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Facebook removes 800+ US-based accounts and pages, some with 100K+ followers, that were spamming people with political messages for profit — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday it purged more than 800 U.S. publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically-oriented spam …
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Facebook rolls out Facebook 3D photos that use AI to add make-believe depth to iPhone portrait mode shots — What if you could peek behind what's in your photos, like you're moving your head to see what's inside a window? That's the futuristic promise of Facebook 3D photos.| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Genius partners with Apple Music to show lyrics and annotations for thousands of selected songs and makes Apple Music the official music player for Genius — Music encyclopedia and lyrics database Genius has announced a partnership with Apple Music, pairing the website's lyrics with songs.
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Microsoft rolls out October 2018 update for Xbox One with new avatars, Dolby Vision support for Netflix, and the ability to control Xbox with Alexa or Cortana — Microsoft is releasing a significant dashboard update for the Xbox One today. The new October 2018 update for Xbox brings Microsoft's …
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In a letter to the SEC, Uber asks for a change of rules to allow it to compensate drivers with company stock — Uber on Thursday sent a letter to federal securities regulators, asking for rules changes that would let it provide company stock to its drivers, Axios has learned.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google updates Assistant on phones to let users access it from the lockscreen, brings Digital Wellbeing features to the Home app on smart displays — Google announced a bunch of new hardware at its Made By Google event earlier this week, but it notably skimmed over updates to Google Assistant …
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Trump signs the Music Modernization Act that makes it easier for rights holders to get paid when their music is streamed online — President Trump has signed the Music Modernization Act (MMA) into law, officially passing the most sweeping reform to copyright law in decades.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Lime submits application to San Francisco city attorney to delay rollout of the city's scooter pilot program, to which Lime says it was unfairly denied a permit — - Startup will attempt to delay SF's planned scooter rollout — Dispute underscores the industry's multi-billion dollar stakes| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In a publicity crisis, like a data breach, Google receives less outrage and pushback from users than Facebook because it provides genuinely useful services — What Google gained by giving up on social networks — There are bad bugs, and there are worse bugs.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's Home Hub doesn't run Android Things, the platform Google purposely built for IoT products like smart displays, but uses Google's Cast platform instead — Google built a platform for smart displays and then didn't use it in the Home Hub. — On Tuesday, Google announced the Google Home Hub …
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Alipay and Tencent say hackers used stolen Apple IDs to access some customer accounts and steal unknown sums of money; Alipay says Apple hasn't fixed the issue — - China's top digital wallet didn't say how much was stolen — Ant Financial and Tencent are working with Apple on the case
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Video conferencing startup Zoom announces partnerships with Dropbox and Atlassian, a cloud phone system called Zoom Voice coming in 2019, and an app marketplace — Videoconferencing solution company Zoom announced a slew of new products and services this week at its Zoomtopia 2018 conference in San Jose, California.
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Amazon unveils three new APIs that send camera feeds to Echo devices and let third-party apps for Alexa trigger actions with doorbell presses and motion alarms — Amazon's making it easier for Alexa developers to tap into connected security cameras and doorbells.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network and cross-licenses over 60,000 patents for other members — After years of waging patent war on Google's Linux-based Android mobile operating system, Microsoft agreed Wednesday to join the Open Invention Network and cross-license its more than 60,000 patents to participating members.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Study: Bitcoin daily transactions fell from ~360K in late 2017 to ~230K in Sept. 2018; transaction values fell from $3.7B+ to below $670M in the same period — - Declining daily transaction volume, values seen as negative — Quarter-over-quarter transactions are seen plummeting again| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Global PC shipments in Q3 were flat, up 0.1% YoY according to Gartner, as IDC estimates 0.9% decline; Gartner says Microsoft broke into top 5 PC vendors in US — The PC market is seeing some very interesting moves this year. In Q2 2018, global shipments were up for the first time in six years …
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Sources: Tencent Music is postponing its IPO until at least November because of the selloff in global markets — Music streamer and underwriters worried global market selloff would hurt pricing — Tencent Music Entertainment Group is postponing its initial public offering until … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
PayPal partners with Walmart to let users deposit and withdraw cash from their PayPal accounts inside Walmart stores — PayPal chief executive Dan Schulman noted that this the first time the two companies are working together in this capacity. — PayPal and Walmart have inked … | Bloomberg: |
Memo: ahead of meeting next week, the UK, Netherlands, Estonia, and other countries push for the EU to introduce sanctions for those who carry out cyberattacks — - Memo sent to EU countries ahead of leaders' summit next week — Push comes after cyber-related attacks by Russia, China
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sensor Tower: Netflix app revenue was up ~90% YoY to ~$243.7M in Q3 across both App Store and Google Play, the highest grossing non-game mobile app worldwide — App spending across Apple App Store and Google Play increased 23% in third quarter, per Sensor Tower| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake Computing raises $450M led by Sequoia Capital at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $923M — In January, after raising $263 million, Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia indicated that the next time his fast-growing cloud data warehousing company tapped …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pocket improves article listening function with text-to-speech service Amazon Polly with a more human-like voice, on iOS and Android — Pocket is rolling out a handful of updates today, as the Mozilla-owned app reminds users that it's more than a simple read-it-later service.
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