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Samsung debuts One UI, a redesign for its Android skin that has a more minimalist aesthetic, rolling out next year — Your hands will be thankful — Today at its developer conference, Samsung showcased what it calls One UI and kicked off a new approach to the user experience on Samsung smartphones.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung showed off a prototype of its tablet-size two-screen foldable phone, with some aspects obscured, slated for 2019 — Samsung's foldable prototype smartphone — the one it's teased for months — finally made its debut today at the 2018 Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Samsung says it will open its Bixby assistant to third-party developers through an SDK and roll out support for five new languages — Samsung today announced the launch of a toolkit for businesses and third-party developers to create voice apps compatible with intelligent assistant Bixby.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces tools for Android devs: new Kotlin language release, more ways to get users to update apps quickly, and Android Studio IDE headed to Chrome OS — At its Android Dev Summit, Google today announced a number of new tools and features for developers that write apps for its mobile operating system.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says Android developers should use native APIs to support “Foldables”, to help avoid further fragmentation, as Samsung and others tease folding devices — Developers can turn on support for folding displays right now — Google is officially announcing support for a category …
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
A detailed look at iPad Pro's A12X chip, with an improved neural engine, performance, and graphics, and what it may say about Apple's future chips — Apple's Anand Shimpi, Phil Schiller talk silicon—"This is really an Xbox One S class GPU." — BROOKLYN—Apple's new iPad Pro sports several …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sources: Ford has acquired e-scooter startup Spin for around $40M, which is about what its Series A valuation was last year — Ford Motor Co. has agreed to buy electric scooter startup Spin, Axios has learned from multiple sources. — One source puts the price-tag in the range of $40 million …
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| Associated Press: |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Recode: |
SF voters pass Proposition C to raise city's gross receipts tax by ~0.5% on annual gross receipts of $50M+ that companies like Square, Lyft, Salesforce generate — The contentious measure, Prop C, has divided tech leaders. — San Francisco voters passed a measure that has divided …
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon begins mailing a physical holiday toy catalog to customers, with QR codes to help find items, as it adopts tactics from traditional retailers — - Amazon is shipping its first-ever printed holiday toy catalog to millions of customers starting this month. — Amazon's first-ever printed holiday shopping catalog is here.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it has invested $100M+ in YouTube's Content ID system, up from $60M two years ago, and has given $3B+ to rights-holders, up from $2B+ in 2016 — As part of longstanding efforts to prove that it's serious about combating piracy, Google today revealed some updated numbers from across its various digital products.
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| Atul Gawande / New Yorker: |
Computerization, which simplified tasks in many industries, has largely failed to achieve the same result in healthcare, causing many doctors to hate their PCs — Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify will now let free-tier subscribers stream music to Spotify Connect-enabled speakers; manufacturers will need latest Spotify SDK to enable the feature — Your speaker will need an update though — Spotify says it's now letting free-tier subscribers stream music over Spotify Connect-enabled speakers.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Google's walkout was a watershed moment for tech, when 20,000+ employees, many flexing their professional skills and using in-house tools, pressured leadership — Outsiders have little leverage to force the industry to change. The companies' own workers are another matter.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger will soon let users remove sent messages within 10 minutes after posting, release notes for an update to the iOS app say — Soon you can have Zuckerberg powers — Facebook Messenger will soon allow you to delete sent messages up to 10 minutes after you've originally sent them.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Instacart begins rolling out its pickup grocery service, Instacart Pickup, across the US — Instacart has announced that its launching its new pickup grocery service across the U.S. — The San Francisco-based company has been trialing a pickup service since at least June …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $168.9M, up 68% YoY, vs $150M est., and strong Q4 guidance of $183M-$185M in revenue, vs $161.4M est.; stock closes up 35% — - SendGrid, an email marketing company Twilio said last month it was acquiring for $2 billion, also surged over 35 percent Wednesday on the news.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm reports Q4 revenue of $5.8B, down 2% YoY, vs $5.52B est., as operating loss reaches $700M, from a $300M profit YoY, as dispute with Apple takes a toll — Qualcomm said it did not record any revenues in fiscal 2018 for royalties it says it's due on sales of Apple's products.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Roku reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $173.4M, streaming hours up 63% YoY to 6.2B; over 25% of smart TVs sold in US were Roku TVs; stock down 9%+ after hours — Roku continues its transition from a hardware company to a company that primarily makes money with advertising at a rapid pace.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Tencent founder and CEO Pony Ma says that WeChat now has 1M mini programs and 200M people are using them every day — They may not be widely known outside of China, but Tencent's mini program initiative to develop ‘apps’ that live outside of app stores is bearing fruit after it clocked … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square reports Q3 adjusted revenue of $431M, up 68% YoY, as gross payment volume rises 29% YoY to $22.5B; stock down 5% after hours — - Wall Street analysts are expecting 11 cents per share and $413.9 million in revenue from the payments company, according to forecasts by Refinitiv.
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $73M in revenue in October, up 67% YoY, with Japan and the US accounting for 33.2% and 32.9% of total revenue respectively — Pokémon Go made $73 million in revenue in October, according to mobile research firm Sensor Tower …
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Facebook says it will not make political ad disclosure rules mandatory in UK on Nov. 7, says it wants to ensure the accuracy of disclaimers under the ads first — Exclusive: Social network says it is improving process to stop abuse of disclaimer system — Facebook is delaying its plans … | Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
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