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Sources: Amazon developing premium Echo-like device with a 7-inch touchscreen set at an angle and high-grade speakers, to be announced as soon as Q1 2017 — Company may release higher-end device early next year — New speaker targets kitchens; to cost more than Echo gadgets
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Facebook launches Messenger-based platform for HTML5 games, played in message threads; 17 games available at launch, including Pac-Man, Space Invaders — Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger's new Instant Games …
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UK's Investigatory Powers bill becomes law, mandates everyone's browsing histories be stored for 12 months and be available to police and government agencies — Home secretary hails ‘world-leading’ laws, which include forcing web and phone companies to collect browsing histories
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Microsoft Surface Studio teardown: 32-bit ARM chip, easy-to-open base, removable hard drive, but RAM, CPU, GPU are soldered to the board and can't be replaced — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Good news, everyone! Microsoft made their first desktop ever.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Intel announces a dedicated self-driving tech unit, Automated Driving Group, headed by former IoT chief Doug Davis, as it partners with Mobileye and Delphi — Intel is following up on news early Tuesday about its partnership with Mobileye and Delphi on self-driving tech with more autonomous vehicle news … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Lyft's upfront price estimation tool now available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas/Fort Worth, Phoenix, with more cities in “coming months” — Starting today in select cities, Lyft is launching its upfront price estimation tool for all of its ride types.
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Twitter brings ranked conversations to mobile devices, so replies with higher engagement or from accounts you follow will show up first, and adds reply counts — Seeing popular replies first — Twitter introduced a new design for replies today that ranks conversations in your timeline according …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Google debuts “Featured Photos” screensaver for MacOS that showcases popular photos shared and liked by Google+ users — Google has released a free Mac screensaver that showcases popular high-quality photos shared and liked by Google+ users. — The company regularly showcases …
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Report: Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day in US history with $3.39B in sales, up 10.2% YoY; mobile revenue was 35% of sales, up 48% YoY at $1.19B — Online frenzy for Lego, iPads and Playstations saw $3.39bn spent: mobile spending grew fast and shoppers using iOS devices outspent Android users.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Web Services expands partner programs, unveils an integrated program for VMware and AWS that will be launched in 2017 — Amazon's AWS cloud computing division is hosting its annual re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas this week. Ahead of the main part of the event …
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| Susan Noakes / CBC News: |
Canada begins testing self-driving cars in Ontario with partners BlackBerry QNX, University of Waterloo, and Erwin Hymer Group — Erwin Hymer Group, University of Waterloo, BlackBerry part of 1st pilot — Ontario has achieved an important first by putting automated cars on the road for the first time …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Jolla's Sailfish OS now certified as Russian government's first ‘Android alternative’ — The future for one of the few remaining alternative mobile OS platforms, Jolla's Sailfish OS, looks to be taking clearer shape. Today the Finnish company which develops and maintains the core code … Sponsor Posts
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