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Apple will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next quarter, as CFO says units sold isn't representative of the state of business — Apple just announced on its earnings call that it will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad and Mac from next quarter — the start of its next financial year.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple warns holiday sales may miss Wall Street expectations; Cook says negative forecast due to exchange rates, supply uncertainty, weakness in emerging markets — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday said sales for the crucial holiday quarter could miss Wall Street expectations … | Andrei Zakharov / BBC: |
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to 120M accounts for sale for $0.10/each; Facebook blames third party browser extensions — Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.| Justin O'Beirne: |
A detailed look at Apple's new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data — HAS APPLE CLOSED THE GAP WITH GOOGLE'S MAP? — TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE — Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple's new map is how small it is:| Yahoo: |
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites CIA was using to communicate with its agents, compromising CIA's wider network — In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions … | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong's securities regulator says funds investing 10%+ of their portfolios in crypto will need a license and proposes new rules for crypto exchanges — Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) says it will bring crypto funds under its securities regulations to improve investor protection.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019 — Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung will share more details about its foldable screen phone and open Bixby to third-party developers at its developer conference next week — New features for Bixby are meant to challenge the dominance of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in artificial intelligence| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Testing of battery life on flagship phones, including iPhone XS and Pixel 3, shows newer phones die faster than older ones, likely due to screen tech like OLED — Despite some notable exceptions, many 2018 smartphone batteries can't keep up. Here's why — and what we can do about it.| IDC: |
IDC: 355.2M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 2018, down 6% YoY from 377.8M; Samsung saw a decline of 13.4% and Huawei grew 32.9% — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total … | Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook's engineering department — There's work, and then there's the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter.| Gram Slattery / Reuters: |
Sources say Amazon is struggling to ramp up operations in Brazil amid challenges like the nation's tax system, complicated logistics, and testy vendor relations — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is struggling to ramp up its operations in Brazil, a promising market that so far … | Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Yelp brings Yelp Reservations, its online reservation management service, to Buick Marketplace, the first time the service has been integrated in vehicles — Until Buick lets you order coffee and fuel with your voice, you'll have to stick to using your digits.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue of $12.4B, up 54% YoY, missing analyst estimates, net income of $2.66B, cuts forecasted annual revenue target by 4% to 6% — Alibaba's long stretch of growth finally broke after the Chinese e-commerce giant reported somewhat underwhelming financial results for its Q2 2019 quarter.| Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica: |
Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of political issue ads, exposing a gap in enforcement of Facebook's disclosure policy — A Facebook ad in October urged political conservatives to support the Trump administration's rollback of fuel emission standards … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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Google walkout organizers share demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, a harassment transparency report, more — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers … | BuzzFeed News: |
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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