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November 10, 2015, 1:20 PM

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Amanda Bishop / Google Lat Long:
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.
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 …
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.
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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 …
Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac:
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.
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.

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