China Says New Rocket Brings Space Station Plans Closer and other top stories.

• China Says New Rocket Brings Space Station Plans Closer

  

  BEIJING — China's plans for a permanent space station remain firmly on track with the successful launch of its new heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket that will enable ambitious future missions, including a planned trip to Mars.The towering rocket that blasted off Thursday night from the Wenchang launch center will be used to launch components for the Tiangong 2 space station and other massive payloads.China launched the Tiangong 2 precursor facility in September and sent up two astronauts in mid..

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• Google Play Adds Subscription Promos

  

  Google is rolling out a new feature intended to help Android developers grow their businesses: subscription promos. Subscriptions have increased consumer spending tenfold in the last three years, Google says. Soon, developers will have the option to create a limited-time introductory price for new subscribers. An app creator with an app that normally charges $5 per month could, for example, offer a subscription for $1 per month for the first three months. "We know how important subscriptions are..

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• GoPro Is Betting This Slick Drone Will Save the Day

  

  For GoPro, there was nowhere to go but up–literally. Its first drone, dubbed the Karma, hit the market last week, a strategic moonshot aimed at carrying the struggling company beyond the increasingly saturated market for cubic cameras in a plastic case.Despite its listless efforts to become a media player, GoPro is still a hardware company. Its fortunes rise and fall entirely on whether it has a hot new product. Last year’s attempt, the Hero4 Session, was a miss, and GoPro’s sales and stock-pri..

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• Turkey Blocks Popular Social Networks

  

  Access to social media and messaging services is blocked in Turkey. Restrictions on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Skype were detected Thursday, according to Internet monitoring group Turkey Blocks. It appears the government is throttling social networks at the ISP level, slowing down major providers TTNet and Turkcell; smaller ISPs like UyduNet are not affected at this point, Turkey Blocks says. The move is believed to be related to this week's arrest of 15 elected officia..

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• What Google Assistant needs is clarity -- and consistency

  

  Google Assistant is suddenly on its way to being everywhere. It's the heart of the new Google Home tabletop gadget, it's the secret sauce inside the new A.I.-enhanced Google Allo chat app, and it's a core feature of the new Pixel flagship phone. And all of that's just the start: Assistant will almost certainly be expanding onto even more Android devices (and non-Android devices) in the foreseeable future. Make no mistake about it: This feeling of omnipresence is very much part of the plan..

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• Google formally rejects EU antitrust charges

  

  "We never compromised the quality or relevance of the information we displayed. On the contrary, we improved it. That isn't 'favoring' - that's listening to our customers," Walker said. He said the Commission had failed to take into account competition from Amazon, merchant platforms, social media sites, mobile web and online advertising by companies such as Facebook and Pinterest. The EU executive said it had received Google's response. "In each case, we will carefully consider Goog..

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• How to speed up Windows 7 Update scans—forever

  

  Microsoft has changed the way it deploys patches, adding a new twist to an old problem. For many folks, Windows 7 Update scans still take hours—even days. How do you knock your Win7 machine upside the head, so it will find new patches in less than glacial time? We have a new Microsoft-sanctioned approach that only needs to be tempered a little.Note that, in the new patching paradigm, even those who manually download monthly security patches (“Group B”) still need to use Windows Update, if o..

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• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Review Roundup

  

  Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare arrives today, November 4, alongside reviews for Infinity Ward's latest entry in the juggernaut shooter series. To help you decide if the game is worth your time and money, we've rounded up a group of review scores and editor opinions.Developed by Call of Duty 4 studio Infinity Ward, Infinite Warfare is set in the future. Some of its action takes place in outer space with zero-G combat and spaceship dogfighting. The game also continues the tradition of featuring a..

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• How much Arctic sea ice are you melting? Scientists have an answer

  

  Climate change may sometimes seem so big and abstract that it can be difficult to grasp the scope of the problem. But now, scientists have found a way to bring the numbers down to Earth: For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear. If you do the math, this means the average American is melting roughly 50 square meters of those frozen reserves every year.The findings, published in the journal Science, highlight the direct effect t..

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