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November 23, 2015, 11:45 AM

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Edward C. Baig / USA Today:

Square starts shipping its chip card reader with Apple Pay support; Samsung Pay now supports Chase cards — Square rolls out readers to accept Apple Pay — NEW YORK — Square is rolling out new mobile payment readers to 100 local businesses around the country, allowing such merchants …

More: MacRumors, The Verge, MacRumors, Visa Europe, VentureBeat, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iMore, squareup.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Droid Life, iPhone Hacks, Europe Hub and Android Beat

Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed:

By delivering flu shots and hiring its first health advisor, Uber signals intent to shake up health care — The Uber Will See You Now — Jessica Funcannon getting a flu vaccination shot from Nurse Jerry Palacios at her workplace during the UberHealth day in Chicago last year.

Tweets: @ldignan

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple ‘Investigating’ iPad Pros Unresponsive After Charging, Recommends Restart as Interim Fix — Shortly after the launch of the iPad Pro, buyers began complaining about an issue that caused the iPad Pro to become unresponsive after charging, requiring a hard restart to restore functionality.

More: iTnews, The Register, Re/code, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, GSMArena.com, Pocketnow, Neowin, Ubergizmo, App Advice, Tech Times and Digital Trends

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google App Streaming: A Big Move In Building “The Web Of Apps” — A world where you can search through and move between apps as easily as with the web? Google's new app streaming service may usher this in. — Google App Streaming became a reality today, and with it …

More: AVC, Business Insider, Ad Age, BBC and Wired. Tweets: @mahemoff

Kevin Tofel / ZDNet:

More control: Amazon Echo gains advanced trigger commands with IFTTT — It's easier than ever to create custom voice actions with an Amazon Echo and If This Then That: See how using the new trigger command puts Alexa to work for you. — It's easier than ever to create custom voice controls …

More: Ifttt - Google+, Latest, Redmond Pie, Android Central, The Verge, Geeky Gadgets, AndroidHeadlines.com, ResearchBuzz and Engadget

Jonathan Keane / BBC:

As retailers turn to increasingly affordable facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, privacy concerns abound — Catching a thief by their face — Retail stores are turning to facial recognition technology and customer tracking tools to fight against shoplifters. BBC Future investigates.

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google unveils Android Studio 2.0 with Instant Run, faster Android emulator, and new GPU profiler — At the Android Dev Summit today, Google announced Android Studio 2.0, the second major version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Version 2.0 adds Instant Run, a faster Android emulator, and a new GPU profiler.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Android Tools Project Site and Android Developers Blog

Jackie Dove / Macworld:

Adobe to close Revel, its cloud-based photo and video sharing service, in February, and will let users transfer files into Creative Cloud Photography plan — Adobe kills off its photo-sharing service Revel — The company is going all-in on the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

More: CNET, Satisfaction and App Advice

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Facebook's David Marcus on how humans work alongside AI automation to power Facebook M and whether such a service can scale — Time To Meet The Wizard: Facebook's Messenger Head Pulls Back The Curtain On “M” — Facebook's David Marcus says M is already a lot more than just people pretending to be robots.

Tweets: @vanessaluvtini and @rossdawson. Thanks:@jmbooyah

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF and Visualizing Impact launch Onlinecensorship.org to collect reports on content takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media services — Onlinecensorship.org Tracks Content Takedowns by Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media Sites — New Project Will Gather Users' Stories of Censorship from Around the World

More: The Digital Reader, PCMag India feed, Wired, Inquirer and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Dan Moren / Macworld:

The Mac App Store, hindered by stringent requirements and lack of features like TestFlight, appears forgotten by Apple — The Mac App Store: Not gone, but certainly forgotten — Mac developers have been frustrated with many limitations of the store for years, and it certainly doesn't seem …

More: Business Insider and Tech Times. Tweets: @chockenberry

New York Times:

LivingSocial's growth-at-all-costs strategy serves as a lesson for today's unicorns as the firm struggles to retain staff and pivots away from daily deals — LivingSocial, Once a Unicorn, Is Losing Its Magic — WASHINGTON — The first thing you see when walking into the headquarters …

Tweets: @nytimes, @jtepper2, @p1bc, @startupljackson, @trengriffin, @shiraovide and @rolfewinkler

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