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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Live blog of Microsoft's Surface hardware event, where an ARM-based device and new Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 are expected — This could be a big Surface event — Microsoft is back with its annual Surface event to showcase the latest hardware the company has ready for the holiday season.
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Live stream of Microsoft's Surface Event in New York City — Tune in to see what's next. 10.02.19 at 10 a.m. ET | #MicrosoftEvent Save the date
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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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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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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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| Eric Miraglia / The Keyword: |
Google brings incognito mode to Maps, expands auto-delete history to YouTube, and adds better privacy controls to Google Assistant — Director of Product Management, Privacy and Data Protection Office — Our goal has always been to create products that are simple, helpful, and intuitive.
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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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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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Decrypt and SiliconANGLE
| 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 …
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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 …
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| The Verge: |
A look at iPhone 11's Deep Fusion camera tech, meant to offer a big step forward for images taken in medium-light, coming in the iOS 13 developer beta — Sweater mode is on its way — Apple's Deep Fusion photography system has arrived in the latest developer betas of iOS 13 …
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| Bloomberg: |
A London court has reinstated 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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| 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 … | Alex Davies / Wired: |
UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved — The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.
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UPS Pressroom, Wall Street Journal, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @wsj, @amcafee, @forbes, and @upsairlines
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — But the 200-page ruling says the FCC was wrong to issue a blanket ban against states considering their own regulations
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Axios, United States Court of Appeals, VICE, New York Times, Wired, CNET, The Next Web, PC Gamer, Gigi Sohn, and The Register
Tweets: @jrosenworcel, @mozilla, @massago, @senbooker, @senjeffmerkley, @nytimes, @senmarkey, @governorbullock, @bradhoylman, @dscc, @ronwyden, @reckless, @sengarypeters, @marklemley, @karlbode, @karlbode, and @karlbode
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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