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Volvo integrates Skype for Business in its 90 series vehicles (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Cloud Imperium Games announces Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will use Amazon's Lumberyard game engine (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Tencent: WeChat had 768M daily active users in September, up 35% YoY (Cyrus Lee/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

FBI-DHS report fails to make a hard case that Russia tampered with US elections, likely because the agencies want to protect methods for detecting hacks (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Uber and Lyft respond to Senator Al Franken's questions about discrimination by drivers, defend use of riders' real names and pictures in profiles (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Source: Facebook is working on a system to find and remove videos with copyrighted music, is in preliminary licensing talks with major record labels (Dan Rys/Billboard) אסף מגידש

AWS's subscription email service WorkMail adds support for IMAP clients, like Apple Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird (Jordan Novet/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Meizu licences Qualcomm's patents, settles lawsuits in China, Germany, France, and US (Ian King/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Ideas to fix Twitter: show you can ship new features, handle abuse transparently, revamp metrics, understand different user types, and embrace developers (Anil Dash) אסף מגידש

Jack Dorsey says Twitter is "thinking a lot" about an edit-tweet button, also considering bookmarks, better threading, and multiple interest-based timelines (Kurt Wagner/Recode) אסף מגידש

Facebook buys detailed information from commercial data brokers about users' offline lives, but does not disclose it since it is widely available (ProPublica) אסף מגידש

FBI-DHS joint report links two Russian intelligence hacking groups to hacks of Democratic Party organizations; experts say report is too little too late (Sam Thielman/The Guardian) אסף מגידש

After a slow 2016 in which both startup investment and IPOs fell, VCs are preparing for a busier 2017, as Snap Inc. and more plan to go public (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) אסף מגידש

A look at the vulnerability of the nuclear command-and-control system, which uses a "launch on warning" strategy endangered by obsolete hardware and software (Eric Schlosser/New Yorker) אסף מגידש

Language learning app Duolingo adds an optional social component, called Duolingo Language Clubs, with a news feed and competitions (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

White House announces sanctions and ejection of Russian intelligence operatives in response to political hacking (David E. Sanger/New York Times) אסף מגידש

How Russia has bolstered its cyberwarfare capabilities in recent years by working with outside firms and recruiting convicted hackers, scientists, college grads (Andrew E. Kramer/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Sources: Snap Inc.'s IPO roadshow will compare the company to Facebook rather than Twitter and will feature CEO Evan Spiegel prominently as a product visionary (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

HERE and Mobileye partner to create mapping services that can be used in self-driving cars, which require high-definition mapping data for navigation (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How China built "iPhone City", the world's biggest iPhone factory, in Zhengzhou, with billions in perks, tax breaks, and subsidies to Foxconn (David Barboza/New York Times) אסף מגידש

China's Great Firewall has fostered strong local firms, making it nearly impossible for US tech giants to succeed there, even if they comply with gov't rules (Emily Rauhala/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Amazon announces "Amazon Digital Day", a sales holiday on December 30 with 1K+ digital deals on subscriptions, TV shows, music, movies, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Singapore will add iris scans as identifier for citizens and permanent residents starting January 1 (Eileen Yu/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

App performance management software maker AppDynamics files for IPO, seeks to raise $100M; firm lost $95M on $158M revenue in nine months before Oct. 31 (Jordan Novet/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Twitter introduces live 360-degree videos on Periscope and Twitter from select partners (Alessandro Sabatelli/The Twitter Blog) אסף מגידש

Ford debuts upgraded self-driving car with extra compute power, better vision despite now having two LiDAR sensors; plans to triple fleet to 90 vehicles in 2017 (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

FDA publishes new cybersecurity guidelines for securing medical devices, but the recommendations lack enforceability (Rachel Becker/The Verge) אסף מגידש

As the list of SV startup scandals grows, entrepreneurs' "fake it till you make it" ethos garners continued scrutiny from reporters, while investors defend bets (Erin Griffith/Fortune) אסף מגידש

VW to buy mobile payments company PayByPhone, which allows people to pay for parking by apps, calls, or texts, and handles $300M in transactions annually (John D. Stoll/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Zalando and Amazon fight over $42B European online shoe and apparel market, with Zalando investing heavily in logistics while Amazon is wooing fashion brands (Aaron Ricadela/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Lenovo updates Thinkpad lineup with Microsoft Precision TouchPad drivers, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Intel Optane SSD support; unveils Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks (Brett Howse/AnandTech) אסף מגידש

South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $850M+, says company abused dominant market position (Se Young Lee/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Chinese consortium buys 49% of British data center operator Global Switch for £2.4B, prompting security concerns among UK's politicians (Sebastian Moss/DatacenterDynamics) אסף מגידש

44% of smartphone, tablet activations during week leading up to Christmas were iOS, down 5% YoY, 21% were Samsung devices; Pixel, Pixel XL not among top sellers (Flurry Blog) אסף מגידש

Three Chinese citizens charged in US for computer intrusion, insider trading, and more, after allegedly trading on info obtained by hacking a law firm (Kevin McCoy/USA Today) אסף מגידש

Obama urges the end of the "dual hat" arrangement where US Cyber Command and NSA are led by the same person (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

T-Mobile rolls out update to Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones that prevents battery from charging, becoming the first major US carrier to do so (John Callaham/Android Authority) אסף מגידש

Rent the Runway raises $60M Series E led by Fidelity, says this year was profitable as revenue grew to $100M+ (Jason Del Rey/Recode) אסף מגידש

Report: police sought Echo data with warrant in murder case; Amazon declined to share the data Echo logged on servers but did provide suspect's account details (Billy Steele/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour (Natt Garun/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Despite efforts, the diversity of Wikipedia's overwhelmingly white and male editorial pool has been slow to improve (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

HandBrake 1.0.0, an open source cross-platform video transcoder, released after 13+ years of development (Martin Brinkmann/gHacks Technology News) אסף מגידש

Inside Snopes' increasingly prominent fact-checking operation, which added 12 staffers a couple years ago and saw a record ~2.5M uniques the day after election (David Streitfeld/New York Times) אסף מגידש

World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, is building an algorithmic model to recreate founder's staff-management style, led by ex-IBM Watson's David Ferrucci (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Canon Tokki has near monopoly on machines making OLED screens and a 2-year order backlog, raising questions over supply of OLED screens for next year's iPhones (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research (Aaron Tilley/Forbes) אסף מגידש

CB Insights report: top 5 companies most likely to have an IPO in 2017 are Qualtrics, Blue Apron, Zuora, Okta, and Pluralsight, among 369 firms in pipeline (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

China's "Uber for trucks" Huochebang raises $115M at $1B valuation from Tencent, others (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש