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| Elliot Schrage / Facebook: |
About 10M people saw Russian ads on Facebook, 44% of ads were seen before Nov. 8, 50% of ads were for $3 or less; for 99% of the ads, less than $1,000 was spent — What was in the ads you shared with Congress? How many people saw them? — Most of the ads appear to focus on divisive social …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Russians used Facebook's Custom Audiences retargeting tool to ID voters and send specific ads and messages to influence them — A sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Ben Margot/AP) — SAN FRANCISCO — Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites …
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
Facebook's Safety Check page for Las Vegas shooting promoted sites giving misinformation like Alt-Right News and End Times Headlines; Google highlighted 4Chan — In the wake of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas last night that left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured …
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Ring debuts Protect, a $199 home security system that includes base station, keypad, contact sensor, motion detector, and range extender, launching late October — It's clearly the season for home security systems, with Ring launching Ring Protect with the promise of 24/7 monitoring and easy installation.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft discontinues Groove Music Pass service, effective December 31, partners with Spotify, which it will recommend to Windows users instead — Microsoft rebranded Xbox Music to Groove Music two years ago, in a bid to make its music streaming service more relevant to consumers.
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Windows Blog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Engadget, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, On MSFT, PhoneDog.com, Business Insider, Android Police, GeekWire, Neowin, BetaNews, The Register, Reuters, Ars Technica, Windows Central, The Next Web, Paul Thurrott, Seeking Alpha, and ZDNet. Tweets: @trollinthunder
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Alleged renders of Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL leak, showing dual front facing speakers, redesigned launcher with a Google search bar above navigation buttons — EXCLUSIVE: — Unlike Apple, Google tends to hold just a single major hardware launch per year — and just like last year's event, this one will also be held on October 4.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Uber's Otto due diligence report has been made public as part of Uber v. Waymo lawsuit today — Alphabet had been fighting to get ahold of this document for months over the course of its litigation against Uber. — A report that Alphabet wants to use in its lawsuit against Uber was made public today.| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
After Waymo asks court to seal courtroom for large portions of Uber trial, multiple media orgs, including Gizmodo, NYT, and WSJ, file brief to keep it open — Since Waymo sued Uber in February, alleging a massive theft of trade secrets related to its self-driving car technology … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook brings data-saving Messenger Lite beyond developing markets to the Google Play Store in US, Canada, UK, and Ireland, has no plans for iOS version — Facebook's data-conserving version of Messenger is no longer just for developing nations with slow networks.
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| Lucy Handley / CNBC: |
Bumble, a women-first dating app with 21M users, launches Bumble Bizz mode for professional networking in US, Canada, UK, France, and Germany — Would you use the same app to find a new job as well as a potential life partner? Bumble, the mobile dating app that has more than 21 million users around …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat to launch AR art platform in partnership with pop artist Jeff Koons on Tuesday that allows art objects to be pinned to specific locations — Snapchat plans to launch a new augmented reality art platform featuring pop artist Jeff Koons and others. It will allow art to be pinned …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Waymo is preparing to launch commercial ride-sharing service powered by self-driving vehicles with no human “safety” drivers as soon as this fall — Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving car unit, is preparing to launch the first commercial ride-sharing service powered …
Tweets: @theinformation and @mhbergen
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Oracle follows others with a new blockchain cloud service, built on the Hyperledger Fabric project, like IBM's Blockchain as a Service — Oracle is working hard to be a SaaS vendor that matters, whether with its new autonomous database service or getting involved with blockchain.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Senate confirms Ajit Pai for another term at FCC in 52-41 vote — Democrats objected to Pai's re-nomination, but Republicans had his back. — The US Senate today gave Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai another term on the FCC. — Pai would have had to leave the FCC … Sponsor Posts
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