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Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao — With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao — Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
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| Prashant S. Rao / New York Times: |
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case — LONDON — Uber suffered a renewed blow to its operations in London — its biggest market outside the United States — when an employment tribunal on Friday rejected …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM will make 20-qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service by end of 2017 and unveils 50-qubit quantum computing prototype — IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local in the US on iOS and Android, adds restaurants, bars, and places your friends visit — Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn't necessarily have to be to an event.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How Mimikatz, a tool coded by a French government IT manager in his spare time, became a ubiquitous password stealer for hackers globally — FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop.
Tweets: @dalperovitch
| Dave Mark / The Loop: |
Apple says it is working on a software fix for iPhone X screens that become temporarily unresponsive to touch in cold environments — Yesterday, a Reddit user named Darus 214 started a thread complaining about his iPhone X screen becoming unresponsive in cold weather. From the thread:
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Tweets: @jonyiveparody, @backlon, @joannastern, and @stevekovach
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will age-restrict flagged videos that make “inappropriate use of family-friendly characters” to logged-in users 18 or older — Videos that violate policy will now be age restricted — Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew …
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter more than doubles the characters available for display names from 20 to 50, retains 15 character limit for usernames — Twitter has been a bit preoccupied with length lately. After permanently increasing the maximum character length for tweets to 280, it's now allowing your display name to be longer too.
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @rjonesy, @stillgray, @internetofs**t, @martinsfp, @caseynewton, @sub8u, and @carnage4life
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says strong encryption that law enforcement can't break is “unreasonable” — Rod Rosenstein: We should weigh “law enforcement equities” against security. — Just two days after the FBI said it could not get into the Sutherland Springs …
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9to5Mac, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Baltimore Sun, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @dangraziano, @arstechnica, and @malwarejake
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M — Electronic Arts announced it will acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315 million in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140 million.
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Kotaku, EA.com, Ars Technica, Tech Times, Geek.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Silicon Valley Business …, Ubergizmo, and destructoid
Tweets: @titanfallblog, @patrickklepek, @a7zatru, @jasonschreier, and @gameanim
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
After backlash, Logitech says it will offer free Harmony Hubs for all Harmony Link users — WHEN LOGITECH DECIDED to intentionally brick its Harmony Link hub next March, it somehow didn't anticipate the backlash, which spread from Reddit comment threads to major tech publications and beyond.
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Tweets: @wired, @swiftonsecurity, and @logitech
| Nick Compton / Wallpaper*: |
Interviews with Jony Ive and Stefan Behling, one of Apple Park's lead architects, on the site's design and flexibility and on the fluid nature of iPhone X — Anticipation was higher than usual - and it always runs to feverish - when the press and other interested parties …
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