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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
With Reactions, Facebook adds 6 empathetic emoji to the Like button; initial test in Spain and Ireland only  —  With Reactions, Facebook Supercharges The Like Button With 6 Empathetic Emoji  —  In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some waves when he hinted Facebook was working …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple TV & iPad Pro to hit stores early November after late October online launch  —  The revamped Apple TV set top box and iPad Pro will both begin showing up in Apple Retail Stores for sale during the first week of November after going on sale via Apple's website in late October, according to reliable sources.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Amazon launches Handmade, an Etsy rival for handcrafted goods with over 80K items from 60 countries  —  Amazon Challenges Etsy With Strictly Handmade Marketplace  —  Amazon stepped into the handcrafted-goods ring on Thursday, opening an arts-and-crafts bazaar online that squarely takes aim …
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
AWS's new services and features go after legacy customers of tech giants like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft  —  Amazon Messes With Billions in Corporate Computing Dollars  —  LAS VEGAS — There is a famous story from the early days of Google that goes something like this …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises price of most popular plan to $10 a month in US, Canada, and Latin America for new customers, existing customers see no increase for 12 months  —  Netflix Hikes Price of Standard Streaming Plan to $10 per Month  —  NY Digital Editor @xpangler
John Koller / PlayStation.Blog:
Sony lowers price of PS4 to $350 in the US starting Friday  —  PS4: Big Holiday Lineup, Lower Cost  —  Since the launch of PS4, we have been thrilled with the amount of gamers jumping into the world of PlayStation for the first time.  If you haven't made the jump yet …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Wi-Fi Calling Now Available for AT&T Users  —  AT&T has flipped the switch on Wi-Fi calling, making it available to customers with eligible plans that are running iOS 9.  MacRumors has received tips from customers who were able to activate Wi-Fi calling and we were able to activate the feature on our own iPhones.
Elliot Silver / Domain Investing:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com Now Owned by Google  —  Shortly after it was announced that Google would launch its new brand Alphabet on ABC.xyz, there was a run on alphabet related and .xyz domain names.  Judging by a recent Whois change, it looks like Google recently acquired abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com (the full alphabet).
Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica:
Dell refreshes XPS 13 and XPS 15, and debuts XPS 12 tablet hybrid  —  A sleek, premium line of PCs gets another member that's more laptop than tablet.  —  Dell launched some serious notebooks when it came out with the XPS line, and now the company continues to improve on already solid products.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
SHA1, one of Internet's crucial cryptographic algorithms used in 28% of digital certificates, could break by year's end  —  SHA1 algorithm securing e-commerce and software could break by year's end  —  Researchers warn widely used algorithm should be retired sooner.

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Axios:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger says she is “hopeful” more Republicans will back the public broadcaster, and PBS would defend “vigorously” if someone went after its board

David Bauder / Associated Press:
WaPo has banned its media writers from reporting stories about the paper and reportedly lost ~325K subscribers after the Harris non-endorsement

Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
The White House launches White House Wire, a website that looks similar to the Drudge Report, to promote pro-Trump news stories

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Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
Matthew Keys found guilty of hacking under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; US attorney's office may seek less than five year prison sentence in January
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Dell in talks for full or partial takeover of EMC
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