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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft 365 expands with Education version for schools and F1 for firstline workers, alongside new Windows 10 S devices from HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu -
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack — Microsoft Teams isn't even a year old, but it's about to replace Skype for Business. -
Andrew Brust / ZDNet: SQL Server 2017 runs on Linux, including in Docker containers, adds support for Python, and graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality -
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft starts integrating LinkedIn's social graph with Office 365 products, showing contacts' information from LinkedIn within Office 365 -
Washington Post: Sources: on Nov. 19, 9 days after Zuckerberg downplayed fake news' role in election, Obama appealed to him to take threat of political disinformation seriously -
Sponsor Post Microsoft: Celebrating completion of the most advanced subsea cable across the Atlantic — Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius create 4,000-mile-long data connection between U.S. and Spain. -
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Instagram claims it has 800M MAUs, up from 700M in August, and 500M DAUs, says the time spent by users viewing video on Instagram is up over 80% YoY -
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi apologizes to Londoners in an open letter, says his intention is to “run our business with humility, integrity, and passion” -
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google and Levi's $350 Commuter Trucker Jacket with smart sleeve controls goes on sale, compatible with Android and iPhone — Project Jacquard is here -
Mark Hachman / PCWorld: Intel debuts 8th-gen Coffee Lake desktop chips, ranging from the $117 i3-8100 with 4-cores at 3.6GHz to the $359 i7-8700K with 6-cores at 3.7GHz w/ 4.7GHz Turbo -
Josh Horwitz / Quartz: China's coders increasingly use Shadowsocks, an open source proxy tool, to bypass the Great Firewall as government cracks down on VPNs -
Austin Mann: iPhone 8 Plus camera review: Portrait Lighting, HDR in Portrait Mode, and Slow Sync are major improvements this year — khamagani! — (many greetings from rajasthan, india) -
Sponsor Post Worldpay: Missed our Virtual Reality webinar ft. VentureBeat? — We ran it like a podcast and had a really informative discussion around VR payments. Listen now, on-demand. -
Taro Fuse / Reuters: Toshiba has not yet signed the $18B sale of its chip business to Bain Capital-led group, sources say because Apple has not agreed on some key terms -
10 minutes ago Tony Romm / Recode: Sources: Trump to unveil new STEM and coding education push, with a $200M grant target from Dept. of Education, and financial commitments from major tech firms