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Sony announces PlayStation 5 will launch in time for “holiday 2020,” featuring a new controller with haptic technology and triggers with varying resistance — Now that the name is official, we've got more details about Sony's next-gen console—from the haptics-packed controller to UI improvements.
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Tweets: @provenself, @adrive_tk, @laurakbuzz, @loudmouthjulia, @laurakbuzz, and @pressstartkofi
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases macOS Catalina with new apps Find My and Screen Time, as well as Music, TV, and Podcast apps to replace iTunes, Sidecar for companion iPads, more — Apple today released the newest version of its operating system for Macs, macOS Catalina, to the public. macOS Catalina comes …
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| Reuters: |
Samsung projects operating income of $6.4B for Q3, beating analyst estimates, but down 56% YoY amid continued weakness in memory chip price and demand — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported its third-quarter operating profit likely tumbled 56% … | Bloomberg: |
Trump admin blacklists eight Chinese tech companies, including video surveillance camera giants, implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities — - Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume — Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities
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| New York Times: |
The Trump administration is inserting CDA 230-like protections into international trade deals that shield online platforms from lawsuits related to user content — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun inserting legal protections into recent trade agreements that shield online platforms …
Tweets: @nickconfessore, @matthewstoller, @cagoldberglaw, @chrispadilla00, @nytimes, and @dmccabe
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Opera 64 desktop browser launches with inbuilt tracking protection using the EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection List, a powerful screenshot tool, and more — Opera doesn't want to miss the browser privacy bandwagon, and it's taking an unusual angle to sell it: it's promising a speed boost.
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Thurrott, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Inquirer, The Next Web, Opera Desktop, BetaNews, TechSpot, PCWorld, Softpedia News, and Memeburn. Tweets: @privacyproject
| Michael Hayes / OneZero: |
Leaked docs show Cellebrite has sold tech that can let NYC police “unlock and extract data from all iOS and high-end Android devices” on their own since 2018 — Previously, if law enforcement wanted to get into newer devices, they had to send the phones to one of Cellebrite's …
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Washington Post, 9to5Mac, iMore, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, and CircleID
Tweets: @kennwhite, @hshaban, @willoremus, and @amdanquart
| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google to require new devices launching with Android 9 or later to come with a wellness app and parental controls, either Google's own apps or third-party ones — One of the biggest themes of Google I/O 2018 was improving digital wellness. As consumers realized they're spending way too much time online …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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iFixit's new teardown of the Galaxy Fold shows Samsung's durability improvements but suggests that the main display and folding mechanism are still fragile — Introduction Teardown Update: After Samsung tried to make our initial teardown disappear from the internet five months ago …
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Inquirer, Tom's Guide, Ars Technica, Gearburn, Android Authority, The Register, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @somegadgetguy, @kaykayclapp, and @ifixit
| Caroline Binham / Financial Times: |
Analysis: UK's Financial Conduct Authority now has 87 open inquiries into crypto companies, compared with 50 this time last year — The number of cryptocurrency businesses in the crosshairs of the UK's financial watchdog leapt by 74 per cent in the past year, as the Financial Conduct Authority estimates …
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CoinDesk, the future of markets, Blockonomi, CoinGeek, CryptoGlobe, Decrypt, and Telegraph
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Contentstack, which offers a “headless” CMS platform for enterprises, raises $31.5M Series A led by Insight Partners — Contentstack, a startup that offers a headless CMS platform for enterprises, today announced that it has raised a $31.5 million Series A round led by Insight Partners.
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Startups News, PR Newswire, and PE Hub Blog
| John Seabrook / New Yorker: |
A behind-the-scenes look at how OpenAI's GPT-2 predictive text algorithm works, which can be “fine-tuned” to write phony customer reviews or even news articles — \u003clink href="https://www.newyorker.com/ projects/interactive/2019/191014-seabrook/css/ header_override.css" … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Adobe is deactivating accounts for all Venezuelan users due to US sanctions, impacting both free and paid Adobe services, and won't be issuing refunds — Because of the White House's sanctions, users aren't eligible for refunds either. — US software giant Adobe is canceling all subscriptions …
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Engadget, The Register, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Financial Times, BBC, Gizmodo, BleepingComputer, Fast Company, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Inquirer, Boing Boing, and The Register
Tweets: @faintenkiu, @adobecare, @maoistrebelnews, @dangillmor, @sankarshan, @carlbeijer, @dangillmor, and @campuscodi
| Hamza Jawad / Neowin: |
Microsoft expands Airband, its US rural broadband initiative, to Latin America and Africa, aims to bring the internet to 40M people globally by 2022 — A couple of years ago, Microsoft launched the Airband Initiative with the aim of serving broadband internet access to two million people living in the rural U.S. by 2022.
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Tweets: @hadip, @4afrika, @shelleymckin, and @raj_devex
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