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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 3a review: great price with an excellent camera and a 3.5mm headphone jack but a slower processor, no wireless charging, and isn't water resistant — At $399 and $479, respectively, the Pixel 3A and 3A XL are great deals — I am going to break an unwritten rule of tech reviews …
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Tweets: @vladsavov, @bxchen, @backlon, @dcseifert, @jacknicas, @gartenberg, @stshank, @dcseifert, and @gartenberg
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, TechCrunch, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, Thurrott, and CNET
Tweets: @stshank, @wired, and @lanceulanoff
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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Cell Phones, Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Toys, Mashable, and CNET
Tweets: @drakenic and @chriswelch
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils the Google Nest Hub Max, a 10-inch smart display with a built-in camera that can act as an indoor security camera, coming this summer for $229 — It can detect your face, too — The Google Nest Hub Max is a big Google Assistant smart display with a camera on top that you can use …
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Tweets: @9to5google, @benwood, @stshank, @google, @geoffreyfowler, @canterrain, @lanceulanoff, and @inafried
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google to replace its “Works with Nest” program this summer with “Works with Google Assistant”, which would give vetted partners access to customer data — As Google is further integrating the Nest brand, it is also introducing some significant changes to the way Nest products will work.
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Digital Trends, CNET, Nest, Android Central, The Keyword, and Engadget
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
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Tweets: @google, @ewaccess, @googlemexico, @una, @fredericl, and @peard33
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
First look at Android Q: dark mode, better gestures, Live Caption, improvements to OS security updates via Project Mainline, Focus Mode, and more — It isn't about what's new, it's about what's better — A full release is expected this fall, but Google is announcing new major features …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @google, @zackwhittaker, @sriramvsharma, @markhachman, @jank0, and @tomwarren
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says its next-gen Assistant is 10X faster and includes more app-specific functionality, coming to Pixel phones later this year — After three years, the voice-activated helper gets its biggest update yet. And it shows just how much Google already knows about you.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, OneZero, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
Tweets: @stshank, @edbaig, @google, @caseynewton, @outonalumb, @akwired, @benbajarin, @larrymagid, and @lanceulanoff. Thanks:@akwired
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google announces Duplex on the Web, less focused on mimicking speech, can now handle car rentals and fill online forms with your info, coming to Android in 2019 — Last year, Google stoked intense controversy when it announced Duplex, a technology that uses eerily human-sounding artificial …
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Tweets: @google, @geoffblaber, @mulligan, @jeffjarvis, @androidpolice, @richardjnieva, @gartenberg, @reneritchie, and @willoremus
| Jordan Palmer / Android Police: |
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it discovered a “large scale security breach”, with hackers withdrawing ~$41M in bitcoin and taking user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially more — Hackers stole more than 7,000 bitcoin from crypto exchange Binance, the world's largest by volume, the startup reported Tuesday.
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Binance, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Decrypt, TechCrunch, FutureSin, Forbes, The Block, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, CryptoSlate, Bitsonline, NewsBTC, and Mashable
Tweets: @cz_binance, @hackapreneur, @cryptoqf, @alansilbert, @huvegi, and @thecryptomonk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
To curb tracking, Google says anti-fingerprinting tech is coming in Chrome and devs must explicitly opt-in for cookies that are meant to be used across sites — Google today announced a major new initiative around its Chrome browser that will, in the long run, introduce significant changes …
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Chromium Blog, The Verge, web.dev, PCWorld, The Keyword, VentureBeat, ZDNet, AdExchanger, Bloomberg, CNET, and Adweek
Tweets: @googleads, @pkedrosky, @techcrunch, @chromiumdev, @campuscodi, and @chromiumdev
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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TechCrunch, XDA Developers, The Verge, NDTV Gadgets 360, VentureBeat, TalkAndroid.com, and MacRumors
Tweets: @google, @jeffjarvis, @alexjamesfitz, @caro_milanesi, and @geoffreyfowler
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google Lens coming to Google Search; some search results to include 3D models for an AR view of what you searched for; Lens translation coming to low-end phones — Imagine you're thinking about chairs, and you Google up some to try out in your living room.
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The Keyword, AppleInsider, YouTube, PCWorld, Android Police, 9to5Google, and Engadget
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @lanceulanoff, @sydell, @dcseifert, @jetscott, @ow, @jdolcourt, @stshank, and @lanceulanoff. Thanks:@jasonhiner
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Waymo says it will make 10 Waymo self-driving vehicles with safety operators available via Lyft in Phoenix for eligible rides over the next few months — Initial service offered by ride-sharing startup and Google unit involves 10 vehicles with safety operators
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Waymo, Telegraph, Engadget, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, CNBC, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Financial Times, Mashable, and VentureBeat
| New York Times: |
At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai pitched privacy for everyone, going against the company's history of data collection, one week after a similar push from Facebook — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google, the company that may know the most about our digital lives, is now preaching the gospel of privacy.
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South China Morning Post, The Keyword, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Wired, Android Police, TechCrunch, Quartz, Forbes, and Fast Company
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @caro_milanesi, @daiwaka, and @privacyproject
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a site facilitating access to dark web sites, arrested by FBI and others in several countries — The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces.
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The Times of Israel, Gizmodo, The Register, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, The Daily Dot, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @j0hnnyxm4s
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google expands its Flutter mobile app SDK, previously focused on Android and iOS, to the web, desktop, and embedded devices — At its I/O 2019 developer conference today, Google launched version 1.5 of Flutter, its open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS.
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Google Developers Blog, SiliconANGLE, Flutter, Thurrott, GitHub, Android Police, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, and ZDNet
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $776M, up 95% YoY, and an adjusted net loss, excluding stock-based compensation, of $211.5M, down from $228.4M YoY — SAN FRANCISCO — The ride-hailing company Lyft went public in March in a blaze of hype. But it stumbled quickly and its shares slid below …
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Lyft, Inc., CNET, Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, Reuters, CNN, and Xconomy. Tweets: @felixsalmon
| Bloomberg: |
Current and former employees discuss how Apple's stores changed during Angela Ahrendts' tenure, with challenges around customer service festering — Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration.
Tweets: @markgurman, @eileentso, @sarahhalzack, @business, @shiraovide, @markgurman, @steipete, @jeffmacke, @business, and @damanr
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