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CNN ends its daily Snapchat news show, The Update, launched just four months ago, saying it couldn't make enough money from advertising — CNN is ending its daily Snapchat news show, “The Update,” launched just four months ago — after concluding, at least for now, that it couldn't make money …
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Bitcoin plunged below $11K for a while, down 40%+ from record high of ~$19.8K at the start of the week, amid a crash in all major cryptocurrencies — - Bitcoin plunges more than 40 percent from its all-time high reached Sunday, according to Coinbase. — Stocks that have soared dramatically …
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Facebook launches tool that shows if you followed or Liked Russia-linked US election related accounts on Facebook and Instagram between Jan. 2015 and Aug. 2017 — Not all users who saw that content, however, can take advantage of a new tool out today. — Facebook has rolled out its new hub …
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Wireless security camera startup Blink says it has been acquired by Amazon and will continue to operate; Blink raised ~$1M in a 2014 crowdfunding campaign — Amazon has acquired Blink, the wireless security camera company that launched back in 2014 and then subsequently closed a million-dollar Kickstarter campaign.
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| Telegraph: |
London Metropolitan Police's head of digital forensics says it will use AI to scan for child abuse images on suspects' devices within two or three years — Artificial intelligence will take on the gruelling task of scanning for images of child abuse on suspects' phones and computers …
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
At least three lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed against Apple for slowing down iPhones with old batteries — The plaintiffs in three separate suits contend that an Apple software tweak that slows down older iPhones was a ploy to spur upgrades to pricier models.
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| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
The infosec community has undergone a post-Weinstein cultural shift, as evidenced by the soul-searching following allegations against Morgan Marquis-Boire — In 2015 I noticed something odd on Twitter — without context or explanation, Andrea Shepard, a Tor developer, had posted a string of random letters and numbers.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Eric Schmidt, whose departure was planned for months according to a source, successfully worked alongside Google's founders for 16 years — ERIC SCHMIDT WOUND up at Google by compromise. In 1998, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had made a promise to the two venture-capital firms … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Pixel 2 XL beats iPhone X, Galaxy Note8, HTC U11, and LG V30 as best camera, but iPhone X takes better selfies and Note8 is most versatile for video — iPhone X vs. Pixel 2 XL vs. Note 8 vs. HTC U11 vs. LG V30 — Smartphone cameras get better every year, but this year more than ever truly felt like a leap.| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
A look at why WhatsApp has become the de facto social network for older users in India, where the app has more than 200M users — My mother became addicted to WhatsApp when her mother passed away in the winter of 2013. She used it, she said, to “fill up a vacuum,” numbing her grief …
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @memeghnad, @namitabhandare, @buzzfeednews, @codeblue87, @pranavdixit, and @pranavdixit
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Snowden-backed Haven app for Android alerts users of “evil maid” and other physical attacks using a phone's accelerometers, cameras, microphones, light sensor — YOUR DIGITAL SECURITY, any sufficiently paranoid person will remind you, is only as good as your physical security.
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| Tom DiChristopher / CNBC: |
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