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Twitter partners with Bloomberg Media to create a 24/7 ad-supported Twitter-exclusive live video news channel, expected to start in fall — New Service Comes as Social-Media Firm Fights for Video Ad Dollars — Twitter Inc. TWTR -0.78% has found its first partner for its push into round-the-clock streaming television: Bloomberg.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hacker leaks stolen “Orange Is the New Black” season 5 episodes after Netflix failed to pay ransom; Netflix says a production vendor was compromised — An anonymous hacker has carried through on a threat to release “Orange Is the New Black” season five episodes online …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's “Speech Synthesis Markup Language” now lets Alexa developers add personality to Skills' responses by controlling pronunciation, pitch, timing, and more — Amazon's Alexa is going to sound more human. The company announced this week the addition of a new set … | CNNMoney: |
Sales of ebooks in US dropped 19% during first 9 months of 2016 and declined 17% in UK for all of 2016, as physical books sales rose, say publisher associations — Coloring books help adults de-stress — Are physical books the new vinyl? — New data suggest that the reading public … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung debuts Bixby voice command feature for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in South Korea, a month after launching the flagship smartphones — Samsung Electronics has rolled out the voice command feature for its Bixby virtual assistant that was missing for the launch of Galaxy S8.
| The Guardian: |
Turkey blocks Wikipedia under law designed to protect national security — Users trying to access online encyclopaedia via Turkish internet providers receive ‘connection timed out’ error message … Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country's telecommunications watchdog has said …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Developer scraped 40K Tinder selfies from Bay Area and uploaded dataset to machine-learning platform Kaggle; Tinder says terms of service violated — Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set …
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| Lory Gil / iMore: |
Check Point researchers detail Dok, OS X malware that uses a signed Apple developer certificate to bypass Gatekeeper — Don't be scared but be aware, there's a new malware in town and it wants your Mac. — Check Point Technologies has released detailed information about a a new malware attack that is directed at Mac users.| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
A look at exclusive social networks and dating apps like Best of All Worlds and The League, which cater to the world's one percent — On the internet, no one can see your Rolex — The social network Best of All Worlds is five years old (ancient by Silicon Valley standards) … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Gig, a car-sharing app made by roadside assistance service AAA, launches in Bay Area, is like Zipcar but doesn't require cars be returned at specific locations — Gig, a new car-sharing app created by the emergency roadside assistance service AAA rolled out to the Bay Area today.
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Sexism, racism, and bullying are driving people out of tech, a study by Kapor Center and Harris Poll finds — A first-of-its-kind report analyzed the reasons why tech workers leave their jobs, and found a common thread of sexual harassment, bullying and stereotyping
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| Ben Schiller / Fast Company: |
How money transfer startups like Circle, Abra, Transferwise, and WorldRemit are trying to shake up the $429B remittance market — A new class of startups is using bitcoin and the blockchain to drastically lower fees as they try to grab a share of the remittance market from old competitors like Western Union.Sponsor Posts
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