That Mysterious, Deleted 'No Man's Sky' Tweet Wasn't A Hack [Updated] and other top stories.

• That Mysterious, Deleted 'No Man's Sky' Tweet Wasn't A Hack [Updated]

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• Can Dell's best all-in-one challenge Microsoft's new Surface Studio?

  

  After much anticipation, Microsoft has finally unveiled the Surface Studio at a press event in New York City. This all-in-one unit adds a unique, top-of-the-line desktop model to the existing Surface lineup. It’s a great option for group collaborations and creative professionals, particularly because it comes outfitted with a 28-inch display that touts 4,500 x 3,000-pixel resolution and the ability to lie nearly flat. It might showcase a hefty price tag and pack last-gen innards — Nvidia GTX 96..

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• Spending vs. profits: Amazon and investors at odds again

  

  Amazon Inc may be a "buy" for the vast majority of analysts, but it was a "sell" for a lot of investors on Friday.Few of those investors would have been disappointed, though. While Amazon's stock was down 4.4 percent at $782 in early trading, it had risen 36 percent in the past six months alone.The trigger for the selling was the company's statement on Thursday that its operating income for the holiday shopping quarter would range from nothing to $1.25 billion, due to heavy investment across..

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• Activists mourn the loss of Vine app they say shined a spotlight on Ferguson

  

  French, a north St. Louis City alderman, started tweeting what he saw. He tried to upload videos to his YouTube account but that took too long. He remembered he had a little-used Vine account where he had posted only cute videos of his children. He began posting the six-second vines of the scene on Aug ust 9, 2014, on Canfield Drive, and posted more in the days that followed. They were among some of the earliest social media videos showing racial tensions in Ferguson.The videos captured the prot..

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• I'm really missing the SD slot on the new MacBook Pro

  

  Apple unveiled three new MacBooks on Thursday, Oct. 27 with new TouchBar and Touch ID features. USA TODAYApple is replacing the USB slots with new Thunderbolt USB-C slots on MacBook Pros(Photo: Apple)LOS ANGELES - I miss my SD card slot already.As well as the traditional USB slots on the MacBook Pro that I use to insert external hard drives, charge the iPhone, plug in my microphone for recording the Talking Tech podcast and all sorts of other things too.Apple introduced super-pricey new..

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• A Wall Street analyst savaged Apple's TV strategy

  

  Apple Apple used to say its TV ambitions were a "hobby." Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said "television has intense interest with me and many other people" at Apple.  Apple revealed the next stage of its plan to conquer TV on Thursday: a new app for Apple TV, iPhones, and iPads simply called "TV." Apple says it's designed to tie together different video services and put the content you want to see in one place. At least one Wall Street analyst says cracks are a..

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• Facebook Is Allowing Housing Advertisers to Discriminate by Ethnicity

  

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• Apple's other new MacBook Pro

  

  The entry-level MacBook Pro is a strange sort of beast. It’s at once aspirational and transitional, a lowest financial rung into the company’s top tier of devices that carriers the form factor and many of the hardware improvements of this latest generation, while leaving behind its most eagerly anticipated feature. And really, the device didn’t get much more than a passing mention during yesterday’s event, tossed into the bit at the end where Tim Cook announced pricing and availability. This i..

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• Facebook tests Snapchat-style camera special effects with ephemeral sharing

  

  Facebook is overhauling its in-app camera to embrace the next era of augmented reality visual communication pioneered by Snapchat. The new features include Snapchat-style animated selfie masks, overlaid graphics, and geofilters; Prisma-esque fine art-themed style transfer filters; and some innovative new “reactive” filters that respond to your body’s movements. What Facebook is calling “the new camera” will be instantly accessible from the News Feed with a quick right swipe. And instead of jus..

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