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Tim Cook says Apple has desktops on its roadmap in a posting to employee message board — One of the memes to come out of the somewhat contentious rollout of the MacBook Pro is that Apple has given up on the desktop Mac. Given the slower upgrade cycle of desktops and how well my Retina 5K iMac …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber lost $2.2B+ in first 9 months of 2016, with $800M+ in Q3 excluding Chinese ops; firm on track to exceed $5.5B in net revenue this year, says source — Ride-hailing company's annual loss may hit $3 billion by year's end — Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger debuts group video chat supporting 6 users on a split screen who can utilize selfie masks and up to 50 voice/text secondary participants — Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger islaunching its own split-screen group video chat feature.
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
Mark Zuckerberg talks about progress and challenges building his home assistant Jarvis, a project he's spent 100-150 hours on this year — Facebook's CEO still loves to code. Here's an exclusive peek at his new project, which plays music, makes toast, and occasionally annoys his wife.
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Thanks:@greeterdan| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources Project Wycheproof, security tests of cryptographic libraries for known attacks, says 40+ security bugs have already been discovered — Google today released Project Wycheproof, a set of security tests that check cryptographic software libraries for known weaknesses being used in attacks.| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica: |
German politicians propose legislation to fine social media sites spreading fake news, giving sites 24 hours to kill hoaxes — Social media sites must kill hoaxes within 24 hours, offer prominent corrections. — Germany's coalition government is threatening to bring in legislation early next year …
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| Chris Pereira / GameSpot: |
Nintendo says no plans to launch additional content for Super Mario Run as Nintendo stock falls steeply amid user complaints about the game's business model — What you see is what you get. — Nintendo's stock price dropped again on Monday, and it apparently won't be getting a boost …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @mattk, @joshconstine, @mochi_wsj, @balroggameroom, @epicnamebro, @superpac, @rdr0b11, @yoda, and @mochi_wsj
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter tests breaking news push notifications, sends news updates on the Berlin Christmas market attack and Fidel Castro's death — Twitter wants to be a news app, having recently moved to that category from the “social networking” category in the iOS App Store.| Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com: |
SEC filing shows Aereo founder Chet Kanojia's new firm Starry recently raised $30M Series B — Armed with another $30 million, the team behind Aereo is preparing to deploy its new service, Starry, next year. — Senior Chet Kanojia's previous company, Aereo, was shut down by the highest court in the United States.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter updates search results so tweets are displayed by relevance, not in reverse chronological order — Twitter is updating its search results so that tweets are now going to ranked based on relevance instead of by timeline, bringing it in line with what users had experienced on their timeline for the past ten months.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Messaging app Kik adds the ability to video call with up to six people — In an update of the chat app Kik, starting today users can now make video calls with up to six people. — Facebook Messenger also added group video chat today. — “Video chat was the number-one feature you requested … | April Glaser / Recode: |
FAA says it licensed about 23K people to be commercial drone pilots between August 31 and December 9 — That's over 300 new drone pilot certifications a day. — Since the Federal Aviation Administration clarified the rules for commercial versus recreational drone flying at the end of August …
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