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| 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, preorder now, available Oct. 18 — 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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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Google's Pixel 3 and 3 XL has a robot call screener feature called Call Screen that can respond to unknown callers; feature will come to other Pixels “soon” — Today, Google is announcing the latest versions of its flagship phone, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, at an event in New York.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Yossi Appleboum, a security expert working for a “major” US telco provides docs allegedly showing Supermicro sent it hacked hardware; Supermicro stock down 18%+ — Discovery shows China continues to sabotage critical technology components bound for America
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| Motherboard: |
Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile deny being the “US telecom” mentioned in today's Bloomberg story alleging compromised Supermicro hardware — No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek's bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces 7-inch Home Hub, to compete against Amazon's Echo Show, which comes in four colors, has no camera; pre-order today for $149, ships October 22 — With the Home Mini and Home Max in 2017, Google was able to inundate the market with affordable smart speakers, while offering an audiophile experience for the high-end.
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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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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Google debuts Pixel Slate, a Chrome OS tablet with a 3000×2000 display, 8-16GB of RAM, front and rear cameras, no 3.5mm jack; coming later in 2018 from $599 — Google just took the wraps off a new Chromebook device at its hardware event today. The company is launching its new Pixel Slate …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Google's Pixel Slate: the $200 keyboard is a must-have, making it $800+ all-in, but has an impressive array of features and is less than iPad Pro — Google is cooking up a new formula for detachables, and it has an intriguing recipe with the new Pixel Slate.| 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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will use machine learning to scan photos to detect bullying and send them to community moderators for review if needed, rolling out in coming weeks — Instagram and its users do benefit from the app's ownership by Facebook, which invests tons in new artificial intelligence technologies.
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| 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: @theintercept, @freedomofpress, @johnpaczkowski, @jillianiles, @aaschapiro, @rj_gallagher, and @kateconger
| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Workplace by Facebook introduces Safety Check and multi-company chat groups and video calls for up to 50 people — Facebook today announced that its Workplace by Facebook and messaging app Work Chat will now support conversations across companies for chat, voice calls, and video calls with up to 50 people.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts an updated Chromecast with multi-room audio support and support for 1080p streaming at 60fps, available now for $35 — In the years since the first Chromecast hit store shelves in 2013, Google's $35 plug-in streaming dongle has come to dominate the set-top landscape.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project xCloud, a game streaming service designed to work across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, available for public trials in 2019 — Available for public trials in 2019 — Microsoft is unveiling its game streaming service for the first time today.
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| 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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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Machinify, which uses AI to help companies make decisions through big data insights, raises $10M Series A led by Battery Ventures with GV among investors — Data is valuable — if you know how to access it and reap the insights from it. That's where Machinify comes in.
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