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Sources: Alphabet is considering folding Nest Labs into Google's hardware team, reversing its split two years ago, to better compete with Amazon's home devices — Integration of Alphabet units would reverse an element of 2015 split as Google and Nest chase Amazon in home devices
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Microsoft makes Edge for iOS and Android generally available, after unveiling it last month — Microsoft unveiled a beta version of its Edge web browser last month for iOS and Android. Testers had to sign-up to get special access to the new browser, but Microsoft is making both the Android and iOS versions generally available today.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
AWS unveils new services for IoT management, security, and analytics, and a new OS, called Amazon FreeRTOS, for microcontroller-based IoT devices — Of all the buzzwords relevant to AWS, IoT may be “delivering the fastest,” AWS CEO Andy Jassy said, but there's plenty of room for development.
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Verizon says it plans to start offering home broadband over its 5G wireless network in late 2018, starting in Sacramento, CA; pricing and other details TBD — Customers will likely have to place a box in their windows to convert signals — Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 2.21% plans … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Apple partners with Stanford University to launch heart research study using a new Apple Watch app to detect and collect data on abnormal heart rhythms — - Apple is facilitating a massive heart study that will use the Apple Watch to detect a heart abnormality called atrial fibrillation … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
AliveCor Kardiaband EKG reader gets FDA approval as the first medical device accessory for the Apple Watch — The Food and Drug Administration has just cleared AliveCor's Kardiaband EKG reader as the first medical device accessory for the Apple Watch. — Europe has been able to use … | Bloomberg: |
UK-based consumer group sues Google, alleging the company used an algorithm to trick iPhone's Safari browser into releasing personal data in 2011-2012 — Group says affected consumers could get hundreds of pounds — Google will contest case, says it isn't new and has no merit
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macOS High Sierra root vulnerability was posted to Apple's support forum on November 13, around 15 days before it became widely known and was fixed — It's natural to speculate how a bug as egregious as the now-fixed High Sierra root login bug could escape notice for so long.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon announces Alexa for Business, with launch partners who have developed skills for business customers, and a new marketplace for business apps — As CNBC reported on Wednesday, Amazon's market-leading cloud business has introduced Alexa for Business, a set of tools for using the Alexa voice-activated virtual assistant at work.
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US court orders Coinbase to give IRS details of users who moved $20K+ through their accounts within a year between 2013-2015; Coinbase says ~14K users affected — Anyone moving more than $20,000 on the platform is subject to the new order — Today, Coinbase suffered a major defeat …
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Industrial predictive analytics startup Uptake raises $117M Series D at a $2.3B valuation led by Baillie Gifford — A company that is seizing the opportunity to provide predictive analytics to the industrial world — regardless of whether a business has made the (often costly) … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Bahtiyar Duysak, the Twitter contractor who deactivated Trump's account earlier this month, who calls the incident a “mistake” — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information …
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| Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu: |
Atomico's State of European Tech 2017 report: $19B was invested in tech companies in 2017, up from $14.4B in 2016; there are now 41 tech unicorns in Europe — Europe is on track to end 2017 with a record $19 billion worth of tech investments, according to a report from VC firm Atomico …
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