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Samsung announces Galaxy Note9, shipping August 24, with a 6.4" display, Snapdragon 845, 4,000mAh battery, dual rear cameras, DeX, 128GB/512GB storage for $950+ — After months of rampant speculation (and plenty of leaks and rumors), it's finally here: the Samsung Galaxy Note9 …
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Gaming chat app Discord launches a games store in beta, available to 50,000 randomly selected customers in Canada, and says it has 150M users — Discord, the online chat and video service used by 150 million gamers, drops into the video game sales business Thursday with the launch …
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Tesla's board to meet with advisers to discuss Musk's take-private proposal; source: Musk previously talked with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — - The Tesla board is taking Elon Musk's offer to take the company private at $420-per-share seriously and may tell Musk to recuse himself …
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Analysis of Infowars Twitter content shows videos that led to YouTube and other bans were still live, while other tweets showed more Twitter rules violations — Why Facebook,YouTube and Apple are removing InfoWars content — Twitter's vice president for trust and safety, Del Harvey … | Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Home, a Bixby-based smart speaker with built-in subwoofer, six speakers, and eight far-field microphones; pricing and availability TBA — Samsung has announced its entry into the smart speaker market with the Galaxy Home. It's a high-end speaker meant to go head …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Watch with 42mm and 46mm options, Tizen OS, “several days” of battery life, available from August 24 for $329.99+ — Samsung is officially saying goodbye to the “Gear” smartwatch brand in favor of a new name — Galaxy Watch.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook officially announces Mentorships, a free service that pairs people in Groups — Facebook — under fire for the role it has played in helping spread misinformation through its social media platform — has been turning its attention to more positive applications of its tools … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces open source Alexa Auto SDK, available on GitHub, to let automakers integrate Alexa into cars and infotainment systems — Amazon today announced an open source release of the Alexa Automotive Core (AAC) SDK, or Auto SDK, to help automakers integrate Alexa voice control …
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Trustwave releases Social Mapper, an open source tool using facial recognition to find people's social profiles at scale, says it will help ethical hackers — Security researchers released a tool this week that lets you collect social media profiles of a massive amount of people using face recognition.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $339.2M, up 27% YoY, vs $331M est., 11.9M paid users, up from 9.9M YoY, and announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving — Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify …
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| Aisha Al-Muslim / Wall Street Journal: |
Yelp's stock rose 26%+ after the company reported Q2 revenue of $226M, up 21% YoY, and record growth in paying advertising accounts — The online review company said its second-quarter advertising revenue grew 21% from the prior-year period to $226 million
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
IBM and Maersk's blockchain platform TradeLens launches globally with 94 clients, says it has captured 154M+ shipping events during the 12-month trial — Cargo shipping giant Maersk and IBM announced TradeLens, a technology that applies blockchain technology to world's global supply chain.
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VP of policy details Facebook's limits to free speech: physically or financially endangering people, intimidating via hateful words, tricking people for profit — Hard Questions is a series from Facebook that addresses the impact of our products on society.
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