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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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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: |
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| 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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| 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: @stevenlevy, @adampegues, @mdudas, @matthan, @aoxuetang, @paulg and @ashkanmizani15. Thanks:@ebencuya
| 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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| 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.
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| Peter Ludwig / Official Android Blog: |
Android Wear gets cellular support, available for LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE owners in US now, international customers within months — Cellular support comes to Android Wear — Android Wear lets you stay connected, even when your phone isn't with you.| 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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| 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.| 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.
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| 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.| 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, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget and Wearable Tech Insider
| 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. Tweets: @felixsalmon, @tedr, @danprimack, @eringriffith, @shiraovide, @jeremys, @iankar_ and @mdudas
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Airbnb pledges to work with cities, a week after it won fight over Prop. F in San Francisco and warned other cities against rules curtailing its services — Airbnb Pledges to Work With Cities and Pay ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes — SAN FRANCISCO — A week ago, Airbnb fired off a warning shot …
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The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Engadget, The Airbnb Blog, TIME, CNET, The Hill, Consumerist, Tech Insider, Tnooz, BuzzFeed, Re/code, The Next Web, VatorNews, The Verge and Fusion. Thanks:@mikeisaac
| Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson: |
Xbox One update rolls out at 3AM ET Nov. 12, backward compatible titles to appear 3PM — Global Rollout Of The New Xbox One Experience On Nov 12 — TL:dr: NXOE starts rolling out after 3:01am ET/ 12:01am PT November 12th. Back Compat titles will be playable or start to appear in your collection …
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The Next Web, Engadget, VG247, Polygon, Windows Central and gameinformer.com
| 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
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