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Sources: Apple is working on a redesigned high-end iPad with Face ID, slimmer bezels, no home button, coming as early as 2018; source says new Pencil coming too — New model will eliminate home button, OLED display unlikely — Latest iPad Pro models have helped revive tablet sales growth
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Tweets: @markgurman, @mhess4, and @markgurman
| 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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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @dcseifert, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Financial Times: |
Sources: US DoJ tells AT&T it needs to sell CNN to get Time Warner merger approval; source says “It's all about CNN”; source says AT&T plans to sue DoJ — AT&T has been told by the US Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN, Time Warner's cable news channel …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Source: Snapchat redesign coming Dec. 4, app will still open to camera, all friend-based comms move to left, all crowdsourced, partner, celeb stories to right — - Snapchat's biggest redesign ever is planned to debut on December 4, Business Insider has learned.
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9to5Mac, Recode, PhoneDog.com, and Mashable
Tweets: @caseynewton, @alexeheath, @ow, @stevetweedie, @alexeheath, and @alexeheath. Thanks:@stevetweedie
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer apologizes at Senate hearing for data breach and blames Russian agents for stealing users' data — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company and blamed Russian agents …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Linkedin-powered Resume Assistant for Word, rolling out to Office 365 users in coming months — Microsoft is tying together LinkedIn Insights and Word to create a new Resume Assistant feature for Office 365 users. — Microsoft is making available another integration between Office … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Stories will now let users add photos and videos that are older than 24 hours — Instagram is turning on a feature that many users have asked for, letting users add photos and videos from their camera roll - even if they're older than 24 hours. The limitation in place previously …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome will start blocking malicious auto-redirects in version 64, rolling out over the coming months — In recent versions, Chrome has implmented various measures to increase security and ensure a good user experience, like preventing content from autoplaying.
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Chromium Blog, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Android Police, Neowin, Android Authority, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Verge, and TechCrunch
| Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk: |
Organizers behind Bitcoin's Segwit2x fork, including Jeff Garzik, Mike Belshe, and Erik Voorhees, say the proposal has been called off due to lack of consensus — The organizers of a controversial bitcoin scaling proposal are suspending an attempt to increase the block size by way of a software upgrade.
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Tweets: @satoshilite, @nathanielpopper, @cathiedwood, @vinnylingham, and @coindesk
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel announces it has hired AMD's Raja Koduri to work on high-end discrete GPUs as its chief GPU architect — On Monday, Intel announced that it had penned a deal with AMD to have the latter provide a discrete GPU to be integrated onto a future Intel SoC.
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Intel Newsroom, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Lowyat.NET, MSPoweruser, and Tom's Hardware. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@iancutress
| Terri Cullen / CNBC: |
SEC filing shows China's Tencent bought a ~10% stake in Snap; sources say Tencent purchased 145.8M nonvoting shares over the last quarter — - 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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| Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast: |
Facebook says a human will review uncensored images from revenge porn prevention test in Australia, where users upload sensitive pics by messaging themselves — This week, multiple outlets reported on a Facebook pilot scheme that aims to combat revenge porn.
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Newser, Washington Post, and The Hill
Tweets: @josephfcox, @oneunderscore__, @pwnallthethings, @alexroy144, and @oneunderscore__
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese state media agencies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each quarter on Facebook ads to spread a positive message about China — A propaganda video produced by Xinhua, China's state news agency, and targeted to English-speaking audiences was published on Facebook.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Logitech, in email to customers, says it will end support for Harmony Link devices which will cease to function on March 16, 2018 — Essentially bricking the otherwise functional smart remote devices. — Logitech customers are not happy, as they recently found out that the company … | Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Roku's first earnings report: $124.8M Q3 net revenue, up 40% YoY, vs $110M est; $7.9M loss, vs 12.7M est; ad business has doubled in size YTD; stock up 26%+ — Roku, the digital streaming business, had a huge first earnings report, greatly surpassing analyst expectations.
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Roku Investor Relations, Silicon Valley Business …, and Variety
Tweets: @jank0, @jandawson, @jandawson, and @lexnfx
| Karen Schwartz / New York Times: |
TripAdvisor begins placing badges next to hotels identified as locations of sexual assault; badges will remain up to three months, or longer if issues persist — Responding to what one travel expert categorized as “a wakeup call,” TripAdvisor has begun placing symbols next to hotels and resorts …
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| Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed: |
Profile of CrowdStrike's Robert Johnston, who identified and analyzed Russia's 2016 dual intrusions of Democratic National Committee servers — One late morning in May 2016, the leaders of the Democratic National Committee huddled around a packed conference table and stared at Robert Johnston.
Tweets: @tomgara, @jasonleopold, @jasonleopold, @ericgeller, @lisatozzi, @aaschapiro, and @kendallttaggart
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