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Facebook tests hashing to eliminate revenge porn in some countries; users send nude pics to themselves that Facebook will hash so they never appear on its sites — If you've had a nude photo taken, you might be nervous about where it could end up. — Your phone may be hacked …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Snap reports Q3 revenue of $207.9M, up 62% YoY, vs. $235.5M est., as DAUs grew 17% YoY or 3% QoQ to 178M — Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. — Snap Inc. will report its third-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday. — The primary question for investors is whether the young public company …
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| Terri Cullen / CNBC: |
SEC filing shows China's Tencent has bought a 10% minority stake in Snap; shares of Snap erased Tuesday's 16% loss in after-hours trading following revenue miss — - The news comes as a vote of confidence in Snap, one day after the company posted a huge revenue miss for the third quarter.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Evan Spiegel says Snap is redesigning Snapchat to make it easier to use and expects that it will be “disruptive to our business in the short term” — New version of the Android app also in the works — In today's earnings letter to Snap investors, CEO Evan Spiegel revealed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ramps up work on AR headset, which has its own display and runs on a new chip and OS, aims to have tech ready by 2019 and ship as early as 2020 — Company hopes to have technology ready for 2019; ship later — Breakthrough device will have new chip and operating system
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Pay Cash launches in iOS 11.2 beta 2, letting users send and receive Apple Pay money in Messages — Apple is soft-launching direct, person-to-person payments in an iMessage today with the Apple Pay Cash beta. The feature, which was announced earlier this year, allows you to send … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to roll out 280-character tweets around the world, in all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — Double trouble — In most of the world, the iconic 140-character tweet is now officially a thing of the past. Twitter said today that after a global test …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Waymo now offers free taxi rides in fully driverless cars in Phoenix, plans for a paid taxi service; at first, most of the cars will have employee in back seat — Waymo's first product will be a driverless taxi service in the Phoenix area. — Driverless cars are here.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber partners with NASA for its Elevate flying car project, aims to launch aerial taxis in Los Angeles by 2020 — Los Angeles will be the third test city, and NASA will provide logistical support — Uber's “flying car” project Elevate came whizzing back into view today with a number …
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| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
Corephotonics sues Apple for using its patented camera tech in iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus; suit claims Apple expressed contempt for Corephotonics patents — (Reuters) - An Israeli startup has sued Apple Inc, accusing the iPhone maker of copying its patented smartphone camera technology.
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| Dara Khosrowshahi / LinkedIn: |
Uber CEO announces new “cultural norms” for company after employee input: celebrate differences, do the right thing, act like owners, make big bold bets — I've spent my first two months as Uber's CEO meeting our teams around the world, dealing with a few firefights …
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Tencent's China Literature shares close 86.2% over their offer price in Hong Kong debut on Wednesday, giving the company a market value of ~$12B — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent's e-book unit China Literature Ltd (0772.HK) saw its shares surge more than 80 percent in their debut on Wednesday … Sponsor Posts
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