Day: December 5, 2018

Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019  —  Google has officially announced that it’s shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment.  The news isn’t entirely unsurprising … Google says it will

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Sources: as Uber prepares to resume testing cars in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh, the cars still face issues, raising safety concerns (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: as Uber prepares to resume testing cars in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh, the cars still face issues, raising safety concerns  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company is close to putting … Sources: as Uber prepares to resume

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Austin-based Aceable, which offers online training courses in driver's ed, real estate, and more, raises $47M Series B, bringing total raised to $55.7M (Brent Wistrom/AustinInno)

Brent Wistrom / AustinInno: Austin-based Aceable, which offers online training courses in driver’s ed, real estate, and more, raises $47M Series B, bringing total raised to $55.7M  —  Aceable is graduating to the next level.  The edtech startup’s roots are in Austin, and it secured a big chunk of its initial funding from Austin-based venture

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AT&T says it now supports eSIM on the latest iPhones with the iOS 12.1.1 update, making it the first major US carrier to support Dual SIM on iPhones (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: AT&T says it now supports eSIM on the latest iPhones with the iOS 12.1.1 update, making it the first major US carrier to support Dual SIM on iPhones  —  Apple today officially released iOS 12.1.1 to the public, teasing in the update’s release notes that it includes “eSIM … AT&T says

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OnePlus gets first dibs on the Snapdragon 855 with new phone line

It was just yesterday that Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon 855 processor, but today we learned the first company that will use it: OnePlus. That’ssomething of a surprise. Samsung usually has first dibs, and OnePlus’ tends to release its first phone a bit later in the year. The company’s latest flagship, the OnePlus 6T, was

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Mixer may have found the secret sauce for paying streamers full-time

Mixer, Microsoft’s game streaming service, has always played second fiddle to Twitch. But a new payment paradigm on Mixer might just change that, because Microsoft’s platform has come up with something its rival doesn’t have: it allows streamers to be paid without the viewers themselves having to pony up the dough. Mixer recently introduced “Season

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Apple's Safari Technology Preview 71 supports the WebAuthn protocol, which lets websites authenticate identity with a hardware security key in a USB port (Stephen Shankland/CNET)

Stephen Shankland / CNET: Apple’s Safari Technology Preview 71 supports the WebAuthn protocol, which lets websites authenticate identity with a hardware security key in a USB port  —  Helping us fix the flaws of passwords, Apple has begun testing support for hardware security keys in its Safari web browser. Apple’s Safari Technology Preview 71 supports

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Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on suspicion she violated US trade sanctions against Iran (Globe and Mail)

Globe and Mail: Canada has arrested Huawei’s global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on suspicion she violated US trade sanctions against Iran  —  Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. Canada

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FCC shares broadband speed test data for the first time in two years in appendices of another report, finds some DSL still doesn't get promised "up-to" speeds (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC shares broadband speed test data for the first time in two years in appendices of another report, finds some DSL still doesn’t get promised “up-to” speeds  —  Long-delayed report shows DSL ISPs are still bad at providing advertised speeds.  —  The Federal Communications … FCC shares broadband speed test

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