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| Apple: |
Live stream of Apple's “Time Flies” event — September 15, 2020
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Tweets: @jon_prosser, @geoffreyfowler, and @geoffreyfowler
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 6 for $399 in new colors, including red and graphite, with a similar design, a chip that's up to 20% faster, blood oxygen sensor — Including a Product (RED) model for the first time — Apple has announced the Apple Watch Series 6, the latest in its line of popular smartwatches.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Apple Watch SE with a Series 4-type design, S5 chip for up 2x faster performance than Watch Series 3, and GPS support, for $279 or $12/month — Apple today introduced the new Apple Watch SE. The new Apple Watch SE has the same design as the Apple Watch Series 4 and later …
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Tweets: @wongmjane, @mgsiegler, @sandofsky, @techledes, @stshank, @willoremus, @asymco, @marcoarment, and @reneritchie
| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's event, where new models of the Apple Watch and a new version of the iPad Air will likely be announced — Expect Apple Watches and iPads — Apple has announced one of its usual fall events, but this event is unusual for Apple. Instead of leading with iPhones in September …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Laptop Mag, Ars Technica, The Verge, Thurrott, MacRumors, Android Authority, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Engadget, and SlashGear
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates entry-level 10.2-inch iPad with A12 chip, bringing “Neural Engine” capabilities, similar design to last model, for the same price of $329 — Apple today announced the 8th-generation iPad, featuring an A12 chip compared to the previous-generation's A10 processor.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act — Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook, which says it has increased monitoring of content — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
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Inc42 Media. Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @shiraovide, @revkin, @wildwildjest, @sivavaid, @bwreed, @daithaigilbert, and @parkermolloy
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SoC — - Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team
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The Verge, New York Times, CNET, TheStreet, CNBC, Thurrott, Input, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Polygon, Twinfinite, games radar, Coinspeaker, 9to5Toys, bit-tech.net, Game Rant, Android Authority, TechSpot, GamingBolt, ZDNet, USgamer.net, OnMSFT.com, Trusted Reviews, GamesIndustry.biz, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Micky, Neowin, VG247, Wccftech, SlashGear, GameSpot, Gamasutra, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @6d6f636869, @business, @geronimo_73, @coreteks, @geronimo_73, @gibbogame, and @brianfagioli
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country — An executive order banning TikTok from the US won't affect employees' paychecks, the Trump administration said Monday in a court filing.
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, WinBuzzer, The Irish Times, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @stokel
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @hawleymo, @reutersbiz, @eringriffith, @tomgara, @nytimesbusiness, @esaagar, @dmccabe, @nytpolitics, @dmccabe, @niubi, @teddyschleifer, @eringriffith, and @russellbrandom
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple tells staff it's no longer offering credit cards via Barclays, which offers zero interest financing, as it shifts to Apple Card financing plans — - Longtime credit-card deal offered Apple customers no interest — Company to focus on Apple Card installment payments instead
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @markgurman
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google unveils its own Meet hardware bundle meant for conference rooms, including a Smart Camera, Smart Audio Bar, remote control, and more, starting at $2,699 — The Series One kits will be available for preorder soon — Google has rapidly updated its videoconferencing Google Meet software …
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ZDNet, 9to5Google, CNET, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, and Google Cloud Blog. Tweets: @gsuite
| Seth Schiesel / Protocol: |
Q&A with Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on his skepticism about cloud gaming and Microsoft's new subscription and installment pricing plans for Xbox — Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, has an ambitious goal for his company.
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The Verge, Gamasutra, CNBC, GameSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Games Insider, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @aaronvalue, @sethschiesel, and @agoyal00
| TechCrunch: |
Home buying startup Opendoor announces it's going public by merging with Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC — Today, Social Capital Hedosophia II, the blank-check company associated with investor Chamath Palihapitiya, announced that it will merge with Opendoor, taking the private real estate startup public in the process.
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Business Wire, GeekWire, CNBC, Crunchbase News, and TheStreet
Tweets: @opendoor, @adambain, @alexisohanian, and @chamath
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success — Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
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The Verge, Windows Central, natick.research.microsoft.com, Fortune, WinBuzzer, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @tomwarren, @microsoft, @saemin4655, @migueldeicaza, @andylapteff, and @msftresearch
| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app — Spotify has partnered with concert discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings to the platform … | Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As Big Fish Games announces $155M class action settlement in WA, 21 users describe how they were hooked on casino-style apps and lost significant sums of money — Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic.
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The Overspill. Tweets: @cfarivar, @jstrauss, @mmasnick, @johnverdi, @nbcnews, @karlbode, @elkmovie, @andygrewal, @wolfiechristl, @oliviasolon, @smbrnsn, @elie, @darakerr, @meprobgambling, @nbcnightlynews, and @okdistribute
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Facebook launches an information center to combat climate change misinformation and pledges to cut greenhouse gases from its global operations this year — It's also working to bring more reliable climate information to its users — Facebook today pledged to slash greenhouse gases …
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About Facebook, NBC News, Bloomberg, Android Headlines, Gizmodo, Axios, CNET, CNBC, Mashable, and Reuters. Tweets: @sundarpichai
| Jay Rosen / The Verge: |
Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more — An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber partners with TurboVote to launch an in-app feature designed to help users register to vote and will again offer discounted rides to polling places — With the 2020 general election coming up in November, Uber has partnered with TurboVote to launch an in-app feature designed to help riders …
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Tech Xplore, TheStreet, Travel + Leisure, The Hill, and Mashable
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