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Samsung announces its next Unpacked event will be held on August 7 in New York, will likely detail the Galaxy Note 10 — It's official. Samsung said Monday it'll hold its next big product launch on Aug. 7 in New York, confirming CNET's scoop from last month about the launch plans.
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Tim Cook emails a reporter to say the WSJ report about Jony Ive's departure—and his frustration with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design—is “absurd” — In a rare, scathing statement sent exclusively to NBC News, Cook took issue with a report published Sunday night by The Wall Street Journal.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sony's PlayStation Vue raises prices by $5/month for all tiers, bringing the cheapest plan to $50/month, following YouTube TV, which raised prices in April — Sony's PlayStation Vue live TV streaming service is joining its rivals with the roll out another price increase.
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PlayStation.Blog, CNET, BetaNews, MacRumors, Variety, The Streamable, TechSpot, KnowTechie, 9to5Mac, GameSpot, Ars Technica, SlashGear, The Verge, Engadget, Droid Life, Android Central, Droid Life, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @davezatz
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Apple representatives talk about Project Catalyst, and developers from Twitter, Gameloft, and TripIt share their experiences about developing apps with Catalyst — The people already using Catalyst tell Ars what Mac users and devs should expect. — SAN JOSE, Calif.—When Apple revealed macOS Catalina …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources its robots.txt parser and submits a proposal to IETF to make the Robots Exclusion Protocol an official standard — Google wants to turn the decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) into an official internet standard — and it's making its own robots.txt parser open source as part of the push.| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Virginia becomes one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties for the distribution of non-consensual deepfake images and video — New text effective today adds “falsely created images” to state law. — As of today, Virginia is one of the first states in the country …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
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Samsung Global Newsroom, The Register, The Verge, Voicebot, ultimatepocket.com, Fast Company, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, and XDA Developers
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says its next Windows 10 feature update, expected in September, will focus on performance improvements and quality enhancements — Microsoft has finally announced Windows 10 19H2, and it's just as we expected. There's not much to see here, folks.
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Windows Experience Blog, Windows Experience Blog, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, ZDNet, and PCWorld
Tweets: @zacbowden, @whatthebit, and @aaronklein
| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price caps on .org domain names, letting the Public Interest Registry charge as much as it wants for them — ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price restrictions on .org domains. — As many feared, the comment period was just a formality.
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Ars Technica, ICANN, InternetCommerce.org, The Register, TechRepublic, and CircleID
Tweets: @hrbrmstr, @douglevin, and @davidu
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Meditation app Calm raises $27M Series B extension from Lightspeed and some celebrity angel investors at a $1B valuation, adding to its $88M Series B from Feb. — Meditation app unicorn Calm wants you to doze off to the dulcet tones of actor Matthew McConaughey's southern drawl or writer Stephen Fry's English accent.| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
As Alphabet's Loon prepares for its first commercial trial to deliver cell service via balloon in Kenya, some wireless carriers doubt the tech's viability — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's bet on balloons to deliver cell service soon faces a crucial test amid doubts about the viability … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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