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Supreme Court throws out $399M penalty judgment against Samsung in patent dispute with Apple over iPhone design, sends the case back to the lower court — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling …
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Google says it will run its global operations entirely on renewable energy in 2017, claims it is the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power — Every year people search on Google trillions of times; every minute people upload more than 400 hours of YouTube videos.
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Tim Cook says Apple Watch set a new sales record during first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track to be the best ever for the product — Sales of the Apple Watch to consumers set a record during the first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Instagram will soon let you turn off comments and boot followers from private accounts — New tools designed to curb abuse will be available in the ‘coming weeks’ — With images as its main form of social currency, Instagram's problems with abuse have never been quite as visible as those of other social networks.| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn approved by EU, to close in the coming days as it has now received all the regulatory approvals needed — It was roughly six months ago, on June 13, that we announced that Microsoft would acquire LinkedIn. At that time, we said that we aimed to close the deal by the end of the year.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
How the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory spread online via 4chan, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and other websites, culminating in arrest of gunman in Washington D.C. — The unhinged conspiracy theory now known as “Pizzagate” has resulted in a man bringing an assault rifle to the DC bar named …
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President-elect Donald Trump invites tech leaders to roundtable next week; the invitation was sent by Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Peter Thiel — SAN FRANCISCO — President-elect Donald Trump has invited technology industry leaders to a roundtable next week in New York.
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Anil Dash becomes new CEO of Fog Creek Software, debuts Gomix, a platform that provides template apps, which users can remix, modify, host, and deploy for free — Fog Creek Software, responsible for the births of Trello and Stack Overflow, is today launching Gomix, a platform that wants to democratize app building.| Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
Director of AI research at Apple, Russ Salakhutd, says the company's AI researchers will start publishing some of their work, in a shift away from secrecy — Artificial intelligence researchers at Apple are going to start publishing some of their work and engaging more with the wider academic community.
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Netflix becomes top grossing iOS app in the US for the first time, as weekly net revenue grows to nearly $2.9M — Just over a year after Netflix began allowing iOS users to subscribe to its service via in-app purchases, the Netflix app has summited the Top Grossing Apps chart for iPhone on the U.S. App Store.
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After Uber updated to track user locations five minutes after rides end, EFF asks for a rollback — After Uber introduced a controversial app update that tracks users' locations even when they're not using the app, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading privacy group, has asked the company roll it back.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google search app updated with distinct feeds for upcoming appointments and personalized news such as sports and entertainment, on Android now and iOS soon — Google Now is splitting in two — Google Now launched four years ago with a bold promise: instead of making you search for information you need …
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube will create a database to share hashes of terrorist images and recruitment videos removed from their services — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online.
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