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Twitter says it's expanding tweet limit to 280 characters from 140 as part of test for some users — Twitter's 140-character limit died today after a long battle with Facebook. It is survived by brands, publishers and personalities, who will miss its insistence on wit and getting to the point.
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Amazon says YouTube is no longer available on Echo Show; Google says the implementation violated its Terms of Service and created a “broken user experience” — Goodbye, cooking lessons and music videos — Amazon and Google are in a not-so-fun fight.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Ford and Lyft announce partnership to develop and test autonomous vehicle designs and tech, with aim of putting Ford's self-driving vehicles on Lyft's network — SAN FRANCISCO — For Lyft, winning the race to create the first fully self-driving vehicles on the road is a far from lonely pursuit.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Open Whisper Systems, makers of Signal, are testing a way to scan contacts and then provably delete the data from its servers, rolling out in coming months — THE ENCRYPTED-COMMUNICATION APP Signal has a sterling reputation within the security and crypto community, but its critics point to a nagging flaw … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
In tweets, President Trump accuses Facebook of always being “anti-Trump” and questions whether it colluded with newspapers and TV networks — President Donald Trump charged on Wednesday that Facebook was “always” opposed to him, suggesting it is part of a network of “collusion” …
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AWS Pinpoint, which lets developers send and manage push notifications, introduces two-way SMS messaging — Apparently the two-way texting feature was launched last week, but hadn't been properly announced by AWS. — Amazon Web Service's Pinpoint tool is now offering global SMS two-way text messaging.
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Comcast launches Xfinity Instant TV streaming service in beta for its broadband customers, starting at $18 per month — Todd Spangler — Todd's Most Recent Stories — Comcast is hoping to bring “cord nevers” into the pay-TV fold with Xfinity Instant TV: The stripped-down bundle … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple confirms iPhone 8 crackling earpiece issue affects some devices and says a fix is coming — The company acknowledges ‘a small number of cases’ — Some iPhone 8 owners are running into an issue with the phone's earpiece: when they make a call, the earpiece makes a disruptive …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Lidar sensor startup Luminar announces that Toyota Research Institute is using their sensors in the newest version of TRI's autonomous platform — It's a vote of confidence for lidar maker Luminar, facing competition from behemoths like Velodyne. — A startup that makes a key sensor …
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Cloudflare launches Stream, a service for sites and apps that want to build businesses hosting and streaming videos, combining encoding, delivery, and player — Cloudflare has made a name for itself as a content delivery platform and security company, offering services to help keep websites up and running … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile acquires Iowa Wireless Service, which has 103 stores and around 75K customers; deal expected to close end-of-year or early 2018 — T-Mobile announced today that it has acquired the remaining interest of iWireless, a mobile operator previously owned by Aureon that serves customers in Iowa …
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Rep. House Science and Technology Committee Chairman asks Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet for any info on Russian ads related to anti-fossil fuel, green causes — Committee seeks information from Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet — Lawmaker cites possible ‘concerted effort’ to meddle in market| Japan Times: |
Japanese scientists invent new loop-based method to render large number of calculations more efficiently for quantum computing — Japanese scientists have invented an approach to quantum computing that renders a far larger number of calculations more efficiently than existing quantum computers.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Google begins rolling out overhauled European shopping search results to comply with EU ruling that let third-parties bid for top space on the page — Part of effort to comply with a European Union antitrust decision that fined the company $2.7 billion — Google has started overhauling millions …
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
Drift, a sales platform and messaging tool, announces $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, adds Sequoia as investor — Being a serial entrepreneur with four exits under your belt can be a double-edged sword. — On the one hand, you have a proven track record, which makes it a little easier to raise new funding.
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