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Arbtr wants to create an anti-feed where users can only share one thing at a time – TechCrunch
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Arbtr wants to create an anti-feed where users can only share one thing at a time – TechCrunch

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At a time when the models of traditional social networks are being questioned, it’s more important than ever to experiment with alternatives. Arbtr is a proposed social network that limits users to sharing a single thing at any given time, encouraging “ruthless self-editing” and avoiding “nasty things” like endless feeds filled with trivial garbage. It’s...
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Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes – TechCrunch
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Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes – TechCrunch

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At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the possibility of “on-demand knitting.” Think 3D printing, but softer. The idea is actually quite compelling for those of us who are picky about their knitwear....
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Funerals begin for Palestinians killed by Israel army on Land Day | Israeli–Palestinian conflict News
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Funerals begin for Palestinians killed by Israel army on Land Day | Israeli–Palestinian conflict News

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Funerals have begun for the 17 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza’s border with Israel to mark the 42nd anniversary of Land Day.  Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip held the funeral for 30-year-old Sari Abu Odeh late on Friday. He was shot dead earlier in the day after Israeli forces fired live ammunition...
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Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US
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Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US

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A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 and possibly compromising personal details of over 100 million users, has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, of Moscow was arrested in Prague on October 5, 2016, by Interpol agents...
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Friday

Chinese police foil drone-flying phone smugglers at Hong Kong border – TechCrunch
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Chinese police foil drone-flying phone smugglers at Hong Kong border – TechCrunch

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Dozens of high-tech phone smugglers have been apprehended by Chinese police, who twigged to the scheme to send refurbished iPhones into the country from Hong Kong via drone — but not the way you might think. China’s Legal Daily reported the news (and Reuters noted shortly after) following a police press conference; it’s apparently the first cross-border...
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Japan Display to Raise $517 Million to Supply Apple With LCDs for 2018 Low-Cost iPhone
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Japan Display to Raise $517 Million to Supply Apple With LCDs for 2018 Low-Cost iPhone

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Japan Display is planning to raise $517 million through third-party share allocations and asset sales so it will have the funds to supply LCD screens for new iPhones, reports Nikkei. Last year, Japan Display lost business because of Apple’s shift to OLED, so the company sought partnerships to begin producing OLED displays, but with Apple planning to...
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Clipisode launches a ‘talk show in a box’ – TechCrunch
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Clipisode launches a ‘talk show in a box’ – TechCrunch

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A company called Clipisode is today launching a new service that’s essentially a “talk show in a box,” as founder Brian Alvey describes it. Similar to how Anchor now allows anyone to build a professional podcast using simple mobile and web tools, Clipisode does this for video content. With Clipisode, you can record a video that can be shared across...
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Google’s on-by-default ‘Articles for You’ leverage browser dominance for 2,100 percent growth – TechCrunch
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Google’s on-by-default ‘Articles for You’ leverage browser dominance for 2,100 percent growth – TechCrunch

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When you’ve got leverage, don’t be afraid to use it. That’s been Google’s modus operandi in the news and publishing world over the last year or so as it has pushed its AMP platform, funding various news-related ventures that may put it ahead, and nourished its personalized Chrome tabs on mobile. The latter, as Nieman Labs notes, grew 2,100 percent...
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Griffin’s PowerBlock Wireless Charging Pad Now Available for Purchase
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Griffin’s PowerBlock Wireless Charging Pad Now Available for Purchase

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Griffin has a new wireless charging accessory available for purchase as of today, the Griffin PowerBlock Wireless Charging Pad. Designed for the iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and Android devices that support wireless charging, the PowerBlock Wireless Charging Pad offers up to 15W of charging power. Griffin says Qi-enabled devices will charge faster...
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Huawei says it’s still committed to the U.S., in spite of, well, everything – TechCrunch
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Huawei says it’s still committed to the U.S., in spite of, well, everything – TechCrunch

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A funny thing happened the last couple of times I was briefed on a Huawei flagship product: news was breaking about some major roadblock for the company’s U.S. distribution plans. First it was AT&T backing out in the midst of CES and then it was Best Buy’s decision to drop the company just ahead of the big P20 launch (though a rep for...
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At least 15 Palestinians killed in Land Day protests | Israeli–Palestinian conflict News
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At least 15 Palestinians killed in Land Day protests | Israeli–Palestinian conflict News

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At least 15 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,400 others wounded by Israeli forces as thousands marched near Gaza’s border with Israel in a major demonstration marking the 42nd anniversary of Land Day.  Mohammed Najjar, 25, was shot in the stomach in a clash east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, while Mahmoud Muammar, 38, and...
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The SteelSeries Arctis Pro lineup is a new high-water mark in comfort and quality – TechCrunch
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The SteelSeries Arctis Pro lineup is a new high-water mark in comfort and quality – TechCrunch

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SteelSeries has two new Arctis Pro gaming headsets out, and they pack a lot of tech and versatility into a comfortable, visually attractive package. The SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless and Arctis Pro + GameDAC are both incredibly capable headsets that deliver terrific sound, and depending on your system needs, should probably be your first choice...
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China Catches Smugglers Using Drones to Transport $80M Worth of iPhones From Hong Kong to Mainland
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China Catches Smugglers Using Drones to Transport $80M Worth of iPhones From Hong Kong to Mainland

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A group of criminals in China were caught smuggling 500 million yuan ($79.8 million) worth of refurbished iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, using drones connected via cables to transport the smartphones. Reported by the Legal Daily (via Reuters), customs officers in Shenzhen caught the group and ceased its illegal actions, arresting 26 total suspects...
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MacOS finally gains external GPU support – TechCrunch
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MacOS finally gains external GPU support – TechCrunch

