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Netflix enables downloading of shows and movies to watch offline on iOS and Android for all streaming plans; selection is mostly limited to Netflix originals — For now, the selection is mostly limited to Netflix originals — You can finally take Netflix with you onto a plane or the subway.
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GoPro to cut 15% of its workforce, or 200+ full-time positions, and shut down its entertainment division, will incur as much as $33M in restructuring costs — Action-camera maker sees charges of as much as $33 million — Tony Bates will depart his position as president by year end
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Office 365 adds collaboration features, including document activity notifications for Android and Windows 10 Mobile, and real-time co-authoring on PowerPoint — Microsoft has added new collaboration features to Office 365 this month. Key among them are co-authoring capabilities in PowerPoint …
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| 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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla is working to patch a Firefox zero-day in the wild that is being used to unmask Tor users; vulnerability is similar to the one used by the FBI in 2013 — Publicly released exploit works reliably against a wide range of Firefox versions. — There's a zero-day exploit in the wild that's …
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Microsoft Surface Studio teardown: 32-bit ARM chip, easy-to-open base, removable hard drive, but RAM, CPU, GPU are soldered to the board and can't be replaced — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Good news, everyone! Microsoft made their first desktop ever.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
With 50% discount, Apple Music student membership option expands to 25 additional countries — Apple today began offering Apple Music Student Memberships in 25 additional countries around the world, cutting the cost of an Apple Music subscription by approximately 50 percent for students enrolled in a college or university.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Data of nearly 380K of 12M registered users of porn site xHamster are being traded online, including usernames, emails, and poorly-hashed passwords — Hundreds of thousands of user account details for porn site xHamster are being traded on the digital underground.
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo quietly launches Yahoo Answers Now, an iOS app for its popular Q&A site — Yahoo has quietly launched a native mobile app for Yahoo Answers, one of the web's largest Q&A sites which attracts over 3.1 million U.S. monthly visitors. The app, which was previously being tested under …
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| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
Barrett Brown is released after four-plus years in prison following charges stemming from Stratfor hack, must pay $890,250 in restitution for sharing a link — Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Messenger-based platform for HTML5 games, played in message threads; 17 games available at launch, including Pac-Man, Space Invaders — Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger's new Instant Games …
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