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Twitter will now label political ads with sponsors, including spending and targeting disclosures, and establish a Transparency Center database with all ads — - Twitter will clearly label political ads, and require campaigns and organizations to disclose who bought the ad and how much they spent.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Automotive supplier Delphi acquires Boston-based self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450M — Both companies have autonomous driving pilots in Singapore — Delphi, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, is acquiring Boston-based self-driving car startup NuTonomy for an upfront purchase price … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says iPhone X will be available for walk-in customers at retail stores on launch day, Friday November 3, encourages customers to “arrive early” — Apple today announced that stores will have iPhone X available for walk-in customers, who it encourages to arrive early, on launch day.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New “Bad Rabbit” ransomware spreads within many organizations in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany — A new wave of ransomware has hit several targets in Russia and Eastern Europe on Tuesday, according to media reports and several security companies.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia data shows Apple's “App of the Day” App Store section, introduced in iOS 11, has boosted downloads by 1,747% on average and 792% for games — New research from Apptopia, out today, takes a look at the impact getting featured as the App or Game of the Day on the new iOS App Store has on app downloads.| Katie Bo Williams / The Hill: |
Bipartisan bill unveiled to require warrants for Section 702 surveillance, which US intel agencies use heavily and is due to sunset this year unless renewed — A group of 11 senators on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to substantially reform the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Gmail adds support for third-party add-ons for web and Android, with Asana, Trello, Intuit QuickBooks, Dialpad, RingCentral among launch partners — Google is launching third-party add-ons for Gmail today. These native extensions will allow you to bring the power of services like Asana … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets you add a guest to a live video stream — Make way for more talking heads. Instagram, competing hot on the heels of other live video broadcasting apps, is enhancing its video streaming service with a new feature that it hopes will bring out more videos … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Source: Snap's internal data showed most Spectacles customers stopped wearing the glasses after 4 weeks — - Despite the initial hype, Snap's Spectacles are a commercial flop. — The company has sold only 150,000 pairs to date, and less than half of Spectacles owners kept using the glasses after the first month.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber adds new fees to compensate drivers for slow passengers, longer trips to pick up riders, and ride cancellations — Extra fees kick in for pickup trips longer than eight minutes — Uber is adding a bunch of new fees to sweeten the pot for drivers who may be reluctant to wait for slow passengers … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: typical AI specialists receiving $300K-$500K a year in salary and stock; well-known names in the AI field have received compensation totalling millions — Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn boosts its messaging with smart replies, pre-written, AI based interactions — LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned platform for those who want to network with professional contacts and advance their own careers — has been in the middle of a long-term makeover of its social tools, as it looks to drive more usage.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo debuts a new $500 live event camera, Mevo Plus, following its Livestream acquisition last month — IAC-owned video streaming site Vimeo and Livestream today are announcing their first product integrations today, following Vimeo's acquisition of Livestream's live video streaming platform … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft drops suit against the US DoJ after the department announced new policy to limit use of gag orders by prosecutors for accessing customer data — Microsoft says it's dropping a suit against the U.S. Justice Department that targeted a tactic commonly used by prosecutors … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Overstock.com plans to sell up to 500M digital tokens in an ICO to fund its subsidiary, tØ, an SEC-compliant digital token exchange — E-commerce veteran Overstock.com is planning to sell up to 500 million digital tokens via an initial coin offering that will launch next month … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
HashiCorp raises $40M Series C led by GGV Capital and Redpoint Ventures to expand its cloud infrastructure automation services — HashiCorp is probably best known for Terraform, its open-source tool for automatically provisioning infrastructure by describing it as code.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Assistant adds over 50 kids games and activities for Android and Google Home — Google is adding a bunch of new games and activities to the Google Assistant today as a way to keep kids entertained. The update, which was previewed earlier this month, includes “more than 50 new games … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
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Amazon adds two-day Prime shipping option to its B2B marketplace, Amazon Business, priced from $499 for 10 users up to $10,099 for 100+ users — Amazon Business is a B2B marketplace where businesses can purchase products ranging from IT equipment to food service supplies.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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