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Samsung says it will cap Note7 charging at 60% in OTA update, starting Sept. 20 in S. Korea, is in talks with telcos from 9 other countries for similar rollouts — Samsung will limit the battery charging cap for Galaxy Note 7 users to 60 percent through a Over-the-Air (OTA) software upgrade on September 20 following more explosions.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says there was an issue with iOS 10 software updates impacting some devices during first hour of availability, and affected users can update via iTunes — Update: Apple has released a statement saying that the following iOS 10 update issues should now be resolved:
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Sources: next year's iPhone will have a full-screen front face with the virtual button built directly into the screen — Apple's iPhone, just short of 10 years old, has hit puberty. — Like adolescents coping with awkward changes to their bodies, the iPhone 7, due for release on Friday, introduces some uncomfortable transitions.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
YouTube launches beta of Community, which lets creators share photos, text, more into Subscriptions feed; subs can opt-in to new post notifications — Text, still images, and GIFs are now part of the mix that the service gives creators to keep their fans engaged.
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Companies running critical Internet infrastructure are observing recent probe-like DDoS attacks at a scale that points to state actors, likely China or Russia — Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Microsoft Outlook's mobile app updates with some Sunrise-inspired features and design tweaks including event icons, map integration, “interesting calendars” — When it acquired calendar app Sunrise, Microsoft promised that its features would eventually come to Outlook.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial acquires US biometric authentication startup EyeVerify, source says for $100M — Alibaba's payments arm, Ant Financial, has acquired EyeVerify, a maker of optical recognition technology used byWells Fargo along with dozens of regional banks and credit unions across the country.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Viacom, Hasbro, and others fined $835,000 for ad tracking on children's websites — The Attorney General's investigation found that websites for Barbie, Dora the Explorer, and other popular children's brands were tracking users to serve ads. While common on the web, ad tracking is forbidden …
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| Lauren Smiley / Backchannel: |
An inside look at Rothenberg Ventures, a seed-stage firm with stakes in companies like SpaceX, as it loses staff, changes name, and faces an SEC investigation — the last Monday in August, Mike Rothenberg—millennial venture capitalist, virtual reality check-writer, unhappy title-holder of …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Pandora's new music services could launch as early as Thursday; deals set with Universal Music, Sony, and Merlin, but not yet Warner Music — Sources say it's aiming for a Thursday launch. — Pandora wants to launch two new music services, and it may be ready to do it this week.| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Nvidia debuts new AI-focused processors for data centers based on its Pascal design, says the new chips have 4x speed, 3x efficiency of previous models — Nvidia has launched a pair of GPUs that the chip giant claims are four times faster than last year's offering.
| Jasper Jackson / Guardian: |
Google-backed First Draft's new coalition network, which aims to help improve social media newsgathering, adds Twitter and Facebook as partners — Channel 4 News, Telegraph, New York Times, Washington Post and BuzzFeed have also signed up to network organised through Google-backed First Draft| Wall Street Journal: |
Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014 — Cash burn shows the challenge the music-streaming service faces in competing with rivals Spotify and Apple Music — STOCKHOLM—In the year rap mogul Jay-Z took control of Tidal …
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Sources: Microsoft may discontinue Band fitness device, will focus instead on its cross-platform Health service — Microsoft's Band 2 fitness device looks to be at the end of its run. The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.
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