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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to combine iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps in push toward platform unification, aims to let developers expand iOS apps to Macs as early as 2018 — Aim is to let developers expand iOS apps to Mac computers — Apple customers have complained some Mac apps get short shrift
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| Brian Crecente / Rolling Stone: |
Reporter describes new demos of Magic Leap's mixed-reality headset and talks with founder Rony Abovitz about the science behind it — Rony Abovitz talks with Glixel about the tech and ambitions behind new MR Goggles — Magic Leap today revealed a mixed reality headset that it believes reinvents …
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Tweets: @joannastern, @crecenteb, @b_fung, @kaulout, @benedictevans, @somospostpc, @peterpham, and @mims
| Steven Tweedie / Business Insider: |
Magic Leap reveals its Magic Leap One “Creator Edition” AR headset, which it says is coming in 2018 — Magic Leap updated its website on Wednesday morning, revealing its highly anticipated augmented reality smart glasses for the first time. — Billed as the Magic Leap One …
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase temporarily disables Bitcoin Cash trading on its subsidiary GDAX exchange after $BCH prices topped $9.5K compared to ~$3K on other exchanges — Update : We're still waiting to hear directly from Coinbase on exactly what went wrong, but the company put out a series of tweets confirming …
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase CEO says Bitcoin Cash price increase before the announcement warrants internal investigation into whether someone at Coinbase profited from inside info — Today we announced support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH). It appears the price of Bitcoin Cash on other exchanges increased in the hours before our announcement.
| Rick D. / NEWSBTC: |
| Justin O'Beirne: |
How Google Maps has created data of buildings and “Areas of Interest” from its aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery to take a 6+ year lead over Apple — Over the past year, we've been comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps in New York, San Francisco, and London …
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European Court of Justice rules that Uber is a transport service, not an information service; decision means EU states can use national laws to regulate Uber — Uber is a taxi company, according to a landmark ruling from Europe's highest court. — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) …
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Tweets: @gmb_union, @carltonreid, @nytimes, @wesstreeting, @dats, @tomwarren, and @katie_martin_fx
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it has hired Barney Harford, former CEO of online travel site Orbitz that was acquired by Expedia in 2015, as its COO — Harford becomes company's second-highest ranking executive — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi worked with Harford at Expedia — Barney Harford …
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Tweets: @barneyh, @dkhos, @bgurley, @barneyh, @barneyh, @rich_barton, and @ericnewcomer
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Niantic Labs adds support for more advanced AR to Pokemon Go on iOS through Apple's ARKit developer tools — A very good reason to keep AR mode on all the time — Niantic Labs, the developer of mobile augment reality hit Pokémon Go, today announced that an update of its iOS version …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple confirms Geekbench analysis that shows it manages power demands on iPhones with older batteries to avoid shutdowns, saying it added the feature last year — Because of a Reddit post and the loose interpretation of subsequent benchmark tests posted by Primate Labs' John Poole, the …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, New York Magazine, MacStories, SlashGear, ValueWalk, The Verge, ExtremeTech, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Inquirer, and Fone Arena
Tweets: @marcoarment, @itsnicolenguyen, @backlon, @caseynewton, and @reneritchie
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Experts say tax bill, lobbied for by tech giants, will help big tech in short-term but fails to address long-term issues like tech-abetted economic displacement — Let's pretend you have just been picked to run a small island nation. Congratulations! — But don't settle in to your throne quite yet.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Bill introduced to reauthorize NSA surveillance powers would legalize and expand “about the target” collection, with a vote expected by Thursday at the latest — A vote is expected this week — One of the NSA's most important surveillance authorizations is set to expire on December 31st …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Techdirt, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @ronwyden, @dnvolz, @jakesherman, @eff, @russellbrandom, @freedomofpress, and @randpaul
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC holdings, says he wants to avoid the conflict of interest that comes with his influence and position — Charlie Lee, the former director of engineering at Coinbase, is selling almost all of his holdings in Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency that he founded in 2011.| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
MoviePass says it now has 1M paying users, up from an estimated 150K in August 2017, after it introduced cheaper subscription tiers — MoviePass just announced that it now has more than 1 million paying users. — This summer, the subscription service dropped its prices from a tiered model … | Jessica Elgot / The Guardian: |
UK government to make high-speed broadband a legal right by 2020, obliging internet providers to offer speeds of at least 10Mbps all over the country — Government says internet providers will be legally obliged from 2020 to meet user requests for speeds of at least 10Mbps
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