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Apple updates MacBook Air with True Tone display, lowers price to $1,099, and updates base MacBook Pro with new processors, Touch ID, Touch Bar, and True Tone — Students Can Purchase MacBook Air for $999 and the 13-inch MacBook Pro for $1,199 — Cupertino, California …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple stops selling 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air — Along with updating its Retina MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks today, Apple has discontinued its 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air. The refreshed lineup now consists of the Retina 13-inch MacBook Air …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @backlon, @bzamayo, @devindra, and @wongmjane
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube officially returns to Fire TV and Amazon's Prime Video is launching today with support for Chromecast and other Android TV devices — Amazon and Google have mostly made up — YouTube is officially back on Fire TV devices starting today, almost a year and a half after Google pulled …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
AT&T's WarnerMedia reveals the name, HBO Max, for its streaming service coming next spring with 10K hours of programming, including exclusive rights to Friends — AT&T's WarnerMedia finally has a name for its streaming service — and some unfortunate news for people hoping it would share some classic shows.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
UK's regulator ICO to fine Marriott ~$123M over GDPR violations related to the Starwood Hotels breach, disclosed in 2018, that affected 380M+ guests — The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will start taking a 30% cut from fan subscriptions via desktop starting 2020 and a 15% fee for second year subscriptions via mobile platforms — Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. — The social network is revealing its plans … | Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court rules that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications …
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook creates a new subsidiary, NPE Team, to build, design, and launch apps that give users “entirely new experiences for building community” — Get ready for a flood of new Facebook apps. The social media giant said Tuesday it's created a team, known as New Product Experimentation …
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| Jonathan Leitschuh / Medium: |
Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission — A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google to acquire enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile, which has raised $74M in venture capital prior to acquisition — Google today announced that it's entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Elastifile, a Santa Clara, California-based provider of enterprise cloud file storage solutions, for an undisclosed price.
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Tweets: @gregsramblings, @googlecloud, and @shiraovide
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
IBM closes its $34B acquisition of Red Hat, its largest deal ever, announced in October 2018 — IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday. — Shares of IBM were up slightly during premarket trading, while Red Hat shares were halted.
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Tweets: @redhat and @patrickmoorhead
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches Uber Comfort in 40 US markets and Ottawa, letting riders request better legroom, higher rated drivers, and more for a 20%-40% premium over UberX — You can get access to Uber's controversial Quiet Ride button that lets you ask your driver for silence if you'll pay a 20% to 40% premium atop the UberX price.
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The Verge, Thurrott, Uber Newsroom, Android Police, VentureBeat, and Engadget
| Twitter: |
Twitter updates its rules against hateful conduct, will now remove tweets that dehumanize people on the basis of their religion — We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within.
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @hemantmehta, @kelseymsutton, @hopenothate, and @oliverdarcy
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada — Spotify has been testing a smaller, lighter version of its app since mid-2018 in hopes of expanding its reach to regions …
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Bloomberg, The Verge, Spotify, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, CrackBerry.com, Fortune, Neowin, Android Central, Android Police, 9to5Google, SlashGear, and Softpedia News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications, optical interconnect equipment maker, for $70/share or $2.6B, a 46% premium to Acacia's Monday closing price — Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Acacia Communications Inc. for about $2.6 billion, the technology giant's latest acquisition …
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Cisco Blog, ZDNet, PR Newswire, Financial Times, ITworld.com, Business Insider, Reuters, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and CNBC. Tweets: @lauren_feiner
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IDC: out of 2,473 organizations using AI in their operations, only 25% have a broad AI strategy, and most report some failures among their AI projects — Despite enterprises' best efforts, painless AI deployments appear destined to remain elusive for all but the most dogged adopters.| Adam Mosseri / Instagram: |
Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict, an option to block abusive users without notifying them — Our mission is to connect you with the people and things you love, which only works if people feel comfortable expressing themselves on Instagram.
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BBC, Mercury News, The Guardian, Cult of Mac, MIT Technology Review, Telegraph, The Hill, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Android Police, Thurrott, TechSpot, Social Media Today, KnowTechie, Android Central, Geek.com, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @mosseri, @daveleebbc, and @fraying
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