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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook, Google, Twitter to tell Congress that Russian election meddling wider than reported; source says 126M Facebook users may have seen content — Read early testimony from Facebook, Google and Twitter before they appear at hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Google, Facebook, and other tech companies met to discuss congressional concerns ahead of this week's hearings amid populist turn against Silicon Valley — Search giant is battered from all sides amid a populist turn against Silicon Valley and reaction to Russian meddling| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of eight Russia-linked Facebook accounts shows they backed 60+ protest events in US via publicity or financing, before and after 2016 election — They publicized or financed at least 60 events—on all sides of most polarizing issues—before and after the 2016 election| Steven Levy / Wired: |
iPhone X first look: nice big screen in compact form factor and improved battery life, but Face ID didn't always work — How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild …
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| Daniel Holloway / Variety: |
Netflix to cancel House of Cards, its first original series, after season 6, amid allegations against Kevin Spacey — Netflix drama “House of Cards” will end with its upcoming sixth season, Variety has learned. Production has begun on what will be the final season of the drama series, which is set to premiere in 2018.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple designing iPhones and iPads that would exclude Qualcomm modem chips and include Intel or possibly MediaTek chips instead — Company considers building devices only with chips from Intel, possibly MediaTek — AAPL 2.25% Apple Inc., locked in an intensifying legal fight …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube TV debuts a standalone app for Android TV and Xbox One devices today, coming to Apple TV, smart TVs in coming weeks; no plans shared for Amazon app — The video giant's pay TV effort is expanding — Over the last five years, major cable and satellite television providers in the US …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Support for third-party developers on Apple's HomePod is limited to messaging, lists, and notes via Siri, shutting out services like Spotify and Uber — - Apple's smart speaker, HomePod, will go on sale in December for $349. People will use it by talking to it.
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| Canalys: |
Canalys report: iPhone sales in China grew 40% YoY to 11M in Q3 after six consecutive quarters of decline, amid a 5% YoY decline in overall Chinese market — Chinese smartphone shipments registered another quarter of decline as the market contracted 5% in Q3 2017 to 119 million units.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale device for larger businesses — Square is expanding its hardware lineup with a new point-of-sale device called the Square Register. — Square's Head of Hardware Jesse Dorogusker explained that while the company's existing products …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo's Q2 earnings beat estimates with revenue of $1.9B, Switch sales of 2.9M units; company raises annual forecast for Switch sales from 10M to 14M units — Nintendo reported better-than-expected revenues and operating profit for the September quarter on Monday, while raising … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft closes Outlook.com Premium to new subscribers, eight months after its launch from public preview, and adds some of its features to Office 365 — A support document describing new premium Outlook.com features for Office 365 subscribers hides the real story today: Microsoft just killed Outlook.com Premium.
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