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- Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link, at least the hardware part a day ago – Valve has quietly updated the Steam page for the Steam Link. The message says that Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link. The device will become unavailable once all units have been sold. When Valve introduced the Steam Link in 2015, your TV setup was completely different. Google, Amazon and Appl...
- On Black Friday, you’ll be able to watch the entire ‘Lego Movie’ in a YouTube ad a day ago – On Black Friday, YouTube says it’s teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to allow viewers to watch “The Lego Movie” for free as part of a promotion for the upcoming sequel. YouTube recently (and quietly) began making certain movies like “Rocky,” “The Terminator” and “Legally Blonde” available for...
- Cloud communications platform Agora closes $70M Series C to create new developer tools a day ago – Agora, a developer of cloud communication APIs, will create products for new markets and verticals after raising a $70 million Series C led by Coatue Management. Existing investors SIG, Morningside Capital and Shunwei Capital also returned for the round, which brings Agora’s total funding so far ...
- Apple’s holiday ad is an animated short film a day ago – Apple always has an interesting ad for the holiday season. This time, it’s a cute little animated short film. It feels like a hybrid between a Pixar movie and a Wes Anderson creation. Named “Share Your Gifts,” the ad focuses on a dreamy teenager who spends a lot of time on her MacBook. She regula...
- How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good a day ago – A ruling in late October against a little-known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month is causing ripples of excitement to run through privacy watchers in Europe who believe it signals the beginning of the end for creepy online ads. The excite...
- WTF is happening to crypto? a day ago – Four days ago the crypto markets were crashing hard. Now they’re crashing harder. Bitcoin, which hasn’t fallen past $6,000 for months, has dumped to $4,413.99 as of this morning, and nearly everything else is falling in unison. Ethereum, flying high at $700 a few months ago, is at $140. Coinbase,...
- Walmart in China is now testing same-day grocery delivery from Dada via WeChat 17 hours ago – Walmart has just begun testing same-day grocery delivery, called Walmart To Go, in one of its stores in China, months after the American retail titan expanded grocery delivery in its homeland. The service is accessed through a mini-program within WeChat — the Tencent-owned messaging platform Walm...
- Internal Facebook memo sees outgoing VP of comms Schrage take blame for hiring Definers 20 hours ago – TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo published by Facebook’s outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiring PR firm Definers. He admits to having the company push negative narratives about competitors, but says Facebook did not ask or pay Definers to publi...
- Zuckerberg won’t step down as Facebook chairman 20 hours ago – In a short but amply hyped interview with CNN, Facebook’s founder and chief executive again responded to criticism over the company’s most recent crisis. The interview, excerpted from a longer Q&A for a CNN series called “Human Code,” hit most of the main questions that critics have raised ab...
- Affetto is the wild-boy-head robot of your nightmares 6 hours ago – Affetto is a robot that can smile at you while it pierces your soul with its endless, dead state. Created by researchers at Osaka University, this crazy baby-head robot can mimic human emotions by scrunching up its nose, smiling and even closing its eyes and frowning. Put it all together and you ...
- Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details 6 hours ago – Amazon’s renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves. Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses after a “technical error” on its website. When reached ...
- CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive 7 hours ago – Machine learning is everywhere now, including recruiting. Take CV Compiler, a new product by Andrew Stetsenko and Alexandra Dosii. This web app uses machine learning to analyze and repair your technical resume, allowing you to shine to recruiters at Google, Yahoo and Facebook. The founders are ma...
- They’re making a real HAL 9000, and it’s called CASE an hour ago – Don't panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, have taken the right lessons from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and their AI won't kill us all and/or expose us to alien artifacts so we enter a state of cosm...
- LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting an hour ago – A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections. LinkedIn just quietly introduced a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking other users from exporting your email address. Tha...
- Facebook is still facing ‘intermittent’ outages for advertisers ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2 hours ago – One day after experiencing a massive outage across its ad network, Facebook, one of the most important online advertising platforms, is still seeing “intermittent” issues for its ad products at one of the most critical times of the year for advertisers. According to a spokesperson for the company...
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- The FCC’s plan to fight spam texts could give phone companies more power over messaging a day ago – The FCC unveiled two proposals today to battle the scourge of phone spam, although at least one of those moves is likely to be controversial. In its announcement, the agency said it plans to formally classify text messaging as an information service, a legal distinction it said will be key to ba...
- Google Assistant just got much better and more convenient on iOS thanks to Siri Shortcuts 21 hours ago – Google is doing everything it can to make Assistant feel less like a second-class citizen on iOS. Siri is so ingrained in Apple’s platform that competing virtual assistants can’t quite match its convenience or the speed of accessing it, but Google is taking advantage of every tool at its disposal...
- No Man’s Sky’s new update makes its sci-fi worlds even more alien 8 hours ago – The updates for No Man’s Sky keep on coming. Just a few weeks after the underwater-themed “abyss” expansion, developer Hello Games is expanding its sci-fi universe once again with a new update called “visions.” It’s focused primarily on adding more variety to the spaces you’ll visit, and especial...
- A majority of Americans don’t think social networks are good for the world 11 hours ago – Programming note: The Interface will be off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving travels. Thanks to everyone who has joined me for this first year, and shared the newsletter with your friends — lots of exciting things are coming. Stay tuned. Thanksgiving is nearly upon us in the United States, a...
- Twitch is streaming a Pokémon marathon on Thanksgiving 5 hours ago – Twitch is offering a break from holiday madness and too much family time with a Pokémon marathon that kicks off on Thanksgiving. The platform is airing the first five seasons of the animated show, starting at 1PM ET on November 22nd. The marathon will continue until 8PM ET on December 3rd. The m...
- Scientists fly through plumes of wildfire smoke to unravel its mysteries an hour ago – Wildfire smoke hung in a hazy heavy cloud over parts of California this month, but it won’t stay for much longer. Rain is in the forecast, which could bring some relief from the poor air quality that’s blanketed parts of the state. But what happens to smoke after it is lofted into the air and sta...
- 2 hours ago – Instagram announced on its press site today that the company is testing out new user profile layouts. “Over the next several weeks, you may see features re-arranged at the top of your profile including changes to icons, buttons and the way you navigate between tabs,” the blog post explains. Your ...
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