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Google Maps adds offline navigation and search to Android app, coming soon to iOS — Navigate and search the real world ... online or off — Roughly 60 percent of the world is without Internet today, and even where online access is available, it can still be spotty.
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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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Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in Snapchat by 25% in the third quarter — Snapchat stake marked down by investor Fidelity — Snapchat has been marked down by one of its most high-profile investors, raising further questions about the soaring valuations of private technology companies.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Consumer version of Samsung Gear VR available for preorder from Best Buy for $99.99, to be released on November 20 — You can now preorder the consumer version of the Samsung Gear VR — The consumer version of Samsung's Gear VR is now available to preorder from Best Buy for $99.99.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter says new users engage with likes at a 9% higher rate than they did with favorites; overall, engagement is 6% higher with likes than favorites — Here's The Data That Shows Why Twitter Switched To Hearts From Stars — Twitter product SVP Kevin Weil revealed performance numbers Tuesday morning.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Panasonic announces Toughbook 20, a Windows 10, rugged detachable laptop, available February 2016 from $3099 — Panasonic preps Toughbook 20 starting at $3,099 — Panasonic said its latest Toughbook will be available in February, feature Windows 10 Pro and weigh in at 3.9 pounds.
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Google Nexus 5X review: true successor to Nexus 5, solid GPU, but SoC and NAND need work; lack of speed improvement belies 2-year gap between releases — The Google Nexus 5X Review — Google's first hardware collaboration with LG brought us the Nexus 4.
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Twitch finally adds two-factor authentication to boost live streaming platform's security — Live streaming platform Twitch has taken steps to further secure its service. The company announced that it has partnered with Authy to provide two-factor authentication to its user accounts.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
The ITC does not have the authority to regulate information on the internet, according to a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — The ITC does not have authority over the internet, according to Federal Circuit — The internet has one less regulator …
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Steve Jobs movie pulled from over 2K US theaters, now playing in just 421 theaters, after earnings declined 69% from the previous weekend to just $823K — Steve Jobs movie is unceremoniously dumped out of theaters — Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs movie had another disastrous showing at the box office over the weekend.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Schoology Cloud-Based Education Platform Lands $32 Million Series D — Schoology, the learning management system that focuses on cloud collaboration, has today announced the close of a $32 million Series D financing led by JMI Equity, with participation from existing investors including FirstMark Capital … | Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale — Dark Web market ad offering Comcast accounts in bulk — Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods.| Kristen Mosbrucker / San Antonio Business Journal: |
Rackspace Q3: revenues up 11% YoY to $509M, profits up 42% YoY to $36.5M; beats analyst expectations as company closes new enterprise deals — Rackspace reports 11 percent more revenue amid hiring spree, collecting on enterprise deals — Rackspace Hosting Inc. reported a nearly 11 percent increase …
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