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| Kris Carlon / Android Authority: |
Note8 costs $960 on Verizon, $950 on AT&T, $930 on T-Mobile; preorders begin Aug. 24, bundled with Gear 360 camera or 128GB SD and charging pad; ships Sept. 15 — Just announced, the Galaxy Note 8 is finally official. The return of the beloved Note brand to store shelves will be a triumph …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Galaxy Note8: excellent build, both 2x optical zoom and adding background blur with Live Focus work well, much improved S Pen functionality, more — After the nightmare that was the Galaxy Note 7, few people would've been surprised if Samsung killed the Note line entirely. But it didn't.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
In Q2, Uber had gross bookings of $8.7B, up 17% QoQ, revenue of $1.75B, up from Q1's $1.5B, net loss of $645M, down ~9% QoQ, 14% YoY; global trips rose 150% YoY — Uber's gross bookings were up 17% in the second quarter, the number of trips taken rose 150% in the past year and its adjusted loss fell …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
President of Samsung's mobile division DJ Koh confirms the company is working on its own smart speaker, may announce soon — Samsung is working on a smart speaker that will be launched “soon”, the company's mobile chief told CNBC, which will pit it against the likes of Amazon, Apple, and Google, in the hotly-contested space.
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As Whole Foods shareholders approve Amazon's acquisition, Federal Trade Commission gives OK for the deal to proceed — The Federal Trade Commission will allow Amazon to continue its $13.7 billion deal to acquire Whole Foods. — “The FTC conducted an investigation of this proposed acquisition …
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| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Google's next Pixel phones rumored to be unveiled October 5, will be powered by the unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 — We've been hearing about the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL for some time now, but there are two main things that we were unsure of: the processor(s) powering them and the release date.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google search results now offer a clinically validated screening quiz when users search for “depression” in US on mobile — Only half of Americans who face depression get help for it, and Google is determined to increase that percentage. As of today, it's offering a medically validated …
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Social Capital and Hedosophia file S-1 to raise $500M for holding company which will merge with tech unicorns reluctant to IPO in order to take them public — Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings will seek a minority position in a private technology company — A group of Silicon Valley … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Andrew Bosworth, who has served as Facebook VP of ads and business platform, will oversee all of FB's consumer hardware efforts including Oculus and Building 8 — - Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth is taking over all of the company's consumer hardware efforts.| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Inside Waymo's self-driving effort, including its physical test base, called Castle, and Carcraft VR simulations, where 25K virtual cars drive 8M miles per day — In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Google Cloud Platform launches cheaper Standard Tier traffic networking option that uses public internet, not its fiber — Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic to their users: they can keep using Google's network …
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| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
Snapchat's VP of Content Nick Bell says the company expects to debut scripted shows by year's end, aiming to complement TV — “We want to be friends of media,” says Nick Bell at the Edinburgh Television Festival as he outlines the company's mobile-first TV strategy.
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