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Twitter says a customer support employee, on last day of work, deactivated Trump's account before it was restored 11 minutes later — For 11 beautiful minutes, the President was off Twitter — President Donald Trump's Twitter account, @realdonaldtrump, disappeared from the site …
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| Apple: |
Apple Q4: revenue of $52.6B, up 12% YoY, vs. $50.7B est.; net income $10.7B, up from $9B YoY; other products sales of $3.2B, up 36% YoY; stock opens up 3%+ — Revenue Up 12 Percent and EPS Up 24 Percent to New September Quarter Records — Services Revenue Reaches All-Time High
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Tim Cook's strategy of continuing to sell older iPhone models at lower cost appears to be working as Apple doubled its Q4 revenue YoY in India — (Reuters) - By delivering solid financial results that beat Wall Street's expectations for both revenues and profits on Thursday …
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| iFixit: |
iPhone X teardown reveals TrueDepth camera system, stacked logic board with 3GB RAM, L-shaped dual-cell 2,716mAh battery, and Qi-based inductive charging coil — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Ten years ago, Apple introduced the very first iPhone, and changed the world.
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| Ars Technica: |
Xbox One X review: HDR colors with 4K look great, sizable performance improvements for few select games, but is expensive and has limited value without a 4K TV — Is Microsoft's “true 4K” console worth $100 more than the PS4 Pro? — When the Xbox One launched in 2013 …
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Mobile Pwn2Own 2017 contest awarded $515K for 32 vulnerabilities to hackers who breached the iPhone 7, iOS 11.1, Samsung Galaxy S8, and Huawei Mate 9 Pro — The mobile version of the annual Pwn2Own contest wrapped up today in Tokyo with an unprecedented attack chain leveling the Samsung Galaxy S8.| VIVE Blog: |
Logitech introduces BRIDGE developers kit, an SDK for using keyboards in VR using HTC Vive — This is a guest blog post by Vincent Tucker, Director Of Innovations & Strategy at Logitech. — What are we sharing today? — I am excited to introduce the BRIDGE developers kit …
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YouTube rolls out multiple profiles for YouTube Kids, with app tailored to children's ages if parents provide birthdate, adds parental controls — YouTube Kids, the kid-friendly, more filtered version of YouTube first introduced in 2015, is getting a notable upgrade.| Christopher Malmo / Motherboard: |
Average Bitcoin transaction uses 215 KWh of energy, enough to run an average US house for nearly a week; there are currently 300K Bitcoin transactions per day — Bitcoin's surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring. — Bitcoin's incredible price run to break over $7,000 …
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India's Paytm adds a messaging feature, called Inbox, to its popular wallet app — India's largest mobile wallet app, Paytm, on Friday introduced a chat service—Inbox—on its payment platform to enable communication between users and also facilitate a way for businesses to connect with their customers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: T-Mobile resumes merger talks with Sprint by making new offer; deal could be reached within weeks — T-Mobile has restarted merger talks with Sprint and the two telecom firms could reach a deal within weeks unless they fail to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Developer community Stack Overflow lays off staff, source says ~20%, or about 60 people, as it focuses more on its core Q&A products — Some changes are underway at Stack Overflow, the online community where some 50 million developers and others converge to talk programming and many other things.
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| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Synopsys, which helps design and test silicon chips, to buy cybersecurity firm Black Duck Software for ~$565M; Black Duck has raised $74M — Over the summer, Black Duck Software CEO Lou Shipley told Xconomy that a potential acquirer would have to propose a “really good deal” for his company to agree to a sale.
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