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Facebook says most of ~3K Russia-linked ads during US Presidential campaign referenced divisive social issues, not the election, and that ~25% were geo-targeted — There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
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Sources: fingerprint scanner will be omitted from “iPhone 8” after production issues, which set back early production by a month and may create supply shortages — The widely anticipated 10th-anniversary iPhone, with an expected base price near $1,000, hit a speed bump or two related to its OLED display
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says Marvel and Star Wars titles will be streamed exclusively on its new service when it launches in late 2019 — - Marvel and Star Wars titles will be streamed exclusively on the new Disney streaming platform when it launches in late 2019, according to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google to sunset Drive app for desktop, with support ending December 11 and full shutdown on March 12, 2018, to be replaced by newer apps — Google will end support on December 11th — The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of today, Google announced in a blog post.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon seeks proposals from cities for a second HQ in North America, a “full equal” to Seattle HQ, and says it'll invest $5B+ and grow it to 50,000 employees — Amazon plans to build a second headquarters in a North American city to be determined, saying the new $5 billion campus will be a …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian launches Stride, a Slack-like workplace communication tool; free tier stores 25K messages, has 5GB file storage while $3/user/mo. tier removes limits — Atlassian, the company behind popular tools like Jira, Trello and Bitbucket, has also long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat.
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Silicon Valley fondly remembers Dogster cofounder Ted Rheingold, who died of cancer at 47 — The last company Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and angel investor Ted Rheingold advised was one that helps an overlooked segment of American consumers improve their credit scores.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ookla's US Speedtest report: average mobile download speeds increased 19% YoY; T-Mobile fastest for mobile internet and Comcast Xfinity fastest for broadband — Mobile and fixed broadband internet speeds in the U.S. are improving, but not all carriers and providers are created equal …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Hulu partner to offer both services in a bundle to US students for $4.99/month, will offer other bundles to more customers in future — Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering … | Jason Schwartz / Politico: |
Facebook is undermining its fact checking efforts by withholding data from its media partners, citing user privacy, such as which false stories are most popular — A once-touted plan to fact-check stories is being hindered by the company's refusal to share information.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Adobe announce new productivity integrations: Adobe Sign now “preferred” option for Office 365, Microsoft Teams now “preferred” for Creative Cloud — Microsoft and Adobe are continuing to integrate more of their cloud services — such as Microsoft Teams … | Robin Emmott / Reuters: |
EU defense ministers tested cyberattack response in first ever cyber war game on Thursday, simulating naval vessel sabotage and social campaign to stir protests — TALLINN (Reuters) - European Union defense ministers tested their ability to respond to a potential attack by computer hackers …
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MIT and IBM partner on $240M research lab, named MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, with 10-year research agreement focused on AI and its applications — IBM and MIT came together today to sign a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at the prestigious Cambridge, MA academic institution.
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| Chaos Computer Club: |
White hat hacker group warns that German election vote tabulating software has serious vulnerabilities, with some scenarios letting hackers change vote tallies — The Chaos Computer Club is publishing an analysis of software used for tabulating the German parliamentary elections (Bundestagswahl).
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Instagram says it's testing a feature for users to share their Story directly to Facebook — Facebook really wants people to view Stories on its main app, so much so that the social network is now turning to Instagram to see if its teen-friendly app can get the feature to finally stick.
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