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| Jeff Barr / AWS Blog: |
Amazon debuts AWS Snowmobile, a 45 foot long container and truck capable of transporting 100PB of data securely between locations — Moving large amounts of on-premises data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is still more challenging than it should be!
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Tweets: @curtmonash, @kevinweil, @kennethn, @imkialikethecar, @joshconstine, and @gonzalezseattle
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces a simplified virtual private server service called Lightsail, starting at $5/month — AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean's bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts AI platform with tools for devs: Rekognition for image recognition, Polly for text-to-speech, and Lex, a chatbot builder using tech behind Alexa — Amazon today announced the launch of its new Amazon AI platform at its re:Invent developer event in Las Vegas.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS debuts FPGA instances for EC2 cloud computing service, pricing TBD, for applications which typically run on GPUs lke video processing and machine learning — Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type (F1) with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gooligan, new Android malware found in 86 apps in 3rd-party marketplaces, has compromised 1M+ Google accounts to date, targeting versions 4 and 5 of Android — 86 apps available in third-party marketplaces can root 74 percent of Android phones. — Researchers say they've uncovered a family …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apologizes for editing user comments and says the company is working to combat abuse by taking action against “toxic users” — Reddit will start issuing warnings, timeouts and permanent bans to its most abusive trolls, but will also limit …
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See also Mediagazer| Reed Albergotti / The Information: |
Sources: Fitbit to buy Pebble for “small amount” — Fitbit, the leader in the fitness band market, is near a deal to acquire smartwatch maker Pebble, according to three people briefed on the deal. — The price couldn't be learned but it is thought to be for a small amount.
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Tweets: @justherrick, @bryce, @edzitron, @jessicalessin, and @amir
Thanks:@chris_ciaccia| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Apple working on fix for recent spate of invite spam affecting iCloud calendar users, says it is identifying and blocking suspicious senders — Have you been receiving spam calendar invites? Apple knows about the problem and is working on a solution. In the meantime, we've got a workaround that will ease your burden.
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Tweets: @reneritchie and @beninato
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Geohot's startup Comma.ai open sources its self-driving software, Open Pilot, and its plans for compatible hardware, Comma Neo — Highway safety regulators called, so Hotz opted to offer a product with less liability. — In Silicon Valley, hacker George Hotz gained fast fame after being the first to unlock an iPhone.
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Tweets: @stevecheney, @laurengoode, and @csoghoian
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Opendoor raises $210M led by Norwest Venture Partners to expand to new cities next year, sources say at a valuation of at least $1B — Silicon Valley's club of unicorn startups hasn't been growing as fast as it once was, and its newest member is unlike most of is venture-backed peers.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla and Tor release update for Firefox zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize users — Critical code-execution flaw resides in Windows, Mac, and Linux. Patch now. — Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch …
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Tweets: @homakov, @ameliasbrain, and @csoghoian
| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Amazon and Techstars partner on 13-week conversational AI startup accelerator offering $20K initial investment and $100K convertible note option upon completion — Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts.
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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Report: ad tech company AppNexus has filed confidentially for an IPO, expected around Q2 2017, valuing the company between $1.5B and $2B — AppNexus' long-awaited IPO is about to happen. — The ad tech company has filed paperwork confidentially for an initial public offering …
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Wall Street Journal, AdExchanger, and The Drum
Tweets: @telisdemos, @scottmaustin, @nickstatt, and @ajs
See also Mediagazer| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
FBI gains ability to hack computers in any jurisdiction with warrant, as Senator Wyden's attempts to block changes to the criminal procedure rules failed — A last-ditch effort in the Senate to block or delay rule changes that would expand the U.S. government's hacking powers failed Wednesday …
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Tweets: @aprilaser and @geminiimatt
Thanks:@dnvolz| Jamie Condliffe / MIT Technology Review: |
China begins piloting a system combining records on citizens to compute a “social credit score” determining eligibility for jobs, loans, travel, and more — It was a drab, chill day in November, and the clocks were striking thirteen. As the woman passed through Hangzhou Railway Station …
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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Washington Post
Tweets: @lucasvanmilders, @paulmozur, @omertene, and @brian_lovin
| Elissa Murphy / Google: |
Google debuts App Maker, a drag-and-drop app development platform for G Suite users, aimed at speed and ease of use — G Suite is designed to help you do your best work, whether that's through real-time collaboration that brings your teams together or machine intelligence that speeds up everyday tasks.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Angry Birds maker Rovio spins off Hatch, a freemium subscription video game streaming service, which will launch an invite-only beta for Android early next year — Finland's Rovio announced today that it has created a new company called Hatch Entertainment that is developing a Spotify-like service for mobile video games.| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube announces support for 4K live streams of 360-degree and standard videos; first 4K stream will be Game Awards on December 1 — Back in 2010, we enabled 4K video support for the very first time. Since then, millions of videos have been uploaded at that eye-popping resolution …
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Android Police, Variety, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, The Verge, The Next Web, BetaNews, Android Authority, Engadget, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @9to5google and @playstation
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter rolls out the ability to create and curate Moments on mobile, two months after web — Twitter only recently opened up its Moments product to users, allowing them to curate tweets around specific events, but it was limited to just the desktop and web.
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Digital Trends, Twitter, Droid Life, The Next Web, Social Media Today, Engadget, and Mashable
Tweets: @martinsfp, @caseynewton, @sacca, and @tim_stevens
| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Pure Storage beats Q3 target with revenue of $197M, up 50% YoY; shares up 2.5% after hours — Data storage equipment vendor Pure Storage (PSTG) this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue and profit that topped analysts' expectations, and forecast this quarter's revenue above consensus.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
After previewing its own video filters, Facebook cuts off Prisma's Live Video API access, says it is meant for video from sources other than smartphone cameras — Style transfer startup Prisma added support to its iOS app for livestreaming its art filter effects in real-time via Facebook Live earlier …
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Digital Trends, Android Authority, Engadget, SocialTimes, Mashable, and The Verge. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS email client Spark comes to the Mac for free, with Smart Inbox categorization, ability to “snooze” messages, Quick Replies, Touch Bar Support, more — Note: The new app is rolling out now; stay tuned for availability shortly. — Today Readdle is officially launching Spark for Mac … Sponsor Posts
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