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Twitter says it's testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings — Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach.
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Twitter's spam reporting tool now lets users specify more details, like if the account is fake, using unrelated hashtags, or sharing malicious links — Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam …
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A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk out in protest on Thursday — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture.
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iRobot partners with Google and will share spatial data from Roombas to help improve Google's smart home experience by mapping rooms — The two companies are working together to leverage spatial data generated by iRobot's robovacs — Google and iRobot have announced they're working together …
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Apple says its T2 security chip, found in the 2018 Mac laptops, disconnects the device's microphone from the rest of the hardware whenever the lid is closed — Apple's newest MacBooks include a new feature that makes it virtually impossible for hackers or spies to eavesdrop on your microphone.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple's push into higher ASP — When Apple launched the iPhone X, it did more than just change the design language of the iPhone: it also offered a whole new pricing level.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi sends cease and desist letter to Lyft, saying it will pursue legal action if Lyft continues to modify scooters originally manufactured by Xiaomi — Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces account security updates, including requiring JavaScript be enabled when using a Google sign-in page in order to run a risk assessment — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Google is announcing a slew of new features related to the sign-in process and account usage.
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Fitbit posts a net loss of $2.1M in Q3, down from $113.4M a year ago, on revenue of $393.6M, as smartwatches accounted for 49% of company's total revenue — Fitbit is slowly righting its financial ship, courtesy of a successful push into smartwatch category.| NDTV Gadgets 360: |
WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its ‘Status’ section, but declined to provide a timeline — Clearing the air on Facebook's monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service's Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company …
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Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M — - Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018.| Washington Post: |
Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following “attacks from the American media” — Like many young entrepreneurs drawn to California's technological gold rush, Andrew Torba brought a familiar mix of smarts … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches the Music Skill API for Alexa, allowing developers to stream songs from online services to Alexa devices and Amazon Echo speakers in the US — Spicing up voice apps on Amazon's Alexa assistant with jammin' tunes just got a whole lot easier.
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Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results — Amazon today announced a series of updates to Alexa's knowledge base so the intelligent assistant can deliver helpful information ahead of …
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Google introduces “Emoji Minis” in Gboard for Android and iOS, which uses machine learning to create customizable emoji-sized stickers based on users' selfies — Last summer, Google introduced its own take on Bitmoji with the launch of “Mini” stickers in its keyboard app, Gboard …
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Sources: after canceling Rift 2, a “complete redesign”, Oculus now pursuing a more modest Rift update, possibly called Rift S, to release as early as next year — Facebook's virtual reality arm may soon find itself in the unfamiliar position of playing catch-up with hardware competitors.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will move Workplace by Facebook, its Slack rival, to its own domain in 2019, Workplace.com, to appease businesses' fears about data security — - Workplace by Facebook, the company's enterprise business, is moving onto a website domain separate from Facebook.com in an effort … | Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Lime pursues car sharing in Seattle, where rentable electric scooters are banned, and says it plans to add electric vehicles as another option to its app “soon” — Lime wants to add cars to its Seattle mobility fleet, expanding beyond the bright green, rentable bikes the company currently operates in the city.
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Digital Trends, CNET, Smart Cities Dive, Engadget, The Information, and Fortune
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Social platforms operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of awful speech, unwilling to affect their bottom lines, and the negligence includes funders — This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line Games, chat app Line's gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line's holdings to a minority 41.7% — Messaging app firm Line has given up majority control of its Line Games business after it raised outside financing to expand …
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