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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it's pulling support for Amazon Echo Show today, will cut access to YouTube on Amazon FireTV starting Jan. 1; Amazon stops selling new Nest devices — New Nest devices have mysteriously disappeared from Amazon — Three months ago, YouTube pulled its programming …
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Engadget, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Android Police, GeekWire, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha, and TWICE
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @stevekovach, @ryanlcooper, @backlon, and @chris_ciaccia
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils ARM LTE-enabled Windows 10 PCs with “all-day” battery life, including $599 Asus NovaGo with 4GB RAM, HP Envy x2; HP coming in spring, Asus TBD — A fresh challenge to Intel's PC dominance — Microsoft and Qualcomm are officially unveiling the first ARM-powered Windows 10 laptops today.
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Tweets: @drpizza, @ow, @inafried, @bdsams, and @stroughtonsmith
| BuzzFeed: |
YouTube says moderation team will have 10K+ people by end of 2018, up 25% according to sources, and pledges new ads approach to curb child exploitation problem — The company plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018, YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki said.
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Tweets: @katienotopoulos, @cwarzel, @susanwojcicki, @rivalxfactor, and @bwest
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Android and iOS keyboard, AI.type, leaves 31M users' personal data exposed online, including 374M+ phone numbers, 10M+ email addresses, millions of text entries — The app maker's database wasn't protected with a password, leaving exposed its users' most private information.
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MacKeeper Security …, The Next Web, BBC, International Business Times, The Mac Observer, CNET, Android Central, DataBreaches.net, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @paul_furley, @jamesrbuk, @faris, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google launches Android Oreo (Go edition) for low-end phones with less than 1GB RAM, which uses smaller Go versions of apps like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps — Google's stripped-down version of Android is ready for OEMs. — Google's upcoming low-end configuration of Android—"Android Go"—has hit a major milestone.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram debuts Stories Highlights, a new profile section featuring select Stories, and Stories Archive, where stories are saved automatically when they expire — Today we're introducing two new tools that let you hold on to your favorite moments from Instagram Stories and share them in ways that help you express yourself.
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Instagram, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, The Verge, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, Recode, MacRumors, Adweek, 9to5Mac, New York Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @kevinweil
| Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab: |
Sources: Apple has acquired Oakland-based Pop Up Archive, an online platform that builds tools to transcribe, organize, and search audio files — Plus: Public radio deals with a new wave of harassment allegations, Reddit and WBUR team up, et l'industrie du podcast au Québec.
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AppleInsider, iMore, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, RAIN News, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iLounge. Tweets: @felixsalmon
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Fitbit updates Ionic smartwatch with 60 new apps including Yelp, Deezer, Flipboard, and Uber, and launches Fitbit Labs to create apps for fitness motivation — Fitbit's Ionic smartwatch suffers from a dearth of apps, we noted in our Engadget review, but the wearable firm is trying to flip that equation with an update to its Fitbit OS.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says that Apple Pay Cash has officially launched for US users with iOS 11.2 — Apple has announced that Apple Pay Cash officially launches today for all iOS 11.2 users with an eligible iPhone or iPad model in the United States. — Apple's peer-to-peer payment service actually began rolling …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Shervin Pishevar says he's taking an immediate leave of absence from Sherpa Capital and Hyperloop One, following allegations of sexual misconduct — Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of Sherpa Capital and co-founder of Hyperloop One, is taking an immediate leave of absence from both companies …
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Tweets: @bizcarson, @jguynn, @jguynn, @jguynn, @jguynn, and @mikeisaac
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest launches a Facebook Messenger bot to power Pin searches, as well as a chat extension for collaborative visual search inside Messenger — Pinterest today launched its first Facebook Messenger bot to power Pin searches, as well as a chat extension to power collaborative visual search inside … | Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces beta version of 2018 emoji, introducing ability to flip direction of emoji, removal of proposed “Frowning Pile Of Poo” emoji, more — Unicode last night announced the beta version of next year's emoji release. [1]
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The Unicode Blog, Android Police, Phandroid, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, AppAdvice.com, and MacRumors
Tweets: @notwaldorf and @emojipedia
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Steve Case's new Rise of the Rest fund raises $150M from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and others to promote start-ups in the middle of the United States — When Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL, first met J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the best-selling book …
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GeekWire, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @dealbook, @nytimesbusiness, @arlanwashere, and @hunterwalk
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC chairman Ajit Pai won't delay next week's net neutrality vote despite federal court case that could strip FTC of broadband oversight — Pai says FTC will protect consumers—but FTC could lose its regulatory authority. — The Federal Communications Commission will move ahead with its vote …
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Slate, TechCrunch, Techdirt, The Verge, CNNMoney, DSLreports, Motherboard, Neowin, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @cnn, @arstechnica, and @verge
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Marketing tech company Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus, source says for ~$90M — Marketing tech company Zeta Global is making good use of its recent $140 million Series F funding round. After acquiring Boomtrain earlier this year, the company today announced it has acquired Disqus … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Intuit to acquire employee time-tracking and employee scheduling app TSheets for $340M; TSheets had raised ~$15M in 2015 and claims ~35K customers globally — Financial software giant Intuit has announced plans to acquire TSheets, the company behind the eponymous time-tracking and employee scheduling app … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Did You Know questionnaires, so users can answer questions about themselves, reminiscent of tbh, which has tanked in App Store since acquisition — Facebook wants you to share a bit more about yourself on your profile, so today it's launching a new feature to web and mobile users called … | Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Earny, which checks for price drops on items users bought and then asks retailers like Target or Amazon for a refund, raises $9M Series A led by Mayfield — Have you ever bought something only to see it go on sale the next day? — It may seem like bad luck, but you're often still entitled to get that discount.Sponsor Posts
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