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Facebook rolls out new tools in the US for seeking friends' recommendations on local places or services, discovering local events, and interacting with Pages — People come to Facebook every day to connect and share experiences with friends and family. We share the great places we go and we ask …
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Report: Apple is working with Australian startup Sonder on a dynamic e-ink keyboard for future MacBooks, which could be incorporated as soon as 2018 — But as rumors go, this one doesn't seem that trustworthy — Apple reportedly plans to put dynamic E Ink keyboards into MacBook laptops by 2018.
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T-Mobile fined $48M by FCC for mischaracterizing its “unlimited” plan and throttling users' data when they reached the limit — Federal regulators are slapping T-Mobile with millions of dollars in fines and other requirements after consumers complained that the wireless carrier misled …
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Amazon Japan announces 32GB manga model of Kindle Paperwhite, priced at $118 for Prime subscribers, $157 for others, pre-orders open now — Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books.| Jonathan Mahler / New York Times: |
Anti-Defamation League: 2.6M anti-Semitic tweets were posted from Aug. 2015-July 2016 with 19K+ directed at journalists; “Trump” found in bios of many offenders — She had seen her face superimposed on the body of a concentration camp inmate. She had been called “a slimy Jewess.”
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Microsoft AI research group says its speech recognition tech has reached parity with human-level proficiency, with an error rate of lower than 6% — Microsoft: This marks the first time that human parity has been reported for conversational speech — Microsoft researchers say they have created …
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Sources: Snapchat to stop sharing ad revenue with media partners within weeks, will change to up-front flat licensing fee as it prepares for 2017 IPO — Evan Spiegel has a new deal for “Discover” publishers: We pay you up front, and we keep all the ad money. — Snapchat says it's done sharing with media companies.
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New report says top five US tech firms spent $49M on Washington lobbyists last year, as the five largest banks spent $19.7M — Big tech is outspending banks, alumni get government jobs — Wishlist from trade to antitrust poses challenge to regulators — A political weather map of America … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Researcher says some Trump company email servers use unpatched, end-of-life software, including Windows Server 2003, and only use single factor authentication — In what might be one of the more delicious cases of irony to ever grace a presidential election, a researcher has found that a number …
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Source: Amazon weighs offering internet service in Europe in order to bundle broadband access with Prime Video — Amazon.com is considering offering internet service directly to consumers in Europe, said a person briefed on the discussion. That would allow Amazon to bundle internet access …
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Tim O'Reilly, Chris Dixon, Mark Zuckerberg, Yasmin Green, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella offer ideas for Obama's six tech challenges — Ask not what the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That's President Obama's tack, anyway.| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked emails of board member Colin Powell show Salesforce listed 14 acquisition targets at May board meeting, including Adobe, Demandware, and Box — Salesforce eyed 14 companies as possible acquisition targets in May, according to leaked Colin Powell email
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Yahoo reports Q3 revenue of $1.31B, in line with expectations, as Verizon acquisition looms — Yahoo made slightly more money than Wall Street expected — and no one cares at this point. — The company reported its third-quarter earnings, basically falling a hair above what everyone … Sponsor Posts
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