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EU's top court rules that an individual country can order Facebook to take down defamatory content and restrict global access to that material — Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the internet.
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| Lara O'Reilly / Digiday: |
Content recommendation company Taboola has bought rival Outbrain for $250M in cash and 30% equity; Taboola says it will hit $1B in revenue in 2019 — Outbrain and Taboola — the Ross and Rachel “will they, won't they” online advertising story of our times — could finally have its happy ending.
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Apple has banned an app that lets people in Hong Kong keep track of protests and police activity, claiming it facilitates illegal activity — Trying to avoid cops, live rounds, tear gas? Oh no, you don't, say Cook & Co — Apple has banned an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a redesign and new features including price tracking, options to shop from local stores, and style ideas via Google Lens — Google Shopping is getting a redesign with several new features, including options to shop local stores, track prices and even find style inspiration through Google Lens.| Financial Times: |
Uber launches Uber Works, a new app in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking for staffing — Uber is launching a new app on Friday in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking to fill gaps in their rosters …
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Sony says PlayStation 4 cross-platform gaming has finished beta testing and is now open to all game developers — With a price cut and a new commitment to high-profile games, Sony's PlayStation Now makes its case to customers. — “I typically prefer doing to talking,” says Jim Ryan …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch the iPhone SE 2 in Q1 2020 with an iPhone 8-like design and an A13 chip — Apple is set to launch the next version of the iPhone SE 2 in the first quarter of 2020, according to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new phone will be more affordable …
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| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
France is rolling out a nationwide digital identity enrollment app with facial recognition in November, despite concerns from its data regulator — - Digital identity enrollment app to be rolled out in November — Privacy, absence of consent and security among concerns raised| New York Daily News: |
Sources say Google contractor Randstad used dubious tactics targeting people of color to gather facial scans for improving the face unlock system on Pixel 4 — Tech giant Google wants your face — especially if you've got “darker skin.” — To get it, the company has funded …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Unqork, which is creating a platform for developing enterprise app without code, raises $80M Series B led by CapitalG, bringing its total raised to $110M+ — Two-year-old New York-based software company Unqork, which is developing a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services …
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| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Samsung launches a Travelex integration for international money transfers and Samsung Pay Cash virtual debit card for Samsung Pay beta users in the US — Samsung Pay is, in my view, the best mobile payment app out there. It supports making payments through MST on Samsung Galaxy flagships …
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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella and Panos Panay on aiming to create a new device category with dual-screen devices, not positioning Duo as a traditional phone, and more — It folds, but the screen isn't foldable. It sort of fits in your pocket. It has a camera. And it makes phone calls—but don't you dare call it a phone.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
An icon found in iOS 13.2 beta resembles an earlier leaked image of the alleged next generation AirPods — Rumors about new Apple AirPods with noise cancellation aren't exactly new, dating back a couple of years. But now a glyph found in iOS 13.2 reveals what the new AirPods with noise cancellation will look like.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Windows 10X, a variant for dual-screen PCs with 9" screens or larger, coming late 2020 alongside PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft — Microsoft today announced Windows 10X, a new flavor of Windows 10 designed for dual-screen PCs.
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Windows Blog, Gizmodo, The Register, and Channel Partners
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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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