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Lenovo starts shipping the first Google Tango, fully capable AR phone, Lenovo Phab 2 Pro for $499 — The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is shipping now — If it weren't for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to.
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Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft — Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware …
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Google Online Security Blog, Business Standard, BBC, Inquirer, TechSpot, Computerworld, Silicon Valley Business …, BetaNews, Business Insider, The Hacker News, Ubergizmo, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Softpedia News, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, Fortune, CNET, International Business Times, Tech Times, Digital Trends, CSO, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, Ars Technica UK, Neowin, The Verge and MSPoweruser
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| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Report: AWS has 45% share of worldwide public Infrastructure as a Service market, more than Microsoft, Google, and IBM combined — Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) — greater than Microsoft …
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A roundup of the mostly negative reactions to the new MacBook Pros and the current state of the Mac by creative professionals and developers — I was really disappointed with today's Apple event. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Computerworld, Chuq Von Rospach, iMore and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @pinboard
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Study co-authored by MIT professor finds Uber drivers in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men — Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
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Tweets: @ananny, @emilydshaw, @joshboggs, @markmilian, @ericnewcomer, @mitsloan and @lydiadepillis
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram to test shoppable photo tags for iOS users in the US, letting the user tap to learn more about products on posts from 20 participating brands — Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That's why today it will start … | Kori Schulman / The White House: |
New president to get @POTUS on Twitter, White House on Facebook and Instagram, with clean timelines; Obama's accounts will be archived and accessible to public — Summary: Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration.
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Tweets: @digiphile, @gregorykorte, @anildash, @swheaton and @simonw
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google doling out $50 Play Store credits due to Pixel shipping delays — Google's new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google statedthat pre-order demands had exceeded the company's expectations, and now the company is trying to make up for shipping delays … | Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Twitter tests enabling Apple's distraction-free Reader mode by default on links opened within its iOS app's browser — Reader mode is a Safari feature, which strips out most of the formatting from a webpage, removing adverts, navigation links and comments — Twitter is testing a new feature … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica UK: |
Hacking group Shadow Brokers share what they allege to be hundreds of orgs hacked by NSA with IP addresses of the compromised devices in a post on Medium — Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency's …
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theshadowbrokers, My Hacker House, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Motherboard, Threatpost, Flashpoint, Digital Trends, Fortune, SecurityWeek, The Verge and FedScoop. Tweets: @0xdeadb
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba creates new digital media company, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, to consolidate media assets, announces $1.48B fund for new projects — Yu Yongfu, of UCWeb, will become CEO of new group under Zhang — Breaking out media assets is part of transparency efforts
| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
New York's aspirations to become a global hub for Bitcoin fade, as delays in licensing process and strict requirements drive companies away — New York's financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year.
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CoinDesk, Digital Trends and CryptoCoinsNews
Tweets: @btcfoundation, @erikvoorhees and @alextapscott
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) convenes semiconductor industry working group to advance US competitiveness — President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST) today announced the launch of a new Semiconductor Working Group …
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