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Twitter says it has temporarily paused “all general verifications” to work on clarifying policy, after verifying white supremacist Jason Kessler — Twitter today announced it's pausing all account verifications - the process that gives public figures on Twitter a blue checkmark next …
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Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao — With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao — Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens … | Dave Mark / The Loop: |
Apple says it is working on a software fix for iPhone X screens that become temporarily unresponsive to touch in cold environments — Yesterday, a Reddit user named Darus 214 started a thread complaining about his iPhone X screen becoming unresponsive in cold weather. From the thread:
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Canalys: Apple shipped 11.9M iPhone 8 and 8 Plus units in Q3 2017, down from 14M iPhone 7 and 7 Plus units in Q3 2016 — - It says sales of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were below the debut quarter sales of the iPhone 7 last year. — Consumers may have flocked to the iPhone 7 due …
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Interviews with Jony Ive and Stefan Behling, one of Apple Park's lead architects, on the site's design and flexibility and on the fluid nature of iPhone X — Anticipation was higher than usual - and it always runs to feverish - when the press and other interested parties …
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
Sean Parker says social media networks like Facebook exploit a vulnerability in human psychology and wonders about effects on productivity and children — Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter more than doubles the characters available for display names from 20 to 50 — Twitter has been a bit preoccupied with length lately. After permanently increasing the maximum character length for tweets to 280, it's now allowing your display name to be longer too.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Hulu comes to the Nintendo Switch in the US today, becoming the first major video streaming app available on the console — Nintendo's gaming tablet is finally getting some streaming content. Today, the company revealed its first major media app will be Hulu, which will be available later today.
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Facebook announces Community Boost program, traveling to 30 US cities during 2018, to help SMBs use the platform, provide training to unemployed, more — Whether it's to “bring the world closer together” or improve its public image, Facebook today announced Community Boost.
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WikiLeaks publishes source code for malware control system Hive, shows examples of CIA allegedly impersonating Kaspersky via digital certificates — Source code and analysis for CIA software projects including those described in the Vault7 series. — This publication will enable investigative …
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Apple confirms it acquired InVisage Technologies, which makes imaging tech for low-light conditions — As Apple continues to work on ever-smaller but more powerful computing devices, it has acquired a startup focusing on nanotechnology, and specifically as it relates to image sensors.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 11.1.1 for iPhone and iPad with ‘i’ autocorrect fix — Apple has released iOS 11.1.1 for all iPhone and iPad customers. The latest software update includes bug fixes and improvements including a fix for the notorious ‘i’ autocorrect bug that resulted in a ? and A character appearing.
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Alphabet says Project Loon balloons in Puerto Rico have delivered internet service to 100K people, nearly 3% of the population — The island is still suffering from poor connectivity — Alphabet's Project Loon, which last month partnered with AT&T and T-Mobile to bring LTE connectivity …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M — Electronic Arts announced it will acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315 million in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140 million.
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UberEATS introduces 5-star ratings for restaurants, ability to rate individual menu items with a thumbs up/thumbs down, and personalized menu recommendations — UberEATS, Uber's standalone app for on-demand food delivery, has added in-app restaurant reviews in order to help people make more informed decisions about what to eat.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its Marketplace section to include “hundreds of thousands” of housing rentals from users and partners, like Apartment List — Facebook today announced its expanding its Marketplace listings section to include “hundreds of thousands” of housing rentals in a move … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will age-restrict flagged videos that make “inappropriate use of family-friendly characters” to logged-in users 18 or older — Videos that violate policy will now be age restricted — Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew …
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