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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Report: police sought Echo data with warrant in murder case; Amazon declined to share the data Echo logged on servers but did provide suspect's account details — Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Open source cross-platform video transcoder HandBrake updated to version 1.0.0 after 13 years of development — HandBrake 1.0.0, a new version of the popular open source cross-platform video converter, was released on December 24, 2016. — I reviewed HandBrake for the first time in the year 2007 …
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HandBrake, BetaNews, iClarified, Fossbytes, Slashdot, Lifehacker, Softpedia News, Engadget, MacRumors, Technology Personalized, The Tech Report, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, Liliputing, and MacDailyNews
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour — There was no bomb scare in Thailand — Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network falsely activated its Safety Check feature …
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International Business Times, CNET, SiliconBeat, Engadget, BGR, Mashable, and The Independent
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Rent the Runway raises $60M Series E led by Fidelity, says this year was profitable as revenue grew to $100M+ — The company was profitable in 2016 on revenue north of $100 million. — In March, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman told Recode, “I think you need to assume it's impossible … | Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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arXiv.org, AppleInsider, SlashGear, MacRumors, InvestorPlace, Fortune, Tech Times, iPhone Hacks, iMore, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Mac, CNET, International Business Times, WebProNews, MacStories, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @reza_zadeh. Thanks:@aatilley
| Reuters: |
Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE — Chinese mapping firm NavInfo (002405.SZ), internet group Tencent (0700.HK) and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE …
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HERE 360, Channel NewsAsia, VentureBeat, and Tech.eu
| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
T-Mobile rolls out update to Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones that prevents battery from charging, becoming the first major US carrier to do so — Samsung's previously announced plan to kill the battery in the remaining active Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US has begun.
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Inside Snopes' increasingly prominent fact-checking operation, which added 12 staffers a couple of years ago and saw record ~2.5M uniques the day after election — SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Obama urges the end of the “dual hat” arrangement where US Cyber Command and NSA are led by the same person — With weeks to go in his tenure, President Obama on Friday moved to end the controversial “dual-hat” arrangement under which the National Security Agency …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, is building an algorithmic model to recreate founder's staff-management style, led by ex-IBM Watson's David Ferrucci — Bridgewater wants day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—to be guided by software that doles out instructions
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SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @matt_levine, @mathbabedotorg, @eiaine, @awealthofcs, @willmenaker, @gerardtbaker, and @jyarow
| Bloomberg: |
Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve — The ubiquitous reference site tries to expand its editor ranks beyond the Comic Con set. — by — Subscribe Reprints — Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a 53-year-old British … | Bloomberg: |
Canon Tokki has near monopoly on machines making OLED screens and a 2-year order backlog, raising questions over supply of OLED screens for future iPhones — Apple Inc.'s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside.Sponsor Posts
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