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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is overhauling how it tests software, making daily builds disable unfinished features by default, after a swarm of bugs marred the iOS 13 debut — Apple Inc. is overhauling how it tests software after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iPhone and iPad operating systems, according to people familiar with the shift.
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Macworld, Business Insider, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Neowin, ZDNet, SlashGear, iMore, Thurrott, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Computerworld, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, The Mac Observer, and The Next Web
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Tim Cook and Apple did not correct Trump after he took credit for opening a Texas manufacturing plant that has been in operation since 2013 — President Trump said on Wednesday that he opened a facility that makes computers for Apple. It's been operating since 2013.
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CNET, Financial Times, AppleInsider, Reuters, Business Insider, Gizmodo, iMore, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Verge, Inquirer, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
| NBC News: |
President Donald Trump hosted an undisclosed dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel at the White House in October, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday — The meeting took place during Zuckerberg's most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Duplex launches on the web as Google Assistant in Chrome, lets users buy movie tickets from 70+ cinemas and ticketing services in the US — At I/O 2019, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Duplex was “moving beyond voice” and coming to the web. After publicly testing in late September …
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The Keyword, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Android Police, Geek.com, Droid Life, PYMNTS.com, KnowTechie, MSPoweruser, and TechSpot. Tweets: @cnet
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally — Twitter's radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter's global user base. The company says the feature …
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Twitter, CNET, CNN, Marketing Land, iMore, Engadget, Axios, help.twitter.com, Neowin, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @twittersupport
| Scott Spencer / The Keyword: |
Google announces new political ad rules, limits microtargeting to age, gender, and general location categories, will start enforcing them in UK within a week — We're proud that people around the world use Google to find relevant information about elections and that candidates use Google …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google increases rewards for Titan M secure element exploits on Pixels to $1.5M and to $750K for other exploits; Android hack rewards used to top out at $200K — Big bump coincides with investments Google has poured into securing its Pixel phone. — Google will pay up to $1.5 million …
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Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Computerworld, BleepingComputer, Android Police, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, Neowin, and Forbes. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Microsoft pushes the release of Surface Earbuds, which it said earlier were coming in the fall, to Spring 2020 — Surface Earbuds will miss the crucial holiday shopping season for 2019. — What you need to know — Microsoft's Surface Earbuds won't ship now until spring 2020.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
WeWork says it is laying off around 2,400 employees globally — - The beleaguered office-sharing start-up is laying off 2,400 employees in an attempt to right-size the business. — The layoffs come after several tumultuous months for WeWork, which were marred by a botched IPO …
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New York Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNN, The Verge, Axios, Adweek, CTech, and Mashable. Tweets: @ashleymayer
| Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
Apple removed the “Ratings & Reviews” section from all product pages on its website over the weekend — On November 17, Apple removed the “Ratings & Reviews” section from all product pages on the Apple website. It is currently unclear what has prompted this decision …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacDailyNews
| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook sought feedback from large Republican and Democratic political ad buyers about changing ad targeting audience size from 100 to a few thousand — Company is considering boosting the minimum amount of people who can be targeted by specific ads from 100 to a few thousand| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon signs deal with Telefonica to provide internet to remote parts of the Amazon — Alphabet-owned Loon, the high-altitude balloon company that is using its stratospheric technology to provide internet connectivity on Earth, has signed a new commercial agreement with Telefonica-owned Internet para Todos (IpT).| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail on Android and iOS to gain support for dynamic email starting on Nov. 21, letting users take actions, like purchasing products, directly within a message — Following a preview last February, Google brought its AMP for Email project into general availability, allowing companies to imbue …
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G Suite Updates Blog, Android Police, CNET, and Neowin
| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Uber plans to test letting riders and drivers in the US record audio of their trips “soon”, as a similar pilot program debuts next month in Brazil and Mexico — Uber plans to record audio during rides in the United States as part of a new security feature, its latest push …
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The Verge, The Daily Dot, KnowTechie, The Next Web, Geek.com, Android Authority, and International Business Times
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @om, @kashhill, @yoda, @gigworkersrise, @katiejwells, @riana_crypto, @riana_crypto, @thekenyeung, @riana_crypto, @geoffreyfowler, and @tonyromm
| Amnesty International: |
Amnesty International says Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and is a danger to human rights — Facebook and Google's omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights …
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Engadget, The Register, Yahoo Finance, WRAL TechWire, The Next Web, Telecoms.com, Inquirer, and Firstpost Tech
Tweets: @amnesty, @privacyint, and @martintisne
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Susan Wojcicki says YouTube is working to bring ads to edgier content and its new gaming policy will have fewer restrictions for violence in gaming — There's a difference between borderline and edgy content — YouTube is experimenting with placing advertisements for more mature audiences … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple MacBook Pro 16" review: best speakers on a laptop with a good keyboard and improved battery life, but it is heavy and macOS Catalina is still buggy — Apple fixed the obvious things — The keyboard is fixed. — If Apple did nothing else, that one thing makes the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro better … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook brings Stories to Facebook Dating, letting users add their Facebook or Instagram Stories to dating profiles — Facebook Dating, an opt-in feature of the main Facebook app, will begin to tap into the content users are already creating across both Facebook and Instagram to enhance its service.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Google's work with US military, as senior military officials worry about parts of Google's employee base approaching a state of open rebellion — In early November several dozen experts from the American military industrial complex—including senior officers, defense contracting executives …
Tweets: @joshuabrustein, @shiraovide, @ericnewcomer, @mhbergen, @shiraovide, and @thestalwart
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Robotic process automation startup Automation Anywhere raises $290M Series B at a valuation of $6.8B, now has 3,500+ enterprise clients in 90+ countries — Robotic process automation (RPA), or bots that can be programmed to perform tedious and mundane tasks, is undergoing a period of explosive growth.
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PR Newswire and SiliconANGLE
| Buster Hein / Cult of Mac: |
Guilherme Rambo, who has published scoops about unreleased Apple products by examining beta software, says Apple locked his dev account with no stated reason — Guilherme Rambo, one of the top Apple secret-spillers, says Apple locked him out of his developer account, preventing …
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Daring Fireball, Rambo.codes, and iPhone Hacks
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