UMich security expert says Clinton should petition for recount in PA, MI, WI given the insecurity of voting machines and sophistication of state-sponsored hacks
You may have read at NYMag that I've been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states.
Microsoft brings its Solitaire Collection to Android and iOS for free today, with a $1.99/month ad-free option available
Microsoft is bringing its popular version of Solitaire to iOS and Android today. While the game as existed on Windows for more than 25 years, the modern Solitaire Collection …
Reddit CEO Huffman's decision to delete and alter comments on Trump thread amounts to censorship and has eroded the site's credibility with users
Even those who don't frequent “the front page of the internet” should worry about the implications of this act.
Google and its TV and speaker hardware partners are phasing out Google Cast branding in favor of “Chromecast built-in”
Innovating in the internet-connected TV space is hard. Finding the right way to market this technology to consumers may, however, be even harder.
Experts say election results should be audited to ease lingering doubts about voting systems
After an election marred by hacker intrusions that breached the Democratic National Committee and the email account of one of Hillary Clinton's top staffers, Americans are all too ready to believe …
A digital economy bill headed through UK parliament includes proposal censoring online videos of non-conventional sex acts, matching standards for offline porn
Campaigners label bill targeted at online pornography a ‘prurient’ intervention that will take Britain's censorship regime back to pre-internet era
Chinese online travel firm Ctrip to buy Scotland-based travel search site Skyscanner in $1.74B deal consisting mainly of cash; Ctrip shares up 9.2% after hours
Chinese online travel company Ctrip.com International Ltd (CTRP.O) said on Wednesday it agreed to buy UK-based Skyscanner Holdings Ltd …
Analysis shows Amazon deleted 500K+ reviews, 71% of which were “incentivized”, since changing its guidelines last month
Amazon is making good on its promise to ban “incentivized” reviews from its website, according to a new analysis of over 32,000 products and around 65 million reviews.
Microsoft rolls out a fix for the bug which prevented Outlook syncing on mobile and some apps since last Thursday
Microsoft has been having email issues for just shy of a week. A fix is finally rolling out, but will it tell customers what went wrong? — Microsoft has been having issues …
Strategy Analytics: smartphone profits hit $9B in Q3 2016 as Apple captures 91% share of global profits and Huawei takes second place with 2.4%
Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics :
Amazon quietly acquired video messaging app firm Biba for its patents and employees in 2015; sources say Amazon will announce new video chat service this month
Amazon's purchases of Twitch and Elemental Technologies appear to be only two parts of a bigger strategy at the company …
UK govt to invest £1B in fiber optic broadband by 2021 with hopes it will spur investment in 5G and announces £400M fund for VC firms to help startups scale
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Samsung buys US-based quantum dot display company QD Vision, reportedly for around $70M; QD Vision will become part of Samsung's R&D unit
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Source: Airbnb in talks to buy Chinese home-rental rival Xiaozhu, which says it has 10M active users and over 100K listings in 301 cities across China
Companies said to hold multiple meetings on a combination — Airbnb planning to boost China workers, add more listings
FBI hacked 8K+ computers in 120 countries using a single warrant during child porn sting, according to transcript used in hearing during recent case
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Profile of Vergence Labs, a small LA startup Snap Inc. acquired in 2014 for Spectacles-related tech
Hundreds of people lined up off Venice Beach boardwalk on a sunny November morning to buy Snapchat's Spectacles from a bright yellow vending machine. — It was the first day the $130 camera glasses …...
Google's DeepMind and University of Oxford create lipreading AI that annotated 46.8% of spoken words without error, compared to 12.4% by a professional
Hal Hodson / New Scientist :
Publishers' trade body DCN sends letter to Facebook and Google CEOs calling on the two companies to do more to tackle fake news
Google and Facebook Are Transforming Your World In More Ways Than You Know Lisa Vaas / Naked Security : Fake news still rattling cages, from Facebook to Google to China See also Mediagazer
Report: Microsoft offers to allow rivals access to Outlook add-ins in bid to win EU approval of LinkedIn deal
Tom Warren / The Verge :
How Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by the Trump and Brexit “Leave” campaigns, builds psychological profiles of Facebook users with personality quizzes
McKenzie Funk / New York Times :
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