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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.| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
The processor used in the 2018 MacBook Air is an Intel Core i5-8210Y 7W Amber Lake Y processor — Apple's newly upgraded MacBook Air is equipped with a 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, a chip configuration that does not match any of the 8th-generation chips that Intel has announced to date.
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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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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.| 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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| Jeffrey M. Perkel / Nature: |
A look at how Jupyter, an open source, interactive, web-based computational notebook, has emerged as a de facto standard among data scientists — An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool. — Search for this author in: — Share via E-Mail
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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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