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During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold — Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote were the #1 and #2 top-selling products across all categories on Amazon
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| Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Safran, which sells fingerprint-analysis software used by FBI, 18K+ US law enforcement agencies, didn't disclose some code was from Kremlin-linked firm — In a secret deal, a French company purchased code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software …
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
iPhone X's Face ID inexplicably can't approve family purchases as Touch ID could, requiring users to enter their passwords — Touch ID could be used before, but iPhone X owners must enter their passwords. — iPhone X owners have found that Face ID isn't available as an authentication method for the …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, BGR India, Digital Trends, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, The Verge, Neowin, Tech Times, and Gizmodo
| Rick Webb / NewCo Shift: |
The vision of internet pioneers that a globally connected, transparent world with free access to information is inevitably good turned out to be wrong — I'm sorry I was wrong. We all were. Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head.
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| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online — The Library of Congress just announced some changes to its long-running plan to archive all of Twitter.
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| Rick Tetzeli / Fortune: |
History shows Apple's success since 1998 has rarely hinged on initial designs but on innovation and improvement over time — A generation of peerless products made Apple the world's most valuable company. Now some in the i-universe are questioning if the magic—in the post-Steve Jobs era—is still there.| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
HQ Trivia arrives on Android in limited beta and says its goal is full availability by January 1 — - The app's makers say they are working to get HQ Trivia in the hands of all Android users on January 1, 2018. — HQ Trivia, the hottest iPhone game of 2017, previously said it would release an Android version in time for Christmas.
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TechCrunch, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Droid Life, and AndroidHeadlines.com
Tweets: @hqtrivia and @kantrowitz
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp will drop BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone support on December 31 — WhatsApp has detailed its plans for older mobile operating systems, with less than a week before the end of the year. The Facebook-owned app will end support for BlackBerry OS (including BlackBerry 10) and Windows Phone 8.0 (and older) on December 31, 2017.
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Ars Technica, Trak.in, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, BGR India, SlashGear, Engadget, Fone Arena, and Seeking Alpha
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber to sell US subprime auto-leasing business, Xchange Leasing, to car marketplace Fair.com; net book value of Xchange's 30K+ vehicles was ~$400M — Ride-hailing firm had planned to wind down the business after losses — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell …
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Digital Trends, Reuters, Reuters, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Verge, Crunchbase News, Mashable, CNET, Fortune, and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @tweetermeyer
| David Kline / Wired: |
How Xiaomi's investment in 100 startups making cheap connected gadgets like air purifiers and rice cookers, sold in new Mi Home Stores, helped firm's turnaround — A YEAR AGO, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi (sha-oh-me) had fallen from the world's most valuable unicorn to a “unicorpse.”
Tweets: @alexosterwalder
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's platform unification push should center on making it easier for devs to share code between Mac and iOS apps, not on getting iOS apps to run on the Mac — Mark Gurman had an intriguing story at Bloomberg this week, but the problems start with the headline itself: “Apple Plans Combined iPhone …
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The Shape of Everything and Michael Tsai
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to expand ad offerings in 2018, especially on search and video products, and increase off platform ad sales, with ad tech firms like Kargo — - It also has plans to increase advertising sales off its platform, including partnering with third-party technology companies to sell partnered TV and mobile ads.
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