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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 11.2 released: fixes a bug that caused some notifications to crash iPhones starting Dec 2, adds Apple Pay Cash and faster 7.5W wireless charging — Apple today released iOS 11.2, the second major update to the iOS 11 operating system available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.2 comes …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
From 2012 to 2015, following Facebook's IPO, early stage startup valuations soared to unsustainable levels, and are now returning back to normal — I tweeted out this article from Techcrunch in the middle of last week: … And the response from the Twittersphere was a desire to hear my views on it.
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| Victor Basta / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @mdudas, @somakc, @adamnash, @fredwilson, @rrhoover, @lutherlowe, @gsands, @johnsheehan, @trengriffin, @jbposell, @fdestin, @olafjacobi, and @richardbagdonas
| Matthew Tompkins / Bitcoinist.com: |
CryptoKitties, a game launched on Nov. 28 that lets you trade and breed virtual cats, becomes top app by number of transactions on Ethereum blockchain — CryptoKitties is a huge success as the game is responsible for nearly 14% of all transactions processed on the Ethereum blockchain over the past 1,500 blocks.
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Facebook: Emin Gün Sirer. Tweets: @rrhoover, @cryptokitties, @pavolrusnak, @cryptokitties, @bentossell, @bobbyvenice, @cburniske, @mg, @ncweaver, @zooko, and @bytebot
| Anil Dash / Humane Tech: |
How optimizing content for search engines in the early days of the web gave rise to today's never-ending algorithmic arms race against web and social platforms — A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis …
Tweets: @felixsalmon, @badams, @merbroussard, @mattcutts, @ethicistforhire, @anildash, and @anildash
| Michael Byrne / Motherboard: |
Notre Dame study finds 73% of posts on Reddit are voted on by users that haven't clicked through to view the content — And the world makes a little more sense. — It's probably not at all surprising that most content posted to Reddit is voted on more or less blindly.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
macOS upgrades from High Sierra 10.13.0 to 10.13.1 break “root” bug patch issued earlier this week; fix by re-installing patch after upgrade, rebooting computer — WHEN A COMPANY like Apple rushes out a software patch for a critical security bug, it deserves praise for protecting its customers quickly.
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Tweets: @marcwrogers and @a_greenberg
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Former NSA employee Nghia H. Pho pleads guilty to taking classified files home, where, officials say, Russian hackers stole the files via Kaspersky software — BALTIMORE — A former National Security Agency employee admitted on Friday that he had illegally taken from the agency classified documents believed … | Matt Navarra / The Next Web: |
Instagram tests native regram button, GIF sticker search, Story archiving, closest friends list, and other new features — TNW today obtained information on a range of new features Instagram is currently testing. As with all tests, this means some of you may have already seen one or two of the new features.
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @chrismessina
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vidme Shuts Down User-Generated Video Service, Citing Inability to Compete With Google, Facebook — Startup Vidme is shutting down its user-generated video service — because it can't see a way to make money in the face of internet giants Google and Facebook.
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| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Antonio Neri, a 22-year veteran of HPE set to succeed Meg Whitman as CEO, as he faces an uphill struggle to cut $1.5B over three years — The newly appointed CEO brings tech chops to a company in need of hit products — Meg Whitman's tenure at Hewlett-Packard was marked …
Tweets: @scottmaustin and @steven_norton
| Reuters: |
Uber's use of encrypted messaging app Wickr, which may have allowed the company to avoid preserving records relevant to litigation, could set legal precedents — Paresh Dave, Heather Somerville — (This version of the Nov. 20 story corrects to show Uber used a business version … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Expensify sparks privacy concerns by using Mechanical Turk to process user-submitted docs its automated service can't handle — IT'S INCREASINGLY UNREMARKABLE for consumers to use artificial intelligence tools in their daily lives. Machine learning algorithms power your smart assistants …
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