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Oh, and there’s a new Coupe version, too

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Rights clearance startup Dubset has partnered with the indie distribution company Merlin, in a move that will grow Dubset’s music library, Billboard reports. This means rights holders represented by Merlin will earn royalties when Dubset’s MixSCAN technology recognizes one of their songs in a DJ mix. It also allows artists to legally clear samples from Merlin’s rights holders through Dubset’s MixBANK.

Kendall is going to build his own health care startup.

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The iPhone X came out almost a month ago, and now one of the most anticipated app updates has finally arrived for the new phone: Google has updated Maps for the iPhone X’s screen.

Last year, the company behind the Unity game engine released Adam, a proof-of-concept short film designed to show off its cinematic creation tools. It doesn’t have much of a story: it’s just a robot escaping a prison. But Unity Technologies earned enough of a response to justify developing the story into something bigger, and its representatives turned to Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the end of Pixar’s new film Coco.

Pixar’s new animated movie Coco follows a boy named Miguel on an accidental journey through the Land of the Dead. He befriends a dead man named Hector who desperately wants his living daughter Coco to remember him. But Coco is very old, and her memory is fading. She spends her scenes sitting still, lost in thought, unable to identify members of her own family.

Even in a film where skeletons sing and dance in a neon afterlife... Читать дальше...

After a computer glitch resulted in thousands of American Airlines flights scheduled without pilots during the busy holiday travel season, the carrier says it’s scrambling to respond.

SiriusXM Radio has updated its iOS app today, adding CarPlay support, 9to5Mac reports. Now, Apple’s CarPlay users can listen to the major streaming service while on the road, including all channels and on-demand episodes.

Taylor Swift fans in Australia and the Philippines have tweeted screenshots showing that her new album, Reputation — released on November 10th — is now available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music in their respective countries.

Crowdfunding service GoFundMe is dropping the 5 percent fee that it collects from personal campaigns within the US today, adding an optional donation option in its stead. TechCrunch reports that GoFundMe timed this change around the holiday season, and that the company won’t say whether it’s a temporary or permanent decision. Payment processors still take 2.9 percent, but users can keep the rest of their funds. Organized charities and people outside the US will be paying the standard 5 percent, along with processing fees. Читать дальше...

HMD's new Nokia 2 phone will be available through Amazon and Best Buy in the US starting today, although Best Buy's listing says the phone is already sold out and Amazon's says the phone is "currently unavailable." HMD, which licensed the rights to Nokia's name, usually debuts its phone in China and sometimes launches them globally.

Samsung is looking into using palm scanning to remember forgotten passwords, according to a patent it filed today, as first reported by SamMobile.

Starting today, Google Assistant can help you find local services, like an electrician or handyman. All you have to do is say “OK Google” to Assistant on your phone or Google Home, followed by a prompt to find the particular service you’re interested in.

Scallops, hardly the most complex of creatures, have intricate eyes that work like telescopes, say researchers. They hope this discovery can one day help us make our own telescopes more powerful.

When paleontologist Alexander Kellner first saw the 35-square-foot block of sandstone filled with pterosaur fossils, he couldn’t believe his eyes. “I was just speechless,” he says. That was in 2015, at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Now, two years later, that 120-million-year-old block of fossilized sand has yielded 215 pterosaur eggs, 16 of which still have embryos inside. The unprecedented discovery can help us understand how pterosaurs laid their eggs... Читать дальше...

Remember Vine? The six-second video social media app lived a roller-coaster life, going from small startup to Twitter-owned internet juggernaut to shut down in what felt like the blink of an eye. But there is some good news in the post-Vine darkness we’ve all been living in since Twitter shuttered the service last fall: Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann has announced (on Twitter, of all places) that he’s working on “a follow-up to Vine.”

Facebook announced a wider availability of its new Customer Chat service today, which lets businesses talk with users both on their own websites and within Facebook Messenger. Customer Chat is essentially a website plugin that brings the Facebook Messenger experience to any retailer’s website, which lets the customer support representatives then converse with customers as if they were chatting with a friend on Facebook.

Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers to use its AI tools. It just announced the AIY Vision Kit, which includes a new circuit board and computer vision software that buyers can pair with their own Raspberry Pi computer and camera. (There’s also a cute cardboard box included, along with some supplementary accessories.) The kit costs $44.99 and will ship through Micro Center on December 31st.

Amazon’s business subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, has announced a new initiative to get companies using Alexa in the office. The company imagines that the virtual assistant will help employees launch conference calls, organize room bookings, and even wrangle with their expenses.

Google is considering bringing Nest back into its family after the two became separate brands in 2015 under holding company Alphabet, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Nest could potentially rejoin Google’s hardware team and the two could make more smart home products that rival Amazon’s lineup of Alexa devices.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement today condemning a death threat allegedly directed to a congressman over net neutrality policy.

Phillips is releasing its first TVs with Roku built in, and they are updated versions of its entry-level 4000 series models. Previously, Philips used its own NetTV platform (as well as integrated Chromecast) in some of its TVs, but considering Roku’s years of experience with smart TV interfaces, it’s probably an upgrade.

Apple is designing its own power management chips for iPhones, and plans to stop relying on its current supplier Dialog Semiconductor, anonymous sources told Nikkei Asian Review.

Mr. Robot is back, and the C Y B E R is back, too. The show takes a special interest in showing off the details that usually get glossed over, often drawing on real hacks and real cybersecurity problems. So after every episode, I’ll be breaking down who got hacked, how, and with what. It turns out, there’s a lot more to each one than you can see on-screen.

Apple has launched a new app today that will allow the company to gather irregular heart rhythm data from the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor. Called the Apple Heart Study app, it will detect irregularities and send notifications to users who may be suffering from atrial fibrillation (AFib).