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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.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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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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| 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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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google expands its beta AR walking navigation feature, now called Live View, to all Android and iOS devices that support ARCore and ARKit, starting this week — Google wants its Maps app to be about more than just getting directions. The search giant on Thursday announced a handful …
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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 says 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 … | Olzhas Auyezov / Reuters: |
Kazakhstan claims ISPs asking customers to install government-issued encryption certificates on their devices was simply a test, says users can now remove them — ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan has halted the implementation of an internet surveillance system criticized by lawyers as illegal … | CNBC: |
Apple, Eli Lilly, and health data startup Evidation team up on a study on how iPhones, Watches, and Beddit sleep monitors may help detect dementia — KEY POINTS — Apple has teamed up with Eli Lilly on new research to detect evidence of brain decline by using data from popular connected devices.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood gets approval to operate as a broker by UK regulator, as it gears up for a UK launch — Robinhood, the Silicon Valley-based stock trading app that was recently valued by investors at $7.6 billion, has received regulatory approval in the U.K., breaking cover on its plans to set up shop in London …
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Lyft reports Q2 revenue of $867M, up 72% YoY, and an adjusted net loss of $197.3M compared to $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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| Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab: |
How Piano created a “propensity” paywall that uses machine learning with 76 metrics to predict how likely someone is to subscribe, and adjusts accordingly — They went from being the kid nobody wanted to talk with to one of the cool kids on the block. (Apparently showing the other kids how to make money helps.)| 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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