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Sources: Apple plans to use drones, add new indoor navigation features to improve Maps; it acquired startup Indoor.io last year to help build its indoor mapping — @AlanLevin1 More stories by Alan Levin — Company gets FAA approval to use drones for data collection
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Report: Fitbit to acquire Pebble, will shutter company over time; source says deal is worth $34-40M, below Citizen's $740M 2015 offer, Intel's $70M 2016 offer — It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set to acquire smartwatch maker and multi-million-dollar …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
AngelList has acquired Product Hunt; sources say the deal is worth around $20M — Product Hunt will continue to operate as a standalone site. — AngelList, the company that helps investors find startups to invest in, has acquired Product Hunt, the company that lets people share and discover new products posted by other users.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Some high-ranking Reddit moderators say they're losing hope in the site's future as users from the pro-Trump subreddit harass others, inflate vote counts, more — For the past 11 years, an eternity in internet time, Reddit has touted itself—repeatedly, and loudly—as the place to have “authentic conversations” online.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Plex Media Player, previously a subscriber-only offering, is now available for all users; Kodi add-on launches for Plex Pass subscribers — Plex and Kodi are two of our favorite home theater apps, and now you can get both of them together. Plex just announced its new Kodi add-on so you can include your Plex library in Kodi.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Prime members can now subscribe to HBO and Cinemax for $15 and $10 per month respectively — The great cord-cutting revolution continues today with the news that HBO and Cinemax are now available to Amazon Prime subscribers for $15 and $10 per month, respectively.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Osterhout Design Group raises $58 million for augmented reality smartglasses — The Osterhout Design Group has raised $58 million to develop new generations of mobile augmented reality and virtual reality smartglasses. — That's a big round for the seasoned company, and it shows that the race …
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Geohot's startup Comma.ai open sources its self-driving software, Open Pilot, and its plans for compatible hardware, Comma Neo — Highway safety regulators called, so Hotz opted to offer a product with less liability. — In Silicon Valley, hacker George Hotz gained fast fame after being the first to unlock an iPhone.
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| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Apple working on fix for recent spate of invite spam affecting iCloud calendar users, says it is identifying and blocking suspicious senders — Have you been receiving spam calendar invites? Apple knows about the problem and is working on a solution. In the meantime, we've got a workaround that will ease your burden.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla and Tor release update for Firefox zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited to deanonymize users — Critical code-execution flaw resides in Windows, Mac, and Linux. Patch now. — Developers with both Mozilla and Tor have published browser updates that patch …
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Tweets: @homakov, @ameliasbrain, and @csoghoian
| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Amazon and Techstars partner on 13-week conversational AI startup accelerator offering $20K initial investment and $100K convertible note option upon completion — Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts.
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Techstars, Amazon Developer Services, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @bobmoz
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Opendoor raises $210M led by Norwest Venture Partners to expand to new cities next year, sources say at a valuation of at least $1B — Silicon Valley's club of unicorn startups hasn't been growing as fast as it once was, and its newest member is unlike most of is venture-backed peers.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS debuts FPGA instances for EC2 cloud computing service, pricing TBD, for applications which typically run on GPUs lke video processing and machine learning — Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced that it is launching a new instance type (F1) with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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