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    • Udacity says it will lay off 125 employees over the course of 2019 as part of a global restructuring plan and will close its Brazil office, losing 70 staff (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

    Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Udacity says it will lay off 125 employees over the course of 2019 as part of a global restructuring plan and will close its Brazil office, losing 70 staff  —  Online education provider Udacity announced the layoff of 125 employees starting today and over the course of early 2019 as part

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    • T-Mobile quietly launches T-Mobile MONEY, a mobile banking solution with an app available now for Android and iOS; T-Mobile ended a similar offering in 2016 (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

    Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: T-Mobile quietly launches T-Mobile MONEY, a mobile banking solution with an app available now for Android and iOS; T-Mobile ended a similar offering in 2016  —  T-Mobile, the self-titled “Un-Carrier,” is further separating itself from the competition by getting into the booming world of mobile banking with “T-Mobile Money.” T-Mobile quietly

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    • A summary of AWS launches, previews, and pre-announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018 (Jeff Barr/AWS News Blog)

    Jeff Barr / AWS News Blog: A summary of AWS launches, previews, and pre-announcements from AWS re:Invent 2018  —  As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy’s keynote.  I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, as appropriate. A

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    • The Army says Microsoft has won a $480M contract to supply prototypes for AR systems for combat missions and training, may buy up to 100K HoloLens devices (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

    Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: The Army says Microsoft has won a $480M contract to supply prototypes for AR systems for combat missions and training, may buy up to 100K HoloLens devices  —  Microsoft Corp. has won a $480 million contract to supply prototypes for augmented reality systems to the Army for use on combat missions

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    • Dell says it detected hackers "attempting to extract Dell.com customer information", such as customer names, email addresses, and hashed passwords, on Nov. 9 (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Dell says it detected hackers “attempting to extract Dell.com customer information”, such as customer names, email addresses, and hashed passwords, on Nov. 9  —  Company says it detected an intrusion at the start of the month, but financial data was not exposed. Dell says it detected hackers "attempting to extract Dell.com

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    • Box reports Q3 revenue of $155.9M, up 20.6% YoY, vs. $154.6M est., a net loss of $40.2M, down from $42.9M a year ago, 90K+ paying customers, up from 87K in Q2 (Akanksha Rana/Reuters)

    Akanksha Rana / Reuters: Box reports Q3 revenue of $155.9M, up 20.6% YoY, vs. $154.6M est., a net loss of $40.2M, down from $42.9M a year ago, 90K+ paying customers, up from 87K in Q2  —  (Reuters) – Box Inc’s quarterly revenue topped Wall Street estimates on Wednesday and the company reported a smaller-than-expected loss

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    • Amid worries about demand for new iPhone models, Apple's VP of product marketing Greg Joswiak says the XR has outsold XS and XS Max "each and every day" (Shara Tibken/CNET)

    Shara Tibken / CNET: Amid worries about demand for new iPhone models, Apple’s VP of product marketing Greg Joswiak says the XR has outsold XS and XS Max “each and every day”  —  Apple’s iPhone XR has been outselling the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max every day since the cheaper, colorful phone hit the

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