What Pinterest Buying Instapaper Means For Pinterest's Future and other top stories.

• What Pinterest Buying Instapaper Means For Pinterest's Future

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• Google warns it will crack down on "intrusive interstitials" in January

  Google has announced that it will begin cracking down on “intrusive interstitials” on January 10, 2017, because this type of ad “can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller.” Google will be potentially penalizing — i.e., lowering the rankings — of these web pages. Google said “pages where content is not easily accessible to a user on the transition from the mobile search results may not rank as highly.” Google explained which types of interstitials are going to be prob..

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• Delphi joins forces with Mobileye for self-driving system by 2019

  

  A new partnership could bring the first fully autonomous driving system to market by 2019.Delphi Automotive and Mobileye announced Tuesday that they are joining forces to build a system for automakers to easily and quickly integrate into their production.The planned system will include radar and LiDAR sensors, real-time mapping features, and a myriad of cameras that will allow customers to adopt level 4/5 automation, the highest categories of autonomous driving in a set of standards set by the ..

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• First on CNN: FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others

  

  Story highlightsUS officials believe Russian hackers have targeted news organizationsThe breaches are thought to be part of a larger effort aimed at the US political systemThe intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies. Investigators so far believe that Russian intelligence is likely behind the attacks and that Russian hackers are targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Pa..

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• Judge Rules Fitbit Did Not Steal Jawbone Trade Secrets: Fitbit Pleased, Jawbone Pushes For Review

  

  A judge for the United States International Trade Commission ruled that Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from rival fitness tracker company Jawbone, as alleged by Jawbone in the lawsuit filed against Fitbit last year. In the lawsuit, Jawbone claimed that Fitbit systematically stole its trade secrets by poaching employees, who first downloaded confidential information from the database of Jawbone, such as supply chains, business plans and technical specifications, before transferring to Fitbit..

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• Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has warned about killing off the headphone jack in the iPhone 7

  

  Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, thinks Apple will frustrate a lot of people if it releases an iPhone 7 without a headphone port. The Cupertino, California-based company has yet to say whether it intends to remove the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 — expected to hit stores on September 23 — but numerous reports based on leaked images of the handset suggest this is the case. "If it's missing the 3.5 mm earphone jack, that's going to tick off a lot of people," Wozniak told The Australian Fi..

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