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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Prime Video is now in 200+ countries, excluding China, at no additional cost for Prime members, and $5.99/month in countries with no Prime option — A month after it dropped major hints, Amazon has made its Prime Video service available in more than 200 countries worldwide bringing …
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See also Mediagazer| April Glaser / Recode: |
Uber debuts self driving cars in San Francisco today with two operators: one backup for driving and another to collect and analyze data in the passenger seat — With drivers behind the wheels. — Uber is bringing its self-driving technology to San Francisco.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter adds live video broadcast to its iOS and Android apps; Periscope will continue as a standalone app — Periscope down — Twitter released an update today that will let you broadcast live video from within its app for iOS and Android. The feature is “powered by” Periscope …
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram introduces bookmarking for posts, letting users save them for later in a private tab — Starting today, you can save posts you'd like to revisit later. — Now you'll see a new bookmark icon underneath posts in your feed. Simply tap it to save a post to a new, private tab on your profile.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking on strategic advisory roles with Trump, will “meet with the president frequently” — The heads of Uber and Tesla are taking on strategic advisory roles with President-elect Donald Trump. — Travis Kalanick …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon begins Prime Air drone delivery trials in the UK, starting with two shoppers and expanding to a few dozen over time; first delivery took 13 minutes total — Amazon today announced that it has started a small private drone delivery trial in the UK. It's currently working …
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Tweets: @jeffbezos, @stevetweedie, and @jyarow
| New York Times: |
Russian hackers gave reporters and bloggers access to documents on Democratic House Candidates from DCCC hack, trying to influence nearly a dozen House races — WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation's roughest politics, with techniques … | New York Times: |
How Russia executed an effective, hard to trace-and-mitigate cyber offensive on the DNC, aided by an FBI response that lacked speed, urgency, comprehensiveness — WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee …
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See also Mediagazer| Tony Romm / Politico: |
IBM announces plan to hire 25K new workers in the US over the next four years, including 6K the next year, and a $1B investment for training and development — IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced Tuesday that her company would hire 25,000 new workers over the next four years …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's standalone support app for accessing product docs, scheduling Genius Bar appointments, more, hits the US app Store, rolling out to more countries later — Apple's recently launched standalone support application is now hitting the U.S. App Store. The app, which had quietly debuted …
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App Store, Engadget, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, ValueWalk, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, and Mashable. Tweets: @markgurman
| MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft launches Calendar.help in preview, an AI service for letting users CC Cortana on emails to schedule meetings — Setting up a meeting with someone outside your company can be a time-consuming process since you can't see other's calendars and free/busy information.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple temporarily pulls 3.1.1 watchOS update after reports of it bricking some Series 2 Watch models — Following complaints that the new watchOS 3.1.1 update is bricking some Series 2 Apple Watch models, Apple has temporarily pulled the update. — watchOS 3.1.1 is no longer available …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft officially introduces Zo Chatbot, available on Kik now, coming to Facebook Messenger and Skype in future — Microsoft has been investing in the promise of artificial intelligence for more than 25 years — and this vision is coming to life with new chatbot Zo, Cortana Devices SDK and Skills Kit …
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Engadget, Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, The Verge, Neowin, Bot Framework Blog, docs.botframework.com, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, The Fire Hose, and Cortana Intelligence …. Tweets: @skype
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Drive for iOS updated with ability to back up contacts, calendar, and camera roll, to make switching from iPhone to Android easier — Google has updated its website that guides iPhone owners through the process of making the change to Android. But more importantly …
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Android Police, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Android Authority, BGR, Phandroid, CNET, AppAdvice.com Latest, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, BetaNews, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Android Central, Droid Life, ITWire.com, AppleInsider, and Engadget. Tweets: @googledrive
| Oriana Schwindt / Variety: |
BBC and ITV partner for US streaming service BritBox, which will target US fans of British shows, launching 2017 — For nearly as long as the BBC and ITV have made their programming available for Brits to stream, there have been American viewers seeking various tech workarounds to gain access to those streams.Sponsor Posts
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