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Apple TV 2015 review: fast and easy to navigate, but the on-screen keyboard is worse than on older Apple TV, Siri functionality is somewhat limited — Mossberg: The Apple TV gets smart — It seems like we've been waiting for years for Apple to reinvent the TV.
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Apple says Siri on Apple TV will support Apple Music by early next year — Apple TV's Siri Search Will Soon Include Apple Music — One of the most useful features of Apple's new Apple TV is its Siri-enabled universal search. It's something Apple TV owners have been asking about for years … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo to release its first smartphone game, Miitomo, in March 2016 as a free download with character add-ons available as in-app purchases — Nintendo's first smartphone release is a free-to-play game called Miitomo — At an investors meeting in Tokyo today, Nintendo revealed some details …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Breach at free webhosting service 000Webhost leaks 13M names, passwords, and email addresses — 13 million plaintext passwords belonging to webhost users leaked online — Personal data is exposed as a result of a five-month-old hack on 000Webhost. — A security researcher has discovered … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Twitch launches Twitch Creative, a dedicated section of the site for non-gaming content like art and music — Twitch Creative livestreaming finds new audiences for artists and musicians — Twitch draws more than 100 million people a month to view live broadcasts of video games.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google to Symantec: account fully for misissued google.com certificates or else Chrome will flag your TLS certificates as unsafe — Still fuming over HTTPS mishap, Google makes Symantec an offer it can't refuse — Google: Fix ailing certificate business or risk having Chrome flag your credentials.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
MIT is developing a technology called RF-Capture that uses wireless signals to track human motion and identify people through walls — MIT uses wireless signals to identify people through walls — Tech could identify intruders in your home or power motion capture for movies.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Samsung reports Q3 earnings of $6.4B on $45.2B revenue, plans to buy back up to $10B in stock in one year — Samsung Aims to Improve Phone Sales While Maintaining Profits in Holiday Quarter — As part of its earnings release on Thursday, Korean electronics giant Samsung said it hopes … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Facebook and the Tor Project get the IETF to fomally recognize .onion domains as special use, which prevents ICANN from selling off the gTLD — Facebook helps Tor's hidden sites get official recognition — Today the Tor Project and Facebook announced that .onion web addresses …
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| Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Toshiba confirms it will sell its image sensor business to Sony, overhaul its unprofitable semiconductor businesses — Toshiba to sell sensor business to Sony, overhaul chip unit — Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it will sell its image sensor business to Sony Corp and overhaul … | Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Jessica Verrilli returns to Twitter as senior director of corporate development and strategy after leaving for Google Ventures five months ago — Jessica Verrilli Returns To Twitter After Short Stint At Google Ventures — A familiar face is returning to Twitter.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Upthere emerges from stealth and launches two services in beta that let you save photos and documents directly to the cloud, eliminating need for syncing — Upthere is a new cloud storage service that wants to make file syncing a thing of the past — A defining technology of our age is the sync.| Nicolas Suzor / The Conversation: |
Australian court holds Google is responsible for linking to defamatory websites — Google is responsible for search results. antb/Shutterstock.com — The South Australian Supreme Court this week found that Google is legally responsible when its search results link to defamatory content on the web.| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
PayPal to launch Pay with Venmo, which will let users use Venmo to buy from PayPal merchants — PayPal reveals how it will finally cash in on Venmo — PayPal is finally breaking Venmo out beyond peer-to-peer payments. — During its Q3 earnings call, the company announced an upcoming service called … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung's super-sized Galaxy View tablet is $599, coming November 6th — The Galaxy View, Samsung's colossal 18-inch tablet designed for video streaming, will be priced at $599 when it's released on November 6th. That'll get you the Wi-Fi version with 32GB of internal storage …
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