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Vlad Savov / The Verge : Google's Pixel Slate shows that tablets need an optimized OS because using Android apps designed for phones on a Chrome OS meant for laptops is a buggy mess   —  Like almost every company that's ever tried to build a tablet  —  What is a tablet?  What is a tablet supposed to be and do? from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2zByWjh

A technique used to study earthquakes have been adapted to track elephants in the wild. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2SkBWre

The classic film will be broadcast in super-high definition 8K on a new TV channel in Japan. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2SkYnwj

Sam Gyimah says a row about the EU's Galileo sat-nav system shows any deal will be "EU first". from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2U2kfyo

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Sources: EU's antitrust regulators sent questionnaires to Google rivals last month, asking for details on Google's practices and impact on competing services   —  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have asked Google's rivals if the internet search giant unfairly demotes local search competitors … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2G3ffGX

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google : Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020   —  According to source familiar with the product's internal roadmap, Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020.  That's not entirely unsurprising since Google essentially ceased development on the app more than a year ago. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2BInnrQ

Melia Russell / San Francisco Chronicle : DHS proposes H-1B visa rule changes that would prioritize workers with US advanced degrees and make it harder for outsourcers to hire cheaper staff from abroad   —  Stacked shipments of H-1B visa petitions outside a government processing center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., April 3, 2017. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2rdcaJU

E Ink — a name synonymous with e-reader screens — just debuted a new writing Display technology called JustWrite. The tech offers the company’s familiar monochrome aesthetic — albeit in negative this time, with white on black. The key here, as with most of E Ink’s technology is minimal power consumption and low cost, the latter of which it was able to accomplish by dumping the TFT (thin-film-transistor LCD). Instead, it’s a thin roll that could be used to paper surfaces like conference rooms and schools, in order to let people write on the walls using a stylus with practically no latency, as evidenced in the below GIF.  “The JustWrite film features one of E Ink’s proprietary electronic inks and offers similar benefits as E Ink’s other product lines: a paper-like experience with a good contrast and reflective display without a backlight,” the company writes. “The JustWrite film is an all plastic display, making it extremely durable and lightweight, ...

Facebook hasn’t had a hit show yet for its long-form video hub Watch, so it’s got a new plan: digging up some deceased cult favorites from television. First up, Facebook is making all episodes of Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly free on Facebook Watch. There’ll be simultaneous viewing Watch Parties where fans can live comment together for Buffy  at 3 pm PT today,  Angel  tomorrow at 12 pm PT, and Firefly on sunday at 12pm PT. Facebook recruited Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar to promote the launch. These shows aren’t original, and they’re far from exclusive since they’re included in a Hulu subscription and are available to rent or buy on other platforms. But at least they’re not run-of-the-mill web content.Wwith Facebook’s remake of MTV’s Real World not arriving until Spring 2019, these sci-fi and horror shows are the most high-profile programs available on the free ad-supported streaming service. The hope is that fans of these shows will c...

Martin Coulter / Financial Times : Venafi, which protects machine identities like cryptographic keys and digital certificates to minimize harm after a network is breached, raises $100M   —  A start-up specialising in “machine identity protection” has secured $100m in its latest round of financing, led by Silicon Valley-based … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Qr4zWj

Black Friday broke records  in terms of sales made from mobile devices , according to reports last week from Adobe. This week, PayPal said it saw a similar trend during the Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday shopping event. PayPal saw a record-breaking $1 billion+ in mobile payment volume for the first time ever on Black Friday – a milestone it hit again on Cyber Monday. Mobile payment volume on Black Friday was up 42 percent over Black Friday 2017, the company said, and it even outpaced the mobile payment volume on Cyber Monday this year. However, Cyber Monday saw more total payment volume, likely because much of the shopping that takes place that day comes from office workers back at their desktops, wrapping up a few more purchases. Worldwide, mobile payment volume from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday accounted for a significant 43 percent of PayPal’s total payment volume. Between those days, PayPal was processing more than $25,000 per second, with more than $11,000 per second process...

Meet Cimon. The 3D printed floating robot head was developed by Airbus for the German Space Agency. He’s been a crew member of the International Space Station since June, though as Gizmodo notes , this is the first time we’re seeing him in action. Really the floating, Watson-powered robot face is like an extremely expensive Amazon Echo designed to study human-machine interactions in space. This video highlights an early interaction between Cimon and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst. Gerst requests his “favorite song,” leading Cimon to play Kraftwerk’s “Man Machine,” only to shaken by the astronaut, who then demands the robot shoot some video. Once again Cimon complies, though this time he’s clearly a bit annoyed that the music has stopped. Kind of a rough first encounter for the two new coworkers. “Happy with his initial outing, both Cimon’s developers and Alexander hope to see Cimon back in action again soon,” the ESA says. “While no further sessions are planned dur...

Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat : Apple approves Indian telecom regulator's “TRAI DND - Do Not Disturb” app that lets users block unwanted phone calls and text messages, avoiding iPhone ban   —  Fed up with years of waiting for Apple to implement anti-spam measures for iPhones, India's telecom regulator TRAI threatened … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2TXr1pb

Labour demands an ethics probe after health secretary talks about "GP at Hand" app in an interview. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2QqAaYo

The cash would be used to support any staff striking over Google's work on a search engine for China. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2U6e0ts

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : AT&T plans another, 3-tiered streaming service for Q4 2019 with a movie-focused entry level, a premium level with original programming, and a WarnerMedia bundle   —  AT&T may be ready to sell its stake in Hulu, the company revealed in an analyst presentation on Thursday. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2P8kXWZ

Two and a half years after the launch of Pokémon GO, it’s still missing one major staple of the main series games: player versus player battling. That’s about to change. In a series of teaser tweets this morning, the company confirmed that the battle system is on the way, noting only that it’s “coming soon”. Hmm…what’s this? pic.twitter.com/EyCRUeVINd — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) November 30, 2018 pic.twitter.com/QRkqcA6U2O — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) November 30, 2018 pic.twitter.com/2Zg5PvNUv6 — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) November 30, 2018 Get prepared… Trainer Battles are coming soon to Pokémon GO #GOBattle pic.twitter.com/AUWyhNGlT7 — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) November 30, 2018 Battling is the feature perhaps most demanded by the player base — particularly after the other oh-so-demanded feature, trading, was finally added around six months ago . While players have long been able to battle Pokémon stored in gyms, or work together to take down b...