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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple debuts iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max, with 5.8" and 6.5" screens, no 3D Touch, better battery life, triple camera system with zoom and wide angle, in 6 colors — As usual, Apple's latest batch of iPhones aren't exactly surprising, thanks to plenty of detailed leaks throughout the year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple unveils the 6.1" iPhone 11, the XR's successor, with low-light night mode, A13 Bionic chip, dual cameras with an ultra wide lens, in six colors — A successor to the default iPhone — Apple is introducing a successor to its iPhone XR today, dubbed iPhone 11.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple says the iPhone 11's A13 Bionic has 8.5B transistors, up from the A12's 6.9B, and its two high-performance cores are 20% faster and consume 40% less power — Apple is announcing new iPhone models today. The iPhone 11 uses an Apple A13 Bionic system-on-a-chip.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple announces Watch Series 5 with built-in compass, always-on display, and new materials, shipping on September 20 from $399; Series 3 price drops to $199 — Apple has just officially announced the next generation of the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Series 5.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Apple announces research studies around hearing, heart, and women's health, and says it will launch an Apple Research app for enrolling in them by end of year — Apple is today launching the Apple Research app for iPhone and Apple Watch users interested in sharing their health data along …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Apple TV+ will launch on November 1 for $4.99/month in 100 countries; customers get one year free with the purchase of an Apple device — Back in March, Apple unveiled Apple TV+, a subscription television and film service featuring a slate of original content from Steven Spielberg …
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| The Verge: |
Apple Arcade to debut on September 19 for $4.99/month with a one month free trial; Apple says it will add hundreds of games to its catalog in the coming weeks — Apple's subscription gaming service is coming soon. Today, at its latest iPhone event, the company revealed that Apple Arcade …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it has laid off 170 people from its product team and 265 people from its engineering team — Uber has laid off 435 employees across its product and engineering teams, the company announced today. Combined, the layoffs represent about 8% of the organizations …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple says iPadOS is coming on September 30, alongside the new 10.2-inch iPad, with support for iPad models going back several years — Apple will release iPadOS on September 30th, with support for the last several years of iPad models. — While it's mostly just a name change, this is technically the first ever release of iPadOS.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple unveils an entry-level 2019 iPad with Pencil support, A10 Fusion chip, and a 10.2" screen, up from the 9.7" size, shipping on Sept. 30, starting from $329 — Roughly a year and a half after introducing the sixth-generation iPad — an entry-level model virtually identical to its predecessor …
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Tweets: @reckless and @johnvoorhees
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla partners with Cloudflare to launch the beta of Firefox Private Network VPN, a VPN service via a browser extension for US desktop users — Mozilla today announced that it is bringing back the Firefox Test Pilot program to allow users to try out new features before they are ready for mainstream usage.
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2B stake in AT&T, questions its M&A strategy and operational execution, calls for reassessing leadership team — KEY POINTS — Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T, questioning its M&A strategy and operational execution.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Ahead of iOS 13, which will warn users of apps that collect location data in the background, Facebook publishes a blog post explaining how it uses location data — KEY POINTS — Facebook has published an informational blog post about how its app collects and uses background location data from smartphones.
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
After criticism, Lyft hopes to improve rider safety by mandating driver education and adding a new notification system for potentially dangerous off-track rides — The company will mandate driver safety education and use prediction to determine if riders or drivers need help.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tightens its policies around self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to prevent its spread, after consulting with experts — Timed with World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening its policies around some difficult topics including self-harm, suicide … | Georgina Torbet / Engadget: |
Polaroid Originals unveils Polaroid Labs, a device that prints photos directly from smartphone screens, goes on sale on October 10 for $130 in the US and Europe — There's something appealing about physical photos in the age of smartphone cameras. Sifting through images to find …
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| Bloomberg: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has been appointed to the additional position of EU vice president for digital, with broad oversight of tech policy issues — - Margrethe Vestager nominated as EU vice president for digital — As EU antitrust chief she's hit big tech with large penalties
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, EU Press Room, PYMNTS.com, and Thurrott
Tweets: @thestalwart, @seldo, and @jacknicas
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
CEOs of 51 major tech companies, including Amazon, IBM, SAP, Dell, and Salesforce, sign a letter to congressional leaders calling for a federal data privacy law — CEOs who signed: Amazon, AT&T, Dell, IBM, SAP, Salesforce, Visa, Mastercard, and JP Morgan Chase.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics, which draws on data from multiple enterprise systems to provide better perspectives on customers' brand engagement — Adobe Inc. today added a new tool to its Adobe Analytics offering that's meant to give companies more advanced insights into their customer's behavior.
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Marketing Land, Adweek, VentureBeat, PCMag, ZDNet, and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nextdoor closes a $170M round, which includes $123M raised in May, with new funding from Mary Meeker's Bond, at a $2.1B valuation; Meeker to join Nextdoor board — Social networking platform for neighbors, Nextdoor, today announced it has secured additional funding to close out its $170 million growth round.
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