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Tim Cook says Apple Watch set a new sales record during first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track to be the best ever for the product — Sales of the Apple Watch to consumers set a record during the first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track …
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| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
Supreme Court throws out $399M penalty judgment against Samsung in patent dispute with Apple over iPhone design, sends the case back to the lower court — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling …
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| Urs Hölzle / The Keyword: |
Google says it will run its global operations entirely on renewable energy in 2017, claims it is the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power — Every year people search on Google trillions of times; every minute people upload more than 400 hours of YouTube videos.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
How the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory spread online via 4chan, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and other websites, culminating in arrest of gunman in Washington D.C. — The unhinged conspiracy theory now known as “Pizzagate” has resulted in a man bringing an assault rifle to the DC bar named …
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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
EU approves Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn, deal will close in the coming days as it has now received all the regulatory approvals needed — It was roughly six months ago, on June 13, that we announced that Microsoft would acquire LinkedIn. At that time, we said that we aimed to close the deal by the end of the year.
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube will create a database to share hashes of terrorist images and recruitment videos removed from their services — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online.
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See also Mediagazer| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Instagram will soon let you turn off comments and boot followers from private accounts — New tools designed to curb abuse will be available in the ‘coming weeks’ — With images as its main form of social currency, Instagram's problems with abuse have never been quite as visible as those of other social networks.
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Netflix becomes top grossing iOS app in the US for the first time, as weekly net revenue grows to nearly $2.9M — Just over a year after Netflix began allowing iOS users to subscribe to its service via in-app purchases, the Netflix app has summited the Top Grossing Apps chart for iPhone on the U.S. App Store.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Lenovo execs say the company is planning at least 12 new Moto Mods, the magnetic snap-on accessories that enhance Moto Z smartphones, per year — Those snap-on accessories for the Moto Z phones aren't going anywhere. In fact, Lenovo Moto phones will soon see many more.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Wifi review: solid Wi-Fi coverage, easy setup, powerful app, but expensive, not as fast as other mesh systems, and lacks a USB port for network storage — Google's mesh router balances performance and convenience — It's funny to think that the most interesting tech products of 2016 have been routers.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Plume's mesh-based Wi-Fi system uses cloud for computation; individual Plume Wi-Fi units called “pods” on sale now for $69 each with a three-pack costing $179 — A pod in each room keeps the Wi-Fi doctor away — Plume is announcing today that its Adaptive WiFi system …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The White House releases recommendations from a nine-month study of US cybersecurity issues, it is now up to the Trump administration to implement them — The Obama White House has had to reckon with cybersecurity like no other presidential administration in history, from China's 2009 hack of Google …
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