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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Note8 review: terrific build, great dual camera and display, puts S Pen to good use, but not huge upgrade from S8+ and is very expensive — Last year's Galaxy Note 7 was a big step forward for the Note line, pairing an impeccably built body with an updated S Pen and excellent performance.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Note8 review: great smartphone packed with features, but it's definitely too expensive, secondary telephoto camera disappoints, fingerprint scanning is subpar — A little under a year ago, I'd have said that there might not be a Galaxy Note8 at all. Of course, I'd have been wrong.
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Android Authority, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, and Mashable
| John Lanchester / London Review of Books: |
An in-depth critique of Facebook and how its quest for growth and monetization shapes and distorts company's stated mission of simply connecting people — At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users.
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| David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal: |
Angry Birds maker Rovio announces IPO, plans to issue €30M in new stock, to trade on Finnish Nasdaq affiliate; sources say valuation expected to reach ~€2B — Finnish videogame company reports sharp rise in first-half sales and profit — Rovio Entertainment Oy …
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| Ben Court / Men's Health: |
Inside Apple's exercise lab, where the company says it has collected fitness data from over 10,000 participants to optimize Watch's fitness-focused algorithms — he Tesla jam out front, the bike commuters riding one-handed while clutching MacBooks, the Apple Watches on everyone's wrists …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Pixelmator unveils Pro version to go on sale later this year, with a redesigned UI and new machine learning-enhanced photo-editing tools — Pixelmator Pro will go on sale later this year, but the new set of features looks promising — Pixelmator is best known as the image editor for Mac …
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| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Facebook bid $600M for online streaming rights of a popular cricket tournament in India for 5 years but was outbid by Star India — As Facebook gets serious about video, the social giant's ambitions for live streaming were on display on Monday in India where it put a bid north of $600 million …
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| Jonathan Keane / Tech.eu: |
Digital identity management firm ForgeRock raises $88M Series D led by Accel — Digital identity management firm ForgeRock has raised $88 million in a Series D round led by Accel with participation from KKR. — First founded in Norway and now based in San Francisco …
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Security firm finds some Arris modems, distributed via AT&T U-verse, have firmware vulnerabilities — Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T's U-verse service.| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple says it is ending its ten-year-old annual Apple Music Festival in the UK and will likely concentrate on one-off events and original content efforts — Apple has confirmed to MBW that it will no longer be hosting the annual Apple Music Festival at London's Roundhouse.
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Digital Trends, Ars Technica, The Mac Observer, Engadget, Mashable, International Business Times, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, MacRumors, The Verge, Cult of Mac, AppAdvice.com, Business Insider, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, Patently Apple, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, MacStories, 9to5Mac, The FADER, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Music Ally, NME, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @mrnicklevine
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Tech companies are courting influential teachers with various incentives to promote their products, raising ethical concerns — MAPLETON, N.D. — One of the tech-savviest teachers in the United States teaches third grade here at Mapleton Elementary, a public school with about 100 students …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popular YouTube ripping site, YouTube-MP3, settles with RIAA and will shut down indefinitely — YouTube-MP3, the world's leading YouTube ripping site, has agreed to shut down indefinitely and hand over its domain to the RIAA. A private settlement agreement, including an undisclosed payment …
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