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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the Galaxy Note10 with 6.3" screen, wide angle and telephoto rear cameras, Snapdragon 855, coming Aug. 23 with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage for $949 — Available on August 23rd starting at $949 — Samsung is announcing not one, but two versions of its flagship Galaxy Note 10 smartphone …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Samsung and Microsoft extend partnership with tighter integration of Outlook, OneDrive, Office, Your Phone in Galaxy Note10, more; Microsoft to sell Note10 — Samsung is working with Microsoft to integrate Redmond's apps and services on the Galaxy Note 10 and coming Galaxy Book S devices as part of the pair's extended partnership.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Book S, a $999 ultra-thin 13" Windows 10 laptop with LTE, a Snapdragon 8cx chipset, and a claimed 23 hour battery life, coming September — New smartphones weren't the only thing Samsung announced today at its Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event in Brooklyn.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
A look at Samsung's updated DeX feature, which offers a desktop-like computing mode for its smartphones and has been expanded to work with Windows and macOS PCs — New compatibility with Windows and Mac puts your phone's screen on your laptop's display — Among the many new updates …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Sources: Instagram has banned “preferred marketing partner” HYP3R, which scraped millions of posts per month, including Stories, and tracked users' locations — - A buzzy San Francisco startup has been secretly saving what appears to be millions of Instagram users' stories and tracking their locations.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it may have shared users' data with its ad partners without user consent due to two ad targeting-related bugs that it claims were fixed on August 5 — Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony say they will require game publishers to disclose the odds of receiving types of in-game items from loot boxes starting in 2020 — And a handful of publishers, too — The three major video game console manufacturers — Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo …
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| Daniel Lippman / Politico: |
Sources: White House is circulating drafts of an executive order addressing alleged anti-conservative bias on social media, although exact details are unclear — The White House is circulating drafts of a proposed executive order that would address allegations of anti-conservative bias … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Source and documents show Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls made using the app's translation service — Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal conversations of Skype users conducted through the app's translation service, according to a cache of internal documents …
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| Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix signs multi-year film and TV deal with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss; sources say the deal is worth $200M — David Benioff and Dan Weiss have signed a multiple-year film and TV pact with the streamer, which was bidding for the duo's services alongside Disney and Amazon.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces it has acquired field service software company ClickSoftware for $1.35B — Another day, another Salesforce acquisition. Just days after closing the hefty $15.7 billion Tableau deal, the company opened its wallet again, this time announcing it has bought field service …
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Lyft reports Q2 revenue of $867M, up 72% YoY, and an adjusted net loss $197.3M compared to an adjusted loss of $176.5M a year ago — Second quarter revenue grew to $867 million, up 72% year-over-year — Based on execution and improving market environment, raising outlook for fiscal 2019
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
IBM researchers detail “warshipping”, a technique whereby attackers build and mail a device capable of hacking WiFi networks to the target — Why break into a company's network when you can just walk right in — literally? — Gone could be the days of having to find a zero … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: 5.7" Pixel 4 and 6.3" Pixel 4 XL will have 90Hz OLED displays, rear camera with 12MP sensor with phase-detect auto-focus and 16MP telephoto lens, more — The physical appearance and some headlining features of the Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL have already been confirmed by Google itself …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon now gives users the ability to choose how fast Alexa talks by saying “speed up” or “slow down”, with seven different speed options — There are seven speeds — Amazon is launching a new ability for it's Alexa smart assistant today: the ability to choose how fast it talks.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
NYC extends the cap on the number of Uber and Lyft vehicles for another 12 months, further limits time cars can spend cruising without passengers in Manhattan — Vote also seeks to limit the amount of deadheading — The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission voted Wednesday to extend …
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| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
The El Paso and Dayton shootings once again show how disinformation can spread on hard-to-track private messaging apps, oftentimes by bad actors — Just after the El Paso shooting, a video of a young man in glasses driving and rapping to Kendrick Lamar began to spread on Telegram.
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