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A look at the experience of riding in Uber's autonomous vehicle as pick-ups start in Pittsburgh — Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. — The announcement comes a year …
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See also Mediagazer| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 2 review: serious fitness tracker with GPS, better performance, but display not visible in direct sunlight, software glitches remain — A GPS sensor and better water resistance make the new Apple Watch a serious fitness tracker — Let's call it what it is: a fitness tracker.
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Tim Cook favors AR over VR, suggests it may be more commercially viable because it allows users to be more “present” — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he favors augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR), and suggested the emerging technology …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period — In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today, the company's CEO and Founder Daniel Ek hinted that the service has hit the 40 million subscriber milestone.
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One, brings free video content from Periscope, Vine, and partners like NFL, NBA, and Bloomberg — Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft will now let devs distribute repackaged Win32 desktop apps through the Windows Store, which was previously limited to Universal Windows Platform apps — The Project Centennial “bridge” for Win32 apps is now ready for production. — Traditional desktop Windows applications …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon reintroduces the Echo Dot at $50, down from the $90 launch price, and adds a white option and discounted packs to encourage bulk purchases — We already knew it was coming - thanks to an accidental tweetAmazon posted earlier this week - but now it's official: Amazon's connected speaker Echo Dot … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
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Changes to Rule 41 of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to let FBI hack unspecified number of PCs with single warrant, starting Dec. 1, unless Congress blocks — Digital devices and software programs are complicated. Behind the pointing and clicking on screen are thousands of processes and routines that make everything work.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's vice president of product management Adam Mosseri says News Feed curates 2K stories a day for each user, but only about 10% of them are seen — Facebook says on a given day, the average user on the social network will read about 10 percent of all the stories that are surfaced.
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See also Mediagazer| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules, which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News — Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
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See also Mediagazer| Bruce Schneier / Lawfare: |
Companies running critical Internet infrastructure are observing recent probe-like DDoS attacks at a scale that points to state actors, likely China or Russia — Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Mixpanel: iOS 10 adoption in the first 24 hours since its release is at 14.45%, up from 12.6% on iOS 9 — Apple's latest operating system, iOS 10, is seeing quicker adoption rates than iOS 9 saw during the same adoption period last year, according to data collected by Mixpanel.
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| Kelly Liyakasa / AdExchanger: |
Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange — Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform. — “We were just as surprised … | Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Sapphire Ventures, whose sole investor is SAP, has closed a new $1B late-stage startup fund — Sapphire Ventures has closed on a $1 billion fund to invest in privately held start-ups, easing fears about a downturn in the venture capital industry. — Sapphire Ventures …
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Samsung says it will replace Note7 in US and Canada after country safety regulators end investigations, plans to offer replacements in Singapore this week — Smartphone's recall hurts consumer and investor confidence in South Korean company — Samsung Electronics Co. is facing growing consumer confusion … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
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