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| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter partners with Bloomberg Media to create a 24/7 ad-supported Twitter-exclusive live video news channel, expected to start in fall — New Service Comes as Social-Media Firm Fights for Video Ad Dollars — Twitter Inc. TWTR -0.78% has found its first partner for its push into round-the-clock streaming television: Bloomberg.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hacker leaks stolen “Orange Is the New Black” season 5 episodes after Netflix failed to pay ransom; Netflix says a production vendor was compromised — An anonymous hacker has carried through on a threat to release “Orange Is the New Black” season five episodes online …
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New York Times, Pastebin, TorrentFreak, Network World, Tech Times, Associated Press, Variety, Cord Cutters News, AOL, Forbes, Digital Trends, ABC News, CNET, DataBreaches.net, BGR, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Newser, Engadget, Refinery29, Mashable, Daring Fireball, Tech Times, SlashGear, BetaNews, International Business Times, Ubergizmo, Motherboard, and Associated Press
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @desconcentrado, and @martinsfp
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's “Speech Synthesis Markup Language” now lets Alexa developers add personality to Skills' responses by controlling pronunciation, pitch, timing, and more — Amazon's Alexa is going to sound more human. The company announced this week the addition of a new set … | The Guardian: |
Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security — Users trying to access online encyclopaedia via Turkish internet providers receive ‘connection timed out’ error message … Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country's telecommunications watchdog has said …
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Tweets: @tapeworthy, @nytimes, @vali_nasr, @nxthompson, @richardhaass, @joshgreenman, @lkrauss1, @jimmy_wales, @turkeyblocks, and @kimdotcom
| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Check Point researchers detail Dok, OS X malware that uses a signed Apple developer certificate to bypass Gatekeeper — Don't be scared but be aware, there's a new malware in town and it wants your Mac. — Check Point Technologies has released detailed information about a a new malware attack that is directed at Mac users.| CNNMoney: |
Sales of ebooks in US dropped 19% during first 9 months of 2016 and declined 17% in UK for all of 2016, as physical books sales rose, say publisher associations — Coloring books help adults de-stress — Are physical books the new vinyl? — New data suggest that the reading public …
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung debuts Bixby voice command feature for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in South Korea, a month after launching the flagship smartphones — Samsung Electronics has rolled out the voice command feature for its Bixby virtual assistant that was missing for the launch of Galaxy S8.
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The Next Web, Tech Times, and Android Authority
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Developer scraped 40K Tinder selfies from Bay Area and uploaded dataset to machine-learning platform Kaggle; Tinder says terms of service violated — Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set … | Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Sexism, racism, and bullying are driving people out of tech, a study by Kapor Center and Harris Poll finds — A first-of-its-kind report analyzed the reasons why tech workers leave their jobs, and found a common thread of sexual harassment, bullying and stereotyping
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SiliconANGLE, Kapor Center, USA Today, TechCrunch, Tech Narratives, and Fortune
Tweets: @kaporcenter, @un_women, and @ekp
| Ben Schiller / Fast Company: |
How money transfer startups like Circle, Abra, Transferwise, and WorldRemit are trying to shake up the $429B remittance market — A new class of startups is using bitcoin and the blockchain to drastically lower fees as they try to grab a share of the remittance market from old competitors like Western Union.| TechCrunch: |
Former NSA director Michael Hayden explains why the spy agency will stop collecting Americans' emails about foreign targets — Earlier today, the NSA announced its intentions to limit a surveillance technique that had a nasty side effect of sweeping up communications to and from Americans.
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SiliconANGLE, NSA.gov, Reuters, BetaNews, and New York Times
Tweets: @emptywheel, @kennwhite, and @snowden
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Algorithmic feed was a boon for Instagram's and Twitter's growth; Snapchat should evolve — Snapchat invented its best products by being the anti-Facebook. Its disappearing chats made visual communication quick and casual compared to Facebook's email-esque text messages.
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Forbes. Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @basche42, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
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