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Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates — Yahoo has disclosed that — in addition to its September hacking incident — another “unauthorized third-party” …
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Facebook tests context-based actions in Messenger via its “M” assistant, such as sending location or stickers — Facebook's “M” virtual assistant hasn't been rolled out to all that many people, but its interactions with a limited user base have helped train Facebook's artificial …
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Instagram doubles its monthly active user base in two years to 600M, adding 100M in six months — That's 600 million Instagrammers, and a whole lotta brunch pics — It appears that the rise of Snapchat and all its Spectacles fun have yet to slow Instagram's growth: the Facebook-owned …
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Facebook Messenger adds Snapchat-like photo filters, including “3D masks”, special effects, stickers, more — What's better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That's Facebook Messenger's strategy to steal the visual communication crown from Snapchat …
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Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them — Dec 14 President-elect Donald Trump left Twitter off the invitation list for a meeting of technology company executives on Wednesday …
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13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals — Looks like the tech industry has a direct line to Trump — Tech titans Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg meet with Trump transition team
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Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says he will resign on January 20, which will allow a new Republican majority to begin dismantling Obama-era regulations — Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said today he would resign, ending months of will-he or won't-he speculation about his plans.
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Fitbit to keep Pebble software and services running through 2017, but smart features dependent on third-party services will be reevaluated — Greetings, Pebble Devs, from our new home at Fitbit! — After last week's announcement and Dev Blog post, we wanted to share the latest … | Will Greenwald / PC Magazine: |
Onvocal introduces OV Bluetooth headphones, the first headphones that allow access to Amazon's Alexa via a smartphone app — Technology startup Onvocal has new Bluetooth earphones, dubbed OV, that offer full voice control of your music and direct access to voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google Assistant.
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Docker open sources critical infrastructure component “containerd”, cloud vendors including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM, and Microsoft sign on to work on it — Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece …
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California adopts energy standards requiring idle computers to draw less power; energy commission estimates 6% of desktops, 73% of laptops meet standards — California became the first state in the US to approve energy efficiency requirements for laptops, desktops, and monitors today … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Twitter spent over a year developing a standalone messaging app in India, aimed at on-boarding new users, but killed it in September after trial runs — Twitter spent more than a year developing an instant messaging app for emerging markets but killed the product without launching it, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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TechCrunch and Digital Trends. Tweets: @natisho, @mims, and @ravichandrans25. Thanks:@pranavdixit
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Wordpress adds support for 360-degree photos and video to all its hosted blogs, viewable on desktop, mobile, and VR headsets — All blogs hosted by WordPress.com are getting the ability to host VR content today. The site is launching support for 360-degree photos and videos … | NBC News: |
Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved … | Reuters: |
FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay — The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states …
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese selfie app maker Meitu closes flat on first day of trading after raising $629M at a $4.6B valuation in an IPO in Hong Kong — Chinese maker of selfie apps starts trading on Thursday — Meitu says mobile hardware contribution to drop to 30 percent
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