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Sources: Peter Thiel is moving to LA and has considered leaving Facebook board, amid shift away from tech industry, which he sees as intolerant of conservatism — Billionaire investor frustrated with what he sees as intolerance of conservatism in tech industry; has discussed resigning from Facebook board
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
British officials say Russia was “almost certainly responsible” for 2017 NotPetya attack that targeted Ukraine and some large businesses — Ukraine bore the brunt of the June attack, in which the ‘Petya’ worm spread among corporate computer networks
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Tweets: @ncsc, @johnhultquist, @ridt, @ridt, @afp, and @ukinukraine
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
How Facebook prioritizing friends' content with many comments led to a post reappearing atop people's News Feed over and over, increasing “engagement” even more — Last Saturday — 12 days ago now — I shared a cringeworthy video on Facebook: a 6-minute clip …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
Popular meme pages are skirting Facebook's spam detection by overlaying static videos with watermark-like white arrows and triangles, reaching millions of users — Viral meme pages have developed a new trick to reach millions of users and generate big money from publishers and brand pages.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iOS and macOS bug blocks access to apps like Messages, Messenger, WhatsApp if user receives message with specific Indian character; bug fixed in iOS 11.3 beta — Here we go again — Apple had a shockingly bad week of software problems just before the end of 2017, and it looks like 2018 isn't starting so well either.
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Tweets: @tomwarren and @bhcarpenter
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Andrew Chen, ex-head of growth at Uber, joins Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner, a week after Lars Dalgaard left a16z to start his own fund — Notable: The firm still doesn't have any female general partners. — Andreessen Horowitz has plucked the head of growth at Uber and turned …
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andrewchen, Andreessen Horowitz, Axios, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @rrhoover, @sachinrekhi, and @andrewchen
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Samsung Notebook 9 Pen review: solid performance, capable S Pen, comfortable keyboard, fair price at $1,399+, but limited ports, mediocre battery, drab design — My backpack is a disaster. I've always been sort of a packrat and working at Engadget doesn't help.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, CNET, PCWorld, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, and Liliputing. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Gmail Go, a scaled-down version that takes up less storage space, on Android, following YouTube Go, Assistant Go, and others — Google has added a notable addition to its line of “Go” edition apps - the lightweight apps designed primarily for emerging markets - with the launch of Gmail Go.
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Android Community, NDTV Gadgets 360, The Indian Express, Android Police, and Android Authority. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Dockless bike-sharing startup LimeBike adds $70M to its $50M Series B from October; investors include Fifth Wall Ventures, which is backed by real estate titans — LimeBike wants to help find its random scattering of bikes a perhaps better and more useful home.| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Coinbase says it will issue refunds after an issue with its payment processor led to some users being repeatedly charged for purchases — A growing number of Coinbase customers are complaining that the cryptocurrency exchange withdrew unauthorized money out of their accounts.
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The Next Web and CoinDesk
| Larry Hardesty / MIT News: |
MIT researchers say they've developed a special purpose chip that increases the speed of neural network computations by up to 7x while consuming ~95% less power — New chip reduces neural networks' power consumption by up to 95 percent, making them practical for battery-powered devices.
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Geek.com, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Fortune, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Ubergizmo, and TechCrunch
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
CommonSense Robotics, which develops AI and robotics tech to help online grocery retailers expedite delivery, raises $20M Series A led by Playground Global — CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup developing AI and robotics tech to help online grocery retailers speed up fulfilment and delivery …
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VentureBeat, Tech.eu, VatorNews, and Reuters
| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter begins streaming local news broadcasts next to timeline amid major news events, displaying Miami's WSVN 7 coverage of high school shooting on Wednesday — Twitter is starting to show live, local news broadcasts in a live streaming window next to its timeline during major breaking news events.
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Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Neowin, Engadget, FierceCable, and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@kantrowitz
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
TechInsights: HomePod costs $216 to build, giving it a 38% margin compared to 66% for Google Home and 56% for Amazon Echo — Smart speaker's $349 price suggests Apple is making 38% margin — HomePod also generates revenue from music subscriptions — Apple Inc.'s HomePod …
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Tweets: @sharatibken and @freedmanae
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