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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google folding Chrome OS into Android, plans to release a single, combined OS by 2017 — Alphabet's Google to Fold Chrome Operating System Into Android — Move is a sign of the growing dominance of mobile computing — Alphabet Inc. 's Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Sources: Google will work with partners next year to build laptops running Android, will retain Chrome OS as an option for Chromebooks — Why Google Tapped Android Over Chrome as Its Marquee OS — Android is a big deal for Google. It is Google's portal for the smartphone market, where it maintains a global dominance.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
New Windows 10 PC test build offers media casting from Edge to any Miracast and DLNA enabled device — New Windows 10 PC test build adds media casting support — Microsoft has added media casting from its Edge browser to the latest Windows 10 test build for PCs, Build 10576.
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Google Keep on Android now lets users draw in notes — [APK Download] Drawing Mode Is Live In The Latest Version Of Google Keep, Along With An Updated Widget — Just last week Cody Toombs spotted the building blocks for a drawing function in Google's Keep notes app, and now it's live.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Q3 earnings beat expectations with $780M in revenue, stock up 12% in after-hours trading — LinkedIn Earnings Beat Expectations With $780M In Revenue, Stock Jumps 9% — LinkedIn handily beat analyst expectations today with revenue of $780 million and earnings of 78 cents per share.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Turns Photos Into Dynamic “Slideshow” Ads For The Developing World's Slow Connections — Facebook has hit user saturation in its core developed world markets. A strong way to boost revenue is for Facebook to make ads work better in emerging markets with older technology.
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Report: T-Mobile's Uncarrier 10 plan to offer customers unlimited high speed data for watching select streaming video services like Netflix, HBO — Rumor Mill: T-Mobile's ‘Uncarrier 10’ plan to let customers stream Netflix, HBO without chewing through data
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| iFixit: |
Nexus 6P teardown reveals square fingerprint reader and very poor repairability — Nexus 6P Teardown — The cream of the season's Android crop is here—it's Google's own showstopping phablet, the Nexus 6P. In an historical first, this device comes to us via Chinese manufacturer Huawei … | Sukhbir / The Tor Blog blogs: |
Tor releases beta version of Tor Messenger, its OTR-encrypted, cross-platform chat program, on Linux, Windows and OS X — Tor Messenger Beta: Chat over Tor, Easily — Today we are releasing a new, beta version of Tor Messenger, based on Instantbird, an instant messaging client developed in the Mozilla community.
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Wired, Engadget, The Next Web and The Verge
| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple's secrecy and reluctance to publish research on AI hurt its ability to hire best researchers, some say — Apple's Deep Learning Curve — The company's secrecy is hurting its AI software development. — In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming …
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| Martyn Williams / PCWorld: |
Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart join FAA drone task force — The group faces a Nov. 20 deadline and is accepting public comments — Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration and identification system for drones.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Sergey Brin says each Alphabet business can decide which countries it wants to operate in, including China — Some Alphabet Units May Return to China Ahead of Others, Brin Says — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit is trying to get back into China, raising questions about the company's stance on censorship in the country.
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Agence France-Presse, International Business Times, Google Operating System, bizjournals, TechSpot and 9to5Google. Tweets: @alistairmbarr
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Slack launches user groups, a way to send notifications to groups of people, hits 1.7M DAUs and 470K paid users, up from June's 1.1M DAUs and 300K paid users — Slack launches user groups, hits 1.7M daily active users and 470K paid seats — Team communication apps Slack today is announcing …
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