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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: improved battery life, flexible triple camera system, and great performance, but ultra-wide camera sometimes lacks detail — What does it mean for a phone to earn the name “Pro”? Lots of power, for one. Usually great cameras. And software robust enough to handle arduous tasks with ease.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats Pixel 3 in low light — And the best camera you can get on a phone — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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Tweets: @ow and @michaelbabich
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 review: has a terrific battery life and excellent camera, and is the best phone for the average consumer, but iOS 13 is buggy — This was not a hard review — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, Owen Grove, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
The new iPhones' improvements, while nice, do not warrant upgrading for those with an iPhone X or later and aren't even must-haves for iPhone 6s owners — This is not your typical gadget review. That's because it is time to rethink when to upgrade your iPhone.
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| Joshua Franklin / Reuters: |
WeWork parent says it expects to complete its IPO by the end of the year after shelving plans to launch an investor road show this week — Joshua Franklin, Anirban Sen — (Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company said on Monday it expected to complete its initial public offering (IPO) …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein — Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein's underage victims was “entirely willing.”
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Amazon Music HD, offering lossless audio for streaming or downloading, for $14.99/month or $12.99/month for Prime customers — RIP Tidal? — Amazon is launching a new tier of its music service today, dubbed Amazon Music HD. It offers lossless versions of audio files …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month — Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO Fi cell service: Unlimited.| ProPublica: |
Medical images and health data, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, with names and birthdates, from 16M scans worldwide are available unprotected online — Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators — Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page … | Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Following JPMorgan's JPM Coin, Wells Fargo announces plans to pilot a US dollar-linked stablecoin for internal settlement beginning next year — U.S.-based financial giant Wells Fargo is developing a U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin that will run on the firm's first blockchain platform.
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Business Wire, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, The Block, CryptoGlobe, Altcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph, and Bitcoinist.com. Tweets: @coindesk
| U.S. Department of Justice: |
US files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden after the publication of his book Permanent Record, alleging he violated NDA agreements with the CIA and NSA — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds a 3D camera mode with 3D effects, lenses, and filters, which can be used by those with iPhone X and above, and viewed by users with other phones — The newest version of Snap's Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects …
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The Verge, Snap Inc., Engadget, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, and Neowin
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| Apple: |
Apple awards an additional $250M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning, bringing its total investment in the precision glass maker to $450M — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced it is awarding $250 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning Incorporated …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn begins the global roll out of Skills Assessments, multiple-choice tests for users to verify their expertise across ~75 skills like coding — LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence — In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it's made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups …
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New York Times and Facebook
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Despite saying he was leaving 15 months ago, Facebook's former policy chief Elliot Schrage is still working as a full time employee with a new title — When Elliot Schrage announced his resignation last June, the buzz was that the Facebook Inc. executive—who had shaped the company's public messaging during …
Tweets: @nickconfessore, @chafkin, @kurtwagner8, @technology, @michaelcarusi, and @shiraovide
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Crypto-exchange giant Binance makes a strategic investment in Chinese crypto media firm Mars Finance, at a post-money valuation of ~$200M — - Mars Finance reached a $200 million post-money valuation — Investors also include Bitmain co-founder's new crypto firm
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Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Altcoin Magazine, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @cz_binance and @mdudas
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans Nest Wifi with a new design, featuring Eero-like satellite units with built-in Assistant-enabled speakers — Google is planning to launch a refreshed version of its ‘Google Wifi’ router at its hardware showcase next month, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Android Police, Droid Life, Android Headlines, Android Central, and Ars Technica
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says RideCheck, its tool that uses GPS and other sensors to detect abnormalities with the ride, such as a crash, is now live across the US — RideCheck utilizes the GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other smartphone sensors to detect a vehicle crash — Last year, Uber announced …
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Engadget, MIT Technology Review, YouTube, and CNET
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
DevOps platform GitLab raises $268M Series E co-led by Iconiq Capital and Goldman Sachs at a $2.75B valuation, says its annualized revenue is growing 143% YoY — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Some tech companies shy away from putting a date on going public - or whether they plan to list their businesses at all.
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GitLab, The Register, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, and TechCrunch
| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the “reproducibility” crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems — Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.
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FutureSin. Tweets: @scottthurm, @skdh, @nxthompson, @schestowitz, @dorotheabaur, and @gefes_rsef
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: President Trump is visiting Silicon Valley for the first time since 2016 for a fundraiser, but its location is a mystery, even to the donors — Location of president's fundraiser in the Bay Area is being kept under wraps — Three years ago, an uproar among company employees forced …
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Vox. Tweets: @rebeccaballhaus, @rebeccaballhaus, @rebeccaballhaus, @dangillmor, @mat, and @teddyschleifer
| Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: |
Facebook removes accounts for spreading disinformation on Instagram and FB, hundreds from Ukraine, linked to PR firm, and from Iraq, posting on societal issues — Today, we removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.Sponsor Posts
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