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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Amazon announces high-end Echo Studio, available for pre-order today for $200, with five speaker drivers and 3D audio support — It supports 3D audio from Dolby Atmos — Amazon announced its first high-end smart speaker at its annual hardware event today, called the Echo Studio.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers, including the $180 Echo Frames eye glasses and $130 Echo Loop ring — Amazon is rolling out a new line of wearables that work with Alexa today including the Echo Frames eyeglasses and the Echo Loop smart ring.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils Echo Buds, $129.99 Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds that track steps, with claimed battery life of five hours and 20 hours with the charging case — Preorders start today, with shipping in time for the holidays — Amazon just announced its first foray into the headphone space …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $25 Echo Flex, an Echo smart plug with modular accessories that cost $15, like a motion sensor and night light, available for pre-order today — Alexa now has its own smartplug with modular accessories — Amazon is introducing another way to get Alexa into your home, the Echo Flex.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020, and will shut down existing VR platforms Facebook Spaces and Oculus Rooms on Oct. 25 — Facebook today announced a virtual reality sandbox game where you can build your own environments and games, socialize with friends, and more.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Quest will be updated in Nov. to be able to wire up directly to PCs, like the Rift, and in 2020 will get support for hand tracking, no controllers needed — Just before the annual VR/AR conference Oculus Connect 6, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a teaser video hinting …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces a new Eero mesh router with Alexa voice controls, available today in the US for $99 each or $249 for a three pack — Amazon has just announced a brand-new $99 Eero router at its big hardware event, marking the first new product from the mesh networking company since Amazon bought it earlier this year.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon announces a cheaper $100 Stick Up Cam and $60 Indoor Cam, and says Ring Doorbell Elites will get a feature where Alexa “answers” the doorbell next year — It also showed a DIY retrofit alarm kit — At its fall event today, Amazon announced two new versions of its Ring Stick … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FTC sues Match Group, alleging Match.com connected daters with accounts known to be fake to get them to subscribe, leading to 499,691 new subscriptions — The FTC says more than 400,000 people subscribed because of these fraud messages — Match.com may have connected non-paying daters …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Dropbox starts rolling out Dropbox Spaces, shared team workspaces that connect things like files, tasks, and meetings, and other new features in its desktop app — Dropbox held its Work in Progress user conference on Wednesday where the company announced a host of new product experiences and features.
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| Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare launches Warp VPN for iOS and Android for optimizing and securing traffic, with a faster tier for $5/mo., after its bug-ridden limited debut in April — Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP Plus to the general public.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 10 (Go edition), aimed at low-end devices with less than 1.5GB RAM, will launch this fall with speed and security improvements — Last year, Android (Go edition) launched with Pie, and Google today is detailing the latest version of its OS for entry-level smartphones with less than 1.5GB of RAM.
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| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
Interviews with 20 people show Uber's 80-strong Special Investigations Unit, which deals with severe incidents, often puts Uber's interests ahead of riders' — Investigators say drivers get three “strikes” for bad behavior — and may just end up driving for Lyft.
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
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Tweets: @laukaya, @glynmoody, @robpegoraro, @jasonfalter, @mehreenkhn, @jason_kint, @ugambini, and @mathewi
| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: DOJ intends to investigate Facebook after prodding from AG William Barr; DOJ's case will focus on conduct that's separate from what the FTC is examining — - Facebook now target of two federal cases simultaneously — FTC already has separate Facebook investigation underwaySponsor Posts
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