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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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Tweets: @counternotions, @tomcoates, @tomcoates and @stevesi
| iFixit: |
iPad Pro teardown: A9X chip, 78% larger display offers 2x performance of iPad Air 2, 4-speaker setup costs battery capacity, adhesive pull tabs under batteries — iPad Pro Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hands-On With Facebook Notify, A Push Notification News App And Twitter Alternative — Facebook's filtered News Feed was never very good at real-time news. So today Facebook released Notify, an app for reading customizable breaking news, info, and entertainment push notifications right on your lock screen.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, and Techmeme — Here's Notify, Facebook's New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers — Facebook is already dominating peoples' phone time …
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Tweets: @telstarlogistic, @kenli729, @rrhoover, @comedycentral, @wfederman, @tomcritchlow, @scobleizer, @pkafka, @benedictevans, @ryanmcraver, @theromit, @pkafka, @donie, @joshconstine, @caseynewton, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @joshconstine and @joshconstine
See also Mediagazer| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Court documents show university helped FBI identify Silk Road 2 and possibly child porn suspect; Tor claims FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to deanonymize users — Court Docs Show a University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects — An academic institution has been providing information …
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Wired, The Tor Blog blogs, The Verge, Ars Technica, A Few Thoughts …, The Register, Forbes and Boing Boing
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
In-N-Out sues DoorDash claiming trademark infringement and unfair competition — In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash — Fast food restaurant In-N-Out, known for its delicious burgers and secret sauce, is suing food delivery startup DoorDash, TMZ reported earlier today.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Tweets: @matthan, @stevenlevy, @adampegues, @aoxuetang, @ashkanmizani15, @mdudas and @paulg. Thanks:@ebencuya
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's Project Oxford APIs offer face tracking, emotion sensing, voice recognition, and spell checking — Microsoft's Azure gets all emotional with machine learning — Project Oxford AI services detect emotions, identify voices, and fix bad spelling.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's new ‘About me’ tool lets you control personal information shown by Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and more — Google has launched a new tool called About me that lets you see, edit, and remove the personal information that the company's services show to other users.| The Intercept: |
Prison phone services provider Securus Technologies breached, compromising 70M call recordings including 14K conversations between inmates and attorneys — Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege
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Wired, Techdirt, SC Magazine, Engadget, The Verge and Boing Boing
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Angies's List considering $500M IAC acquisition offer after earlier reports suggested board had no interest — IAC makes $500 million acquisition offer for Angie's List but is rebuffed [Updated] — IAC/InterActiveCorp has put forth a proposal to acquire Angie's List for $8.75 per share in an all-cash deal.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bluetooth will improve in 2016 with up to 4x range, 100% boost in speed, mesh networking support, says Bluetooth Special Interest Group — IoT drives the Bluetooth roadmap: Faster, bigger range, and mesh networking support in 2016 — With the rise of ubiquitous computing and the burgeoning Internet …
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Business Wire, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, MobileSyrup.com, Wearable Tech Insider, The Next Web and Engadget
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Fidelity marks down its Zenefits shares by 48% and its Dataminr shares by 35% after investing in both companies earlier this year — Snapchat Isn't the Only Startup in Fidelity's Crosshairs — Fidelity Investments has become one of the most active investors in privately-held startups …
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Business Insider and Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @tedr, @danprimack, @eringriffith, @shiraovide, @jeremys, @iankar_ and @mdudas
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Box releases its Windows 10 Universal app — Working closely with Microsoft, Box has revamped its existing file-storage app to be a Windows 10 Universal one. — Online file-storage vendor Box is releasing its revamped Universal Windows 10 application on November 11.| BBC: |
Co-founder of South Korea's most popular chat app KakaoTalk resigns after being accused of failing to prevent child abuse imagery being spread via the service — KakaoTalk chat app boss quits after child porn row — The co-founder of South Korea's most popular chat app has resigned …
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The Korea Heald, The Daily Dot and Tech in Asia
| David Harris / bizjournals: |
Comcast launches Stream, its $15/month streaming service in Greater Boston; available only for Xfinity customers, and only within subscribers home — Comcast launches standalone streaming service in Boston area, but there's a catch — Comcast said Wednesday that its new $15-per-month …
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PR Newswire, DSLreports, The Verge, The Next Web and BetaBoston
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Roku introduces the $50 Roku SE, with 1080p playback and compatibility with Roku's library of 3K apps, to debut for $25 on Black Friday — Roku Introduces Low-Cost Streaming Player, to Sell for $25 On Black Friday — Roku isn't just discounting its existing streaming players for Black Friday … Sponsor Posts
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