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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closes investigation into June 2016 Tesla crash, clearing Autopilot of any fault and praising its safety features — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its full findings following the investigation …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU says Amazon's Audible subsidiary and Apple will scrap all exclusivity obligations in supply and distribution of audiobooks — A decision by Amazon and Apple to scrap all exclusivity obligations in the supply and distribution of audiobooks will likely boost competition, EU antitrust regulators said on Thursday.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn unveils new desktop site with simpler, app-like look, pop-up messaging window with chatbots, and updated universal search — After a short preview in September last year, and the small matter of getting acquired for $26.2 billion by Microsoft, today LinkedIn …
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Obama's tech teams are optimistic publicly but quietly fear for their programs' future after Trump inauguration; Matt Cutts in line to be interim head of USDS — The While House imported Silicon Valley's best to transform government. Will Trump undo it all?
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Twitter says it beat “many” internal workplace diversity targets in 2016, including promoting minorities and women to leadership positions — Twitter's workforce is a little more diverse, but still predominantly white and male. — Most Silicon Valley tech companies have workforces …
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In an effort to avoid governments shutting off access, encrypted email service ProtonMail now supports Tor — Encrypted email service ProtonMail is doubling down on its privacy credentials today with the news that it will now allow users to connect their email accounts through the Tor network.
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Oracle to buy API development firm Apiary for an undisclosed sum, says it will continue to offer Apiary's products to other companies — Apiary provides a front-end platform for designing, creating and governing APIs. — Oracle has announced that it plans to acquire Apiary …
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Sources: Minecraft Pocket Edition will no longer receive updates for Windows mobile devices — We received a tip earlier today that Minecraft Pocket Edition will no longer be supported on Windows mobile devices. — Since receiving the tip, we have confirmed with sources familiar … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft game-streaming platform Beam comes out of beta with faster video player, Xbox Live sign-in, and redesigned home page — Microsoft has been making notable improvements to the experiences on its Twitch competitor, Beam, since it purchased the startup this past August.| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
IDG, owner of PCWorld and IDC, to be acquired by Chinese investor group Oceanwide, headed by IDG Greater China chairman Hugo Shong — International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung starts rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to unlocked Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices in the US, UK, China, and elsewhere — Samsung has officially started rolling out the latest Android 7.0 Nougat update to existing Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge handsets.
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Sources: Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments — When Facebook went public five years ago, the world had a pretty vivid picture of who Mark Zuckerberg was.
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