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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Pro (2018) review: very powerful with a beautiful screen, but iOS limitations like no USB-C storage support means it is still a poor laptop replacement — The thing about bullet trains is that they're always on rails — Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with a spectacular series …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Amazon plans to split HQ2 evenly between two cities, a decision driven by the need to recruit enough talent; sources: announcement could come next week — Amazon.com plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2 …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will block all ads on sites that have persistently shown abusive ads such as fake system messages — Chrome 71 arrives next month — With Chrome 71, Google is stepping up its fight against the internet's abusive ads problem by blocking every ad on a site that persistently shows them.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Apple argues that unit sales are the wrong way to understand its business, it needs to start reporting the numbers of active customers and revenue per user — While the saying goes that “No news is good news,” in the case of Apple it turns out that “News about no news is bad news.” From Bloomberg:| Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast: |
After CNN, NBC, and Fox News remove a Trump-endorsed political ad for being racist, Facebook says it violates its ad guidelines and stops its paid distribution — The spot was too controversial for TV. And, now, the biggest social media platform has pulled it too.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Barnes & Noble announces the Nook 10.1", a tablet with 32GB of storage, front and rear cameras, a headphone jack, and Bluetooth, out Nov. 14 for $129.99 — Today is just another day online. It's also a day when we received news of a new Nook tablet from Barnes & Noble.
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| Alex Warofka / Facebook: |
Facebook posts results of commissioned report on Myanmar which found Facebook wasn't doing enough to prevent it from being used to incite offline violence — We want Facebook to be a place where people can express themselves freely and safely around the world.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Verizon says it will reorganize into three business units from January 1st: Consumer Group, Business Group, and Media Group/Oath — Verizon will have three units—consumer, business and media—and the business division may see the most growth due to telematics, IoT, edge computing and 5G enterprise applications.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon expands free shipping to all US customers during the holiday season, waiving the $25 minimum spend amount — Amazon has announced its latest plan to coin in on the lucrative Christmas shopping extravaganza: free deliveries for all customers with no minimum spend required.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Code reveals Instagram has considered offering collaborative School Stories that are “manually reviewed” and limit the audience to a specific school's students — Instagram is considering offering collaborative School Stories that only a certain school's students can see or contribute to.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at VoteWithMe and OutVote, apps that show public information on how people in a users' contact list voted in past elections and their party affiliations — My dentist, a registered Republican, did not vote in the last midterm elections, in 2014. — But the owner of my local bookstore, a registered Democrat, did vote then.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation finds LinkedIn has had a rise in hyperpartisan political content, with fake accounts and toxic memes; LinkedIn has removed some reported posts — “Facebook banned me, they hate me. But that's all good — I started posting on LinkedIn and everybody is following me," said one Trump supporter.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
After Amazon's AbeBooks drops all sellers from certain countries like Russia, 450+ antiquarian book dealers in at least 26 countries pull their books in protest — SAN FRANCISCO — More than 250 antiquarian book dealers in 24 countries say they are pulling over a million books off …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases watchOS 5.1.1, after pulling the watchOS 5.1 update last Tuesday following reports of Watches being bricked — Following the release of watchOS 5.1 last Tuesday morning, some Apple Watch Series 4 owners began complaining that the update had bricked their watches, leaving the devices stuck at the Apple logo.
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| Ka Kay Lum / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese online music education platform VIP Peilian says it has raised $150M Series C led by Tiger Global — Chinese online music education platform VIP Peilian announced that it has raised $150 million for its Series C round led by Tiger Global, it said in an announcement on November 2.| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Study: Alex Jones' videos are receiving nearly as many views on Facebook as they did before Infowars' page was banned, with new pages like NewsWars catching on — Infowars is gone from Facebook after a high-profile showdown over the summer between Silicon Valley and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Intel announces Xeon E-2100 CPUs aimed at low-end servers and Cascade Lake AP, a top-end variant of the next gen Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 48 cores — The AP does not stand for ‘AMD P**-off’ — Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family members …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
After closing its CA Technologies purchase, Broadcom sells CA's application security testing platform Veracode to a private equity firm for $950M — CA Technologies bought Veracode in March 2017 for $614 million. — Broadcom is selling CA Technologies' Veracode application security testing platform …
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