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Apple announces press event on December 2 in NYC, says the event will be focused on “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” — Apple just announced a press event that it will hold a special press event at 4 p.m. ET on Dec. 2 in New York City.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early rivals but 4K games do not look 4K, tons of features are missing, and it feels like a beta — Google Stadia works. — That's what you came here to find out, and I won't bury the lede: on Tuesday, November 19th …
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Google buys Microsoft-backed CloudSimple to help its customers run VMware workloads on the Google Cloud Platform, after partnering with the company in July — - CloudSimple makes it easier for large companies to run applications in public clouds like Google's.| William Feuer / CNBC: |
Evan Spiegel says Snapchat has a team that fact checks all political advertising on the platform, in stark contrast to Facebook — - Snap's policy represents a middle ground in a debate that has been largely defined by extremes as Facebook pushes for no regulation and Twitter grapples with removing political ads altogether.
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| Craig Lloyd / iFixit News: |
16" MacBook Pro teardown shows a new thermal system, keyboard similar to the standalone Magic Keyboard, a six-speaker system, and a high-performance mic array — A beloved old feature returns to the MacBook Pro, and it starts with M-a-g. If you guessed MagSafe, we have disappointing news …
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| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Amazon expands its free ad-supported version of Amazon Music to its mobile apps, FireTV, and the web, with access to select playlists and radio-like stations — Watch out Spotify: Amazon Music has widened the net of its ‘free’ music streaming platform. — Amazon Music customers without …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta, who joined from Google in 2015, says he is leaving the company — Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta announced today he is leaving the company. Gupta's last day will be December 13, he wrote in a note to Uber's product team today.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Facebook launches Oculus Link software for Oculus Quest in beta, allowing users to access Rift PC games using a USB-C cable — Beta for this wired-VR update is now live; official Oculus Link cable coming soon. — Oculus Quest owners, your chance to dive into the world of PC-VR gaming has begun.
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| Jason Hovet / Reuters: |
Czech government approves a proposal for a 7% digital tax covering revenue from large companies gained via targeted ads, user data sales, and more — PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government approved a 7% digital tax proposal on Monday aimed at boosting state coffers by taxing advertising …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps — When I started Stratechery in 2013, the conventional wisdom was that modularized ecosystems were best.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Home insurance startup Luko raises $22M Series A led by Accel for its home protection tech that monitors doors, pipes, and meters, using AI to detect anomalies — Luko, a France-based insurance tech startup that's using sensors, data, and machine learning to circumvent the need to make a claim …
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley debuts a bill targeting Apple and other US tech companies that prohibits them from storing user data or encryption keys in China and Russia — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, a prominent big tech critic, will introduce legislation Monday meant to protect Americans' online data …
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A look at Facebook and Google's funding of nonprofits shaping the privacy debate; together they gave $960K+ to Center for Democracy and Technology alone in 2018 — Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer the bill their way … Sponsor Posts
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