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Sources: Alphabet's Project Wing nixed a Starbucks partnership and froze hiring, asking some team members to look for other jobs within the company — Project Wing, born inside the Google X research lab, is the latest Alphabet project to be target of financial restraint.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook uses Caffe2Go, a platform for executing neural networks on mobile devices, to apply style filters to video in real time in its app — Hussein Mehana is showing off a new incarnation of the Facebook smartphone app. It can transform a photo of your backyard barbecue into a Picasso.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung put full page ads in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal apologizing for the Galaxy Note7 fiasco — In an effort to restore some consumer goodwill after the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung ran full page apology ads in three major US daily newspapers today.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's Refurbished and Clearance online store now offers iPhones for the first time, starting with iPhone 6s and 6s Plus models — Apple recently updated its online refurbished store to include a range of different iPhone models, giving customers a way to purchase a certified refurbished device at a lower cost directly from Apple.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a feature that lets page administrators create job postings and receive applications from candidates — Facebook might muscle-in on LinkedIn's recruiting business with ways for business Pages to promote job listings. The new Jobs features could give companies another reason …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
GoPro recalls all 2,500 Karma drones sold, offers full refund, says some units lose power during operation — The $799 drone can randomly lose power during operation — As most of the world focuses on the US presidential election, GoPro just announced a recall of its first-ever drone, the $799 Karma.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook opens sponsored messages to all advertisers in latest version of Messenger, as well as “click to Messenger” ads that appear in News Feed — As Messenger continues its steady growth as a communications channel distinct from its social network parent Facebook … | Alexander J Martin / The Register: |
Web Of Trust browser add-on, downloaded over 140M times, pulled from Mozilla, Chrome, Opera add-on stores after it was caught selling users' browsing histories — Did the users consent to this? Probably not knowingly... A browser extension which was found to be harvesting users' browsing histories … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat updates Android, iOS apps with “World Lenses”, which apply an animated filter to your environment, and a rewind Stories feature similar to Instagram's — Now the copying is going the other direction, as Snapchat clones Instagram Stories' rewind feature.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Android's November security patch does not include fix for critical privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel; official Linux patch was released last month — Linux users already got a fix for “Dirty Cow.” Android users aren't so fortunate. — Android users waiting for a fix … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple hired at least 16 former employees from now-defunct B2B cloud music platform Omnifone and purchased select tech, source says — As the race continues to pick up more subscribers for streaming music services, TechCrunch has learned that one of the most prominent players in the field quietly picked … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Uber rival Karhoo, which reportedly raised $250M and was active in London and New York, shuts down — So much for fighting the Uber fight. Today Karhoo — a company that wanted to take on Uber by pulling together prices and offerings from competing car services into a single app …
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