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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story — ‘[Tim Cook] is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’ — Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro …
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Tweets: @ajassy, @stevekopack, @jason_koebler, @kimzetter, @josephfcox, @mattblaze, @lorenzofb, and @josephfcox
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone XR review: competitive price for Apple's latest processor and cameras with a great battery life, but comes in only one size and the display is not great — Big screen, small compromise — Video by Phil Esposito & Becca Farsace — Here's a question: how much do you care about the display on a phone?
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
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Tweets: @etherington, @chrisvelazco, @natisho, @nateingraham, and @appleinsider
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors — A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.”
Tweets: @robinwauters, @ruchowdh, @chrisalensula, @lam_barrett, @wired, @nitashatiku, @mat, and @matthewstoller
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple says iOS 12.1 will fix a bug that resulted in smoother-looking photos taken by the iPhone XS and XR's front camera, thus improving selfie quality — Beautygate no longer — Ever since the iPhone XS came out, there's been criticism of its front camera — specifically, that it overly smooths skin.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Brendan Iribe, co-founder and ex-CEO of Oculus, is leaving Facebook; source: move follows shakeups in Oculus' VR arm that include canceling PC-powered Rift 2 — Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook, TechCrunch has learned.
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Facebook: Brendan Trexler Iribe. Tweets: @jank0, @natemitchell, @lucasmtny, @somospostpc, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @williamturton, @lucasmtny, @techledes, @sarahfrier, and @alexeheath
| Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son cancels speaking engagement at Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative, but may still attend the event — Mr. Son becomes latest executive to cancel plans after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — RIYADH—SoftBank Group Corp.'s Chief Executive Masayoshi Son …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC starts taking preorders for its blockchain phone Exodus 1 for 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH, or ~$960, only takes payments in cryptocurrency, expects to ship in Dec — You have to buy it in bitcoin or Ether — HTC just announced actual specs for its much-hyped blockchain phone, the Exodus 1, and is letting people sign up for preorders.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance — Today we're seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor …
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior — After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.
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| The Verge: |
Android: a visual history of Google's OS on its 10th anniversary — Google's Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1 on October 22nd, 2008. A decade might seem like a long time, but on the scale of the PC's growth, it's a blink of an eye.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; from Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to buy a $10/month VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi — Selected Firefox users will be able to purchase a ProtonVPN version for $10. Some of the money will go to support Mozilla and Firefox.
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Future Releases, ProtonVPN Blog, Inquirer, The Verge, SecurityWeek, Techdows, Engadget, Firstpost, and Neowin
Tweets: @campuscodi, @protonvpn, @gcluley, and @mmaunder
| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Chrome enables Picture-in-Picture support on desktop by default on macOS, Windows, and Linux — It's a popular feature on Android, especially useful if you want to watch YouTube videos while you do other things, and now Picture-in-picture (PiP) is officially coming to the desktop.| Piper Jaffray: |
Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in US, and Instagram is now teens' most-used social platform, eclipsing Snapchat — Our 36th semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens survey included results from 8,600 teens across 48 states with an average age of 16.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Repl.it, a startup letting users write and ship code from their browsers, raises $4.5M Series A led by a16z, with YC, Paul Graham, and others participating — - Repl.it is a start-up whose technology lets software engineers quickly write and ship code from a web browser.| Michael Laris / Washington Post: |
Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021 — The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington …
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Self-Driven, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Mashable, Engadget, CNET, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @avgregr, @douglevin, @b_fung, and @robpegoraro
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Uber will invest $260M and introduce a 15 pence per mile charge on each trip to help all of its London drivers switch to electric cars by 2025 — - Uber will invest £200 million to tackle air pollution in Britain's capital, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Pixel 3 and 3 XL owners report issues with camera not saving images, background apps being killed, and other glitches that may point to memory managment issues — With its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Google has crafted some pretty fantastic smartphones in terms of the experience they offer.
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Android Police, Thurrott.com, TalkAndroid.com, Android Beat, PiunikaWeb, BGR, Digital Trends, Gotta Be Mobile, Android and Me, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @journeydan and @dcseifert
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct — Executive steps down following WSJ article revealing allegations of sexual misconduct — Uber Technologies Inc.'s top deal maker, Cameron Poetzscher, has resigned from the company …
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| Reuters: |
Verizon Q3 beats estimates with net addition of 295K subscribers, net income of $4.92B on total operating revenue of $32.61B — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for net new phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill, helped by promotional offers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPhones.Sponsor Posts
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