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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 to 2x faster performance than 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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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Apple One bundles launch with discounts on services including Music, TV+, Arcade, iCloud storage, Fitness+, and News+ and tiers between $15 and $30/month — The hardware giant leans into its software offerings — The long-rumored bundle bringing together Apple Music, Apple TV Plus …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces Fitness+, a workout class subscription service for Watch, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV for $9.99/month; three months free with an Apple Watch purchase — Apple today announced a new fitness service, set to rival the likes of Peloton. Apple Fitness+ will integrate with the Apple Watch and the Fitness app on the iPhone.
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Spotify calls on authorities to restrict “Apple's anti-competitive behavior”; Apple says alternatives to its services exist, bundling can save customers money — Spotify released a public statement after Apple's Time Flies event to protest the newly announced Apple One bundle …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple updates iPad Air with 10.9" edge-to-edge display, iPad Pro-like design, Touch ID in power button, USB-C, and A14 chip, shipping next month from $599 — Apple has a familiar-looking design for its latest iPad Air update — Apple is unveiling a new iPad Air today that looks very similar to the company's iPad Pro.
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| 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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| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and others join a 24-hour freeze of Facebook and Instagram accounts for #StopHateForProfit — Kim Kardashian West announced that she will freeze her Instagram and Facebook accounts on Wednesday because the platforms …
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| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Source: Stripe plans to make one-time payments of $20K to staff who opt to move out of San Francisco, NYC, or Seattle but will cut their base salaries up to 10% — - Moving out of Bay Area, NYC may come with pay cut of up to 10% — Other tech firms have also mulled cuts for workers who move
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| Reuters: |
AT&T says it is considering offering wireless phone plans partially subsidized by advertising as soon as a year from now — (Reuters) - AT&T Inc is considering offering wireless phone plans partially subsidized by advertising as soon as a year from now, Chief Executive John Stankey said in an interview on Tuesday.
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| Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: |
Sources: teens are being paid by conservative youth org Turning Point Action to promote pro-Trump posts on Twitter and Facebook; Twitter suspended ~20 accounts — One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It's hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don't trust Dr. Fauci.”
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to build a WeChat-like experience across its 365 services in the form of a “MetaOS” — Microsoft has a strategy to build a WeChat-like experience across its various Microsoft 365 business and consumer services in the form of a ‘MetaOS’ foundational layer.
Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources Project OneFuzz, a testing framework for Azure used to discover vulnerabilities in software projects — Microsoft's open-source Project OneFuzz automates the detection of software bugs that could be security issues. — Microsoft has released a new open-source … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Adobe reports Q3 revenue of $3.23B, up 14% YoY, subscription revenue increased to $3B, from $2.55B YoY, with remote work offsetting a typical Q3 slump — Adobe said cash flows from operations were a record $1.44 billion in Q3. — Adobe delivered better-than-expected third quarter financial results on Tuesday.| Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance plans to place TikTok's global business in a standalone US-based company, likely with Oracle, Walmart, and others as minority shareholders — Agreement put before US means ByteDance retains majority shareholding, with Oracle holding minority stake
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waze is rolling out new features including trip suggestions for frequent destinations, traffic notifications, lane guidance support, and tweaks to Carpool — Waze is rolling out a host of new features from today, as the Google-owned navigation app looks to counter the pandemic-driven decrease in transport demand.
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Sources: the FTC is preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook by year-end, but no final decision has been made on whether to sue Facebook — No final decision has been made on the outcome of a yearlong probe as discussions with the social-media giant continue
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Researcher finds a database from a Chinese company with details on 2.4M influential people around the world, their kids, and how to exert influence over them — Compiled using mostly open-source intel, shines a light on extent of China's surveillance activities| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM publishes a roadmap for quantum computing research, estimating it will make a processor with 1,000+ qubits by 2023 and debut a 127-qubit processor next year — IBM today, for the first time, published its road map for the future of its quantum computing hardware.
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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