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Livestream of the Made by Google event in NYC — Find out what we've been up to this year. Watch the live presentation. October 9th, 11am EDT
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Live blog of Google's event, where new Pixel phones, a charging stand, updates to Google Home and Chromecast lines, and a new tablet and laptop are expected — Live from Google's New York event to unveil the Pixel 3 and updates to its Google Home and Chromecast lines
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Tweets: @pierce, @rdrv3, @kawaljit, @rogerwcheng, @rogerwcheng, and @rdrv3
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google announces $799+ 5.5" Pixel 3 and $899+ 6.3" Pixel 3 XL with slimmed down bezels, wireless charging, dual front cameras, available unlocked or on Verizon — Google just unveiled the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, its latest flagship Android smartphones. There was little left to “unveil” …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Hardware security expert Joe Fitzpatrick, a named source in Bloomberg's China spy chip investigation, casts doubt on the story's accuracy — Security researcher Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the few sources named in Bloomberg Businessweek's bombshell Chinese hack investigation …
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Yossi Appleboum, a security expert working for a “major” US telco provides docs allegedly showing Supermicro sent it hacked hardware; Supermicro stock down 20%+ — Discovery shows China continues to sabotage critical technology components bound for America| Financial Times: |
President of Sony confirms that the company is working on a successor to the PlayStation 4, but declined to formally name it the “PlayStation 5” — The president of Sony has confirmed that the company is working on a successor to the PlayStation 4, as speculation intensifies …
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: 2018 iPad Pro models to sport thin bezels with no notch, will support Face ID in both portrait and landscape; new Pencil will have proximity pairing — Apple is widely expected to hold an event this month to introduce new 2018 iPad Pro models, new Macs, and more.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: some advertisers are moving over half of their budget for Google search to Amazon ads instead, amounting to a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars — - In some cases, brands are moving 50 to 60 percent of their Google Search ad budgets to Amazon, two media agencies noted.
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @digitalshields, @ihnatko, and @ceciliakang. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Transcript of remarks on Dragonfly by Google search chief Ben Gomes to staff seem to contradict Google's claims about limited progress on Chinese search engine — “We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google's search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”
Tweets: @kateconger, @jillianiles, @aaschapiro, and @rj_gallagher
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now uses machine learning to optically scan photos to detect bullying and send them to community moderators for review if needed — Instagram and its users do benefit from the app's ownership by Facebook, which invests tons in new artificial intelligence technologies.| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Google says it has decided not to compete for a DoD cloud contract worth potentially $10B, citing poor bidding process and potential conflict with its AI values — - Company says cloud deal may clash with its values on AI — Google also criticizes plan to pick a single winner among bids
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts video chat devices for home: the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen; preorders today, ships November — Facebook's first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
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Wunderlist's founders raise $19M Series A for Pitch, a presentation tool they plan to launch by summer 2019 — Microsoft's Powerpoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world.| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will invest in ride-hailing company Grab as part of a strategic partnership on big data, AI, cloud services, more; the amount is undisclosed — - Tech giant Microsoft said it will invest an undisclosed sum into Singapore-based ride-sharing company Grab as part of a strategic partnership.
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Tweets: @sallyshin and @harper
| Stephanie Mehta / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Kirsten Green, as her VC firm Forerunner Ventures announces it is raising a new $360M fund, one of the largest raised by a woman-founded venture firm — Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, has been an enthusiastic supporter of the direct … | New York Times: |
Trump campaign's Rick Gates sought proposals in 2016 from Israeli firm Psy-Group to make fake online accounts and use social media to influence and win election — WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities …
Tweets: @natashabertrand, @adamgoldmannyt, @amyfiscus, @repadamschiff, @mikeisaac, @amyfiscus, @katherinemiller, @yashar, and @sethabramson
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Forbes partners with journalism blockchain network Civil to become the first major media company to experiment with publishing stories to the blockchain — Forbes, the century-old business publisher, is joining forces with Civil, a journalism blockchain network, to become the first major media company … | Ben Smith / The Keyword: |
In the wake of WSJ story, Alphabet shuts down Google+ for consumers, debuts more granular Google Account permissions, adds restrictions to Gmail API — Many third-party apps, services and websites build on top of our various services to improve everyone's phones, working life, and online experience.
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Tweets: @karaswisher, @refsrc, @chrismessina, @karissabe, @chrismessina, @martinsfp, @hunterwalk, @ericajoy, @chillmage, and @ronamadeo
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