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The latest update to macOS provides support for external graphics card. Apple announced this would hit the OS last June at WWDC and now it’s finally here. The update allows Mac users to increase the graphical processing power through an external graphics card connected through Thunderbolt 3. Perviously users had to buy an eGPU dev kit from Apple...
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Twitter Introduces Easier Method for Sharing Specific Clips From Live Videos
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Twitter Introduces Easier Method for Sharing Specific Clips From Live Videos

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Twitter this week updated its iOS and Android apps with a new feature called “Timestamps,” which the company said will make it easier to share brief moments from longer live videos. Previously, Twitter users had to direct their followers to specific time codes in a live video so that people knew which moment they were referring to. The Timestamps update...
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How to Get Your Mac’s Dock to Show Running Apps Only
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How to Get Your Mac’s Dock to Show Running Apps Only

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Last week we explained how you can use a simple Terminal command to insert spaces in your macOS Dock and visibly group together app icons. In this article, we’re going to highlight another simple Terminal hack that turns the Dock into more of a straightforward app switcher by making it display only apps that are currently running on your Mac. Seeing...
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Thursday

Tim Cook hits Facebook again over privacy concerns – TechCrunch
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Tim Cook hits Facebook again over privacy concerns – TechCrunch

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Tim Cook took a break from criticizing Facebook on Tuesday to present the next step in Apple’s big education plans. But the CEO is back at it. Sitting down with MSNBC and Recode at a town hall event, Cook was once again asked about consumer privacy in the wake of fallout over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica quagmire. Cook interviews that while...
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FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network – TechCrunch
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FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network – TechCrunch

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SpaceX has a green light from the FCC to launch a network of thousands of satellites blanketing the globe with broadband. And you won’t have too long to wait — on a cosmic scale, anyway. Part of the agreement is that SpaceX launch half of its proposed 4,425 satellites within six years. The approval of SpaceX’s application was not seriously in doubt...
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Apple Releases iTunes 12.7.4 With New Music Video Features for Apple Music
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Apple Releases iTunes 12.7.4 With New Music Video Features for Apple Music

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Apple today released an updated version of iTunes, iTunes 12.7.4, which introduces a new music video experience for Apple Music. A music video section lets users discover new and popular music videos in the Browse section of Apple Music, and there’s an option to create Apple Music playlists for videos. Apple’s full release notes for iTunes 12.7.4 are...
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Instagram reenables GIF sharing after GIPHY promises no more racism – TechCrunch
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Instagram reenables GIF sharing after GIPHY promises no more racism – TechCrunch

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A racial slur GIF slipped into GIPHY’s sticker library earlier this month, prompting Instagram and Snapchat to drop their GIPHY integrations. Now Instagram is reactivating after GIPHY confirmed its reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Snapchat said it had nothing to share right now about whether it’s...
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Apple releases iOS 11.3 with new Animojis – TechCrunch
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Apple releases iOS 11.3 with new Animojis – TechCrunch

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Apple just released an iOS update for your iPhone and iPad. 11.3 introduces a ton of bug fixes but also a bunch of new features. If you forgot about Animjois, today is your lucky day as Apple is adding four new Animojis — a dragon, a bear, a lion and a skull. But that’s not all. Apple already shared a preview of iOS 11.3 a couple of months ago. There’s...
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Google Play audiobooks get Smart Resume, bookmarks and Assistant routines support – TechCrunch
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Google Play Audiobooks is getting a major update today that adds a number of new features to the service that were sorely missing when it launched earlier this year. None of these are groundbreaking, but they’ll help Google reach feature parity with some of its competitors while injecting a bit of its proprietary smarts into the process, too. Maybe...
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Venezuelan prison fire leaves nearly 70 people dead | Venezuela News
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Venezuelan prison fire leaves nearly 70 people dead | Venezuela News

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Anguished relatives of at least 68 people killed in a riot and fire in the cells of a police station jail in the Venezuelan city of Valencia have gathered outside to demand explanations.  A fire reportedly broke out at the detention centre after inmate began setting mattresses alight in an attempted jailbreak early on Wednesday morning, local...
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Microsoft’s Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure
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Microsoft’s Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure

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Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to the operating system’s kernel memory. For those unaware, Spectre and Meltdown were security flaws disclosed by researchers earlier this year in processors...
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Apple Releases New 11.3 Software for the HomePod
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Apple Releases New 11.3 Software for the HomePod

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Alongside iOS 11.3, watchOS 4.3, and tvOS 11.3, Apple today released a new 11.3 software update designed for the HomePod. This marks the first software update that’s been released for the HomePod since it became available for purchase in February. The new HomePod software will be installed automatically on the HomePod after you update to iOS 11.3,...
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ARKit-Only Apps Exceed 13M Global Downloads Since Launch as Games Remain Most Popular Category
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ARKit-Only Apps Exceed 13M Global Downloads Since Launch as Games Remain Most Popular Category

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Since ARKit debuted within iOS 11 on September 19 last year, iPhone and iPad owners worldwide have downloaded and installed more than 13 million ARKit-only apps. The data comes from Sensor Tower, which broke down the most popular categories of augmented reality apps fueled by ARKit, the top 10 free and paid apps, highest grossing apps, and more. Games...
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Apple macOS Bug Reveals Passwords for APFS Encrypted Volumes in Plaintext
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Apple macOS Bug Reveals Passwords for APFS Encrypted Volumes in Plaintext

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A severe programming bug has been found in APFS file system for macOS High Sierra operating system that exposes passwords of encrypted external drives in plain text. Introduced two years ago, APFS (Apple File System) is an optimized file system for flash and SSD-based storage solutions running MacOS, iOS, tvOS or WatchOS, and promises strong encryption...
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