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Google's Daydream VR headset is coming to stores in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia on November 10, available to pre-order now — Last month, we announced Daydream View, a comfortable and easy-to-use virtual reality headset and controller powered by any Daydream-ready phone.
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| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Sources: Nintendo to end Wii U production this week — Nintendo will end Wii U production this Friday, multiple sources have confirmed to Eurogamer. At the last official count, as of 30th Septemb...
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Microsoft says Fancy Bear exploited the recently reported Windows flaw; patch coming November 8 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday that a hacking group previously linked to the Russian government is behind recent cyber attacks that exploit a newly discovered flaw in its Windows operating system.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram testing shopping feature, to let 20 brand partners add buttons to photos leading to product details, will send users to retailer's site for checkout — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Updated DMCA exemptions provide legal cover to Americans who reverse engineer products or repair their own electronics, but are limited to a two-year trial run — Researchers can now probe connected devices, computers and cars for security vulnerabilities without risking a lawsuit.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple drops prices on 512GB and 1TB SSD upgrades for older Mac lineup by up to $200 — Following its “Hello Again” Mac event last week, Apple quietly dropped the prices on higher-capacity storage upgrades across its Mac lineup. 512GB and 1TB SSD build-to-order upgrade options for the MacBook Air … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest makes Instapaper's premium features free, previously $3/month; features include full text search on all articles, speed reading, text-to-speech, more — Nearly three months after being acquired by Pinterest, Instapaper is making some changes that will impact its users.| Alissa McAloon / Gamasutra: |
Facebook unveils Gameroom, a standalone, Steam-like gaming client, says Unity 5.6 will ship with Gameroom support — At the Unite LA keynote earlier today, Facebook's Leo Olebe officially unveiled Facebook Gameroom, a Steam-like gaming client first discussed back in August.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter adds Welcome Messages and Quick Replies to DMs to improve businesses' customer service response times — For all the talk of doom and gloom regarding Twitter's future, there are some things the platform does better than anyone. Recently it's been strengthening its position … | Stefan Nicola / Bloomberg: |
YouTube strikes deal with German royalty-collection group Gema, ending seven years of legal battles and unblocking thousands of music videos in the country — @StefanNicolaBBG More stories by Stefan Nicola — Video service to pay licensing fees for clips shown in Germany| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Tableau Q3 revenue of $206.1M misses expectations but rises 21% YoY; stock down 13%+ after hours despite company generating its highest quarterly revenue — The first earnings report with new CEO Adam Selipsky at the helm was a mixed bag for Tableau Software, as the Seattle-based visualization …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber partners with GM's car-sharing service, Maven, for a 90-day car rental pilot program for drivers in San Francisco — The pilot program with Maven, which looks a lot like Lyft's partnership with Maven, will only be available in San Francisco for 90 days.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square beats with Q3 revenue of $439M vs $431M expected, says it processed 35K+ business loans for about $208M, up 70% YoY — While Jack Dorsey's other company Twitter might be struggling, Square continues on a roll that's keeping Wall Street happy. — There's going to, as always … | Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics says it's investing $1B+ by the end of June 2017 to boost system chip production at its Austin, Texas facilities to meet growing demand — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion by end-June 2017 to boost production of system chips …
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512tech, Engadget, Tech Times, eWeek, Salon, TechSpot, Samsung Global Newsroom, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, PCWorld and KVUE-TV. Tweets: @benbajarin
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Roku TV updates to let users pause live TV delivered via OTA antennas for up to 90 minutes, listen to TV audio from smartphone, and more — A free software update brings the ability to pause, and subsequently rewind and fast-forward, on TV shows that come via an antenna.
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The Official Roku Blog, The Verge, Variety, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tech Times, Engadget, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint and PC Magazine. Tweets: @onejarednewman
| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined — Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Lenovo starts shipping Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Google Tango phone, for $499 — The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
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| Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: |
IBM acquires Fluid's Expert Personal Shopper, a chatbot based product recommendation platform using Watson's AI to help people make purchasing decisions — IBM continued its acquisition spree, this time of a partner the company helped to establish. IBM's Interactive Experience (IBM iX) …
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ZDNet, Fluid and TechCrunch
| Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
The new nonprofit Chan Zuckerberg Biohub $600M research center reserves right to commercialize findings, a distinction from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced that they would invest at least $3 billion to …
Tweets: @dearsarah
| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
iOS app Talkshow, which let groups have text conversations in public, will shut down on December 1, six months after launching — Talkshow, which launched about six months ago, will be shutting down effective December 1st. The service allowed groups to have text-based conversations in public.Sponsor Posts
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