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Bob Iger says Disney+ will be on Amazon's Fire TV when it launches on November 12 — - Analysts will be looking to see if Disney gives any color on expected subscriber numbers for Disney+. — Disney shares were up about 3% after the company reported an earnings beat for its fiscal fourth-quarter on Thursday.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Some users across all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day, causing distress in some cases — It's happening to people across all major US carriers — Something strange is happening with text messages in the US right now.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out a new homepage design with larger thumbnails and features like an “add to queue” option, a desktop version of “Don't recommend channel”, more — YouTube's homepage is getting a makeover. The company announced today an updated … | Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks that tweak functions like the retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations — Twitter knows we treat each other terribly on Twitter. We dunk, ridiculing friends and strangers via quote-tweets. We ratio, piling on replies to bad tweets.
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Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invested $400M in Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens in January, valuing the “ghost kitchen” operator at about $5B — The sovereign-wealth fund—also an early investor in Uber—poured $400 million into CloudKitchens in January
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| Bloomberg: |
Google contractors recall the often absurd predicament of representing Google, like escorting job candidates around campus, while not working for the company — Kevin Kiprovski had a lofty title, “Expeditions Associate,” and a fun job — he got to demo Google virtual reality gear to young students.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Cloudflare, in its first earnings report after IPO, announces Q3 revenue growth of 48% YoY to $73.9M as GAAP loss increased to $40.9M from $38M in Q3 2018 — We've been tracking the revenue multiples of SaaS companies broadly, and the 2019 IPO class more specifically over the past few months.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases the full version of GPT-2 text generation AI, which it previously said was too dangerous to share, after finding “no strong evidence of misuse” — The lab say it's seen ‘no strong evidence of misuse so far’ — The research lab OpenAI has released the full version …
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| Mya Frazier / Bloomberg: |
Indiana passes law, targeting Big Tech, that exempts sales taxes for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750M+ to a data center in the state — Ed Soliday likens data centers to the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden airplane Howard Hughes flew just once.| Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post: |
Postmates workers say they are making 30% less than they did before the company changed its algorithms and eliminated a $4-per-job guarantee in May — Drivers for Instacart, Postmates and other platforms say they're being wrung out in ways that result in lower pay and less transparency.
Tweets: @nmeyersohn, @abhabhattarai, @byheatherlong, @ldrogen, and @byamberphillips
| VICE: |
Sources: the CEO and CSO of Alphabet's Chronicle, which is to be merged with Google, have left, with the CTO leaving soon as the cybersecurity startup implodes — Chronicle, Google's moonshot cybersecurity startup that was supposed to completely change the industry, is imploding.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts shipping its $3,500 HoloLens 2 to preorder customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK — New gesture controls and a bigger field of view — Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Filing: Uber says it “will likely” need to change its autonomous driving software or sign a deal with Waymo after an expert found Uber still uses Waymo tech — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N) said it “will likely” have to strike a licensing deal with Waymo or opt …
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| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
U.S. safety investigators report: dilemma for self-driving cars is not saving one innocent victim over other; it's between caution and competitive advantage — It has nothing to do with the ‘trolley problem’ — he advent of self-driving cars revived the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the “trolley problem.”| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest: Amazon Echo speakers, Samsung and Sony smart TVs, Xiaomi Mi9, others hacked; Facebook Portal and Google Nest not attempted — Amazon Echo, Samsung and Sony smart TVs fall on first day of Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest.
Tweets: @campuscodi
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2 with a fix for a bug that terminated apps in the background far more aggressively — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2, updates to the iOS 13.2 software that was released on October 28. — The iOS and iPadOS 13.2.2 updates …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google hires Sanjay Gupta, a former Disney and Star executive, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business — Google said on Friday it has appointed Sanjay Gupta, a former top executive with Disney India and Star, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's weather app stopped showing air quality index data for Chinese cities, source says due to Weather Channel changing how it collects that data in China — When it comes to many of Apple Inc.'s latest services, iPhone users in China are missing out. Podcast choices are paltry.
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Tweets: @zhugeex, @alistairmbarr, and @markgurman
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
If its Sprint merger goes through, T-Mobile says it will offer free 5G to first responders for a decade and free broadband to 10M households with children — It's been more than a year and a half since T-Mobile and Sprint announced their $26.5 billion merger in a bid to revamp the US wireless industry.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ghost Locomotion emerges from stealth with $63.7M and says its self-driving kit will work with some cars made from 2012 onwards when it launches in 2020 — Self-driving cars have countless obstacles to contend with on the road, chiefly drivers who don't always act predictably — or responsibly.
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
AMD unveils two new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in 24-core and 32-core versions, built using its 7nm “Zen 2” architecture, available Nov. 19 for $1,399 and $1,999 — Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors.
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