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| Matt Rosoff / CNBC: |
Despite the backlash from politicians and the press, most Americans view big tech favorably — - Despite a growing chorus of anti-tech sentiment from the press and Washington, people still view tech companies favorably. — That's because most people are choosing to use these products because they make their lives better.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on PolitiFact and hundreds of other sites — Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors' CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of protections …
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| Sophia Ciocca / Hacker Noon: |
How Spotify's Discover Weekly makes recommendations: a mix of collaborative filtering, natural language processing, and analyzing raw audio tracks — The science behind personalized music recommendations — This Monday—just like every Monday— over 100 million Spotify users found a fresh new playlist waiting for them.| Regina R. Clewlow / Planetizen: |
Survey: ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have most likely reduced mass transit use and added to traffic in major US cities — Useable data of the effects of ride-hailing service on travel behavior is sorely lacking, but a new study sheds light on critical questions about what companies …
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The Verge, Axios, Curbed, San Francisco Chronicle, Fortune, Wired, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @yoda, @cityobs, @theoverheadwire, @transbay, and @mrapptech
| Boyd Chan / Neowin: |
After outcry over excessive data collection, OnePlus says it will add an opt-out of usage analytics to the OxygenOS setup process — OnePlus once again found itself in hot water earlier this week after an eagle-eyed developer, Chris Moore, discovered that his OnePlus smartphone was uploading a raft of information back to the company.| Bloomberg: |
How Google's meandering, secretive, non-committal robotics efforts since 2013 slowed progress in the field — Its scattered, ambiguous, frequently abandoned objectives for its string of big acquisitions have hurt the whole field. — In 1982, Blade Runner introduced the world to replicants …
Tweets: @business, @chrismaddern, @manukumar, @business, and @mhbergen
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promises to crack down on hate, violence, and harassment with “more aggressive” rules — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to...Twitter today to promise a “more aggressive” stance in its rules and how it enforces them. The tweet storm was based in a response …
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Mike Monteiro, The Register, CNNMoney, International Business Times, 512tech, Refinery29, Gizmodo, The Verge, CNET, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Recode, Mashable, Mediaite, San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press, and Engadget
Tweets: @cwarzel, @johnpaczkowski, @jack, @thebradfordfile, @cwarzel, @jack, @rmac18, @cwarzel, @alyssa_milano, and @ashwinappiah
| New York Times: |
How North Korea's cyber warfare unit grew from a joke in 2009 into a major and active threat today, backed by 6,000+ hackers — When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them.
Tweets: @dnvolz, @hatr, @lexanderjmartin, @jessepesta, @chrisfralic, @cauchon, @breakersall, @mattocko, and @mattwaxman1
| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Survey of 6,100 US teens: 47% say Snapchat is their preferred social network, up from 39% this spring, 24% say Instagram, 9% Facebook, 7% Twitter — Snaps > tweets. — Snapchat is more popular among U.S. teens than ever, according to new research from investment firm Piper Jaffray.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The dream of USB-C being one port and cable to replace all others is mired in confusion because of Alternate Modes and inconsistent backwards compatibility — I love the idea of USB-C: one port and one cable that can replace all other ports and cables. It sounds so simple, straightforward, and unified.
| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase has launched instant cryptocurrency purchases of up to $25K from US bank accounts, dropping the typical wait period of 3-5 days — Coinbase just announced that users can instantly purchase cryptocurrency and have it be funded from a U.S. bank account.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
T-Mobile ends unlimited LTE roaming in Canada and Mexico, will limit to 5GB per month starting November 12 — One of T-Mobile's big “uncarrier” moves was to offer international roaming data to most customers for free. However, Canada and Mexico were special cases where you'd get full-speed LTE data on most plans.
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T-Mobile Support, 9to5Mac, Android Central, MacRumors, Engadget, BGR, GSMArena.com, SlashGear, SlashGear, The Verge, Neowin, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TmoNews
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