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Sources: Facebook and Google helped Secure America Now, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, target ads for an anti-refugee campaign in swing states — The big tech companies worked closely with Secure America Now to target an audience the group felt could be swayed by the message.
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| Joe Shields / AnandTech: |
HP unveils $1,749+ ZBook x2 2-in-1 workstation with 14-inch 4K display, 7th and 8th generation i7, up to 32GB RAM, optimized for Adobe apps, shipping in Dec. — Today at the Adobe MAX conference in Las Vegas, HP will showcase their new HP ZBook x2. The ZBook x2 will be HP's …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Internal email details Twitter's plans to update rules on abuse, including expanding reporting options, hiding hate symbols behind warnings, more — WHEN TWITTER COULD take credit for revolutionary political movements like the Arab Spring, it was easy for the company's executives to joke about their liberal stance on free speech.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe turns Lightroom CC into a new cloud photography service, providing 1TB of storage with support for RAW images, and introduces new pricing plans — Adobe's annual Adobe MAX conference kicks off today, and the company is introducing a whole slew of updates to its Creative Cloud platform.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
“Nude” app uses machine learning locally on device to find nude pics of users before moving them to PIN-protected vault, available for iOS, Android app to come — Making the camera roll safe for sharing — Nudes are an inconvenient truth of the mobile era.
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple partners with General Electric to develop industrial mobile apps for managing machinery, factories, and power plants — Businesses want same experiences as consumers, executive says — Apple makes GE's Predix its preferred industrial platform — General Electric Co. is teaming …
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| Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it is in the “second half of the dev process” of testing mobile PCs made with Qualcomm ARM chips — Windows 10 on Snapdragon is coming soon, with the always-connected PCs in the final stages of development and testing while Microsoft and Qualcomm enter discussions with carriers on sales channels.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google tests letting iOS users add third-party accounts to Gmail beta, available on TestFlight platform — Google wants to make Gmail the place where you check all your email accounts, not just your Google accounts. The company announced this week it's testing a new version of the Gmail app …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
UAE-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala is launching a $400M fund in partnership with SoftBank, a $200M VC fund-of-funds, and is opening a San Francisco office — Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund with $125 billion in assets under management, is opening its first U.S. office …
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan Chase to acquire online payment startup WePay; source says deal is for more than WePay's 2015 valuation of ~$220M — WePay, which serves e-commerce and crowdfunding customers, was valued at roughly $220 million in a 2015 fundraising — J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -.22% & Co … | New York Times: |
PolitiFact and Snopes, using Google AdSense, unwittingly hosted ads by fake news publishers; source says AdSense has terminated the ads — SAN FRANCISCO — The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines!| Adam Ludwin / Chain: |
An explainer on cryptocurrencies, decentralized applications and their potential uses, and the current crypto market mania — And anyone else still struggling to understand cryptocurrencies — My name is Adam Ludwin and I run a company called Chain. I have been working in and around the cryptocurrency market for several years.
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| Kunal Dua / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
WhatsApp to roll out real-time location sharing to Android and iOS users in coming weeks — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, is giving its over 1 billion users another reason to keep coming back to the app multiple times a day: live location sharing.
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Michigan-based SaaS firm Duo Security raises $70M Series D at a valuation of $1.17B, led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital — Duo Security today announced its Series D funding that puts the company in unicorn territory. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners …
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Amazon expands beyond just selling books in Brazil as it opens an electronics and appliances marketplace — Online retailer introduces electronics, appliances marketplace — E-commerce giant has sold books in Brazil for five years — Amazon.com Inc. is ready to commit to Brazil. Kind of, sort of.
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