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Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches — [Update: Apple has now pulled watchOS 5.1. Users who haven't updated should refrain from doing so if it was downloaded, but not yet installed.] — While many users are disappointed with the lack … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces “Emoji Minis” in Gboard for Android and iOS, which uses machine learning to create customizable emoji-sized stickers based on users' selfies — Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Rich DeVaul, a director at X, Alphabet's moonshot unit, left the company today following reports of sexual harassment, did not receive an exit package — Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the moonshot unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has left the company following reports of sexual harassment.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October — - Facebook is banning accounts and groups associated with The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group linked to political violence in the US.| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities — Facebook's Portal looked like a slick alternative to the Amazon Echo speaker when it launched earlier this month, but problems abounded behind the scenes.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps — Amazon's latest streaming player supports all the important formats and costs just $50 — When shoppers look for a streaming player …
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| Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers examining 135 popular kids apps on Android and iOS find 88% of paid and 100% of free apps often have manipulative and distracting ads — Popular apps for young kids, especially those available in Google's app store, are teeming with advertisements that distract them from play …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them.
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Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M — - Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air is an Intel Core i5-8210Y 7W Amber Lake Y processor — Apple's newly upgraded MacBook Air is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, a chip configuration that does not match any of the 8th-generation chips that Intel has announced to date.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries — Apple today released iOS 12.1 with support for the digital eSIM that will allow for dual-SIM functionality on the iPhone XS …
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Facebook reports Q3 revenue of $13.73B, up 33% YoY, DAUs of 1.49B on average, up 9% YoY, says mobile ad revenue represented ~92% of all ad revenue — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue …
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Samsung Electronics posts Q3 operating profit of ~$15.5B, up 21% YoY, driven by strong sales of memory chips and higher demand for high-end OLED display panels — - Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of 17.57 trillion won (about $15.5 billion) for the quarter ending in September.| Jeffrey M. Perkel / Nature: |
A look at how Jupyter, an open source, interactive, web-based computational notebook, has emerged as a de facto standard among data scientists — An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool. — Search for this author in: — Share via E-Mail
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail for iOS will let users view all of their accounts in a single inbox, like Gmail for Android; feature rolling out over the next 15 days — Today, Google announced that all of the email accounts you manage in the Gmail app on iOS can be viewed in a single, universal inbox.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by GV — - Ethos saw a more than 400 percent jump in revenue, customers and applications in the last four months. — Ethos, a start-up that says it can process …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
iRobot partners with Google and will share spatial data from Roombas to help improve Google's smart home experience by mapping rooms — The two companies are working together to leverage spatial data generated by iRobot's robovacs — Google and iRobot have announced they're working together … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Starship Technologies launches a commercial package delivery service using its autonomous robots in Milton Keynes, UK for £7.99/month — Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by two of Skype's founders, is launching what it's claiming to be a world's first today: a commercial …
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