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| Alessandro Sabatelli / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter introduces live 360-degree videos on Periscope and Twitter from select partners — Today, we're introducing a new way to see what's happening on Twitter - through live 360 video. — Starting today, you can check out live, interactive 360 videos from interesting broadcasters and explore what's happening with them.
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Tweets: @alexpettitt, @twitter, @jack, and @dcseifert
See also Mediagazer| David Barboza / New York Times: |
How China built “iPhone City”, the world's largest iPhone factory, in Zhengzhou by giving Foxconn billions in perks, tax breaks, and subsidies — A hidden bounty of benefits for Foxconn's plant in Zhengzhou, the world's biggest iPhone factory, is central to the production of Apple's most profitable product.
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AppleInsider, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, New York Times, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes, MacStories, The Loop, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @anatadmati, @nytimesbusiness, @paulmozur, @hirokotabuchi, @laurengoode, @jessepesta, @shiraovide, and @nytimes
Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
As the list of SV startup scandals grows, entrepreneurs' “fake it till you make it” ethos garners continued scrutiny from reporters, while investors defend bets — As the list of startup scandals grows, it's time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.
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Business Insider and Feld Thoughts. Tweets: @shiraovide, @raju, @ellenhuet, @anildash, @rafat, @brentbeshore, @rapoportwsj, @vkopytoff, @asanwal, @davemcclure, @howardlindzon, @eringriffith, @alexsteffen, @patio11, @eringriffith, and @oliviasolon
| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
How Russia has bolstered its cyberwarfare capabilities in recent years by working with outside firms and recruiting convicted hackers, scientists, college grads — MOSCOW — Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.
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See also Mediagazer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Ford debuts upgraded self-driving car with extra compute power, better vision with improved LiDAR sensors; Ford plans to triple fleet to 90 vehicles in 2017 — Ford has developed a new generation of autonomous development vehicle, a hybrid Fusion that uses the same essential platform …
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Ford Motor Company, Business Wire, Mashable, The Verge, Hit & Run, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, MobileSyrup.com, Ars Technica, Seeking Alpha, Detroit News, CNNMoney, USA Today, Electrek, CNET, Engadget, Ubergizmo, and SlashGear. Tweets: @benasmith
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus acquires The Eye Tribe, a 16-person startup that makes software and a $99 developer hardware kit for eye-tracking — The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus' latest buy, The Eye Tribe. Oculus confirms to me that this …
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VentureBeat, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Road to VR, Digital Trends, Engadget, Tech.eu, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, Tech Times, Recode, UploadVR, Business Insider, and SlashGear
Tweets: @joshconstine, @spacekatgal, and @joshconstine
| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Singapore will add iris scans as identifier for citizens and permanent residents starting January 1 — Singapore's immigration department will begin collecting iris images of citizens and permanent residents as an additional personal identifier, which is aimed at improving the efficiency of its operations.
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International Business Times, Singapore Ministry …, The Straits Times, TODAYonline, and Channel NewsAsia. Tweets: @digiphile
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
HERE and Mobileye partner to create mapping services that can be used in self-driving cars, which require high-definition mapping data for navigation — More companies working on autonomous driving have decided to work together to pursue their goals; Nokia mapping spin-out Here is working with Mobileye …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces “Amazon Digital Day”, a sales holiday on December 30 with 1K+ digital deals on subscriptions, TV shows, music, movies, and more — Amazon is known for creating its own, exclusive sales holidays and events to boost its bottom line, as it has done with Prime Day …
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Marketing Land, TIME, CNET, Tech Times, Tom's Guide, BGR, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, International Business Times, Tubefilter, WWG, and GameZone
| Flurry Blog: |
44% of global smartphone and tablet activations from December 19-25 were iOS, down 5% YoY, while 21% were Samsung devices; Pixel, Pixel XL not among top sellers — With the dates of Christmas and Chanukah synced this year, smartphones were once again predominate on everyone's wish lists.
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Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Tech Times, ARC, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, AppAdvice.com Latest, MacRumors, Fortune, International Business Times, Phandroid, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, InvestorPlace, Cult of Mac, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Softpedia News, SamMobile, BGR, iMore, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Patently Apple, VentureBeat, MacRumors, SocialTimes, and Business Insider
Tweets: @glenngabe and @chrismessina
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $850M+, says firm forced phone makers to pay royalties for too broad a set of patents on modem chip sales — South Korea's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc 1.03 trillion won ($854 million) …
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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Lenovo updates Thinkpad lineup with Microsoft Precision TouchPad drivers, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Intel Optane SSD support, unveils Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks — Today Lenovo is announcing a refresh of most of its ThinkPad lineup, and although the model numbers have only changed a bit …
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