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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 …
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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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| 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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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Tweets: @twittersupport, @jack, @fun_beard, @michaelianblack, @ali, @cwarzel, @letsgomathias, @levinejonathan, @mrdonut, @cwarzel, @kno, @davezatz, @mrdonut, @oneunderscore__, @kfile, @cernovich, @tomgara, @evepeyser, @muslimiq, @mtracey, and @summerbrennan
| 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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Tweets: @backlon, @joannastern, and @stevekovach
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
After backlash, Logitech says it will offer free Harmony Hubs for all Harmony Link users — WHEN LOGITECH DECIDED to intentionally brick its Harmony Link hub next March, it somehow didn't anticipate the backlash, which spread from Reddit comment threads to major tech publications and beyond.
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Tweets: @logitech, @wired, and @swiftonsecurity
| Prashant S. Rao / New York Times: |
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case — LONDON — Uber suffered a renewed blow to its operations in London — its biggest market outside the United States — when an employment tribunal on Friday rejected …
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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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| 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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Nintendo, iMore, TechCrunch, The Next Web, destructoid, Digital Trends, Polygon, Engadget, Mashable, Gizmodo, Polygon, and Variety
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
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 … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Filing and LinkedIn updates show Roku acquired Denmark-based multi-room audio startup Dynastrom ApS in September for $3.5M — The evidence that Roku is working on a smart speaker product is mounting: The streaming device maker acquired Denmark-based multi-room audio startup Dynastrom ApS in September for $3.5 million.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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