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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
A look at new Microsoft video conferencing and meeting tech, including a feature, available now, that lets participants blur the background of their location — Microsoft let me sit in on the rehearsal for its futuristic “meetings of the future” demo in Orlando. Here's what I learned.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Office 2019, the successor to Office 2016, now generally available for Windows and Mac, with a feature list that's a subset of what Office 365 ProPlus users get — Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 2019, its on-premises Office suite for Windows and Mac, and will be delivering the Office 2019 servers within the coming weeks.
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Tweets: @maryjofoley and @reckless
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations, up from 200,000 in March of this year — At Microsoft's Ignite enterprise technology conference this week in Orlando, Florida, the company announced that Microsoft Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces several changes to its search product, Google Feed is rebranded as “Discover”, the homepage on mobile will now show a news feed, more — Google Feed is also getting an update, now it's called Discover — Google is announcing changes to its search product today …
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Tweets: @caseynewton and @emilygmonster
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, Stacks, security enhancements, a redesigned App Store, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Apple News apps — As promised during September 12's Gather Round event in Cupertino, Apple today released macOS Mojave — aka macOS 10.14 — to the general public.
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday's close of $9.09 a share …
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Tweets: @brianstelter, @shiraovide, @nytimes, @claireatki, @levynews, @pkafka, @readdanwrite, @eamonjavers, and @pkafka
| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar — There's a common understanding that there are two types of people in this world: Slack people and email people. In reality, most modern offices use both …
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Slack, The Next Web, Android Authority, The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Neowin, TechCrunch, and Android Central
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, which works by pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy.
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Tweets: @danblackroyd, @alexeheath, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Jane Mayer / New Yorker: |
New book looks at online activity during 2016, makes case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and online trolls were decisive in changing US election outcome — A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
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Newco Shift. Tweets: @newyorker, @newyorker, @antoniogm, @repswalwell, @qhardy, @msbrumfield, @toddzwillich, @natashabertrand, and @mims
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone XS Max far outselling iPhone XS, with 256GB most popular, 512GB is subject to shortages; Apple Watch Series 4 demand is “much better than expected” — In a research note obtained by MacRumors today, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided launch-weekend takeaways for the iPhone XS …
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iFixit, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, BGR, SlashGear, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, The Register, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @macrumors, @neilcybart, and @navalang
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku says its streaming boxes, sticks, and TVs will gain Google Assistant support within the next few weeks letting users launch apps, control playback, more — And Spotify is coming back to the platform — This is one example of interoperability that I didn't expect to see anytime soon …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Thurrott.com, BetaNews, TechHive, CNET, 9to5Toys, Mashable, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Android Police, 9to5Google, and Ars Technica
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoho says its domain registrar, TierraNet, pulled its service offline for a few hours after it received phishing complaints, is now looking for a new registrar — Zoho.com was pulled offline on Monday after the company's domain registrar received phishing complaints, the company's chief executive said.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils AI for Humanitarian Action, a $40M five-year initiative to support devs making tools focusing on refugees, disaster response, and human rights — Microsoft today introduced the AI for Humanitarian Action initiative, a $40 million, 5-year plan to support developers interested … | Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Yubico launches new YubiKey 5 Series 2FA keys, supports passwordless FIDO2 and NFC — Supporting FIDO2 — Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced the launch of the YubiKey 5 Series, the industry's first multi-protocol security keys supporting FIDO2.
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Yubico, Yubico, TechCrunch, Cyberscoop, ZDNet, Thurrott.com, TechRadar.com, Wired, VentureBeat, and Engadget
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019 — Salesforce and Apple have announced a partnership “that brings together the number one customer relationship management platform and iOS.”
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Salesforce.com, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, CNBC, Enterprise Times, Business Insider, GeekWire, MacRumors, VentureBeat, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @benioff, @salesforce, @tim_cook, @benioff, and @stephennellis
| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Review of Chase checking accounts shows that earnings for drivers for services like Uber, Lyft, and Postmates dropped from $1,469/month in 2013 to $783 in 2017 — More people are working for ride-sharing and delivery companies but on average they're making less.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co., GeekWire, Uber Under the Hood, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @johnjhorton, @nealkwatra, and @byrosenberg
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Ian Rylett, co-founder of YouTube tween channel SevenAwesomeKids, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor; YouTube demonetized the channel but left it up — For weeks now, SevenAwesomeKids, part of one of YouTube's biggest and most active tween/teen girl channel networks, has been suspiciously dormant.
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Tubefilter, The Verge, and The Next Web
Tweets: @annehelen, @cwarzel, @profcarroll, and @cwarzel
| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed: |
Right-wing sites funded by Russia's Internet Research Agency were used to target /r/The_Donald subreddit where the sites' stories were shared thousands of times — A handful of articles from websites with connections to Russia's infamous troll factory have been shared thousands of times on /r/The_Donald.Sponsor Posts
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