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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Windows 10 “Creators Update” coming early 2017 for free, featuring 3D and mixed reality, 4K gaming, more — At its Windows 10 event in New York City today, Microsoft announced the Creators Update for Windows 10. The company detailed a slew of new features coming to its latest and greatest operating system, for free.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make tethered VR headsets for Windows 10 PCs, starting at $299 — Microsoft is currently holding a press conference in New York. The company is focusing a lot on 3D and all sorts of realities, from augmented reality to virtual reality.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts all-in-one Surface Studio PC aimed at creatives, with 28", 192 PPI, 3:2 touchscreen that goes flat on a hinge; starts at $2999, preorders open — Microsoft unveiled the Surface Studio today, an all-in-one PC with a 28-inch PixelSense display, with the thinnest display ever built according … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Surface Dial, a puck-like input device for Surface Studio that summons app options when on screen, free with Studio preorders, normally $99 — Okay, this is cool. Microsoft kind of powered past the Surface Dial in all of the pomp and circumstance around the new Creators Update version …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Entry-level Microsoft Surface Studio comes with Skylake i5 CPU, 2GB GPU, 1TB hard drive, 8GB RAM for $3K; high-end $4.2K model has i7, 4GB GPU, 32GB RAM, more — As part of the now annual Microsoft Surface event, Panos Panay announced the next member of the Surface family, the Surface Studio.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
How Microsoft combined design themes, features, materials from earlier Surface products with new concepts like Dial to create Surface Studio, its first desktop — A 28-inch screen, a very special hinge, and a new type of input device add up to an experience conceived with artists and designers in mind.
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| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
BlackBerry launches 5.5-inch DTEK60 Android smartphone for $499 unlocked, compatible only with GSM networks like AT&T and T-Mobile — The BlackBerry DTEK60 is now official. The company's third Android-based smartphone is available for the price of $499.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iMessage may stop some users from switching to Android, but an Android version should not be ruled out as sources say UI mockups have circulated at Apple — Lauren Goode, writing for The Verge a few weeks ago, “iMessage Is the Glue That Keeps Me Stuck to the iPhone”:
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Google Access halts Fiber rollout and plans layoffs as its CEO Craig Barratt steps down — CEO Craig Barratt departs as the company halts rollouts to new cities with layoffs coming. — Executive changes are coming to Google Access, including the departure of CEO Craig Barratt, according to sources.
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts high-end Surface Book with 16-hour battery life, i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M GPU, starting at $2.4K; preorder today, ships on Nov. 10 — Microsoft just showed off an updated version of its Surface Book laptop that comes with 30 percent more battery life and double the graphics performance.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Amazon brings Alexa to Fire tablets, activated by holding down the Home button, not by voice — With the Echo and Echo Dot, Amazon proved that its Alexa assistant — and voice commands in general — could actually be pretty helpful. But how will it fair on a device that isn't listening to you all the time?
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Laptop Mag, The Verge, Liliputing, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TechCrunch. Tweets: @brianroemmele
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Twitter tests not showing usernames in replies and not counting them against character limit — Oct 26, 2016, 11:06 amOct 26, 2016, 11:51 am — #Beyond140 is coming to fruition with the removal of one of the most annoying laws of Twitter. Some iOS users are now part of a test group …
Tweets: @katie_roof, @joshconstine, @dcurtis and @digiphile
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Apple reports Q4 2016 results with $46.9B revenue, down from $51.5B YoY, as iPhone sales drop to 45.5M from 48M; 4.9M Macs and 9.3M iPads sold, both down YoY — All eyes are officially on the holiday season for Apple. — Ahead of the Christmas retail season, Apple reported …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Ecommerce personalization company BloomReach acquires Amsterdam-based web content management vendor Hippo for an undisclosed sum — BloomReach, which helps ecommerce companies personalize buying experiences using data and algorithms, announced today that it was acquiring Amsterdam-based web …
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| Chris Saad / Uber Developers: |
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