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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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| Craig Lloyd / iFixit: |
iPhones now do not display the Battery Health feature when their batteries are replaced by unauthorized service providers — By activating a software lock on newer iPhones, Apple is announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
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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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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How user-facing platforms, infrastructure companies, and democratically elected governments can get better at deciding what content should be moderated and when — On Sunday night, when Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced in a blog post that the company was terminating service for 8chan, the response was nearly universal: Finally.| 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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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Check Point researchers: Facebook has failed to address a WhatsApp flaw that lets hackers alter messages and sender identities, a year after it was reported — Cybersecurity experts who found a way to hack WhatsApp and manipulate chat messages said on Wednesday that Facebook has failed to address the flaws …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BBC and ITV's BritBox and CollegeHumor's Dropout — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller. — The social giant is launching … | 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.
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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.)| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Postmates says it's been granted the first-ever permit to test sidewalk delivery robots in San Francisco — On-demand delivery business Postmates says it's been granted the first-ever permit for side-walk robotics operations in the city of San Francisco. — According to San Francisco Public Works … | 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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| 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.| Lyft, Inc.: |
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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