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Best 2017 Cyber Monday deals on smart home and media streaming devices, HDTVs, computers, smartphones, and other electronics and software — Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have a big round of Cyber Monday deals to share. Well, at least some of the deals …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Sumerian, a browser-based tool to build AR, VR, and 3D apps quickly with minimal coding, available in preview starting today — We'd heard months ago that Amazon would be using its Re:Invent AWS event to roll out some a new service related to building in mixed reality — augmented reality and virtual reality.
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AWS News Blog, SiliconANGLE, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Register, GeekWire, Amazon.com, ZDNet, Forbes, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out AI for suicide prevention globally with the exception of the EU after initial tests in US, to detect suicidal posts before they're reported — This is software to save lives. Facebook's new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
McAfee acquires cloud security startup Skyhigh Networks, which was last valued at $400M, amid ongoing consolidation in the security industry — After spinning out as a standalone security business from Intel earlier this year, McAfee has made its first acquisition.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube's search autofill found to surface disturbing results like “how to have s*x with your kids”, which YouTube says it quickly removed and is investigating — Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for “how to have” is auto-completing with pedophiliac phrases.
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TechCrunch, The Hill, Tubefilter, Business Insider, BBC, 9to5Google, The Next Web, and Fortune. Tweets: @cwarzel
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Snapchat now recommends contextual filters and borders based on photo content, recognizes items within a few categories like pets, sports, and food — Too lazy to be creative with Snapchat? Well, there's a new feature for you. — Snap quietly launched new filters that recognize what's …
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| BBC: |
UK government previews draft Drone Bill coming in 2018, giving police power to seize drones, mandating pilot training and registration of drones weighing 250g+ — Drone users in the UK may have to take safety awareness tests under legislation planned by the government.| Fortune: |
Chainalysis: between 17% and 23% of bitcoins mined to date have been lost forever; this estimate includes 1M, or about 6%, of bitcoins mined by Satoshi Nakamoto — Just as gold bars are lost at sea or $100 bills can burn, bitcoins can disappear from the Internet forever.
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SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph.com News, TechSpot, Business Insider, Investor's Business Daily, NEWSBTC, and Bitcoinist.com
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
How SSNs plus birthdates can still be leveraged to access tons more data via US FAFSA site, after an IRS tool with a similar flaw was disabled in March — KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful …
Tweets: @briankrebs and @troyhunt
| Kelsey Gee / Wall Street Journal: |
Growing number of US employers, particularly in retail, restaurant, and service sectors, are giving workers faster access to wages through payday apps — Instant pay helps boost employee attendance, but can make saving hard to do — For more workers across America, every day is payday.| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Many devs say they are happy with the resources and recommendations Apple provided for the transition to iPhone X's notch, taller screen, and home indicator — iPhone app and game devs assess the iPhone X and share experiences with it. — The heart of the iPhone X's pitch is third-party apps.| David Pierce / Wired: |
Firefox Quantum, built from the ground up as multi-device browser, has useful features, strong privacy protections, is faster & better at memory use than Chrome — IT'S BEEN YEARS since I gave a second thought to my web browser. Safari's fine, Microsoft Edge is whatever, I think Opera still exists?
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Tweets: @dev_meltus, @reis_pt, @ryanfeeley, @wired, and @anildash
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