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Microsoft teases Surface Neo, a dual-screen Intel-based Windows 10X device, with a 360° hinge and keyboard that can rest on the bottom screen, coming late 2020 — Ten years after the Courier, it's finally happening — More than 10 years after reports that Microsoft was working …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft debuts Surface Pro 7 with Intel and ARM versions, USB-C, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, the same 12.3" display, and updated Surface Pen, from $749 — There's a new Surface Pro in town. And it looks exactly like the Surface Pro 6 from the outside.
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 in $999+ 13.5-inch and $1,199+ AMD-powered 15-inch variants with USB-C, fast charging, and new colors, arriving October 22 — Microsoft is introducing the third-generation of the Surface Laptop today. At its New York event, the company just took the wraps off …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft announces Surface Buds, coming this fall for $249, with gesture controls, claimed 24 hour battery, two mics per ear, and built-in translation — It looks like every other company is getting int other earbuds business. Amazon announced its own Alexa-branded earbuds last month …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Following scrutiny, Apple says it will release an iOS update later this year that will let Siri default to frequently-used third-party messaging apps — Apple Inc. said it will ease some restrictions on developers of third-party apps, responding to a Bloomberg News story about the rise …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google launches Password Checkup, which checks if users' saved passwords have been breached elsewhere, available for the Google web dashboard and Android — Google's Password Checkup is currently available for Android devices and Google's web dashboard. — Google launched today …
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Google brings incognito mode to Maps, expands auto-delete history to YouTube, and adds better privacy controls to Google Assistant — Our goal has always been to create products that are simple, helpful, and intuitive. It's no different with privacy and security: managing your data …
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Sources: Visa, Mastercard, and other financial partners that signed on to help Facebook build the Libra payments network are reconsidering their involvement — After backlash from U.S. and European government officials, executives of some of Libra's backers decline Facebook's requests to publicly support the project
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will miss out on owning the social entertainment feed if Mark Zuckerberg views TikTok as merely an algorithmic video recommender like Instagram Explore — “It's almost like the Explore Tab that we have on Instagram” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in leaked audio of him describing TikTok during an all-hands meeting.
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| Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung says it has ceased mobile phone production in China, following its rising labor costs and economic slowdown — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals … | Bloomberg: |
London court reinstates a UK lawsuit filed by a group representing 4M+ iPhone users against Google over tracking and collecting private browsing data — - London court reinstates class-action suit over iPhone claims — Appeals court ruling says individuals' data has value
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Twitter and Tweetdeck experience partial outages worldwide, causing problems with login, images, polls, DMs, and more — Be nice to any journalists you see on Twitter right now — Tweetdeck is down and it's a headache for everyone. While the company has said it's aware of issues and investigating …
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| Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: |
Database of 20M+ tax records including sensitive personal and financial information of Russian citizens was found exposed online in an AWS Elasticsearch cluster — 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens were found exposed online, accessible to anyone with a web browser.
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| Nathan DiCamillo / CoinDesk: |
Ripple's Xpring investment subsidiary announces a set of open source developer tools it says makes integrating the XRP ledger into apps much easier — Ripple's Xpring is launching a platform it says makes it possible for developers to integrate fiat and cryptocurrency payments into any application.
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel's high-end desktop CPU line Cascade Lake-X gets a price drop of up to ~50% as AMD prepares to launch comparable Ryzen 9 3950X in November for $749 — With someone in the press having broken their embargo earlier today, Intel is lifting the lid earlier than planned … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Streamlit, an open source machine learning application development framework, launches with $6M seed investment led by Gradient Ventures — Streamlit, a new machine learning startup from industry veterans who worked at GoogleX and Zoox, launched today with a $6 million seed investment … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
tvOS 13 review: privacy protections and support for game controllers and multiple users is nice, but some Arcade games run poorly and the YouTube app lacks 4K — Multiuser support, compatibility with Xbox and PlayStation game controllers, and more — Apple's latest major software update … | James McLeod / Vancouver Sun: |
Canadian telecom Telus to buy local operations of US-based ADT for $527M in an effort to expand the home and security business — ‘... potentially they can offer more of a whole-home solution ...’ — Telus Corp. announced Tuesday it is buying ADT Canada for $700 million …
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