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Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals — Looks like the tech industry has a direct line to Trump — Tech titans Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg meet with Trump transition team| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking on strategic advisory roles with Trump, will “meet with the president frequently” — The heads of Uber and Tesla are taking on strategic advisory roles with President-elect Donald Trump. — Travis Kalanick … | Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Source: Twitter was left out of Donald Trump's tech summit over refusal to create #CrookedHillary emoji, which was part of a larger $5M deal with the campaign — Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution … | Jessica Misener / BuzzFeed: |
13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.| Ginger Gibson / Reuters: |
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Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates — Yahoo has disclosed that in addition to its September hacking incident, another “unauthorized third-party” obtained data from more than 1 billion user accounts.| NBC News: |
Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved … | Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Evernote's new privacy policy, set to take effect on Jan. 23, would let some employees read user notes to aid with machine learning, although users can opt-out — Evernote announced that it will roll out a new privacy policy on January 23, and the changes have users threatening to abandon the service.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017 — Alexa, open the curtains? — You may soon be able to ask that question when traveling to the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, which announced today that it will place Amazon's Echo device — powered by the voice assistant Alexa — in all 4,748 hotel rooms.| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram introduces bookmarking for posts, letting users save them for later in a private tab — Starting today, you can save posts you'd like to revisit later. — Now you'll see a new bookmark icon underneath posts in your feed. Simply tap it to save a post to a new, private tab on your profile.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter adds live video broadcast to its iOS and Android apps; Periscope will continue as a standalone app — Periscope down — Twitter released an update today that will let you broadcast live video from within its app for iOS and Android. The feature is “powered by” Periscope … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's standalone support app for accessing product docs, scheduling Genius Bar appointments, more, comes to US App Store, rolling out to more countries later — Apple's recently launched standalone support application is now hitting the U.S. App Store. The app, which had quietly debuted … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption — In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Next version of Microsoft Edge blocks Flash plugin by default, loads HTML5 content if available; Microsoft will exempt popular websites, hasn't said which ones — The death of Flash continues to move forward, and now Microsoft is taking its swing at the aging internet standard.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon tests Prime Air drone delivery in UK with two shoppers, will later add hundreds living near Cambridge warehouse; first order took 13 minutes to deliver — Amazon today announced that it has started a small private drone delivery trial in the UK. It's currently working with only two shoppers … | Reuters: |
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California's Dept. of Motor Vehicles says Uber needs a permit for its self-driving cars in SF; Uber disagrees, as drivers are present during rides — Uberlaunched a small fleet of self-driving vehicles in San Francisco on Tuesday, but the second city to host the public test … | April Glaser / Recode: |
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Facebook is in talks with TV shows and video producers about licensing content including original, licensed, scripted, unscripted, and sports programming — The company says it wants to “kickstart” its video efforts. — Facebook, which has long relied on other people to provide it with content … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Prime Video is now in 200+ countries, excluding China, at no additional cost for Prime members, and $5.99/month in countries with no Prime option — A month after it dropped major hints, Amazon has made its Prime Video service available in more than 200 countries worldwide bringing …
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