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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
iPad Pro review: not a laptop replacement, too bulky, disappointing and costly optional keyboard case, few optimized apps — Mossberg: The iPad Pro can't replace your laptop totally, even for a tablet lover — I am a tablet man, specifically an iPad man. I do love my trusty, iconic, MacBook Air laptop.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iPad Pro review: excellent performance, nice hardware and speakers, but expensive, suffers from iOS 9's limitations, and takes a long time to charge — iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS — There's some promise here, but iOS makes this a very different kind of computer.
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| New York Times: |
New York attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel games constitute illegal gambling under state law, orders them to stop accepting bets in New York — Attorney General Tells Daily Fantasy Sports to Stop Taking Bets in New York — The New York State attorney general on Tuesday ordered …
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Thanks:@kendallsaville. See also Mediagazer| Davey Alba / Wired: |
Alibaba's Singles Day Blowout Racks Up $5B in Sales in First 90 Minutes — The world's biggest shopping day is happening right now, and you probably don't even know it. — In China, it's already November 11, or 11/11, and the massive e-commerce event known as “Singles Day” is already well under way.
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| AppleInsider: |
Apple pulls popular Instagram client ‘InstaAgent’ from iOS App Store after malware discovery — A popular Instagram profile analyzer was on Tuesday pulled from the iOS App Store after being outed as malware by a German developer who recently discovered the app harvesting usernames and passwords.
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Tweets: @peppersoftdev, @peppersoftdev, @thenextweb and @peppersoftdev
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google will retire Chrome support for Windows XP, Vista, OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 in April 2016 — Google today announced it is extending Chrome support for Windows XP until April 2016. The company will also end Chrome support for Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion at the same time.
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
US charges three men with widespread hacking whose targets included JP Morgan — Suspects allegedly used Heartbleed to hack into a global financial institution. — On Tuesday federal prosecutors unsealed charges against three men, revealing details of a sprawling criminal enterprise … | Jerry Markon / Washington Post: |
US government spent over $1B over a decade to digitize 100 immigration forms, but only one form now online — A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online — Heaving under mountains of paperwork, the government has spent more than $1 billion trying to replace …
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| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Amazon Echo coming to 3K+ retail stores in US including Home Depot, Sears, Staples, in smart home push — Amazon Echo coming to traditional retail stores in new smart-home push … Amazon's strategy to bring its intelligent home speaker to market has been a little ... different.| Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News: |
NVIDIA announces Jetson TX1 module for autonomous drones, robots, and vehicles, with developer kit available November 12 for $599 — NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Brings Supercomputer Performance To Autonomous Drones, Vehicles — NVIDIA may be a graphics powerhouse when it comes to add-in boards …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPad Pro Now Available for Purchase From Apple Online Store — Apple is now accepting orders for the iPad Pro, both through its online storefront and through the Apple Store app. The first iPad Pro online orders will arrive on Friday, November 13 when one-day shipping is selected …
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| Jemima Kelly / Reuters: |
Microsoft partners with ConsensYs to launch cloud-based blockchain platform for financial institutions using Azure — Microsoft launches cloud-based blockchain platform with Brooklyn start-up — Microsoft launched a cloud-based blockchain platform on Tuesday with Brooklyn-based start-up ConsensYs …
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Tinder's big new update lets you use your job and education to snag a date — Dating app Tinder just released a major new update that lets you add job and education information to your profile. — Tinder will also now display a “smart” snippet of text below the picture of a potential match …
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| Financial Times: |
Microsoft launches German data centers controlled by a third-party to shield customers from US government surveillance — Microsoft unveils German data plan to sidestep US snooping — Murad Ahmed in Berlin and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Microsoft will allow foreign customers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Brings Restaurant Delivery To L.A., Will Expand To All Prime Now Markets In U.S. — Amazon's debut of its restaurant delivery service through its one-hour delivery app Prime Now, is no longer looking like an experiment. Since its debut in Seattle this September … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Leaked documents show the FBI never charged the hacker in the Matthew Keys case, despite knowing his identity for at least two years — Feds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case — Former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison … | Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Instagram Introduces Partner Program To Help Businesses Market Better On Instagram — Facebook-owned network launches program with 40 partners to help with ad tech, community management and content marketing. — Instagram continues to mature as a marketing tool.
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Instagram for Business, VentureBeat and TechCrunch
| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
T-Mobile unveils Binge On free streaming service from 24 providers excluding YouTube; exempts video from data caps, resolution lowered to DVD-like quality — T-Mobile Will Let Customers Stream HBO, Netflix and ESPN Without Racking Up Data Charges — T-Mobile will allow some subscribers … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
VC Chamath Palihipitiya wants to go after US giants like Verizon, AT&T with new carrier Rama; success in FCC spring spectrum auction critical — This billionaire investor is going after AT&T and Verizon with new carrier upstart — Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Beta version of Apple Music for Android now available — Apple Music Comes To Android As An Emissary — Today, Apple Music comes to Android phones. It's the first user-centric app that Apple has created for Android (but not its first). — As people download and dissect it …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Mobile Heart Monitor Maker AliveCor Taps Former Google Exec Vic Gundotra as CEO — AliveCor, which makes a smartphone-connected heart monitor, plans to announce Wednesday it has hired former Google executive Vic Gundotra as chief executive. — AliveCor — Gundotra, who left Google last year … Sponsor Posts
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