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Google starts rolling out broadcast feature for Google Assistant, which allows users to broadcast messages on all Assistant-enabled speakers in a house — From dinner bells to shouting, attempting to gather the family from around the house is nothing new. And now, your Google Assistant is getting in on the game.
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Sources: Apple is working on a rear-facing 3D sensor for 2019 iPhone to improve AR capabilities — Apple looking at different technology from iPhone X's Face ID — New 3-D sensor would improve augmented-reality features — Apple Inc. is working on a rear-facing 3-D sensor system … | Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Journalists at news organizations partnering with Facebook say its fact-checking tools have failed — Journalists fighting spread of fake news raise concerns over possible conflicts of interest and say site has refused to disclose needed data — Journalists working for Facebook …
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HTC intros Vive Wave VR Open Platform for hardware makers, unveils Vive Focus standalone VR headset for China with inside-out tracking; price, release date TBD — After a couple of teases earlier this year, HTC has finally unveiled its upcoming standalone VR headset at today's Vive Developer Conference in Beijing.
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Steve Jurvetson is leaving Draper Fisher Jurvetson in wake of an investigation into sexual harassment, is “on leave of absence” from boards of Tesla and SpaceX — The high-profile entrepreneur helped start Draper Fisher Jurvetson. — Famed venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson …
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Canalys: Apple retook top spot in wearable band market in Q3 2017 with 3.9M shipments, or 23% of the market; Xiaomi came second with 21%, Fitbit third with 20% — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Tuesday, 14 November 2017 — Apple retook the lead in the wearable band market in Q3 2017 …
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Amazon sells AWS infrastructure assets in China to its Chinese partner Beijing Sinnet Technology Co. for as much as $300M, in order to comply with Chinese law — Updated 10:35pm: Amazon Web Services responded to reports out of China that it was exiting the country's cloud computing market with the following statement.
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| Pam Belluck / New York Times: |
FDA approves first digital pill, which has an embedded sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it, sparking privacy concerns — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether …
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| Williams Pelegrin / Android Authority: |
Lenovo debuts $299 Moto Tab running Android 7.1 for AT&T customers, with 10.1-inch FHD display, Snapdragon 625, 2GB RAM; first Moto branded tablet in 5 years — Being the first product to run Google's tablet-focused Android 3.0 Honeycomb, there was plenty of hype surrounding 2011's Motorola Xoom tablet.
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KGI: three iPhones with iPhone X form factor slated for late-2018, including 6.1" model with a lower-resolution LCD screen, as well as 5.8" and 6.5" OLED models — Apple has three new iPhone models in the pipeline for a late 2018 launch, two of which will be the company's biggest handsets ever …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Compuserve's forums, once the premier destination for all online conversations, are finally shutting down on December 15 — Before there was a world wide web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between computer users happened in the forums at CompuServe, which was the dominant online service until AOL came along.| Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Hikvision, the world's largest maker of surveillance cameras, 42%-owned by Chinese government, whose cameras are used even in sensitive areas in US — Company 42%-owned by the Chinese government sold devices that monitor U.S. Army base, Memphis streets, sparking concerns about cybersecurity| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon lands global television rights for The Lord of the Rings, with a multi-season commitment, to debut exclusively on Prime Video — “The Lord of the Rings,” the celebrated fantasy book series by J.R.R. Tolkien that became a worldwide film phenomenon is now headed to the small screen … Sponsor Posts
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