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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces changes to its Siri audio clip review process, making it opt-in for users, bringing the work in-house, and saying it won't retain recordings — The top line news is that Apple is making changes to the way that Siri audio review, or ‘grading’ works across all of its devices.
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Apple, Financial Times, The Verge, Telegraph, USA Today, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Macworld, MacRumors, Threatpost, GeekWire, The Hill, iMore, CNBC, CNN, The Irish Times, Thurrott, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Tweets: @panzer, @tim, @alexhern, @can, @stevekovach, @acedtect, @backlon, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, and @marcoarment
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Ring has partnerships with over 400 US police forces, granting them access to footage by request, higher than previously believed — The doorbell-camera company Ring has quietly forged video-sharing partnerships with more than 400 police forces across the United States …
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The Ring Blog, CNET, Engadget, USA Today, GeekWire, The Hill, CityLab, and The Daily Dot
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook tightens rules on political advertisers, requiring further identity proof such as tax-identification number or Federal Election Commission registration — Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …
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| Alexandra Ma / Business Insider: |
Report: US officials are trying to block an undersea cable backed by Google and Facebook connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong over national security concerns — - An 8,000-mile undersea cable connecting Los Angeles to Hong Kong is at risk of being abandoned over national-security threats, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Report: Google plans to move some production of Pixel 3A from China to Vietnam later this year and aims to have shipped 8M-10M smartphones by the end of 2019 — According to a report from Japanese news outlet Nikkei, Google is set to move production of the Pixel from China to Vietnam amid the growing US-China trade war.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it supports the addition of its proprietary exFAT file system to the Linux kernel and expects the Linux community to submit a conformant version — Microsoft today announced it is supporting the addition of its exFAT file system to the Linux kernel.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple will begin selling its devices online in India over the coming months, after the country relaxed rules mandating local production — - iPhone maker could start online sales in India within months — Eased requirements may reduce China manufacturing dependency
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iMore, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @markgurman
| Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
LCG Entertainment, a new company formed by game industry veterans, to buy defunct studio Telltale Games, sell some of their back catalog, and work on new games — A new attempt to relaunch the episodic adventure company — Telltale Games, which shut down last year, is coming back after its assets … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US government's plan to make Dish the country's fourth-largest mobile carrier, by forcing T-Mobile and Sprint to sell assets, will likely leave 100M underserved — Dish replacing Sprint as fourth carrier could leave 100 million people uncovered. — When the Department of Justice approved … | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Three prominent men in the video game industry were accused of sexual assault in one day this week, re-igniting a broader debate about #MeToo and the industry — Developers who worked on ‘Gears of War 4’ and ‘Night in the Woods’ have been accused of sexual assault. — MARCO PIUNTI/GETTY IMAGES
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Sources: when Telegram raised $1.7B in 2018, it told investors it will deliver Gram by Oct. 31, 2019, or give back the money, and now says it is still on track — While Facebook's big cryptocurrency plans have hit a wall with regulators, another big social network, Telegram, is charging ahead with its own digital currency.
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Tweets: @nytimestech, @nathanielpopper, @nytimesbusiness, @baidakova, and @coindesk
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Fitbit Versa 2, an Alexa-enabled AMOLED smartwatch with an upgraded processor, Spotify integration, available to order on September 15 for $200 — I really liked the Fitbit Versa when I reviewed it last year. For just $200, it offered a robust set of health-tracking tools in an attractive …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins bringing a dark mode to its apps, starting with Outlook for iOS and Android and Office.com; Word and others to gain dark mode for iOS 13 launch — Microsoft goes all in on dark mode for iOS 13's launch — Microsoft revealed that it was working on a dark mode for Outlook …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Fossil Gen 5 smartwatch review: sharp looks, impressive speaker, and fast performance, but Wear OS lets it down and visibility in sunlight is an issue — Fossil held up its end of the bargain, Qualcomm and Google didn't — I have been banging on about how Google's smartwatch platform … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Peloton's public S-1 shows revenue of $915M in fiscal 2019, up 110% YoY, and an annualized subscriber growth of ~144% over the past 3 years, to 511K this June — Today, Peloton, the maker of pricey in-home bicycles and treadmills paired with on-demand fitness classes, filed its S-1 …
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| Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Investigation finds cyber insurers often prefer to pay the ransom for ransomware attacks, even when backup files could be recovered, to save claim costs — Even when public agencies and companies hit by ransomware could recover their files on their own, insurers prefer to pay the ransom. Why?| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google says its Nest Hello video doorbell can now detect package deliveries and notify US users who are subscribed to its $5/month Nest Aware service — So you can stop checking every time the camera detects passersby — Google says that, starting today, its Nest Hello video doorbell …
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Pinterest says it will begin surfacing fact-based search results, from the WHO and others, when users search for 200 vaccine-related queries — Users who search for terms related to vaccines will be presented with information from major public health organizations
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The Verge. Tweets: @noupside, @sivavaid, @caseynewton, @ameracadpeds, and @juliacarriew. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week” — When it first launched, YouTube Kids had a one size fits all approach for all kids. But since children are interested in different things …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @kcoxdc
| Monica Melton / Forbes: |
ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence and data analytics startup, raises $248M Series E led by Lightspeed Ventures at a $1.95B valuation — ThoughtSpot, the business intelligence startup that offers data analytics searches as simple to use as Google, hit unicorn status on Wednesday …
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