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November 6, 2018, 10:35 AM
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Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections — Facebook announced Monday evening that it had blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
MacBook Air (2018) review: Retina display, great new trackpad, Touch ID, and a modest speed bump make it a nice upgrade for the owners of older MacBook Airs — Completely whelming — The fan is blowing on this brand-new MacBook Air with Retina Display. It's a familiar sound …
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Facebook posts results of commissioned report on Myanmar that 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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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto wallet Blockchain partners with Stellar Development Foundation for XLM airdrop, will distribute $125M in Stellar lumens to all Blockchain wallet holders — Crypto wallet provider Blockchain plans to stage what it's calling the “largest crypto giveaway in history” with a $125 million airdrop.
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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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| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
Gab is back online; its domain has migrated to Seattle-area-based registrar Epik, and Cloudflare is shielding who actually hosts the site — AFTER IT WAS revealed that the suspect in the shootings at a Pittsburgh synagogue had threatened on the social media network Gab to kill Jews …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Bird launches e-scooters in London but only on private land in Olympic Park because regulators deem e-scooters illegal under UK's Highway Act of 1835 — It was only a matter of time before the electric scooters infiltrated the U.K. — Today, the well-funded startup Bird is launching …
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| Kate Holton / Reuters: |
UK's Information Commissioner has referred Facebook to the EU's data watchdog over issues regarding the way the social network targets and monitors its users — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Information Commissioner has referred Facebook to Ireland's data watchdog, the lead authority …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VMware acquires Heptio, a startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes; Heptio was valued at $117M according to PitchBook when it raised $25M Series B in 2017 — During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build … | 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.| 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.| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Bitfury, a cryptocurrency mining technology startup, raises $80M led by Korelya Capital — Cryptocurrency mining technology firm Bitfury Group has just closed an $80 million funding round led by venture capital firm Korelya Capital. — Also participating in the private placement … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
PredictHQ, which uses big data to predict spikes in local demand for companies like Uber, Domino's, and Booking.com, raises $10M Series A — If you've ever tried to hail an Uber in the midst of a major sports event or during a torrential downpour, you may have noticed that the price you're quoted is higher than normal.
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| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Tencent says it will expand its age and ID verification system, used in Honour of Kings, to its entire games library by 2019 — - The company started doing so for hit title Honour of Kings — It will expand to all games as the volume of criticism rises
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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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| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Engineer.ai, which has developed a human-assisted AI that aims to empower everyone to build and operate bespoke software, has raised $29.5 million in a Series A — Engineer.ai, which has developed a human-assisted AI that aims to empower everyone to build and operate bespoke software, has raised $29.5 million in a Series A round.
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| Whitney Filloon / Eater: |
Restaurant reservation startup Resy acquires its smaller rival Reserve, which launched from startup studio Expa, and will now serve about 4000 US restaurants — Resy is now the largest privately held restaurant reservation service in the country, and a viable competitor to OpenTable
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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.| DIGITS to DOLLARS: |
A look at the resources needed to design a chip for high-volume applications in-house, which may require ~$50M in operating costs before the first product ships — This post is an excerpt from our newsletter in which we take a deep look at the shifting trends of the semiconductor industry.
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