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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland (Steve Satterfield/About Facebook)

{$inline_image} Steve Satterfield / About Facebook: Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland  —  At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. Facebook unveils photo transfer tool,

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    • Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them (Times of India)

    Times of India: Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them  —  NOIDA: A bogus call centre was shut down and 45 people employed there arrested on Thursday but the investigation will go far beyond the two

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    Building a Faux Retro Portable Computer

    The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late 1980s, when shrinking computer hardware and improvements to battery technology finally made mobile computing practical. Years before the now iconic clamshell form factor became the standard, these so-called “portable computers” often resembled pieces of luggage with keyboards attached. Even at their peak these machines

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    • Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why "slow media" curated by humans should replace today's social media (Annalee Newitz/New York Times)

    Annalee Newitz / New York Times: Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today’s social media  —  My quest to imagine a different reality. Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why "slow media" curated by humans

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    • Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends (Lesley Stahl/CBS News)

    Lesley Stahl / CBS News: Susan Wojcicki on YouTube’s stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends  —  YouTube’s mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site’s open platform has opened the door to hate. Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on

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    • Inside the shady world of upstart Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges like MXC, whose pump and dump schemes may have prompted China's latest crypto crackdown (Shuyao Kong/Decrypt)

    Shuyao Kong / Decrypt: Inside the shady world of upstart Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges like MXC, whose pump and dump schemes may have prompted China’s latest crypto crackdown  —  The recent hardline stance on crypto seems to signal “blockchain not bitcoin.”  That’s wrong.  Here’s why China is cracking down on some exchanges—but not all of them.

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    Hackaday Links: December 1, 2019

    We can recall a book from our youth that cataloged some of the most interesting airplanes in the world. One particularly interesting beast was dubbed “The Super Guppy”, a hilariously distended cargo plane purpose-built for ferrying Saturn rocket sections around the US in the 1960s. We though the Guppies were long gone, victims like so

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