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Sources: new 5.8" and 6.5" OLED iPhones, due in September, to get speed and camera improvements; 6.1-inch LCD version to have aluminum sides — - Two high-end OLED models focus on speed and camera upgrades — New iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens also coming
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Bloomberg: Google Pixel 3 to launch on October 9th at NYC event — Thanks to a flood of recent leaks, the hype is real leading up to Google's next Pixel launch. Now, according to a new report, that launch might end up just a little bit later than we thought...
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| Shannon Bond / Financial Times: |
CEO says Uber is planning a shift from cars to electric bikes and scooters for shorter trips as part of its long-term strategy, despite short-term financial hit — Uber is planning a shift in emphasis from cars to electric bicycles and scooters for shorter journeys as part of its long-term strategy …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook removes 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account, and 52 Facebook Pages, including Burmese military officials, in response to Myanmar violence — The ethnic violence in Myanmar has been truly horrific. Earlier this month, we shared an update on the steps we're taking to prevent …
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| Hadas Gold / CNNMoney: |
| Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a 3%-4% stake in Paytm's parent company One97 Communications, valuing Paytm at over $10B — Softbank and Alibaba-backed Paytm may get valued at $10 billion after this funding from Berkshire Hathaway
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft announces Xbox All Access with Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox One S or Xbox One X console for $22 or $35/mo on a 2 year contract in US — Microsoft today confirmed the rumors: Xbox All Access is a new subscription offering that ties a console to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for two years.
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| Palmer Luckey / The Blog of Palmer Luckey: |
Oculus cofounder reviews Magic Leap: less of a functional developer kit, more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way — The title of this review was carefully chosen, not glibly. I want what is best for VR and all other technologies on the Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Magic Leap included.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Tech companies are lobbying for a federal privacy law that would overrule the California law and give them wide leeway over how personal information is handled — WASHINGTON — Technology companies have taken plenty of hits on privacy this year. In May, Europe began enforcing a sweeping …
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| Tim Swanson / Great Wall of Numbers: |
New estimate suggests blockchain networks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero combined consume about as much electricity as The Netherlands — I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers.| Samson Mow / THE LION'S DEN: |
At its core Bitmain is a chip company developing chips optimized for cryptocurrency mining, and it has failed to successfully deploy a next gen chip since 2016 — This is the third time that this article has been published. 2048 Capital is an offshore cryptocurrency investment fund.
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South China Morning Post, CoinDesk, and NewsBTC
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| CNN: |
Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida; shooter had won previous Madden NFL tournaments — (CNN)The sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, said there was a mass shooting at a downtown marketplace on Sunday and urged people to stay far away from the area.| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Evolve Vacation Rental Network raises $80M to expand its rental properties management service, bringing total capital raised to $103M — Vacation rental management is becoming professionalized, and the gold rush is on. — The vacation rental tech sector continues to produce outsized funding rounds …
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