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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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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human games — The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP — The account was one of hundreds created by Russia's Internet Research Agency and drew 136,000 followers by tweeting divisive messages …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Samsung announces Bixby 2.0 update with better voice recognition and more, will bring it to IoT devices, and plans to open it to third-parties in “near future” — It was only a matter of time: Samsung's Bixby assistant isn't confined to just phones anymore.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung and Google partner to bring ARCore platform to Samsung devices beyond the Galaxy S8 — Google and Samsung team up as augmented reality partners to take on Apple — Today, Samsung and Google announced a partnership to bring Google's new ARCore framework to Samsung's line of Galaxy smartphones …
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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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused “Explore Feed” on desktop and mobile — Facebook's tests of an alternative News Feed dubbed the “Explore” feed have progressed to a full rollout, the company now confirms. Previously available on mobile devices …
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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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| 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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| 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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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!
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| 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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Engadget, Ars Technica, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
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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 … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
eBay narrowly beats Q3 estimates with $2.4B revenue, up 9% YoY, as GMV rises 8% YoY to $21.7B; StubHub revenue reaches $275M, up 5% YoY — eBay is not having a great afternoon after posting a pretty ho-hum third quarter that fit roughly in line with analyst estimates, but perhaps not seeing …
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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 … | 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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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
A look at Twitter's harassment problem in India, where local language abuse is common and offensive hashtags can appear in the top five trends for hours — In Twitter's fastest-growing market, abusive hashtags trend in the top-five spot for hours, local language harassment is common … | Erin Griffith / Wired: |
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