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Peter Thiel will join Trump's transition team; sources say he will help vet presidential appointments and advise on which campaign promises will become policies — Thiel to vet appointees, prioritize policies, sources say — Eliminating waste, decreasing debt likely to top list
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Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to use its ethnic affinity marketing in housing, employment, and credit ads — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to exclude specific racial and ethnic groups when placing ads related to housing, credit or employment.
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AT&T to begin throttling mobile streaming video to 480p resolution in early 2017, but customers can opt out — Cellular customers can opt out of “Stream Saver,” which limits video to 480p. — AT&T today said it will begin limiting the quality of mobile video for cellular data customers in early 2017.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook mistakenly showed memorial banners on profile pages implying users were dead, apologized for a “terrible error” — RIP — Facebook is capping one of the longest weeks in American history by telling everyone that they are dead. Log on to your profile and there's …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg: “the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way... is a pretty crazy idea” — “Voters make decisions based on their lived experience.” — After a day of criticism over his company's role …
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Spotify app for Windows, Mac, and Linux writing gigabytes of junk data to storage drives when idle; company says they're rolling out an update with fix for bug — Streaming app used by 40 million writes hundreds of gigabytes per day. — For almost five months—possibly longer … | Saba Hamedy / Mashable: |
Hands-on with Snap's Spectacles: light-weight, pairing with phone is easy, Snapping with glasses and transfers to phone work as promised, video quality is good — Getting my hands on a pair of Snapchat Spectacles felt like getting a golden ticket. — Only instead of Willy Wonka greeting me at the … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba broke its Singles' Day record with sales reaching $15B by 8pm in China, topping last year's $13.4B — Jack Ma Enlists Scarlett Johansson to boost shopping at event — 24-hour shopathon kicks off with fanfare amid China slowdown — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is on track to smash …
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
NES Classic Edition review: great selection of games and excellent NES emulation, but no way to buy new games, and 2.5 foot controller cable is too short — “I don't want to sit on the floor while I play video games,” my buddy Josh told me. “I'm not 7 anymore.”
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| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
Researchers fool many AI facial recognition systems with printed paper eyeglass frames — Your face is quickly becoming a key to the digital world. Computers, phones, and even online stores are starting to use your face as a password. But new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook is buying the social analytics company CrowdTangle, used by BuzzFeed, CNN, ESPN, others to track how content spreads online, for an undisclosed sum — Understanding how news goes viral — Facebook today announced that it has purchased CrowdTangle, a 4-year-old tool that publishers use …
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See also Mediagazer| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Tech CEOs send company-wide memos encouraging decency and kindness after Donald Trump's win — An ‘emotionally-charged election’ — Over the past 24 hours, top executives at Apple, eBay, Box, and Microsoft have sent company-wide memos urging employees to try to move forward and expressing the belief that people are inherently good.
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