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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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| 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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See also Mediagazer| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook now asking users to rate articles' use of “misleading language” to detect fake news — A survey asking users about “misleading language” in posts is the latest indication that Facebook is facing up to what many see as its responsibility to get a handle on the fake news situation.
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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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Tweets: @iankennedy, @ellgood, @mathewi, @anildash, @miriamelder, and @mikeisaac
See also Mediagazer| Urs Hölzle / The Keyword: |
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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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Lenovo execs say the company is planning at least 12 new Moto Mods, the magnetic snap-on accessories that enhance Moto Z smartphones, per year — Those snap-on accessories for the Moto Z phones aren't going anywhere. In fact, Lenovo Moto phones will soon see many more.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The White House releases recommendations from a nine-month study of US cybersecurity issues, it is now up to the Trump administration to implement them — The Obama White House has had to reckon with cybersecurity like no other presidential administration in history, from China's 2009 hack of Google …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Plume's mesh-based Wi-Fi system uses cloud for computation; individual Plume Wi-Fi units called “pods” on sale now for $69 each with a three-pack costing $179 — A pod in each room keeps the Wi-Fi doctor away — Plume is announcing today that its Adaptive WiFi system …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Wifi review: solid Wi-Fi coverage, easy setup, powerful app, but expensive, not as fast as other mesh systems, and lacks a USB port for network storage — Google's mesh router balances performance and convenience — It's funny to think that the most interesting tech products of 2016 have been routers.
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Tweets: @dcseifert and @dannysullivan
| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
Supreme Court throws out $399M penalty judgment against Samsung in patent dispute with Apple over iPhone design — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company …
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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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| Peter Sayer / PCWorld: |
OpenAI open sources Universe, a training platform where AIs can learn to play games, use apps, and interact with sites; source code now available on GitHub — A company backed by Elon Musk wants to help robots to learn to steal cars by playing games — OpenAI, an artificial intelligence …
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