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iRobot partners with Google and will share spatial data from Roombas to help improve Google's smart home experience by mapping rooms — The two companies are working together to leverage spatial data generated by iRobot's robovacs — Google and iRobot have announced they're working together …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces “Emoji Minis” in Gboard for Android and iOS, which uses machine learning to create customizable emoji-sized stickers based on users' selfies — Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard … | Business Insider: |
Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M — - Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018.
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Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results — Amazon today announced a series of updates to Alexa's knowledge base so the intelligent assistant can deliver helpful information ahead of …
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Amazon launches the Music Skill API for Alexa, allowing developers to stream songs from online services to Alexa devices and Amazon Echo speakers in the US — Spicing up voice apps on Amazon's Alexa assistant with jammin' tunes just got a whole lot easier.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's spam reporting tool now lets users specify more details, like if the account is fake, using unrelated hashtags, or sharing malicious links — Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it's testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings — Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M Series C on a $275M valuation after hitting 14M users in the US across 700 universities — LinkedIn has created and — with 562 million users — leads the market in social platforms for people who want to network … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will move Workplace by Facebook, its Slack rival, to its own domain in 2019, Workplace.com, to appease businesses' fears about data security — - Workplace by Facebook, the company's enterprise business, is moving onto a website domain separate from Facebook.com in an effort … | Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers examining 135 popular kids apps on Android and iOS find 88% of paid and 100% of free apps often have manipulative and distracting ads — Popular apps for young kids, especially those available in Google's app store, are teeming with advertisements that distract them from play …
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| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches — [Update: Apple has now pulled watchOS 5.1. Users who haven't updated should refrain from doing so if it was downloaded, but not yet installed.] — While many users are disappointed with the lack … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them.
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A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities — Facebook's Portal looked like a slick alternative to the Amazon Echo speaker when it launched earlier this month, but problems abounded behind the scenes.| Washington Post: |
Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following “attacks from the American media” — Like many young entrepreneurs drawn to California's technological gold rush, Andrew Torba brought a familiar mix of smarts … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its T2 security chip, found in the 2018 Mac laptops, physically cuts the device's microphone from the rest of the hardware whenever the lid is closed — Apple's newest MacBooks include a new feature that makes it virtually impossible for hackers or spies to eavesdrop on your microphone.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps — Amazon's latest streaming player supports all the important formats and costs just $50 — When shoppers look for a streaming player …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Starship Technologies launches a commercial package delivery service using its autonomous robots in Milton Keynes, UK for £7.99/month — Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by two of Skype's founders, is launching what it's claiming to be a world's first today: a commercial …
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
EU to launch a six-month trial of iBorderCtrl, an AI lie detector that looks for “biomarkers of deceit”, at its external borders in Hungary, Latvia, and Greece — A number of border control checkpoints in the European Union are about to get increasingly—and unsettlingly—futuristic.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Lime pursues car sharing in Seattle, where rentable electric scooters are banned, and says it plans to add electric vehicles as another option to its app “soon” — Lime wants to add cars to its Seattle mobility fleet, expanding beyond the bright green, rentable bikes the company currently operates in the city.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October — - Facebook is banning accounts and groups associated with The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group linked to political violence in the US.| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
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