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Microsoft unveils ARM LTE-enabled Windows 10 PCs with “all-day” battery life, including $599 Asus NovaGo with 4GB RAM, HP Envy x2; HP coming in spring, Asus TBD — A fresh challenge to Intel's PC dominance — Microsoft and Qualcomm are officially unveiling the first ARM-powered Windows 10 laptops today.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it's pulling support for Amazon Echo Show today, will cut access to YouTube on Amazon FireTV starting Jan. 1; Amazon stops selling new Nest devices — New Nest devices have mysteriously disappeared from Amazon — Three months ago, YouTube pulled its programming …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Unsecured database of keyboard app AI.type leaks 577GB of data from 31M users and all of their contacts, includes 374M+ phone numbers, 10M+ email accounts, more — The app maker's database wasn't protected with a password, leaving exposed its users' most private information.
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces beta version of 2018 emoji, introducing ability to flip direction of emoji, removal of proposed “Frowning Pile Of Poo” emoji, more — Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year's emoji release. [1]
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out its collaborative Whiteboard app for Windows 10 users, soliciting feedback while it is in preview — When it announced the new Surface Pro a few months back, Microsoft also used the opportunity to preview Whiteboard, a Windows 10 app designed to offer creative and business collaboration across devices.
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Belarusian police arrest man suspected of operating a sprawling botnet network called Andromeda, which had been around since 2011 before its takedown — The prolific hacker behind the Andromeda botnet was brought down by open source intelligence, according to the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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| Catherine Clifford / CNBC: |
Twitter releases 2017 annual data through Nov. 20: Trump most-tweeted-about global leader in the world, Obama had two of the three most-liked tweets of the year — Twitter, founded in 2006, has gotten a lot of attention in 2017, thanks largely to President Donald Trump.| Jon Christian / The Outline: |
Contributing writers to publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Fast Company say they accepted payments in exchange for promoting companies — An Outline investigation found that contributors to prominent publications have taken payments in exchange for positive coverage.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram debuts Stories Highlights, a new profile section featuring select Stories, and Stories Archive, where stories are saved automatically when they expire — Today we're introducing two new tools that let you hold on to your favorite moments from Instagram Stories and share them in ways that help you express yourself.
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| Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab: |
Sources: Apple has acquired Oakland-based Pop Up Archive, an online platform that builds tools to transcribe, organize, and search audio files — Plus: Public radio deals with a new wave of harassment allegations, Reddit and WBUR team up, et l'industrie du podcast au Québec.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple introduces a new pay-per-install App Store ad product called Search Ads Basic, changes the existing pay-per-click product name to Search Ads Advanced — Apple today is introducing a new way for app developers to acquire users for their apps: it's launching a pay-per-install advertising product called Search Ads Basic.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
With Messenger Kids' launch, Facebook doesn't share how it will monetize the service or if parents will have access to all data collected about their families — It's all about the data — In 1998, as the internet began to spread across the country, Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @caseynewton, and @alecmolloy
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Fitbit updates Ionic smartwatch with 60 new apps including Yelp, Deezer, Flipboard, and Uber, and launches Fitbit Labs to create apps for fitness motivation — Fitbit's Ionic smartwatch suffers from a dearth of apps, we noted in our Engadget review, but the wearable firm is trying to flip that equation with an update to its Fitbit OS.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
AT&T says its OTT streaming service DirecTV Now has surpassed 1M subscribers, just over a year after its launch — AT&T this morning announced that its over-the-top streaming service DirecTV Now has surpassed the one million subscriber mark, with the milestone coming in just a little bit …
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| Michael Galvez / The Keyword: |
Google updates Search with expanded Featured Snippets and extra info for a single search term as well as queries spanning multiple related searches — Search is not just about answering your questions—it's also about discovery. We search to explore new topics of interest …
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ZDNet, Search Engine Land, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Police, and The Verge
| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Publicis, Omnicom, and WPP to boost ad spending with Amazon by 40% to 100% in 2018 as they search for an alternate to the Facebook/Google duopoly — In search of a challenger to the Google and Facebook ‘duopoly,’ Publicis, Omnicom and WPP plan to boost their ad spending with Amazon between 40% and 100% in 2018
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest launches a Facebook Messenger bot to power Pin searches, as well as a chat extension for collaborative visual search inside Messenger — Pinterest today launched its first Facebook Messenger bot to power Pin searches, as well as a chat extension to power collaborative visual search inside … | Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Cliqz's privacy-enhancing browser extension Ghostery introduces heuristic, AI-driven script blocking to complement the traditional blacklist blocking — Most ad blockers—and there are so, so many of them now—operate roughly the same way, comparing the scripts they encounter on a given site … Sponsor Posts
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