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Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, reddit, Twitter, Wikimedia, join Google, Facebook, and Yahoo in voicing opposition to current CISA proposal days before vote — Apple says it's against a key cybersecurity bill, days before a crucial vote — Apple said Tuesday that it opposes a controversial cybersecurity bill that …
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Twitter Polls start rolling out to everyone, remain live for 24 hours, votes remain private — Introducing Twitter Polls — We're excited to share that in the coming days, everyone will be able to create polls on Twitter. And, with just a couple of taps, people can weigh in on all the topics they care about.| Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion — Western Digital is facing challenges to its core hard-disk-drive businesses from flash and solid-state drives — Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy SanDisk Corp. for about $19 billion in cash and stock, a deal that positions the company …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Surface Book review: really does replace your laptop, great screen, keyboard, and trackpad, but can get very expensive — Surface Book review: The hybrid that really does replace your laptop — It ain't cheap, but it is pretty. — This is the machine that I've wanted Microsoft … | Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Surface Pro 4 review: best workhorse productivity tablet with its build quality, performance, and accessories, but expensive — The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review: Raising The Bar — It is almost hard to believe that only a few short years ago, Microsoft had no hand in the PC systems or tablet markets.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally — Red Dawn — A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's Shopping Insights tool offers retailers product search data from over 16K US cities — Google Discloses More Search Data to Woo Retailers — Shopping Insights tool shows products searched for in more than 16,000 U.S. cities — Google is offering retailers an unusual peek …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Twitter previews redesigned Twitter for Mac client, to launch in the coming months — Twitter Revamps Twitter For Mac Desktop App — Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter's developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Misfit releases Shine 2 fitness and sleep monitor, with notifications and vibrations for “move” reminders for $100 — Misfit Debuts The Shine 2, A Bigger, More Powerful Version Of Its Flagship Activity & Sleep Tracker — Over two years ago, Misfit launched an activity monitor called … | Facebook: |
Facebook launches TechPrep, a computer science resource hub, for minorities and women — Announcing the Launch of TechPrep — Exposing learners, parents and guardians to computer science — By Maxine Williams, Global Director of Diversity — Diversity is central to Facebook's mission …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Apple Music Trials Wrap, Spotify Snags The #1 Top Grossing Spot In US App Store For First Time — Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday may have been touting the number of Apple Music music paying subscribers - 6.5 million, but at the same time rival Spotify was quietly hitting a milestone of its own.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg Business: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says it might be a few years before IPO, Uber has 30-35% marketshare in China — Uber CEO Says Public Offering ‘Years Away’ as Company Matures — Kalanick says he hasn't sold any Uber shares he owns — Uber believes Google is farthest along in driverless cars| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
HP Sells Network Security Business TippingPoint To Trend Micro For $300M — On the heels of Dell buying EMC for $67 billion and Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, HP is selling off its TippingPoint network security business to TrendMicro for $300 million.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Giphy releases GIF Maker tool to create GIFs from video — Giphy launches a super simple GIF creator for the web — As a denizen of the internet, I frequently find myself wanting to turn YouTube videos into GIFs, but I've never been very good at doing it on my own.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
With Customer Care, Twitter Wants To Sharpen Its Profile As A Platform To Do Business — Twitter is on double time these days when it comes to rolling out new products and pressing ahead under new CEO Jack Dorsey — a strategy that will likely get a decent gust of air Wednesday during the company's Flight developer conference.
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| Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Spotify removes thousands of songs from Victory Records' catalog amid royalties disputes — Publishers Said to Be Missing As Much as 25 Percent of Streaming Royalties — By some industry estimates, as much as 25 percent of mechanical royalties due publishers and songwriters are going unpaid … | TechCrunch: |
Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes To Developers, Says He Wants To “Reset” Relations — Twitter's epic bust up with developers several years ago was one of the bigger bumps in the company's rocky history, so now, as the social media company is working to reboot the business under new CEO Jack Dorsey …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter's Digits login product now works with email addresses in addition to phone numbers — Twitter's Digits project to kill passwords can now verify email addresses — SAN FRANCISCO — As many services continue to part ways with passwords in favor of what's perceived to be safer ways of authenticating, Twitter is following suit.
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Apple tells federal judge it's impossible to access user data on locked iPhone running iOS 8 or higher — Apple Tells Judge It Can't Unlock New iPhones — Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it “would be impossible” to access user data on a locked iPhone running one of the newer operating systems …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Angry Birds' Rovio Cuts 213 Jobs, Axes Learning To Refocus On Games And Video — After announcing in August that it would cut up to 260 jobs, Rovio — maker of the Angry Birds games — today released details of the final number: the Finland-based company is letting go of 213 employees …
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Nexus 5X review: great value, quick and accurate fingerprint sensor, but mediocre battery, and no microSD card slot — Nexus 5X review: Google's triumphant return to smaller, cheaper phones — While the Nexus 6 received plenty of praise when it debuted last year, it also got its fair share of flack.
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