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Apple offers qualified users $150 repairs for iPhone 6 Plus devices with “touch disease” or unresponsive screens, will give refunds to users who have paid more — Apple today launched a new repair program for the iPhone 6 Plus, addressing complaints about a manufacturing issue …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
AT&T customers will be able to send messages via Echo as Amazon adds Send Message skill to Alexa on November 19 — Alexa's on a quite a roll of late. Amazon's AI assistant is adding new skills all the time, and this week the company's adding one of its highest profile partners.
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| Katrina Brooker / Vanity Fair: |
Airbnb launches 500+ guide-led experiences called Trips, available in-app to guests; initial set includes samurai lessons in Japan, running in Kenya, more — Airbnb shook up the hotel business by giving anyone with a spare bed and a mobile phone a way to start a business.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for neo-Nazi ad, blaming automated system for error — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for running an ad sponsored by a white supremacist group in violation of its own policies. — Dorsey blamed Twitter's automated system …
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Heptio, founded by ex-Google Kubernetes founders, launches with $8.5M Series A led by Accel Partners to bring Kubernetes to the enterprise — For years, the public face of Kubernetes was one of the project's founders: Google group product manager Craig McLuckie.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
PlayStation brings its Vue streaming service to Apple TV, letting users stream AMC, Discovery, FX, ESPN, and more — Apple might not have its own internet TV service, but the company's Apple TV is gradually turning a into a streaming box for other services aimed at cord cutters.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Any.Do adds real-time sync, integrated calendars, and a personal assistant for select users to its app, available on iOS now and Android soon — Plus a calendar and real-time sync — Any.do is releasing a powerful new version of its popular to-do app. Available first on iOS and coming soon …
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| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Amazon expanding Prime Video worldwide in December, promoting the expansion through the show The Grand Tour from former Top Gear hosts — Until now, Amazon's streaming video service has mostly been a nice add-on to sweeten the deal on its Prime subscription plan, which grants customers quicker shipping …
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| Nick Nguyen / The Mozilla Blog: |
Firefox launches Focus, a free browser for iOS which focuses on privacy by blocking many trackers by default — Today, we're pleased to announce the launch of Firefox Focus - a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS. — We live in an age where too many users have lost trust …
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| Spencer Ackerman / The Guardian: |
US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, known for combatting Edward Snowden, resigns ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration — Clapper will stay on until end of Obama administration, marking end to turbulent tenure defined by Snowden's revelations of NSA surveillance
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| Brent Griffiths / Politico: |
President Barack Obama weighs in on fake news, warning it could poison politics so that “we won't know what we're fighting for” — President Barack Obama weighed in on the growing debate over fake news, warning that it could poison politics to the point that “we won't know what we're fighting for.”
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. signs deal to acquire full control of Machinima; sources say the deal values Machinima slightly under $100M — Deal values gamer and fandom digital programmer at slightly under $100 million: sources — Warner Bros. announced that it signed an agreement to acquire full control of Machinima … | Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
Domino's begins delivering pizza by drone to customers within a 1.5 km radius of one store in New Zealand, in partnership with drone company Flirtey — It's a brave new world—for pizza. — For residents of the town of Whangaparaoa in New Zealand, Domino's pizza is now just a short drone delivery away.
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