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| Adam D'Angelo / The Quora Blog: |
Quora says it discovered a data breach on Nov. 30 affecting about 100M users, exposing names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and other non-public content — We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17 — Tumblr is permanently banning adult content from its platform as of December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service is used.
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| Brad Sams / Petri: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on Windows Lite, a super lightweight, instant on, always connected OS that runs only PWAs and UWP apps, to challenge Chrome OS — For more than a year, we have been hearing about Windows Core OS and how it is a modern version of Windows.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
New Nvidia AI research project uses objects and scenery from within existing videos to build new interactive environments in realistic city landscapes — It all started with cities and — what else? — Gangnam Style. — Attendees of this year's NeurIPS AI conference in Montreal can spend …
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| James Somers / New Yorker: |
Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure — Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google to expand eSIM support for Pixel 3 to Sprint and carriers in Germany, the UK, and India in the coming months — With eSIM technology, users no longer have to manage the tiny-sized card thanks to all the necessary information becoming digitized. Google today announced expanded eSIM support …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia announces a new $2,499 GPU called Titan RTX with 576 tensor cores, 24GB of GDDR6 memory, and the new Turing architecture, shipping later this month — By this point we've seen most of NVIDIA's 2018 Turing GPU product stack. After kicking things off with the Quadro RTX series …
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Tweets: @nvidiaaidev and @ryansmithat
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Al-powered real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint will also get them in early 2019 — Alongside news that PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles in 2019, Microsoft announced similar technology is now available in Skype.
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Skype Blogs, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, Microsoft Accessibility Blog, Forbes, Neowin, BetaNews, The Verge, Digital Trends, and GeekWire
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019, plan to show a concept device this week — One of the world's first 5G phones will be coming to the US from Samsung and Verizon. — The two companies on Monday said they plan …
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Verizon Fios & Custom TV, The Korea Herald, The Verge, Reuters, TalkAndroid.com, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, CNN, Neowin, Android Beat, Droid Life, Mashable, Gizchina, PYMNTS.com, and Android Authority. Tweets: @rdrv3
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
AOL owner Oath agrees to a ~$5M settlement over charges its ad exchange placed targeted ads on websites directed to kids, violating a federal privacy law — Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay about $5 million to settle charges from the New York attorney general … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google addresses Pixel 3 and 3 XL RAM management and camera performance issues with its December security patch release — Google detailed the December security patch this morning for all Android devices. For the Made by Google lineup, this update addresses a number of issues that have cropped … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google removes two apps from China's Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech from Google Play after internal investigation found they executed ad fraud via click injection — Google removed two popular Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech apps from its Play store today after finding “deceptive and malicious behavior” …
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