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NFL ratings: over 2M watched Thursday's game stream on Twitter, with an average of 243K at any one time, compared to 15.4M on average on TV — And 48 million watched it on regular TV. — More than two million people watched Thursday night's football game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets for free on Twitter.
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See also Mediagazer| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 7, 7 Plus teardowns reveal 2,915 mAh battery, 3GB RAM for Plus, bigger Taptic Engine where headphone jack used to be, Intel modem in some iPhone 7 models — As it does every year, device repair site iFixit is putting all of Apple's new devices through the teardown process.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google acquires Urban Engines to bring its location-based analytics to Google Maps — Google has acquired Urban Engines, a provider of location-based analytics for urban planning. The team will be joining the Google Maps team in a bid to “help organizations better understand how the world moves.”
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
21st Century Fox sues Netflix for poaching employees, seeks injunction against interfering with employee contracts and damages — The film studio seeks an injunction to prevent contractual interference. — 21st Century Fox is accusing Netflix in a lawsuit of running a …
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See also Mediagazer| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
Associated Press, Vice Media, and Gannett sue FBI for information on how the agency broke into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone — Three news organizations, including USA TODAY's parent company, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI was able to break into the locked iPhone …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
After enabling movie ticket sales through Apple's iMessage, Fandango will start selling tickets through Facebook this weekend; sales on Snapchat coming soon — LOS ANGELES — By making it easy for people to buy movie tickets online or through a smartphone app, Fandango has experienced breakneck growth over the last two years.
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| Tim Wrobel / Droid Life: |
SwiftKey publicly launches neural network-powered keyboard for Android, available now on Google Play — Last year in October, SwiftKey unveiled an alpha build for the world's first keyboard powered by a neural network. Since then, big things have been happening at SwiftKey, namely the company being acquired by Microsoft.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft now has the most open source contributors on GitHub, surpassing Facebook and Google with 16.4K — Over the course of the 90's and '00's, Microsoft became notorious for competing aggressively with the very concept of open source — free software, developed by teams of volunteer programmers from all over the world.| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple's latest hires, an Oculus researcher and a Magic Leap engineer, hint at push into AR — Apple continues to stockpile talent in augmented reality, an area that CEO Tim Cook has said is “incredibly interesting”, as it looks like the company is working on some kind of display or technology … | Taylor Stanton / Slice Intelligence: |
iPhone 7 Plus outsold 7 in the US in the first 48 hours of availability, Slice Intelligence analysis of 32k receipts suggests — Data from Slice Intelligence just revealed the first online sales figures for the iPhone 7, and early shoppers prefer the Plus.| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Google releases Verified Access API for enterprise that will cryptographically validate identity of Chrome OS devices — New Verified Access API provides cryptographic guarantees about the identify and security state of Chrome OS devices — Companies will now be able to cryptographically validate … | Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Google, IAB, and others form The Coalition for Better Ads to set, monitor and regulate online ad standards — Google has helped form a coalition group comprising advertising trade associations, advertisers, publishers, and agency groups that aims to rid the web of bad ads.
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TalkAndroid.com, ClickZ, Marketing Land, MobileSyrup.com, Coalition for Better Ads, Mashable, Adweek and International Business Times. Tweets: @hoofnagle
| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission formally recalls about 1M Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones after 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage in US — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission officially recalled the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in a Thursday announcement.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
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