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Consumer Reports reverses earlier stance and now recommends 2016 MacBook Pro after Apple updates software to fix battery issues — New Apple software fixes a battery issue found in CR tests. The software, now in beta, will be part of a broad update soon. — By Consumer Reports
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google updates Maps with tweaked ride-hailing screen and ability to hail an Uber without leaving the app — Google's making it way easier and simpler to hail an Uber with Google Maps. Today the company announced that the latest version of Google Maps on Android and iOS lets users request …
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Sources: Apple planning push into original TV shows and movies for Apple Music subscribers, hopes to share viewer metrics and demographic data with producers — Apple is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies, a move that could make it a bigger player …
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New rules allow National Security Agency to share raw intercepted communications with other 16 US intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections — WASHINGTON — In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
YouTube launches Super Chat in beta, letting viewers pay to pin comments on live streams, with a broad rollout on January 31 — But you'll have to do your own troll patrol — YouTube today is announcing a new feature to help creators monetize when they go live.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft publicly launches StaffHub, a shift scheduling app for iOS and Android available as part of Office 365 — Microsoft today unveiled the newest addition to its Office 365 suite with the debut of an application for shift workers and management, called StaffHub.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Donald Trump to hold meetings on a “regular basis” with private sector firms focusing on cybersecurity preparedness, organized by Rudy Giuliani — President-elect Donald Trump's administration will hold private industry meetings on cybersecurity preparedness, led by Rudy Giuliani …
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| Lauren Smiley / The Verge: |
Profile of Open Whisper Systems, which has five employees, makes secure messaging app Signal, and develops an encryption protocol used by Facebook and others — Two weeks after the US presidential election, Reverend Rebecca Bryan stepped up to her pulpit in the Boston suburb of Brookline and looked out on her congregation.| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Snapchat update will bring search bar, new navigation, and a global live story for user contributions, coming soon to all iOS and Android users — Big changes are headed for Snapchat — again. — The company is set to roll out a major redesign of its app in the coming days, Snapchat confirmed Thursday.| Reuters: |
US appeals court says Apple can be sued for monopolizing iOS app market and not letting users buy apps outside the App Store — iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple Inc over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple increases app size restriction for tvOS apps from 200MB to 4GB — While Apple TV apps were limited to 200MB in size when the device was first announced back in 2015, Apple has announced this evening that it is now accepting larger tvOS binaries. This means that developers can now submit apps as big as 4GB.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera launches Neon, an experimental browser for Windows and Mac that aims to showcase its vision for the future of the web — Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Camera drone maker Lily will shut down and refund customers, saying it failed to raise funds for production despite $14M Series A and $34M in preorders — Lily, the autonomous camera drone that sold a whopping $34 million in preorders, has announced it is shutting down.
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