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Google updates Maps with tweaked ride-hailing screen and ability to hail an Uber without leaving the app — Google's making it way easier and simpler to hail an Uber with Google Maps. Today the company announced that the latest version of Google Maps on Android and iOS lets users request …
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Sources: Apple planning push into original TV shows and movies for Apple Music subscribers, hopes to share viewer metrics and demographic data with producers — Apple is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies, a move that could make it a bigger player …
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Consumer Reports reverses earlier stance and now recommends 2016 MacBook Pro after Apple updates software to fix battery issues — New Apple software fixes a battery issue found in CR tests. The software, now in beta, will be part of a broad update soon. — By Consumer Reports
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
New rules allow National Security Agency to share raw intercepted communications with other 16 US intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections — WASHINGTON — In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Donald Trump to hold meetings on a “regular basis” with private sector firms focusing on cybersecurity preparedness, organized by Rudy Giuliani — President-elect Donald Trump's administration will hold private industry meetings on cybersecurity preparedness, led by Rudy Giuliani …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft publicly launches StaffHub, a shift scheduling app for iOS and Android available as part of Office 365 — Microsoft today unveiled the newest addition to its Office 365 suite with the debut of an application for shift workers and management, called StaffHub.
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Profile of Open Whisper Systems, which has five employees, makes secure messaging app Signal, and develops an encryption protocol used by Facebook and others — Two weeks after the US presidential election, Reverend Rebecca Bryan stepped up to her pulpit in the Boston suburb of Brookline and looked out on her congregation.| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Camera drone maker Lily will shut down and refund customers, saying it failed to raise funds for production despite $14M Series A and $34M in preorders — Lily, the autonomous camera drone that sold a whopping $34 million in preorders, has announced it is shutting down.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Opera launches Neon, an experimental browser for Windows and Mac that aims to showcase its vision for the future of the web — Browsers have gotten boring. After a flurry of innovation, especially around the time Google launched Chrome, things slowed down over the last few years.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Pandora announces it's laying off 7% of its US workforce, excluding Ticketfly group, in Q1 2017 in a bid to reduce costs — Music streaming service Pandora is going to reduce its workforce by 7 percent in Q1 of 2017, the company announced Thursday after the close of the markets.| Thushan Amarasiriwardena / Google: |
Google updates kid-focused animation app Toontastic with 3D graphics, available for free on iOS and Android today — Today's digital devices and tools offer amazing opportunities for kids to imagine, invent and explore with technology—and perhaps most important of all, have fun!
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon says it will grow its full-time US workforce from 180K to 280K employees over the next 18 months, with many positions in fulfillment centers — Many of the positions are for fulfillment gigs, but tech positions abound too. Amazon joins the trend of corporations touting hiring plans ahead of the Trump Administration.
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