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Sources: Amazon working on Alexa-powered smartglasses with bone-conduction audio and a new home security camera system that would tie into its Echo products — Amazon is working on its first wearable device: a pair of “smart glasses” that would allow its virtual assistant Alexa to be summoned any time …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE review: faster processor but has connectivity problems, no Apple Music streaming yet, battery drain with LTE, and unreliable Siri — You should still call me on my cellphone — How much are you willing to pay for a gadget that offers intermittent convenience?
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Tweets: @pkafka, @backlon, @marcoarment, @bzamayo, @saschasegan, and @mims
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Watch Series 3 review: untethered experience is enjoyable, but has short battery life and connectivity problems in two different states on two carriers — A cellular connection unshackles the Watch from your iPhone—but not for long, with short battery life and intermittent connections
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Renders leak of “Google Home Mini” in Chalk, Charcoal, and Coral colors; source says it will cost $49 — When Google takes the stage on October 4 at a phone-related event in San Francisco, most of us expect there to be non-phone related product announcements too.
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @tapbot_paul, and @hallstephenj
| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Renders leak of Google Pixelbook, a Chromebook that folds into a tablet and supports pressure-sensitive Pixelbook Pen; source: starts at $1.2K for 128GB w/o pen — As we noted in our earlier Google Home Mini reveal, a report from a couple of weeks back had actually suggested that Google would soon release a smaller Home unit.
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| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Renders of back of HTC-made Google Pixel 2 in “Kinda Blue”, White, and Black leak; source: 64GB and 128GB models cost $649 and $749 — Wrapping up here, because we don't want anyone feeling left out, here is the HTC-made Pixel 2. From what we can tell, it'll arrive in three colorways …
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Tweets: @dcseifert and @averyhartmans
| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Renders of back of LG-made Google Pixel 2 XL in “Black & White” and “Just Black” leak; source says it will cost $849 for 64GB and $949 for 128GB — Alright fine, no more playing around. Here is the Pixel 2 XL (official name) in two colorways.
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Tweets: @hallstephenj, @rdr0b11, @_ronakg, and @pogue
| Bloomberg: |
Toshiba agrees to sell memory chip unit to group led by Bain Capital for $18B; sources say Apple played a crucial role in swinging momentum to the Bain offer — Toshiba Corp.'s board has agreed to sell its flash memory chip unit to a group led by Bain Capital for 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC is halting trade of its shares tomorrow in anticipation of a “major announcement”, amid rumors of an acquisition by Google — All eyes on Google — HTC, one of Taiwan's premier tech brands and a true pioneer in the development of the Android hardware ecosystem …
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Tweets: @tculpan, @evleaks, @tculpan, @tculpan, @alexdobie, @ow, and @counternotions
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber, facing federal probe into possible overseas bribery, reviews operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, South Korea, and China — An Uber employee is said to have paid Jakarta police — Law firm investigating possible quid pro quo in Malaysia
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Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @markmilian
| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
Twitter removed 300K terror-related accounts in first half of 2017, a 20% decline from previous six months, with 75% suspended before posting first tweet — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said that its internal controls were allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches redesigned App Store as part of iOS 11 launch, with Today section including daily features, tips, and dev interviews — Apple today is releasing its completely redesigned iOS App Store to the wider public as part of the launch of the new iOS 11 operating system.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
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