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• SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4425 satellites - more than orbit Earth today

  Flickr/SpaceX SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by the Mars-hungry tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, just made a big move to envelop the Earth in high-speed internet coverage. On Tuesday, the company filed a lengthy application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch 4,425 satellites. (We first heard about the filing through the r/SpaceX community on Reddit.) That is a lot of satellites. According to a database compiled by the Union of Concerned ..

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• Apple saves iPhone call history to iCloud, but barely mentions it

  

  Modern smartphones make it easy to back up all your data to the cloud so you can keep it synced across devices, or download it to a new phone. That can have unfortunate consequences, however—especially when phones are syncing sensitive information that users aren’t explicitly aware of, and then a company famous for developing smartphone cracking software finds out. Moscow-based Elcomsoft recently added a feature to its Phone Breaker software that the company says can retrieve an iPhone us..

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• Amazon is rolling out Alexa-only shopping deals

  

  Amazon has already stoked the holiday consumption fire by rolling out a bunch of deals well ahead of Black Friday, but this weekend’s shopping opportunity comes with a giant catch: starting November 18 and running through the 21st, certain deals are only available if you order through Alexa, the voice-controlled virtual assistant that runs on Amazon’s Echo speakers and Fire TV products. Over the next few days, if you ask Alexa "Alexa, what are your deals?" you’ll be able to order a variety of d..

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• Judge Orders Airbnb and San Francisco to Work Out Problems Through Mediation, Puts Fines and Criminal Penalties ...

  

  A federal judge has ordered San Francisco to hold off on issuing any fines or criminal penalties to home-sharing companies, including Airbnb. The decision came during a hearing Thursday morning and stems from an ongoing lawsuit Airbnb filed to block San Francisco from enacting tougher regulations relating to short-term rentals advertised online.Currently, San Francisco can issue fines and criminal penalties to property owners who rent out their homes without first registering with the Office of..

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• Snapchat's fans, not the media, are telling the world about Spectacles

  

  Part of that strategy has been how Snapchat has dealt with the media around this launch. Which is to say, it mostly hasn't. Usually the release of a high-profile gadget is accompanied by a wave of reviews. But that didn't happen this time. The publications that have posted impressions of Spectacles are those that managed to get the glasses the same way as anybody else (read: by waiting in line or possibly buying a pair for an exorbitant sum on eBay).It's clear from both Spiegel's earlier comment..

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• Pokemon Sun and Moon Guide: How To Get Your Demo Ash-Greninja

  

  Pokemon Sun and Moon is finally out for the Nintendo 3DS, and while everyone is picking their new starter and beginning their journey. As we told you before, the Pokemon Sun and Moon Special Demo Version that came out a few weeks ago has an exclusive Pokemon and some items that you can transfer over into the full game and we’re here now to tell you have to get them in the full game.We already explained in a game that you could transfer your Ash-Greninja and a number of collected items from the d..

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• UPDATE 2-Tesla's Musk closes SolarCity deal, more challenges lie ahead

  

  (Adds details of SolarCity's business, paragraphs 13-14) By Alexandria Sage and Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk won approval on Thursday from the electric luxury automaker's shareholders for an acquisition of SolarCity Corp, the solar energy system installer in which he is the largest shareholder. The stock swap deal, worth about $2 billion, caps a tumultuous year for Musk and Tesla. The proposed acquisition of SolarCity, a money-losing ..

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• Google Disappointed by South Korean Refusal on Mapping Data

  

  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea rejected a request by Google to use local mapping data in the company's global maps service in a long-awaited ruling Friday that had divided the country for months.The company said it was disappointed by the decision, which the land ministry said was based on concerns over national security."We're disappointed by this decision. We've always taken security concerns very seriously and will continue to provide useful map services in compliance with Korea's curr..

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• Gear S3 to support Samsung Pay even without a Samsung phone

  

  Samsung Pay confirms to AC that the service will work on Gear S3 when paired with any Android 4.4+ phone. While most of the Gear S2's features work just fine when paired to a non-Samsung phone, Samsung Pay was off-limits unless your watch was paired to a Galaxy device. On the upcoming Gear S3 watches, it looks like that's no longer the case. The Samsung Pay Twitter account has confirmed to AC that the service will work just fine on the watch, when paired with any phone running KitKat or above. ..

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