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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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| 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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| 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.
| 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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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Belarusian police arrest man suspected of operating a sprawling botnet network called Andromeda, which had been around since 2011 before its takedown — The prolific hacker behind the Andromeda botnet was brought down by open source intelligence, according to the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple introduces a new pay-per-install App Store ad product called Search Ads Basic, changes the existing pay-per-click product name to Search Ads Advanced — Apple today is introducing a new way for app developers to acquire users for their apps: it's launching a pay-per-install advertising product called Search Ads Basic.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
AT&T says its OTT streaming service DirecTV Now has surpassed 1M subscribers, just over a year after its launch — AT&T this morning announced that its over-the-top streaming service DirecTV Now has surpassed the one million subscriber mark, with the milestone coming in just a little bit …
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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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| 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 … | Michael Galvez / The Keyword: |
Google updates Search with expanded Featured Snippets and extra info for a single search term as well as queries spanning multiple related searches — Search is not just about answering your questions—it's also about discovery. We search to explore new topics of interest …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
With Messenger Kids' launch, Facebook doesn't share how it will monetize the service or if parents will have access to all data collected about their families — It's all about the data — In 1998, as the internet began to spread across the country, Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.
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Tweets: @joshconstine, @caseynewton, and @alecmolloy
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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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie forecasts consumer spending on all mobile app stores will reach $110B+ in 2018, up 30% YoY, driven by games and in-app subscriptions — Consumer spending on all mobile app stores will surpass $110 billion in 2018, according to a new report from App Annie, out today …
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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.
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