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Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
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UMich security expert says Clinton should petition for recount in PA, MI, WI given the insecurity of voting machines and sophistication of state-sponsored hacks — You may have read at NYMag that I've been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft brings its Solitaire Collection to Android and iOS for free today, with a $1.99/month ad-free option available — Microsoft is bringing its popular version of Solitaire to iOS and Android today. While the game as existed on Windows for more than 25 years, the modern Solitaire Collection …
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| Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics: |
Strategy Analytics: smartphone profits hit $9B in Q3 2016, Apple captures 91% share of global profits, Huawei takes second place with 2.4% — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone profits reached US$9 billion in total during the third quarter of 2016.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Report: Microsoft offers to allow rivals access to Outlook add-ins in bid to win EU approval of LinkedIn deal — Microsoft has reportedly offered concessions to the European Union to try and secure approval of its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. The Wall Street Journal reports … | S Prabhakaran / FactorDaily: |
Ola unveils in-car system, Ola Play, to allow riders to stream via Apple and Sony, tweak settings like air conditioning, plans rollout to 50K cars by March 2017 — Ride hailing company Ola has launched Ola Play, an in-car system that lets users take control of features inside the car, like entertainment and air conditioning.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
FBI hacked 8K+ computers in 120 countries using a single warrant during child porn sting according to transcript used in hearing during recent case — In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI's “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant … | Jethro Mullen / CNNMoney: |
Twitter briefly suspended CEO Jack Dorsey's account due to an “internal mistake”; reasons for the error are not clear — Twitter has been left red-faced after it briefly suspended its own CEO's account. — For a while late Tuesday, attempts to reach Jack Dorsey's profile produced …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Samsung buys US-based quantum dot display company QD Vision, reportedly for around $70M; QD Vision will become part of Samsung's R&D unit — The deal is estimated to be worth $70 million. — Samsung has confirmed the rumored acquisition of QD Vision as the company looks to strengthen its quantum dot display technology unit.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google and its TV and speaker hardware partners are phasing out Google Cast branding in favor of “Chromecast built-in” — Innovating in the internet-connected TV space is hard. Finding the right way to market this technology to consumers may, however, be even harder.
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| Hal Hodson / New Scientist: |
Google's DeepMind and University of Oxford create lipreading AI that annotated 46.8% of spoken words without error, compared to 12.4% by a professional — Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning … | WABC: |
Madison Square Garden Co. says credit card data of visitors to five venues may be compromised due to a breach that lasted from November 2015 to October 2016 — Madison Square Garden disclosed Tuesday it was involved in a massive credit card breach at five of its venues in New York City that lasted almost a year.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue of $12.5B, down 7% YoY, and full year 2016 revenue of $51.1B, down 4% YoY — Revenues missed the mark in the fourth quarter of HPE's first year as a standalone company. — HPE reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2016 results on Tuesday.Sponsor Posts
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