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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A look at how Anki's Cozmo toy robot uses AI for responsive emotions that encourage interactivity and how children perceive smart robots — When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried about giving … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Razer prices its IPO near the top of its range, at $0.50, raising $529M and giving it a market cap of $4.4B; will start trading in Hong Kong on Monday — PC gaming company Razer is set to raise upwards of US$504 million (HK$3.9 billion) when it lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
PayPal launches Money Pools feature to help you pool money for group payments — These days, you have a lot of ways to choose from when splitting bills with friends. You can send money through Facebook Messenger, chip in for dinner mid-Skype chat or even pay your debt as an email attachment on Gmail.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter more than doubles the characters available for display names from 20 to 50, retains 15 character limit for usernames — 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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| 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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