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| David Pierce / Wired: |
The Inside Story of Surface Book, Microsoft's Next Big Thing — One night about two years ago, Panos Panay couldn't sleep. This happens a lot, waking up in the middle of the night with loud thoughts rattling around in his head. Panay popped off the pillow, reached for his new Surface Pen …
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| Panos Panay / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 now available in US and Canada — Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 go on sale today — The team and I could not be more pumped today. Today Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book go on sale in the US and Canada! It's been three years exactly since … | Keith Peiris / Facebook: |
Facebook bolsters Notifications tab on mobile with birthday, events reminders, location based news, weather updates, nearby movie, restaurant info, more — A More Useful Notifications Tab on Mobile — Today, we're starting to roll out an expanded, personalized notifications tab in the Facebook app.
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Keith Alexander's IronNet raises $32.5M in a Series A led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity, with KPCB participating — Ex-NSA Chief's Cybersecurity Startup Draws Funding — Infusion of $32.5 million in IronNet highlights ties between Silicon Valley and Washington
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores will send some iPhone 6/6s phones for off-site repairs, offering 16GB loaners — In an effort to reduce wait times at Genius Bars within Apple Stores, Apple this week will launch a new repair program for the iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus and 6s Plus in select stores across the United States …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
LG's dual-screen V10 phone reaches AT&T and T-Mobile this week — When LG promised that its unique V10 smartphone would reach the US soon after its Korean launch, it wasn't kidding around. Both AT&T and T-Mobile have announced that you can order the dual screen, dual-selfie cam device this week — October 27th and 28th, respectively.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
The new Apple TV is now available to order from the Apple Online Store, first units ship October 30th — The Apple TV is now available to order from Apple's online store, $149 for the 32 GB model and $199 for the 64 GB model. The first Apple TV orders will ship later this week, from October 30th.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Google's “RankBrain” AI system is used for a “very large fraction” of queries and is now the third most important signal in the search ranking algorithm — Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines — ‘RankBrain’ uses artificial intelligence to filter results| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Facebook's Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India — MUMBAI, India — If Mark Zuckerberg hopes to deliver on his vision of bringing the Internet to the four billion people who lack it, the Facebook chief will first need to make his plan more appealing to salesmen like Shoaib Khan.| New York Times: |
US officials concerned that increased Russian naval operations indicate plans to cut undersea cables carrying most of global Internet data in times of conflict — Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns U.S. — WASHINGTON — Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near …
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| Rosie Cima / Priceonomics Blog: |
Behind the rise and fall of .Ly, Libya's top level domain — The Rise and Fall of .Ly … In 2012, the US imposed sanctions on Syria, for, among other things, their occupation of Lebanon, their apparent support for terrorist groups, and an intent to pursue weapons of mass destruction.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Transition to SHA2 encryption will leave tens of millions of users of older browsers and devices unable to access HTTPS sites — As sites move to SHA2 encryption, millions face HTTPS lock-out — “We're about to leave a whole chunk of the internet in the past,” as millions of people remain dependent …
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