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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 cites implementation violates TOS, Amazon says there is no technical reason for the decision — Goodbye, cooking lessons and music videos — Amazon and Google are in a not-so-fun fight. Google has apparently decided …
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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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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 … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
In tweet, President Trump accuses Facebook of always being “anti-Trump”, suggesting it is part of a network of “collusion” with newspapers and news networks — President Donald Trump charged on Wednesday that Facebook was “always” opposed to him … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
AWS Pinpoint, which lets developers send and manage push notifications, introduces two-way SMS messaging; Twilio shares close down 6.6% after announcement — Apparently the two-way texting feature was launched last week, but hadn't been properly announced by AWS.
| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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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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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Google acquires Bitium to boost its cloud identity management capabilities — Google today announced it is acquiring Bitium. Financial details were not disclosed, but Bitium will be joining the Google Cloud team. — Founded in March 2012, Bitium provides identity and access management … | 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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Verily, Apple, Fitbit, and Samsung are among nine firms chosen for FDA pilot program for faster approval of digital health tools — Agency to pre-certify some health technology companies — Tech companies have struggled with some health regulations — A federal agency that regulates apples wants … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 57 beta, called Firefox Quantum, arrives with major visual overhaul and faster next-generation engine — Mozilla today updated the beta version and developer version of its browser to Firefox Quantum. “Since the version number — 57 — can't really convey the magnitude of the changes we've made …
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Google adds per-second billing for Google Cloud, effective today, before Amazon's per-second billing takes effect on October 2 — The cloud wars rage on, and this time, the battle is over billing increments. — On Tuesday, Google announced that its cloud service will offer per-second billing.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
FCC report says mobile market has “effective competition” but some Democrats dissent, claiming entire ecosystem wasn't evaluated — The Federal Communications Commission's annual report on wireless competition declares the mobile market competitive. But dissenting members cry foul.
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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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Chinese regulator: iPhone X has 3GB of RAM, and a 2,716mAh battery, compared to iPhone 8's 1,821mAh battery, and its A11 Bionic chip has clock speed of 2.4GHz — Previously unconfirmed details about the internal specifications of Apple's iPhone X appear to have been revealed … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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