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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Netflix is raising prices in US starting today: standard $9.99 plan will be $10.99/month; premium $11.99 plan will be $13.99/month; $7.99 plan does not change — Netflix will raise prices for its US subscribers starting Thursday, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Edge for Android and iOS in beta and relaunches Arrow Launcher for Android as Microsoft Launcher in public preview — If you want more proof that Microsoft is embracing Android and iOS, boy, do we have it for you today. The company has launched Edge for iOS in preview …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is testing its own delivery service called Seller Flex; trial began this year in West Coast states, with broader rollout planned in 2018 — Online retailer would deliver from other merchants' warehouses — Trial program underway on West Coast before national expansion
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| Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple and Qualcomm's billion dollar patent war, during which Apple stopped paying $2B a year in royalties to Qualcomm — IPhone season, that extravaganza of novelty and surprise, began in mid-September with a two-hour-long presentation at Apple Inc.'s brand-new, spaceshiplike campus.
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
Facebook steps up efforts to answer questions about its role in Russian election meddling, with print ads, lobbying, outreach by Campbell Brown and Liz Spayd — Facebook is stepping up its offensive to respond to questions about the role it played in Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram starts rolling out feature to enable users to post Instagram Stories directly to Facebook Stories — Facebook Stories might not be a ghost town for long. After testing in Portugal last month, TechCrunch spotted the option to syndicate your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories appearing to US users.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests button to provide additional context on links in News Feed, such as the publisher's Wikipedia entry, trending information, and related articles — Facebook thinks showing Wikipedia entries about publishers and additional Related Articles will give users more context about the links they see.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: YouTube accelerates rollout of update to search after criticism of misinformation, hate, and conspiracy videos after Las Vegas shooting and NFL protests — Debunked claims appear in top 5 videos for news about Las Vegas shooting, NFL anthem protests
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils limited edition 25th anniversary ThinkPad, styled on IBM's original, with Intel Kaby Lake i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, starting at $1,899 — IBM's first ThinkPad debuted exactly 25 years ago today, with a bright red TrackPoint nub and a classic design that still exists in a modern form.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixelbook hands-on: incredibly well-built, fanless even with i7 option, large bezels; pen doesn't require Bluetooth pairing; Android app support still lacking — Google has made a very nice, pretty expensive laptop — Chromebooks mostly exist in two camps.
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Tweets: @robotodd, @tomwarren, @stshank, and @stshank
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
First look at Google Home Mini and Max: both sound good, no distortion with full volume on Max, which has impressive wake word detection even over loud music — Smart speakers that do the obvious things — Not 10 minutes after Amazon's surprise announcement of new Echo devices last week …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on AI and how it's used in Google products, like its Clips camera, Google Maps, and Android — ‘We feel huge responsibility’ to get information right — Unbeknownst to me, at the very moment on Monday morning when I was asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says Pixel 2 and 2 XL customers using Project Fi can use eSIM, requiring no SIM card — No SIM card required, so long as you're a Project Fi subscriber — You'll be able to use Google's newest smartphones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, without needing to pop in a SIM card, the company announced today.
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