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Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K and HD models, with support for other devices and models coming soon (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K and HD models, with support for other devices and models coming soon  —  Apple today released the Apple TV app for Amazon TV devices, starting with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the older

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TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton asked U.S. intelligence officials on Wednesday to probe TikTok, expressing fears that the Chinese-owned social-networking app poses “national security risks.” TikTok raises national security concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton ask for federal review Source: Washington Post Tech

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Switzerland-based Coople, an on-demand jobs platform connecting companies with job seekers, raises $32M Series C led by One Peak Partners (Annie Musgrove/Tech.eu)

Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: Switzerland-based Coople, an on-demand jobs platform connecting companies with job seekers, raises $32M Series C led by One Peak Partners  —  Coople, the largest European platform for on-demand hiring, has raised a $32 million Series C round led by One Peak Partners and the growth equity arm of Goldman Sachs Merchant

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Hubble Finds Medusa in the Sky

The Medusa merger, was not always one entity, but two. An early galaxy consumed a smaller gas-rich system, throwing out streams of stars and dust into space. These streams resemble the writhing snakes that Medusa, a monster in ancient Greek mythology, famously had on her head in place of hair, lending the object its intriguing

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Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY; stock down ~20% in pre-market trading (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY; stock down ~20% in pre-market trading  —  Twitter today reported its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and the numbers delivered a big surprise, falling on both sales and

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Scientists are trying to build a conscious machine — here’s why it will never work

Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain functions are properly understood, it should be possible to program them into a computer. Microsoft recently announced that it would spend

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Zuckerberg tells Congress he’ll delay Libra until regulatory issues are sorted (yeah right)

Facebook‘s billionaire co-founder Mark Zuckerberg stood before US Congress yesterday, in an attempt to change the rhetoric around his company‘s controversial ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra. During the lengthy session, Zuckerberg sought to defend the digital currency, which has faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and regulators, and suffered several blows after some of its high profile partners withdrew their support from

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