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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Early reviews from videographers and other creative professionals find iMac Pro has much improved performance, is a decent value, and looks good in Space Grey — - Apple's iMac Pro goes on sale on Thursday starting at $5000. — Early reviews, from professional photographers and programmers, are positive.
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| Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Mac: |
Apple iMac Pro in 8-core and 10-core variants will be available to order on December 14, starting at $4,999; 14-core and 18-core models are coming later — Apple's pro-oriented all-in-one desktop, the iMac Pro, is set to launch this Thursday on December 14, 2017.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter makes it easier to tweetstorm by adding a threads feature, letting you easily add linked tweets from the compose screen, rolling out in coming weeks — Time for some game theory — A few months after being spotted in tests, Twitter's tool for creating tweestorms is now an official part of the app.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is opening an artificial intelligence research center in Beijing, company's first such center in China — Google has officially announced that it is opening an AI center in Beijing, China. — The confirmation comes after months of speculation fueled by a major push to hire AI talent inside the country.
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| Kim Willsher / The Guardian: |
French government moves to ban smartphone use in primary, junior, and middle schools, affecting children age 6-15, starting in September 2018 — Pupils, teachers and parents seem less than convinced by measure prohibiting use in primary, junior and middle schools
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| Oliver Cragg / Android Authority: |
US biometrics company Synaptics says it has perfected an in-display fingerprint sensor that is now in mass production in partnership with “a top five OEM” — - Synaptics has announced that it has created an in-display fingerprint sensor called Clear ID
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
David Marcus, VP of messaging products at Facebook and a former president of PayPal, will be joining Coinbase's board — Coinbase, a popular site for buying cryptocurrencies, is soaring. In the last week, Coinbase's app shot to No. 1 in the iTunes store, while a flood of interest …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets you follow hashtags, surfacing highlights from that collection in your main feed, rolling out today — The glass facade of the SuperMoon Bakery (#newforkcity, #eatingnyc) has a pleasing symmetry to it. Two black rectangles sit on either side of a square, a neon smiley face suspended upside down in the center.
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Tweets: @chrismessina, @bafeldman, @db, @kevinweil, @alexjamesfitz, @johnwilson, and @ambabka
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's AR Studio platform is now in open beta, letting all developers make AR experiences for Facebook Camera; World Effects also arrive on Messenger Camera — Facebook is trying to close the augmented reality gap with Snapchat with the help of an army of third-party developers.
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The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, Facebook for Developers, MSPoweruser, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, POPSUGAR Living, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Engadget, and Recode
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| Reuters: |
South Korea says it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading and ban minors from opening accounts on exchanges — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's government has called an emergency meeting to discuss the trading of cryptocurrencies, and measures on the market will be announced on Friday …
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Tweets: @cnntech, @reuterstech, and @reuterstech
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Adobe is shutting down Storify's standalone service on May 16, 2018, with new signups halted today — Storify's eventual shuttering has been a long time coming. The social timeline curation service was acquired by commenting platform Livefyreback in 2013, which, in turn, was picked up by Adobe in May of last year.
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Storify, The Verge, WordPress Tavern, Fast Company, Business Insider, and Boing Boing
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Indiegogo starts listing a select number of initial coin offerings, linking to First Democracy VC, an SEC-registered crowdfunding portal — Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced today on its website that it will begin listing a select number of initial coin offerings …
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New York Times, Fortune, CoinDesk, and U.S. Securities …
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Algoriddim releases djay Pro 2 for macOS with better song library management and AI-powered features like Automix for smooth transitions — And, it's pretty good at it — Algoriddim's next generation of its DJ software, Djay Pro 2, has just been released, available for macOS.
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Engadget, MacRumors, Algoriddim, iMore, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
Facebook says it will start booking ad revenue locally in countries where it has a local office, instead of re-routing it via its international HQ in Dublin — - Social media giant Facebook said on Tuesday it would start booking advertising revenue locally instead of re-routing it via …
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Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Facebook, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Fortune, Adweek, BBC, and TechCrunch
| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Leaked documents show how Steve Bannon and Breitbart sought to sabotage Twitter via negative coverage, potential litigation, and stock manipulation — Steve Bannon and his associates at Breitbart News planned a broad financial, legal, and editorial campaign to damage Twitter, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Boing Boing and Forbes
Tweets: @jonahnro, @anildash, @anildash, @beschizza, @kevinroose, @katienotopoulos, @buzzfeednews, @willsommer, @caseynewton, and @fwd
| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Lightroom CC for iPhone, iPad, and desktop gets updated with new auto settings powered by Adobe's Sensei machine learning technology — Adobe's December release of Lightroom CC for iPad and iPhone includes a few new interesting features that will be helpful to amateur and professional photographers alike.
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Adobe Blog, ZDNet, Firstpost, TechCrunch, and Engadget
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