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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter is rolling out 280-character tweets around the world — 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, 280-character tweets will roll out to users around the world.
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TechCrunch, BBC, Axios, Twitter, and CNNMoney
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| Aliza Rosen / Twitter: |
Tweeting Made Easier — In September, we launched a test that expanded the 140 character limit so every person around the world could express themselves easily in a Tweet. Our goal was to make this possible while ensuring we keep the speed and brevity that makes Twitter, Twitter.
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New York Times, MacRumors, BGR, Recode, Engadget, Business Insider, Slate, The Next Web, Variety, and Adweek
| 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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Waymo - Medium, The Verge, YouTube, Recode, MacRumors, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Curbed, Wired, Axios, Engadget, TechCrunch, Electrek, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @waymo, @binarybits, @binarybits, and @binarybits
| 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 …
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GeekWire, Recode, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNBC, Axios, and Mashable
Tweets: @jguynn, @sfiegerman, @jasonabbruzzese, @gregbensinger, and @mikeisaac
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Major flaw in Parity multi-sig wallets, often used in ICOs, potentially freezes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum — Today is not a good news day for Ethereum. A vulnerability found within a popular wallet has frozen potentially hundreds of millions of dollars …
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Comae Technologies, GitHub, The Register, Trustnodes, International Business Times, BetaNews, The Next Web, Motherboard, Boing Boing, BleepingComputer.com, Crowdfund Insider, CoinDesk, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @bcrypt, @j0hnnyxm4s, @adamcaudill, @charlieshrem, @francispouliot_, @malwaretechblog, and @techcrunch
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google patches Wi-Fi KRACK flaw in Android, adds new saturated color display option in Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, releases fix for Pixel 2 “clicking” noise — It's also fixing the clicking problem on the Pixel 2 — The regular, monthly patches for the Pixel are one of the main reasons …
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| Ali Breland / The Hill: |
After declining multiple invitations, ex-Yahoo CEO Mayer subpoenaed to appear before Congress, alongside Equifax execs, to shed light on respective breaches — The Senate Commerce Committee has issued a subpoena requiring former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to testify before the committee … | Snap Investor Relations: |
Snap reports Q3 net loss of $443.2M, vs. last year's $124.2M, and writes off $39.9M in unsold Spectacles inventory — VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.
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| Olivia Solon / The Guardian: |
How employers are increasingly monitoring their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts, and private messaging using third-party tools — Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts and even private messaging apps
Tweets: @frankpasquale
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS S3 adds five new tools, including default encryption and warnings about unencrypted files, to prevent data leaks — If you do a search for Amazon S3 breaches due to customer error of leaving the data unencrypted, you'll see a long list that includes a DoD contractor, Verizon …
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AWS News Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire, and Help Net Security
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing an AirDrop competitor, file manager, and cleanup utility for Android called Files Go, which reportedly will launch globally in December — Google is preparing to soon launch a new mobile app called Files Go that will allow Android users to better manage the files on their phone …
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9to5Google, Digital Trends, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| David Lumb / Engadget: |
Facebook launches closed beta of Customer Chat, a plugin for businesses to enable Messenger chats on company websites that works across multiple devices — While most of the billion-plus users on Facebook Messenger are individuals, the company has refined its messaging platform to be more business-friendly.
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AdExchanger, Android Authority, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and SiliconANGLE
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
TechInsights: iPhone X sells for $999 and costs Apple $357.50, giving it a gross margin of 64%; iPhone 8 sells for $699 with a 59% gross margin — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new flagship iPhone X makes the company more money per phone than its iPhone 8 model, according to an analysis …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo raises £71M Series D at £280M post-money valuation led by Goodwater Capital — Monzo, one of a number of “challenger” banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, continues to be on a roll, both in terms of user numbers and now a significant new funding round.
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Monzo, Forbes, Reuters, City A.M., Crowdfund Insider, and Bank Innovation
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Facebook promoted comments expressing disbelief under news stories as part of an experiment that has since ended — A Facebook test that promoted comments containing the word fake to the top of news feeds has been criticised by users. — The trial, which Facebook says has now concluded …
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Boing Boing, Engadget, The Verge, New York Magazine, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @alexhern, @newsmary, @atoker, @shansquared, @max_read, @libbycwatson, @chronotope, and @bafeldman
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
GOP tax bill, still in early stages, includes a big break for employees of privately held startups, would allow tax to be deferred on exercised stock options — House Republicans may win some new fans in Silicon Valley, with a new tax proposal that would help employees of highly valued startups that have not yet gone public.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches $50 Fire TV Stick Basic Edition without Alexa for international users of its Prime video service in 100 markets — We're approaching one year since Amazon expanded its Prime video service to over 200 countries internationally, and today the company is doubling … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Resonance Audio, an open-source, cross-platform spatial audio SDK for VR, AR, games, and 360 video — As augmented reality slowly proliferates with the promise of bringing computer interaction into three-dimensional space, platform giants like Google are tasked with bringing every sense into 3D space, as well.
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TechSpot, The Keyword, The Next Web, Phandroid, MSPoweruser, GitHub, Engadget, VRFocus, Ausdroid, One Angry Gamer, AndroidHeadlines.com, Road to VR, Android Central, UploadVR, The Verge, and xda-developers. Tweets: @unity3d
| Facebook: |
Facebook expands its peer-to-peer Messenger payments tool to the UK and France, the first expansion since p2p payments launched in US in 2015 — Today we're adding one of the most requested features in Messenger to two new countries by introducing peer-to-peer payments to people in the UK and France.
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