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Uber overhauls its app to become “the OS for everyday life”, merging ride-hailing and food delivery, boosting alternate modes of travel, and new safety features — The company unveiled the new app at a splashy, Apple-like event in San Francisco
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Uber announces Uber Incubator, to let its employees and others develop products and services on top of the Uber platform — Uber today announced Uber Incubator, an initiative open to both Uber employees and those outside the Uber organization to develop products and services on top of Uber's platform.
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Microsoft and Google announce Google Assistant support in English for the Xbox One in beta, with the ability to launch games, take screenshots, and more — Expanding Xbox Voice Capabilities with Google Assistant — This Week's Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale Plus Publisher Sale
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @thurrott, @harrisonhoffman, @kkiyer90, and @xboxwire
| New York Times: |
Report: Number of countries using political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 since 2017; Facebook remains #1 social network for disinformation — In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple support document says the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro can identify non-genuine displays and will warn users about them — Apple has published today a new support document with more details on replacing iPhone parts through third-party repairs. More specifically, the article mentions …
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| Dave Gershgorn / onezero.medium.com: |
Rohit Prasad, VP and head scientist for Alexa, explains Alexa's new “Why did you do that?” feature, which gives users reason why it took a certain action — In an interview with OneZero, Amazon's chief Alexa scientist explains the voice assistant's complicated new feature| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox add support for HTTP/3, the next major version of the HTTP protocol — Next iteration of the HTTP protocol starts making its way into production systems. — HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will remove content that violates its guidelines regardless of who said it, including politicians, but will make exceptions depending on context — Context of videos is important, CEO says — YouTube will remove content from politicians using its platform if their content violates … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Twitch updates its design, tied to an advertising campaign meant to emphasize that it is an all-purpose live-streaming platform, not just for gamers — Without video games, Twitch would not be what it is now: a live-streaming platform with millions of devoted viewers and broadcasters, some of them with tattoos of the company's logo.
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| 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 underway
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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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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft challenges a secrecy order preventing it from telling an enterprise customer that the US government issued a warrant for data belonging to it — - Company says it's challenging ‘secrecy order’ on data demand — Enterprise customer targeted in warrant isn't identified
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Microsoft on the Issues, Ars Technica, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, and GeekWire. Tweets: @dinabass
| 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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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google to shut down Bulletin, an app it launched in 2018 as a limited pilot to let users report and publish local news stories about their communities, in Nov. — Google launched a new hyperlocal news service in early 2018 called Bulletin. It's understandable if you don't remember … | Craig Lloyd / iFixit News: |
iFixit teardown: 40mm Apple Watch Series 5 battery has a metal casing, instead of traditional foil pouch, which makes it physically stronger, and more compact — This week we tore down the 44mm Apple Watch Series 5 and discovered only a handful of minor differences from last year's Series 4.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gatsby, a California-based company developing an open source website and Progressive Web App generator, raises $15M Series A led by CRV — Gatsby, a Berkeley, California-based company developing an open source website and Progressive Web App (PWA) generator, today revealed that it's secured $15 million in series A funding led by CRV.
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TechCrunch and FinSMEs
| 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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Engadget, Oculus, Oculus Blog, Adweek, Thurrott, Wareable, Facebook, SlashGear, Android Central, PYMNTS.com, Android Headlines, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Memeburn, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @thehealy6, @endigoskyborn, @appleidinesh, @merryh, @chriswade__, @jason_rubin, @bertaroo, @urgamingtechie, @jordannovet, and @jank0
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Tweets: @alicegoldfuss, @ericajoy, @benasmith, @stocksharks_, @imcatnoone, @thejeremyhaynes, @mahalis, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @alexeheath, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mercury, which offers banking services to startups, raises 20M Series A led by CRV, source says at a valuation of $100M — Online-only banks have become a viable option for many people who would have traditionally used a brick-and-mortar bank but are now looking for more flexible … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
OnePlus 7T unveiled with a 6.55" 90Hz display, Snapdragon 855 Plus, in-screen fingerprint sensor, and a new super macro photo mode, available Oct. 18 for $599 — Honestly, it's a better phone than the OnePlus 7 Pro — Video by Vjeran Pavic and Becca Farsace
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