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Sources: Apple is working on a rear-facing 3D sensor for 2019 iPhone to improve AR capabilities — Apple looking at different technology from iPhone X's Face ID — New 3-D sensor would improve augmented-reality features — Apple Inc. is working on a rear-facing 3-D sensor system …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 57 “Quantum” browser with faster browser engine, major visual overhaul, and Google as default search engine — Mozilla today launched Firefox 57, branded Firefox Quantum, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The new version, which Mozilla calls …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter launches premium APIs, starting with historical search, to give developers more tweets per request, higher rate limits, and more complex queries — Twitter is offering a solution for developers who are angry about limitations imposed on their apps when they use the service's free APIs.
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YouTube partners with Ticketmaster to sell concert tickets on artists' video pages, launching today in the US — YouTube today announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will see the Google-owned video network connecting fans with concert tickets and tour information directly on artists' YouTube video pages.| Canalys: |
Canalys: Apple retook top spot in wearable band market in Q3 2017 with 3.9M shipments, or 23% of the market; Xiaomi came second with 21%, Fitbit third with 20% — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Tuesday, 14 November 2017 — Apple retook the lead in the wearable band market in Q3 2017 … | Freedom House: |
Report: governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to counter critics, drive specific agendas, more; elections in 18 countries may have been affected — Key Findings Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
UCSF and Cardiogram study: Apple Watch can detect hypertension with 82% accuracy and sleep apnea with 90% accuracy using Cardiogram's deep neural network — A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
HTC and Google cancel plans for the HTC Daydream VR standalone headset in western markets; Google says plans are still in place for a Lenovo Daydream headset — One of the only questions I've asked HTC VR execs consistently over the past several months is whether the Daydream version …
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Tweets: @claybavor and @lucasmtny
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Tweets: @agraylin and @richardlai
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Journalists at news orgs partnering with Facebook say its fact-checking tools have failed, and it hasn't disclosed enough data on efforts to curb misinformation — Journalists fighting spread of fake news raise concerns over possible conflicts of interest and say site has refused to disclose needed data
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Tweets: @anthony, @jayrosen_nyu, and @alexismadrigal
| Clare O'Connor / Forbes: |
Profile of Whitney Wolfe Herd, CEO of Bumble, the women-first dating app with $100M/year sales that, sources say, is talking to Match Group about a $1B+ buyout — When Whitney Wolfe Herd started planning an October launch party for a new product at Bumble, America's fastest-growing dating-app company … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of WH deputy CTO Michael Kratsios, who comes from Thiel-founded VC firm and oversees ~45 staff of director-less Office of Science and Technology Policy — Tech adviser Michael Kratsios is working on a policy agenda, but he needs some of the president's staunchest critics to cooperate| Pam Belluck / New York Times: |
FDA approves first digital pill, which has an embedded sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it, sparking privacy concerns — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether …
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Tweets: @stevetiger999 and @nixxin
| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
A&E, Scripps, Discovery, AMC, and Viacom invest $25M in Philo, a new streaming service with programming from 35+ cable TV channels and 30-day DVR, for $16/month — - Philo has launched a $16-a-month internet TV package with programming partners like A+E, AMC, Discovery, Scripps, and Viacom.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cloudflare acquires Neumob to boost mobile app speeds and enable end-to-end optimization across desktop and mobile — It is hoped the buyout will boost Cloudflare's network. — Cloudflare has acquired Neumob in a deal designed to speed up app requests flowing through the firm's network.
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