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Black Friday online sales reach an estimated $3.34B, up 21.6% from last year; mobile sales rise 33% to $1.2B — Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe …
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Google says its Neural Machine Translation System translates between language pairs it hasn't seen before, and sees signs of “interlingua” common representation — Posted by Mike Schuster (Google Brain Team), Melvin Johnson (Google Translate) and Nikhil Thorat (Google Brain Team)
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Payments provider Stripe raises $150M Series D at a $9B valuation led by General Catalyst and CapitalG, bringing total amount raised by Stripe to about $440M — Stripe — the company that lets websites and apps incorporate payments services by way of an API and a few lines of code … | Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Android Nougat's new file-based encryption is a move in the right direction, but Google's efforts to achieve lock screen security are still six years behind iOS — Over the past few years we've heard more about smartphone encryption than, quite frankly, most of us expected to hear in a lifetime.
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| Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: |
US auto safety regulator NHTSA proposes voluntary guidelines calling on phone makers to limit functionality in their software while users are driving — Apple iPhones and other hand-held devices have long had an airplane mode that shuts off wireless communications to prevent interference …
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How the rise of the Internet, Facebook, and fake news has fueled anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar — The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that's how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect. — “One day, nobody knew him.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google has been warning prominent journalists and professors that their accounts are under attack from “government-backed attackers” — A flurry of social media reports suggests a major hacking campaign has been uncovered. — Google is warning prominent journalists and professors …
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Amazon limits customers to five reviews per week; verified purchases, books, music, and video are exempt from the cap — Amazon will start capping the number of product reviews any customer can submit in a given week, limiting each person to five/week except for products that have been verified …
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| Bloomberg: |
Work on Apple's $1B Irish data center delayed until after court hearing in March; locals fear Apple will back out as some contest environmental, economic impact — Objections to Irish data center approval to be heard by judge — Tiny village in west of country fears investment may be lost
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Dubai-based e-commerce website Souq.com for $1B; the website sells 1.5M products in UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia — No final decisions have been made, talks could still falter — Middle East e-commerce site initially planned to sell a stake
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing shows Palantir raised a $20M funding round from a single entity on November 8, bringing total raised to over $2B — Palantir — that $20 billion secretive outfit that provides government, finance, healthcare and other organizations with analytics, security and other data management solutions …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
VLC previews 360° video and photo support for its desktop apps, says the feature will come to mobile soon; dedicated VLC apps for VR headsets due in 2017 — Popular open source video playback app VLC has added support for 360-degree video to its desktop versions, and is planning …
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Engadget, Ubergizmo, International Business Times, Fossbytes, SiliconANGLE, TechCentral.ie, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, and Liliputing. Thanks:@jank0
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