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Facebook launches the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate on news products, offer training and tools for journalists, and curb fake news — Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other.
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Instagram will put full-screen, auto-playing, skippable ads in its Stories feature, which now has 150M daily active users five months after launch — If you're one of the millions of Instagram users who likes the service's recently added “Stories” sharing feature, get ready …
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Four months after the recall, Samsung says over 96% of Galaxy Note7 devices have been returned — Samsung said today that over 96 percent of all Galaxy Note7 phones have been returned following a recall that started in September. — First introduced in August, the latest Note7 smartphone … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Alphabet's Titan high-altitude drone program has been shut down after being rolled into X in late 2015; 50+ employees disperse to other units — In 2014, Google bought Titan Aerospace, maker of high altitude, solar-powered drone aircraft. At the time Google noted, “It's still early days …
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Google adds beta encryption key management service to its Cloud Platform in select countries — Google is launching a new key management service for its Cloud Platform today that will help enterprises — especially in regulated industries like healthcare and banking — create, use …
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JetBlue completes its rollout of Fly-Fi, with free high-speed Wi-Fi on all planes — JetBlue today announced that it has officially completed its fleet-wide rollout of Fly-Fi, bringing free wireless internet to all of its planes. The carrier first introduced the service in late 2013 … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter says it will shutdown its iOS and desktop account management app Dashboard on February 3 — In June, Twitter launched Dashboard, a dedicated app brands can use to manage their various accounts, but seven months later, that's all about to change. Today, the company announced …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Verizon Wireless says customers with unlimited data plans using 200GB+/month must switch to limited plans or be disconnected — Heaviest unlimited data users must switch to limited plans or be disconnected. — Verizon Wireless customers with unlimited data plans who use more than 200GB …
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| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Chrome, Safari, Opera autofill features and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds — Chrome, Safari, Opera and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Report: VCs invested $69B in 7,350 companies in 2016, down from 11-year peak of $79B in 2015; median exit size was $84.5M, the highest in a decade — Venture capital investment activity dipped last year from a record 2015, but returned to normal activity in 2016 and marked the second-highest total in the past 11 years.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iZettle raises $63M more at a $500M valuation to expand from mobile payments — The world of mobile payments continues to consolidate and mature, and today one of the leading players among European mobile payments startups has raised a significant round of money to help keep itself on top. iZettle …
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How BitTorrent has failed to find a successful business model despite its widely used protocol and has pursued a costly, fruitless path under new leadership — How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company's cash and nearly left it for dead. — Last April, a pair … | Tesla: |
Chris Lattner joins Tesla as VP of Autopilot software — We would like to welcome Chris Lattner, who will join Tesla as our Vice President of Autopilot Software. Chris' reputation for engineering excellence is well known. He comes to Tesla after 11 years at Apple where he was primarily responsible …
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