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Net neutrality supporters have strong legal arguments to overturn Ajit Pai's proposed rules repeal in court — Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from making phone calls using the internet application Vonage.
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| Jeff Kao / Hacker Noon: |
Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules — I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Imgur confirms hackers stole 1.7M email addresses and passwords hashed with SHA-256 algorithm in 2014 hack — The hackers stole email addresses and passwords. — Imgur, one of the world's most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014. — The company confirmed to ZDNet …
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Tweets: @imgur, @troyhunt, @zackwhittaker, and @nicoladiaz
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
KGI: iPhone X manufacturing bottlenecks largely resolved with Foxconn producing 450K-550K units per day compared to 50K-150K 1-2 months ago — Steady improvements in iPhone X supplies that have seen shipping estimates fall to 1-2 weeks are due to better-than-expected improvements … | Sunny Sen / FactorDaily: |
How Alexa was trained for India, a multilingual country, to master local accents and common words in Indian languages using multiple people's voice recordings — She is modern, speaks fluent English, helps you book a cab, finds recipes for cooking, plays your favourite music, and gets charmed by Shah Rukh Khan, her favourite actor.
Tweets: @sounakmitra and @bgmahesh
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US Black Friday online sales were $5.03B, up 16.9% YoY, with 54.3% of all site visits and 36.9% of purchases made on mobile devices — The final figures for Black Friday online sales are in, and it's another record-breaking day e-commerce in the U.S. Adobe says that shoppers spent $5.03 billion online … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Melia Robinson / Business Insider: |
AltSchool, which raised $175M from Mark Zuckerberg, Founders Fund, and a16z to reimagine primary education, is closing over half its schools and losing students — - A new kind of school crafted by the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley influencers is struggling to keep parents happy and students in seats.| Cat Zakrzewski / Wall Street Journal: |
Pokémon Go developer Niantic raises ~$200M Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, and others — Series B led by Spark Capital is secured as company prepares to release a ‘Harry Potter’ title
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| Nick Heath / ZDNet: |
City of Munich decides to switch fully over to Windows 10 after running mostly on Linux for over a decade — Windows 10 will be rolled out to about 29,000 PCs at the city council, a major shift for an authority that has been running Linux for more than a decade.| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
Yandex, Russia's main search engine, now mostly uses state licensed sources for news after law made big news aggregators responsible for content they link to — Google said it would demote Russia Today and Sputnik, but the Russian government has tried to control what news appears on Yandex for years.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his family's immigration from Iran amid 1978 revolution, his time at IAC, and when he first felt like an American — There's truth in the stereotype that immigrants often get handed jobs others would avoid like the plague.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat debuts new ad formats allowing advertisers to post Promoted Stories in Stories tab and AR Trial Ads for placing interactive objects in a camera view — Snap Inc's stock tanked after missing revenue expectations by $30 million last quarter, so Snapchat is looking to win over businesses with immersive new ads formats.
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