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Nest adds two-factor authentication to increase security for their cameras and thermostats.

Just go to the account settings from your app to get started:

A typo took the half Internet down? #AWSOutage

Amazon said the S3 team was working on an issue that was slowing down its billing system. Here’s what happened, according to Amazon, at 9:37 a.m. Pacific, starting the outage: “an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended.”

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Microsoft signs exclusive cloud deal with Flipkart, Amazon’s biggest online retail rival in India. It’s a significant customer win for Microsoft in the public cloud battle against Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and others.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been nominated to the Starbucks promising to give the coffee giant additional technology expertise.

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https://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-nominates-new-board-members 

Breaking News: Marissa Mayer is resigning and Yahoo is changing its name to Altaba Inc. as per the latest filing report:

https://investor.yahoo.net/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-17-5896&CIK=1011006

Yahoo revealed new security issues affecting more than a billion users’ data, a breach that is separate to the hack it disclosed earlier this year, which was the biggest data breach on record.

Amazon to open first ‘self-driving’ grocery store, with no checkout lines, in Seattle in early 2017.
Video: https://youtu.be/NrmMk1Myrxc 

YouTube flips the switch to 4K streaming. You will be able to live stream both standard and 360 degree videos in 4K.

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2016/11/4k-live-streaming-live-has-never-looked.html

Netflix now lets you download movies and TV shows to watch offline.

Read more – https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/downloads-make-it-even-easier-to-watch-netflix-on-the-go