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Nest debuts Nest Secure alarm system that has a motion sensor and Nest Tag fob in a $499 pack, an HD video doorbell, and Nest Cam IQ outdoor, a $349 camera — Nest has stepped up its home security efforts. The Alphabet-owned company is live in San Francisco, where it has announced …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the development of the Nest Hello doorbell, Nest Cam IQ outdoor with Google Assistant integration, and the Nest Secure package including Nest Guard — “We have better light rings than any other products on the market,” says Adam Mittleman. This is a sentence that I have never …
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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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Google is close to buying HTC assets to bolster its hardware business; a report says Google will buy HTC's mobile phone design operations for ~$330M — Phone business has changed since Google jettisoned Motorola — Features like augmented reality require more hardware control
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple says Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE has cellular connectivity issue caused by watch trying to join unauthenticated Wi-Fi networks, exploring software fix — The “handoff” isn't working like it's supposed to — Apple's new Series 3 smartwatch starts shipping this Friday …
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Microsoft rolls out Minecraft's “Better Together” cross-platform play update for mobile, VR, XBox, and Windows 10, says it will come to Switch later this year — The Better Together update brings the biggest set of changes to hit Minecraft in years, expanding the Community Marketplace …
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| Sheryl Sandberg: |
Facebook will strengthen enforcement of ad targeting policies, add more human oversight, and urge users to report potential abuses directly — Last week we temporarily disabled some of our ads tools following news reports that slurs or other offensive language could be used as targeting criteria for advertising.
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Steam introduces histogram to user reviews section to help users identify “review bombing”, where large number of users flood games' pages with negative reviews — The customer review is a relatively young form of criticism, but consumers have already unlocked some of its creative power …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Equifax customer service, tweeting from @Equifax, accidentally directed customers to a critic's phishing site for over a week in at least three Twitter replies — Earlier this month, hackers broke into Equifax's servers and stole 143 million people's personal information, including their Social Security numbers.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
A list of some of the ARKit-enabled iOS apps now available in the App Store — With the launch of iOS 11 today, Apple has turned hundreds of millions of iPhones into augmented reality-capable devices thanks to the support of a new developer framework called ARKit.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android One launches in the US with Moto X4, available on Project Fi at $399 — Back in June, Project Fi unceremoniously announced via Twitter that a mid-tier device that supports Google's MVNO service would be coming soon. This was in line with our reporting from earlier in the year …
| 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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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Airbnb rolls out ability to book restaurant reservations in US, powered by Resy, which Airbnb invested $13M in this January — Airbnb today announced that it will now help guests book restaurant reservations during their travels. The feature is yet another one of the company's expansion …
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