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Tuesday Senate hearing: Google explains delay in cutting RT from ad program; Twitter says ~5% accounts are spam; Facebook says it revealed all known Russian ads — A live look at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Russian election interference. — Facebook, Google and Twitter …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Lawyers from Facebook, Google, Twitter stuck to prepared statements and vague promises during Tues. Senate hearings, and none promised to support Honest Ads act — In a high-stakes meeting, lawyers stick to the script — A bipartisan group of Senators grilled tech companies today …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Senators raise issue to Facebook, Twitter, Google of shell firms obscuring identities of advertisers, a fundamental obstacle to efforts to increase transparency — How can internet giants know that innocent-seeming U.S. companies aren't actually shell vehicles for malicious foreign actors to buy ads to interfere with elections?
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google announces Fast Pair, for Android 6 and higher, which will make Bluetooth pairing easier for devices that support the feature — But the convenience depends on accessory makers adopting it — Apple users are quickly growing accustomed to effortless wireless pairing between the iPhone … | Lorraine Bardeen / Microsoft Devices Blog: |
Microsoft expands its HoloLens mixed reality headset to 29 new European markets targeting firstline workers and information workers — At Microsoft, we are on a mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Mixed reality has the potential to help customers …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
New York terror attack suspect was an Uber driver for the past six months with over 1,400 trips; Uber is now in contact with FBI about the incident — New York terror suspectSayfullo Saipov was a driver for Uber, the company confirms. He has been accused of driving a truck into a crowd near …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Shippo raises $20M Series B led by Bessemer for its multi-carrier shipping API for ecommerce — Her voice weakened by a temporary illness, Shippo CEO Laura Behrens Wu couldn't resist pitching another customer on a recent October morning. She was in a Lyft and had discovered her driver created …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple changed its standard iPhone review PR strategy for the iPhone X, prioritizing YouTubers and celebrities over established names in tech journalism — ‘Unusual’ change in strategy means latest phone got less testing than most of its predecessors before reviews could be published
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| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
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| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
How a DARPA-funded series of contests a decade ago boosted autonomous driving tech; engineers from its top teams are leading today's self-driving startups — A Pentagon-funded contest spawned today's self-driving startups. The competitors are now struggling to perfect what they created a decade ago.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
London-based DIY computing and coding kit maker Kano raises $28M Series B led by the Thames Trust and Breyer Capital to expand in US retail stores — Kano, the company behind the popular DIY computing and coding kits, has raised $28 million in a series B round of funding led by the Thames Trust …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 11.1 with new emoji, 3D Touch app switcher, UI and security bug fixes — Apple today released iOS 11.1, the first major update to the iOS 11 operating system available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.1 comes more than a month after iOS 11 was first released …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Crowdfunding platform CircleUp announces $125M venture fund to invest in non-tech consumer startups — - Temasek, Euclidean Capital and the co-founder of Bumble and bumble are among investors in CircleUp's new fund. — The fund uses AI to track more than 1 million consumer companies and identify the hottest potential deals.
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Microsoft rolls out LinkedIn integrations in Outlook.com for richer contact info in inboxes — Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of business networking site LinkedIn is starting to pay off - at least in terms of product integrations that make sense. The company today announced …
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