Are you a Spotify user who has a list of favorite bands and songs, but do not have the motivation to find and organize all of them into useful playlists?| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Source: Facebook is ready to launch Facebook at Work, its enterprise collaboration network, in the next few weeks; companies will be charged per user — Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company plans to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is killing Yammer Enterprise in January 2017, will start integrating Office 365 Groups first — Microsoft today provided new information about how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise-focused social network. The Yammer Enterprise service tier will be going away on January 1, 2017.| BBC: |
HERE to fit Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz cars with sensors to gather data on traffic conditions and driver actions for real-time digital map service coming 2017 — Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz cars fitted with on-board sensors are to share information in real time about on-street parking spaces and roadworks via a digital map service.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Twitter refuses Turkish court order to block the account of noted DC journalist Mahir Zeynalov; despite refusal, Zeynalov predicts his account will be censored — A Turkish court ordered Twitter to block the account of a noted journalist last week, accusing him of “instigating terrorism.”
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Slack and Salesforce partner to launch several new integrations for sharing data, Chatter support, connecting channels to a Salesforce record, with more to come — Introducing new integrations with Salesforce CRM — Slack and Salesforce—both big parts of many people's working lives.
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