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Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M (Business Insider)

Business Insider: Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with Leap Motion, beginning in 2013 and most recently in spring 2018, when Apple made an offer between $30M-$50M  —  – Apple has offered to buy augmented reality startup Leap Motion multiple times, most recently in the spring of 2018. Sources: Apple held multiple acquisition talks with

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Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review: supports all important formats, remote is more powerful, fast and excellent stream quality, but Alexa is limited in some apps  —  Amazon’s latest streaming player supports all the important formats and costs just $50  —  When shoppers look for a streaming player … Amazon

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A look at how Jupyter, an open source, interactive, web-based computational notebook, has emerged as a de facto standard among data scientists (Jeffrey M. Perkel/Nature)

Jeffrey M. Perkel / Nature: A look at how Jupyter, an open source, interactive, web-based computational notebook, has emerged as a de facto standard among data scientists  —  An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.  —  Search for this author in:  — Share via E-Mail A look

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Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an "international grand committee" of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27  —  Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them. Mark

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A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities (Parmy Olson/Forbes)

Parmy Olson / Forbes: A look at how Facebook failed to develop its own voice recognition technology for Portal, source says due to chaotic rotation of staff and confused priorities  —  Facebook’s Portal looked like a slick alternative to the Amazon Echo speaker when it launched earlier this month, but problems abounded behind the scenes.

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