אסף מגידש - בשורה אחת

Google doling out $50 Play Store credits due to Pixel shipping delays (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Google discloses actively exploited Windows vulnerability just 10 days after reporting it to Microsoft (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Study co-authored by MIT professor finds racial and gender discrimination by Uber, Lyft drivers, leading to longer wait times (Eric Newcomer/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Source: this summer Facebook tried to buy Snow, a Snapchat clone from Korean firm Naver, which is also behind chat app Line (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Hacking group Shadow Brokers share what they allege to be hundreds of orgs hacked by NSA with IP addresses of the compromised devices in a post on Medium (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica UK) אסף מגידש

IDC: Q3 tablet shipments down 14.7% YoY to 43M, as low-cost detachables, tablets reach record sales; iPad Air, Mini make up over two thirds of Apple's shipments (IDC) אסף מגידש

Microsoft EVP of Windows and Devices Terry Myerson talks Windows 10 priorities, VR headsets, Surface hardware goals, Windows Mobile, and more (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Apple's apparent disinterest in supporting users with compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications risks alienating developers across all its platforms (Milen Dzhumerov/milen.me) אסף מגידש

Thiel speaks out on defending Trump while not supporting some policies like Muslim ban with religion test, says close business relationships are still intact (Kurt Wagner/Recode) אסף מגידש

Postmates raises $141M in a round led by Founders Fund, at share price same as last round; the company is now valued at about $600M (Eric Newcomer/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

GIF search engine Giphy raises $72M in new funding, now has a valuation of about $600M according to the WSJ, bringing total raised to just short of $151M (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How OPPO became number one smartphone vendor in China and number four worldwide via savvy marketing and sales tactics (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to be generally available November 1 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Clarifai raises $30M from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, and others for its AI-based image and video search API (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Swiss rail's 1,000+ ticket machines to exchange francs for bitcoins in two-year test from Nov. 11 (Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi/Reuters) אסף מגידש

CenturyLink Agrees to Buy Level 3 for $34 Billion in Cash, Stock (Alex Sherman/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court rules that all drone cameras count as surveillance devices and can only be used with special filming permit (Tom Mendelsohn/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Apple TV: the only streaming media device without HDR above $90, and an app lacking integration with Netflix or cable providers, needs a total strategy revamp (Joseph Rosensteel/Unauthoritative ...) אסף מגידש

Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll launch Hype, a live broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos (Kia Kokalitcheva/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Starbreeze, maker of the StarVR headset, says it has acquired Belgian visual effects studio Nozon for about $7.75M (Jamie Feltham/UploadVR) אסף מגידש

Apple says developers should avoid using animation and displaying alerts on the Touch Bar, limiting potential uses (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

LG V20 review: rear cameras with manual controls are great, second screen is practical, but Galaxy S7 Edge is cheaper, waterproof, and has better battery life (Sam Rutherford/Tom's Guide) אסף מגידש

Many publishers say an AMP pageview generates half the revenue of a pageview on their full mobile website due to reliance on standardized banner ad units (Jack Marshall/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Comparing how Twitter and Slack managed their API ecosystems, and why Twitter, which let developers replicate core functionality, stumbled (Jason Costa/GGV Capital) אסף מגידש

Pirate Party Books Election Victory in Iceland (Ernesto/TorrentFreak) אסף מגידש

GoPro Karma drone review: simple controller, easy to fly, comes with a detachable camera mount, but lacks autonomous features like collision avoidance (David Pogue/Yahoo! Finance) אסף מגידש

Study: Wikipedia has moderating influence on its contributors; articles have become increasingly politically neutral in recent years (Jeff Guo/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Giphy announces tool to transfer Vines to Giphy, allowing users to share their Vines as GIFs (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Report: Toyota's investment fund has invested around $10M in car-sharing startup Getaround (Naomi Tajitsu/Reuters) אסף מגידש

How Etsy is Becoming a Services Firm (Alfred Lee/The Information) אסף מגידש

LG's mobile division lost $389M in Q3 on the back of poor G5 sales, its worst quarterly result in five years, reducing LG's overall profit by 61% (David Ruddock/Android Police) אסף מגידש

At least 17 firms have marketed surveillance products to law enforcement agencies and oppressive regimes using Twitter's Firehose data (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Apple's latest Macbook Pros show the company is turning its back on its core customers (Owen Williams/Charged Tech) אסף מגידש

Mozilla announces Project Quantum, an effort to develop a faster browser engine that will power Firefox beginning in 2017 (Stephen Shankland/CNET) אסף מגידש

Sources shed light on how Dubai-based surveillance firm DarkMatter is helping the UAE government track, locate, and hack its citizens (Jenna McLaughlin/The Intercept) אסף מגידש

IBM execs say years of huge investments in Watson, which employs 1K people, are yielding profitable opportunities in markets like healthcare and manufacturing (Steve Lohr/New York Times) אסף מגידש

MacBook Pro is a hybrid system where modified watchOS on ARM-based T1 securely runs Touch Bar, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and more, while Intel x86 CPU handles macOS (Matthew Panzarino/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

ProPublica's report on Facebook's "ethnic affinity" ad targeting explored the potential for abuse, but was misleading and failed to show actual abuse (Danny Sullivan/Marketing Land) אסף מגידש

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg accuses Wix of copying WordPress for its mobile app, skirting GPL requirements of attribution and public release of code (Matt Mullenweg) אסף מגידש

Premium Wi-Fi chip designer Quantenna Communications raises $107M in an IPO, closes down 3% on a first day of trading valuing company at about $508M (Cromwell Schubarth/Silicon Valley ...) אסף מגידש

Blackline up almost 40% on a first day of trading after raising $146M in an IPO (Katie Roof/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Vine struggled to monetize and compete with Instagram and Snapchat amid executive churn, while failing to find strategic benefits for Twitter (Casey Newton/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Facebook launches election tool with information on national, state, and local candidates and issues, lets voters choose to share choices for specific races (Facebook) אסף מגידש

Heads of EU country data protection authorities, Article 29 Working Party, ask Facebook to stop using WhatsApp data (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Facebook lets advertisers exclude black, Hispanic, and other "ethnic affinities" from seeing ads; Facebook says "ethnic affinity" isn't the same as race (ProPublica) אסף מגידש

Comma.ai cancels Comma One after receiving NHTSA letter asking for detailed information about the $1K self-driving kit (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

AMD details the specs of Radeon Pro 450, 455, and 460 graphics cards used in 15" MacBook Pro (Mark Walton/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Amazon launches Prime in China for $57 a year with free shipping for international orders above $30 (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

UK employment tribunal rules Uber drivers are workers and are entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks, and National Living Wage (BBC) אסף מגידש

Facebook starts testing Snapchat-style camera effects, ephemeral private photo sharing from main app in Ireland (Nick Statt/The Verge) אסף מגידש