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| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
How Instagram has become a refuge for far-right figures who have avoided being banned from the site, including Alex Jones — Instagram hosts accounts from prominent right-wingers who have already been banned from Twitter and Facebook. — Alt-right social network Gab shuttered itself …
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New York Times and The Verge
Tweets: @sheeraf, @josephfcox, @violetblue, @mccarthyryanj, and @sarahfrier
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it is banning the far-right Proud Boys and co-founder Gavin McInnes from Facebook and Instagram after violent NY attack on protesters in October — - Facebook is banning accounts and groups associated with The Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group linked to political violence in the US.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Rich DeVaul, a director at X, Alphabet's moonshot unit, left the company today following reports of sexual harassment, did not receive an exit package — Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the moonshot unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has left the company following reports of sexual harassment.
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| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has pulled watchOS 5.1 update after reports that it had bricked some Apple Watches — [Update: Apple has now pulled watchOS 5.1. Users who haven't updated should refrain from doing so if it was downloaded, but not yet installed.] — While many users are disappointed with the lack …
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ZDNet, Thurrott.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, Cult of Mac, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Mashable, Softpedia News, Gizchina.com, and The Verge
| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q3 revenue of $13.73B, up 33% YoY, DAUs of 1.49B on average, up 9% YoY, says mobile ad revenue represented ~92% of all ad revenue — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue …
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Business Insider, Digiday, TechSpot, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, Financial Times, Quartz, and The Information
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Samsung Electronics posts Q3 operating profit of ~$15.5B, up 21% YoY, driven by strong sales of memory chips and higher demand for high-end OLED display panels — - Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of 17.57 trillion won (about $15.5 billion) for the quarter ending in September.| Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers examining 135 popular kids apps on Android and iOS find 88% of paid and 100% of free apps often have manipulative and distracting ads — Popular apps for young kids, especially those available in Google's app store, are teeming with advertisements that distract them from play …
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New York Times, LWW, Silicon Republic, Washington Post, BBC, Boing Boing, Bloomberg, and CNET
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
eSIM support for Apple's new iPhones will not be available from AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile until later this year, but it is available in other countries — Apple today released iOS 12.1 with support for the digital eSIM that will allow for dual-SIM functionality on the iPhone XS …
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PCMag, CNET, The Verge, AppleInsider, Forbes, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new MacBook Air: glossy screen is great, mostly on par with the MacBook Pro, but the third-gen butterfly keyboard remains a polarizing design — This is the MacBook most people should get — Apple has finally unveiled a long-awaited revamp of the MacBook Air …
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iMore, Motherboard, and TechCrunch
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail for iOS will let users view all of their accounts in a single inbox, like Gmail for Android; feature rolling out over the next 15 days — Today, Google announced that all of the email accounts you manage in the Gmail app on iOS can be viewed in a single, universal inbox.
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G Suite Updates Blog, Thurrott.com, and VentureBeat
| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities — Facebook's Portal looked like a slick alternative to the Amazon Echo speaker when it launched earlier this month, but problems abounded behind the scenes.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps — Amazon's latest streaming player supports all the important formats and costs just $50 — When shoppers look for a streaming player …
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VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley — Waymo is the first company in California allowed to test robot cars on public roads with no human driver behind the steering wheel, it said Tuesday.
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Waymo, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Fortune, Engadget, and Forbes
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
One year after doubling tweet length, Twitter finds the average tweet is now 33 characters, one fewer than before the change; 5% are longer than 190 characters — Nearly a year since Twitter doubled the character limit of tweets from 140 to 280, the company has found that the most common length … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ethos, a startup that says it can process life insurance applications in minutes, raises $35M Series B led by Accel and backed by GV — - Ethos saw a more than 400 percent jump in revenue, customers and applications in the last four months. — Ethos, a start-up that says it can process …
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TechCrunch, ImpactAlpha, and San Francisco Business Journal
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Pro hands-on: beautiful screen, squared off design feels more dense and “pro”, lack of 3.5mm jack is puzzling; Pencil feels nicer and better integrated — Apple announced a new, completely redesigned iPad Pro moments ago in New York, and I just got to spend a few minutes trying it out.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, CNET, Six Colors, Cult of Mac, Wired, ZDNet, Softpedia News, and VentureBeat
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DOJ charges 10 Chinese nationals for conspiring to hack and steal IP and confidential data from US and European companies between Jan. 2010 and May 2015 — Department of Justice charges ten Chinese nationals for hacks on US and French aviation companies — The US Department of Justice …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Wired, Reuters, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Financial Times, SecurityWeek, Bloomberg, SlashGear, and Washington Times. Tweets: @gerryshih
| Oscar Williams-Grut / Yahoo! Finance: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo has raised £85M, or ~$108M, Series E from investors including General Catalyst and Accel, at a valuation of £1B, or ~$1.2B — Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK — Fast-growing UK startup bank Monzo is now worth £1bn ($1.2bn), just three years after launching.
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