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VR: VR’s Grand Challenge: Michael Abrash on the Future of Human Interaction,
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You can pre-order the Mate book X Pro in the Australian windows store now for $2599AUD. Is it worth it?
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Bay Area wild fire, Wynd just launched a new air purifier.
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LinkedIn says it expects $2B in revenue from its media business, driven mostly by ad revenue, by the end of the fiscal year (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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Cortana's mobile redesign, in beta last month, is out now for iOS, adding conversational experiences, the ability to play music and podcasts, and more (Jon Porter/The Verge)
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Instagram rolls out activity dashboard that shows users how much time they have spent in the app with time limiting tools and the option to mute notifications (Dami Lee/The Verge)
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Cisco beats with Q1 revenues of $13.07B, up 8% YoY, vs. $12.87B est., revenues of $7.64B for its Infrastructure Platforms business, up 9% YoY, vs. $7.4B est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Facebook launches Unsend for Messenger, letting users delete messages within 10 minutes of posting, in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania; global rollout soon (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
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Uber reports Q3 net loss of $939M, up 32% QoQ, as revenue rose 38% YoY to $2.95B; gross bookings rose to $12.7B; Eats had gross bookings of $2.1B, up 150% YoY (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
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Top Facebook execs obscured privacy, misinformation and privacy crises, hired PR to deflect attention, lobbied in DC to limit oversight (New York Times)
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Source: Instacart raised an additional $271M in November, on top of its $600M round in October, from Tiger Global Management and others (Uday Sampath Kumar/Reuters)
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Microsoft releases 2018 diversity figures: 28% of its workforce is female, up 1% YoY; 19.9% of technical roles are held by women and 19.7% of leadership roles (Nat Levy/GeekWire)
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Mozilla publishes a privacy and security guide for 70 popular connected devices, including drones, wearables, and more, ahead of the holiday season (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
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Sources detail Palantir's frustration with Morgan Stanley's mutual funds, which have repeatedly lowered the valuation of their ~$3M stake, ahead of expected IPO (Bloomberg)
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Tencent-backed online Chinese travel company Tongcheng-eLong launches smaller-than-expected IPO that aims to raise around $233M, down from earlier $1B estimates (Reuters)
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US GAO dismisses Oracle's argument that the Pentagon's $10B cloud contract violated federal standards and unfairly favored Amazon (Bloomberg)
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Maryland-based Dragos, which helps secure industrial control systems, raises $37M Series B led by Canaan Partners (Robert Hackett/Fortune)
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Google Assistant adds Routines integration into clock app, ability to reply to intercom-style Broadcasts, and a command to put devices into Do Not Disturb mode (Rose Behar/Android Police)
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iPhone Users Are Randomly Getting Locked Out of Their Apple IDs
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Judge orders Amazon to turn over Echo recordings in double murder case
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The most popular stuff on Amazon right now
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AI toilets will scan your poop to diagnose your ailments
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Drinkworks and Keurig have created a pod-based cocktail machine
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Xiaomi announces $30 AirPods clones called AirDots
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Apple confirms its T2 security chip blocks some third-party repairs of new Macs
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Keurig launches a cocktail-making pod machine - The Verge
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Intel Core i9-9980XE CPU Review: Still Too Expensive
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Updated patent hints at PS4 controller with a touchscreen
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Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard
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Alexa now might be in Antique phones? The ones that retro push dial home phones.
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That Samsung foldable phone will cost $1,770 and come out next March
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iPad Pro 11" Teardown reveals improved but still difficult repairability
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Surface Go with LTE arrives on November 20th starting at $679
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Absurd Samsung W2019 flip phone has absurd price too
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Screen repairs for Pixel 3 coming in “the next few weeks”
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Weekly /r/Gadgets Advice Superthread!
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Nintendo is shutting down streaming video for the Wii in January 2019
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[Mobile phones] Asus ROG Phone review
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[Aeronautics] AirSelfie 2 review
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Samsung has announced the Galaxy J4 Core, its second Android Go phone
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Harley-Davidson shares details of LiveWire, its all-electric motorcycle | Digital Trends
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New 6Gbps WiFi 6 router looks like the son of stealth bomber and Imperial Shuttle
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Time Maps: visualizing discrete events from Brazilian presidential election candidates
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Análise bayesiana dos microdados do ENEM do Rio Grande do Sul
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/r/Gadgets VicTsing Bluetooth Speaker Winners!
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Benford’s law emerges from deep language model
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PyTorch 1.0 tracing JIT and LibTorch C++ API to integrate PyTorch into NodeJS
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Concentration inequalities – Part I
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NLP word representations and the Wittgenstein philosophy of language
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour
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Privacy-preserving sentence semantic similarity using InferSent embeddings and secure two-party computation
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