Day: December 5, 2018

Russian search giant Yandex launches Yandex.Phone, its first smartphone, with 5.65-inch display, 4GB RAM, Android, and Snapdragon 630 for ~$270 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Russian search giant Yandex launches Yandex.Phone, its first smartphone, with 5.65-inch display, 4GB RAM, Android, and Snapdragon 630 for ~$270  —  Yandex, the internet titan often referred to as the Google of Russia, has launched its first smartphone.  —  Yandex.Phone, as the device is called … Russian search giant Yandex launches

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Many Uses For A Single Button

When building projects with a simple goal in mind, it’s not unheard of for us to add more and more switches, buttons, and complexity as the project goes through its initial prototyping stages. Feature creep like this tends to result in a tangled mess rather than a usable project. With enough focus, though, it’s possible

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Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda raises €25M Series A from Highland Europe to fund international expansion across US, Europe, and Asia (Andrii Degeler/Tech.eu)

Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda raises €25M Series A from Highland Europe to fund international expansion across US, Europe, and Asia  —  Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda has raised its first funding round of €25 million from Highland Europe. Berlin-based workflow automation startup Camunda raises €25M Series A from Highland Europe

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Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine (Colin Lecher/The Verge)

Colin Lecher / The Verge: Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine  —  The UK Parliament today released a 250-page cache of previously sealed Facebook documents, revealing internal deliberations … Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data

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Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch  —  There are already a number of AirPods alternatives on the market – but noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes we’re about to get more.

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UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)

Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook  —  – Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee  — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.  —  Internal emails at Facebook Inc. … UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal

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Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update  —  A dark mode is coming in a future update  —  Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today. Microsoft

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Cryptocurrency scammers dupe Singaporeans out of $78,000 in under 3 months

Singaporeans have lost $78,000 to cryptocurrency investment scams in the last three months, after authorities uncovered a wave of fraudulent marketing campaigns. Cryptocurrency con-artists have duped citizens with phony articles featuring well-known Singaporean personalities to garner credibility, local media reports. The advertisements falsely claim local celebrities earned huge returns on their Bitcoin investments made with

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Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users' data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers

A key British lawmaker alleged Wednesday that Facebook maintained “whitelisting agreements” that gave select companies preferential access to valuable data on users without their consent, echoing a key claim from an app developer’s lawsuit. Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users' data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers Source: Washington Post

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Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Alphabet’s Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019  —  Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe. Alphabet's Wing business

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