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Sources: Nintendo plans to make 25M to 30M Switch consoles during the next fiscal year which begins April 2018 — Nintendo plans to make 25 million to 30 million Switch game consoles next year — TOKYO— Nintendo Co. NTDOY -2.38% plans to pick up the production pace for its hit Switch …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM will make 20-qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service by end of 2017 and unveils 50-qubit quantum computing prototype — IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How Mimikatz, a tool coded by a French government IT manager in his spare time, became a ubiquitous password stealer for hackers globally — FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local in the US on iOS and Android, adds restaurants, bars, and places your friends visit — Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn't necessarily have to be to an event.
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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Leaked Lyft investor document projects the service will command about a third of US ride hailing market by the end of the year, see losses of about $600M — Projections see Lyft sales rise, losses of $600 million — Fidelity, another Uber backer, may join Alphabet in new round
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its Influencer Program to include Twitter and Instagram, in addition to YouTube — Amazon is expanding its Influencer Program beyond YouTube to also include Twitter and Instagram, the company announced on Thursday. First launched into beta earlier this spring … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on the site's redesign, coming in Q1 2018 — At Web Summit this week in Lisbon, Portugal, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talked about the site's upcoming redesign. Reddit launched in June 2005, and its look and feel has changed little over the past decade — certainly not at all in the past four or five years.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says strong encryption that law enforcement can't break is “unreasonable” — Rod Rosenstein: We should weigh “law enforcement equities” against security. — Just two days after the FBI said it could not get into the Sutherland Springs …
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Equifax says it is facing 240 consumer class-action lawsuits, 60 government investigations, and has recorded $87.7M in hack related costs in Q3 — Equifax, the credit reporting firm, is facing more than 240 class-action lawsuits from consumers — in addition to suits from shareholders …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Bandwidth, a Twilio competitor, closes up 6% on its first day of trading after raising $80M in its IPO — Bandwidth, a company that helps businesses with voice and text communication, debuted on the Nasdaq on Friday, going up about 6 percent on its first day of trading.
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Swedish “digital contraception” app Natural Cycles raises $30M Series B led by EQT Ventures — Contraception can be a charged topic for many reasons. It's highly personal, of course. Frequently it's political. And the stakes, should your method of choice fail, are obviously very high indeed.Sponsor Posts
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