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Facebook is testing a feature that lets page administrators create job postings and receive applications from candidates — Facebook might muscle-in on LinkedIn's recruiting business with ways for business Pages to promote job listings. The new Jobs features could give companies another reason …
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Web Of Trust browser add-on, downloaded over 140M times, pulled from Mozilla, Chrome, Opera add-on stores after it was caught selling users' browsing histories — Did the users consent to this? Probably not knowingly... A browser extension which was found to be harvesting users' browsing histories … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook uses Caffe2Go, a platform for executing neural networks on mobile devices, to apply style filters to video in real time in its app — Hussein Mehana is showing off a new incarnation of the Facebook smartphone app. It can transform a photo of your backyard barbecue into a Picasso.
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Snapchat updates its iOS app with new “World Lenses”, which apply an animated filter to your environment, and support for its upcoming AR glasses, Spectacles — Snapchat updated its iOS app today to include a new type of filter called “World Lenses,” as well as support … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Android's November security patch does not include fix for critical privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel; official Linux patch was released last month — Linux users already got a fix for “Dirty Cow.” Android users aren't so fortunate. — Android users waiting for a fix … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Uber rival Karhoo, which reportedly raised $250M and was active in London and New York, shuts down — So much for fighting the Uber fight. Today Karhoo — a company that wanted to take on Uber by pulling together prices and offerings from competing car services into a single app …
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Apple hired at least 16 former employees from now-defunct music startup Omnifone and purchased select tech, source says — As the race continues to pick up more subscribers for streaming music services, TechCrunch has learned that one of the most prominent players in the field quietly picked … | Financial Times: |
Facebook pauses collection of WhatsApp user data in the UK after Information Commissioner says it doesn't have “valid consent” from its users — Facebook has agreed to pause its collection of WhatsApp user data in the UK as a result of a probe by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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Sources: Twitter is currently vetting multiple term sheets from firms offering to buy Vine; one source says some offers are lower than $10M — Vine may survive after all. Twitter is currently vetting multiple term sheets from companies offering to buy Vine, and hopes to make a deal soon, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving car startup Zoox raises $50M from Composite Capital, valuing the company at $1.5B — The race for self-driving autos is heating up; undercover startup Zoox is fetching a value of $1.5 billion even before unveiling their first product. — TechCrunch has confirmed … | iFixit: |
Google Home teardown: standard connectors and screws, mostly modular components, minimal moving parts, similar internals to Chromecast, and easy to repair — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Google is looking to bring the robot assistants of the future to the world today.
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Facebook opens sponsored messages to all advertisers in latest version of Messenger, as well as “click to Messenger” ads that appear in News Feed — As Messenger continues its steady growth as a communications channel distinct from its social network parent Facebook …
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