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Responding to media reports on an internal company message board, Tim Cook says Apple has “great desktops in our roadmap” — One of the memes to come out of the somewhat contentious rollout of the MacBook Pro is that Apple has given up on the desktop Mac.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: inside Apple, the Mac is getting far less attention than it once did, amid lack of clear direction from senior management and departures of key people — Inside the company, the once iconic computer is getting far less attention than it once did. — by
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
EU antitrust regulators charge Facebook with providing misleading information during its $22B WhatsApp takeover, can impose a fine of 1% of Facebook's turnover — European Union antitrust regulators have charged Facebook Inc (FB.O) with providing misleading information during its takeover of WhatsApp … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber lost $2.2B+ in first 9 months of 2016, with $800M+ in Q3 excluding Chinese ops; firm on track to exceed $5.5B in net revenue this year — Ride-hailing company's annual loss may hit $3 billion by year's end — Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company's financial loss has remained eye-popping.
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Uber says its self-driving cars have a problem when crossing bike lanes, is working on a fix; SF Bicycle Coalition had warned Uber about problem before launch — Engineers were working to fix programming flaw that could have deadly results for cyclists days after Uber announced it would openly defy California regulators
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Viber now lets users send video messages and adds six in-chat commands, known as Chat Extensions, to search Wikipedia, Giphy, TheMovieDB, and more — On the heels of Kik and Facebook's Messenger adding in new video features yesterday, one of their old rivals Viber is announcing a new video tool of its own …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
AirPods teardown yields a “hot mess” of close-knit components and a 0/10 repairability score; quality issues with charging case may have been the cause of delay — iFixit today published a teardown of Apple's AirPods, uncovering the internal components of both the AirPods themselves …
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Indian government officials say Apple has outlined plans and sought inventives to build products in India, paving the way for official stores in the country — Apple is seeking financial incentives to move ahead with plan, Indian officials say — NEW DELHI— Apple Inc. is discussing … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter tests breaking news push notifications, sends news updates on the Berlin Christmas market attack and Fidel Castro's death — Twitter wants to be a news app, having recently moved to that category from the “social networking” category in the iOS App Store.
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New York City debuts ParkNYC system in midtown Manhattan for allowing drivers to pay for parking via a smartphone app, plans citywide rollout by summer 2017 — New York City is making good on its promise to have smarter parking meters before 2016 is over. As of December 19th …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources Project Wycheproof, security tests of cryptographic libraries for known attacks, says 40+ security bugs have already been discovered — Google today released Project Wycheproof, a set of security tests that check cryptographic software libraries for known weaknesses being used in attacks.
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| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica: |
German politicians propose legislation to fine social media sites spreading fake news, giving sites 24 hours to kill hoaxes — Social media sites must kill hoaxes within 24 hours, offer prominent corrections. — Germany's coalition government is threatening to bring in legislation early next year …
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