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Twitter introduces Snapchat-like QR codes as an option to follow people — When clicking the follow button feels too hard — Twitter today introduced QR codes into its apps for iOS and Android, because not having QR codes was Twitter's biggest existential threat as a business and the main reason …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google releases Google Earth VR on the HTC Vive for free and is exploring support for other platforms — A virtual reality version of Google Earth is now available for free on the HTC Vive, letting users explore reconstructed cultural treasures, global landmarks, or (for some) their own homes in VR.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: only one 2017 iPhone model may have OLED screen due to supply constraints; OLED model may have all-glass design and bezel-less screen larger than 5" — Display makers seen struggling to meet iPhone output in 2017 — OLED displays are more energy efficient, provide deeper colors
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Analysis shows top 20 fake election news stories generated more engagement on Facebook than the top 20 election stories from 19 major news outlets — In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement …
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Facebook acquires facial analysis company FacioMetrics, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff — FacioMetrics, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, announced Wednesday it is being acquired by Facebook. — The company developed basic algorithms for facial feature tracking and software …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to cut its 30% App Store fee to 15% for video streaming apps if providers integrate their service with its TV app — Move comes as Apple prepares to roll out a new TV app — Video partners had been frustrated with Apple's revenue slice — Apple Inc. plans to cut the amount …
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Facebook stops collecting WhatsApp user data in Europe after government pressure, but says it may only be a temporary suspension while the laws are debated — Facebook has stopped collecting WhatsApp user data across Europe, the Financial Times reports, bowing to pressure from privacy watchdogs across the continent.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC deletes everything from November 17 meeting agenda after GOP letter urging Tom Wheeler to refrain from passing new rules before Trump's inauguration — FCC chair takes all rulemakings off agenda one day after GOP lawmakers' request. — The Federal Communications Commission …
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Todoist will use user habits to prioritize, reschedule, or postpone tasks with its Smart Schedule feature — It's the rare day when we get to cross every item off our to-do lists. It's a fact of life. We almost never accomplish everything we set out to do at the start of the day. — And that's okay.
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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Snap Spectacles review: stylish, fun to use, and captioning circular video is great, but cameras struggle in low light, and importing/accessing videos is clunky — Regardless of how you feel about Snapchat's new camera-equipped glasses, one thing is certain: Snapchat's marketing team is genius.| The Intercept: |
Snowden docs shed light on NSA's BLARNEY initiative that leverages “commercial partnerships” for spying; AT&T has surveillance equipment in at least 59 US sites — They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Twitter releases an Android TV app for watching live shows two months after its Apple TV, Fire TV, and Xbox One app — Twitter expanded its reach on TV with the addition of an Android TV app Wednesday, allowing owners of TVs and streaming boxes powered by Google's TV software to tune …
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