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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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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.| Alan Travis / The Guardian: |
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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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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| Mary Beth Quirk / Consumerist: |
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs law criminalizing resale of tickets obtained via bots — Perhaps you've been here before: you're waiting patiently, albeit a bit anxiously, for the moment when you can buy tickets to a concert or sporting event online. But despite your best efforts … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo quietly launches Yahoo Answers Now, an iOS app for its popular Q&A site — Yahoo has quietly launched a native mobile app for Yahoo Answers, one of the web's largest Q&A sites which attracts over 3.1 million U.S. monthly visitors. The app, which was previously being tested under … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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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| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
Barrett Brown is released after four-plus years in prison following charges stemming from Stratfor hack, must pay $890,250 in restitution for sharing a link — Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars.| SwiftKey Blog: |
SwiftKey for Android updated with clipboard, shortcuts for phrases, and incognito mode — We've got some exciting new updates to SwiftKey Keyboard for Android today, including a refresh to the SwiftKey Hub that makes it easier than ever to type your most commonly used phrases.| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Nutanix $166.8M Q1 revenue beats expectations in first earnings report since September IPO, stock down 4.05% in after hours trading — Enterprise infrastructure equipment maker Nutanix (NTNX), which went public September 30th, this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and profit …
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