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November 22, 2016, 6:20 PM
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Xbox Wire:
Oculus Rift will be able to stream Xbox One games via Windows 10 starting December 12  —  At Xbox, we're continuously exploring new ways for you to get the most out of your gaming experiences by providing the choice to play how you want, where you want and with whomever you want.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Facebook has quietly built a tool to enable monitoring and suppression of posts based on location, to get back into China; Zuckerberg defended effort  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, has cultivated relationships with China's leaders, including President Xi Jinping.
Sue Shellenbarger / Wall Street Journal:
Study of 7.8K students from middle school through college finds most can't spot fake news; 82% middle-schoolers couldn't tell “sponsored content” from real news  —  Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Link to a malicious video can cause iOS devices to freeze when the video is played in Safari, requiring a hard reset to fix  —  Every so often, a weird bug related to iOS will emerge that causes some sort of temporary misbehaving for users affected by it.  For instance, nearly two years ago the infamous …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google launches its redesigned Google Sites out of beta, with collaborative editing  —  For the longest time, Google Sites felt like the forgotten app in Google's productivity suite.  Earlier this year, though, the company announced that it would finally give Sites a full overhaul.
Bloomberg:
NTSB is investigating the crash of Facebook's Aquila internet drone during its test flight in June  —  @AlanLevin1 More stories by Alan Levin  —  NTSB investigating aircraft's structural failure on approach  —  Company founder Zuckerberg called June test flight successful
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Facebook is testing an in-app feature which shows where to find free and public Wi-Fi  —  Facebook has begun early testing of a feature designed to highlight places where you can access free and public Wi-Fi near you.  The social networking company confirmed that its Wi-Fi discovery feature …
The Official Motorola Blog:
Lenovo rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to Moto Z and Moto Z Force, bringing Daydream compatibility, first phones outside of Google's to support feature  —  Last month, we told you Android 7.0 Nougat would be making its way to several of our smartphones before the end of the year …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
DeepMind Health and NHS Royal Free Hospital Trust, which runs three London hospitals, ink 5-year data sharing deal and will deploy Streams app in early 2017  —  DeepMind Health, the division of the Google-owned AI company that's focused on building links to healthcare providers to drive …

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Washington Post:
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CNN:
A list of times the Trump administration tested the limits of the First Amendment during his second term, stoking alarm among civil rights experts and critics

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