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Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| The Keyword: |
Google launches a personalized audio news feed on Google Assistant using Google News, rolling out to some users in the US in English — For the past century, radio has been a one-size-fits-all medium. Turn on the radio and you're dropped into a show at a moment in time …
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| Aparajita Saxena / Reuters: |
Lyft says it has filed with the SEC for an IPO, hasn't specified the number of shares it is selling or their price range; sources say IPO is slated for H1 2019 — (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc on Thursday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google Translate's website, to combat bias, now gives both feminine and masculine translations for some gender-neutral words such as “doctor” in some languages — Google's making an effort to reduce perceived gender bias in Google Translate, it announced today.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, letting users detect irregular heart rhythms — Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart's electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Amazon says it is beta testing Amazon Answers, an invite-only program for users to help answer questions that Alexa doesn't know, starting today — Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8cx, an “extreme” processor for Windows laptops that it says is the first 7nm chip for a PC platform — Could Qualcomm replace Intel in your next Windows PC? — The “X” stands for “extreme.” That's what Qualcomm's marketing department wants you to think about the new Snapdragon 8cx.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres — Pandora has officially launched its podcasts platform today after running a beta on iOS and Android for about three weeks. Podcasts on Pandora is now available for all users …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WordPress.org launches WordPress 5.0, introducing a block-based editor to offer more streamlined editing, as well as a Classic Editor plugin — WordPress.org today launched WordPress 5.0, which brings “big upgrades to the editor” in the blog management tool.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Music rolls out new features that let people chat more naturally with Alexa to narrow playlist options and indicate music preferences — Amazon Music, reportedly the third-largest subscription-based music service worldwide, is doubling down on voice.
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| Jake Swearingen / New York Magazine: |
Smartphone manufacturers are likely preparing for a global sales decline as replacement cycles lengthen and smartphones approach becoming commodities — From roughly 2007 until 2013, the smartphone market grew at an astonishing pace, posting double-digit growth year after year, even during a global recession.
Tweets: @db and @pardesoteric
| Financial Times: |
Millions of users on O2 in UK are unable to use mobile data due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment; SoftBank in Japan was affected for several hours — Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.
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Reddit says it now gets 1.4B native video views per month and serves 13M+ hours of video monthly, up 38% since the beginning of 2018 — Community highlights, best-of's and the top trends for the year ahead — This time of year, there are recaps and best-ofs a-plenty … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Lightspeed hires Jana Messerschmidt, Merci Victoria Grace, Ashley Brasier, Jerry Ye, Jay Madheswaran as investing partners and Neetzan Zimmerman as VP of growth — Months after raising a fresh $1.8 billion in fresh funds, one of Silicon Valley's faster growing venture firms has made a wave of hires to continue its growth.
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| Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters: |
IBM to sell seven of its software products, including BigFix and Unica, to India-based IT services company HCL for $1.8B in a deal expected to close by mid-2019 — (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) said on Thursday it will sell some of its software products business … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A look at a proposed US national privacy law, backed by 200 retailers, banks, and tech companies, that would create universal data collection rules and more — Ctrl N — A broad coalition of more than 200 retailers, banks and technology companies is releasing new recommendations … | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it will bring its political ad transparency tools, including disclaimers and a searchable ad library, to India ahead of the 2019 general election — As India inches closer to its general elections, Facebook announced today that it is bringing transparency to political ads on its platform in the country early next year.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies — Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Since implementing its own screen time tracking tools in iOS 12, Apple has removed some 3rd-party trackers and parental control apps from the App Store — A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple's increased scrutiny …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature amid “PR” fears — Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
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