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Department of Justice and Europol announce takedown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa Market, both focused on drugs and fraudulent IDs — AlphaBay and Hansa Market are gone, dealing a major blow to the online drug trade — An international law enforcement effort has brought …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Source: Intel has eliminated its wearables division, which made the Basis smartwatch, and the company's New Technologies Group now focuses on AR — - Intel laid off about 80 percent of the team that made the Basis smartwatch in November, and has now eliminated the division entirely, a person familiar tells CNBC.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Clips app with new overlays, including Disney-themed additions, effects, posters, more; Clips has been pre-installed on new iOS devices since May — After launching Clips for iOS back in early April, Apple is today releasing an update for the social video editing app that adds a handful of notable new features.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, in partnership with Johnson Controls, that will run on Windows 10 IoT Core — Built by Johnson Controls — Microsoft is partnering with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant unveiled the new GLAS thermostat in a YouTube video today.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter says it's taking action against 10x the number of accounts it did a year ago, and that majority of disciplined accounts don't commit a second infraction — But real data is in short supply — A sustained push to reduce abuse on Twitter has shown promising results, the company said …
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| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Sources: Amazon acquired Santa Barbara-based data analytics and search engine startup Graphiq, which has 100+ employees, in May; source says deal is worth ~$50M — Amazon is counting on its Alexa virtual assistant to foster deeper relationships with consumers.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube debuts Redirect Method, showing vulnerable or isolated would-be extremists curated videos to combat extreme ideologies — YouTube is taking its next step in countering extremism and terrorist content on its platform. Today the company announced that effective immediately …
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OnePlus says it has begun rolling out a fix for a bug that rebooted some OnePlus 5s trying to make emergency calls in US, UK, and Europe — Phonemaker OnePlus has admitted a glitch in some of its devices prevented people making calls to the emergency services.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Intel-owned Movidius debuts $79 USB Compute Stick with 12-core Myriad 2 VPU that increases host hardware's AI capabilities — The Neural Compute Stick from Movidius makes it easy to add a machine vision processor to any device — Step by step, artificial intelligence is moving down from the cloud and into the device in your hand.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its Motion Skills GIF- and video-making app to Android, 13 months after its iOS debut — Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stillsthat aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos - including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images …
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Google Research Blog, Digital Trends, Engadget, Android Authority, Android Police, CNET, TalkAndroid.com, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, and Tech2. Tweets: @googleresearch
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Memo: GoDaddy to shut down its AWS-style Cloud Servers service, launched in 2016, on December 31 — As web hosting and domain registration business GoDaddy prepares to report its quarterly results in a couple of weeks, the company is making some moves to reorganise its business.
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YouTube TV expands to 10 new areas, including Washington, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, up from its five launch metros — YouTube TV, Google's entry in the crowded market of live TV streaming services, is now available in ten more U.S. metros, the company announced this morning.Sponsor Posts
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