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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring unveils Always Home Cam, an autonomous drone that can fly around inside a house, expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year — The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device — Ring latest home security camera is taking flight, literally.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring says it will offer end-to-end encryption for video feeds by the end of this year and will let Ring owners disable the controversial Neighbors feature — The company will also allow Ring owners to disable the controversial Neighbors feature from the mobile app
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The Amazon Blog, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, USA Today, Fox Business, and Engadget. Tweets: @jaysonsrage
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring announces a new line of security cameras for cars and says it is working with Tesla and others to integrate existing cameras into the Ring platform — Also working with Tesla and others to integrate existing cameras into the Ring platform — Ring has announced its first foray … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service, going live in October for $5.99/month, with a gamepad and support for Fire TV, PC, Mac, iOS, and later for Android — Spoiler: It's not a native iOS app. — 4m ago — Luna is what happens when you take the subscription model of Prime Video …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon announces $250 Echo Show 10 with a motorized base that can move the screen, a 13MP camera that keeps the user in shot, and more, with pre-orders today — The latest Alexa-powered smart display isn't content with sitting still — Amazon has just announced the latest iteration …
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Tweets: @schrep, @tomgara, and @shortformernie
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis — Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design. It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.
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Tweets: @benfoxrubin, @patrickmcgee_, @markgurman, @stshank, @rogerwcheng, @onegarzon, @bxchen, @jaduino, and @joannastern
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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Tweets: @benbajarin, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @viticci, @marcoarment, @counternotions, @ourielohayon, and @fosspatents
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Facebook says it removed 200+ accounts Thursday that were associated with US election interference in the past, “including those involved in DC leaks in 2016” — Facebook on Thursday removed over 200 phony accounts and dozens of pages that originated in Russia and pumped …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Ahead of US elections, YouTube says it is including info panels under videos about voting by mail, pointing viewers to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center — Official candidate info will also appear in searches — YouTube is stepping up its measures against misinformation around the upcoming US election.
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YouTube Official Blog, The Hill, Neowin, KnowTechie, and Mashable
Tweets: @senfeinstein, @evelyndouek, and @susanwojcicki
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple confirms it has acquired cross-platform podcast app Scout FM, which created podcast stations for users based on listening history, earlier this year — - Company acquired Scout FM earlier this year in podcasting push — Acquisition continues rapid pace of Apple deals this year| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes — - Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet — Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
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| Wired: |
A look at Twitter's hack on July 15, the drastic changes it made in the immediate aftermath, and its plans to prevent an Election Day meltdown — On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. — JULY 15 WAS, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter.
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Twitter, International Business Times, and ZDNet
Tweets: @brbarrett, @racheltobac, and @twittersupport
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says a standalone, non-subscription version of Office will be released in the second half of 2021 for both Windows and Mac — Microsoft will release a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2021. The new perpetual release only appears in a single sentence …
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Engadget, CNET, TechSpot, CNET, KnowTechie, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @rajsarkar and @kcoxdc
| Rob Davies / The Guardian: |
Ex-Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix banned from running limited companies for seven years over “potentially unethical” behavior linked to the scandal — Alexander Nix, the former boss of Cambridge Analytica, has been banned from serving as a company director for seven years over …
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GOV.UK, CNBC, The Daily Beast, Sky News, and EURACTIV.com
Tweets: @louisemensch, @carolecadwalla, @caseynewton, @sailorgirl2017, and @cfarivar
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon announces updated Eero mesh WiFi routers with support for WiFi 6 and Zigbee, available for $129.99 and $229.99 — The new Eero 6 starts at $129.99 — Amazon has debuted the $129.99 Eero 6 and the $229.99 Eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi routers that support Wi-Fi 6 and Zigbee.
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TechHive, Amazon.com, Inc., 9to5Google, CNET, Gizmodo, TechRepublic, and The Mac Observer
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Hootsuite says it will terminate its ICE contract after disagreements within the company spilled over into public view when an employee tweeted about the deal — After disagreements within the company spilled over into public controversy, Hootsuite says it won't go forward with a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Business in Vancouver, The Hill, and VICE
| Josh Constine / SignalFire: |
SignalFire's in-depth report on the state of the creator economy, which has ~50M pro or semi-pro content creators across Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms — More than 50 million people around the world consider themselves creators, despite the creator economy only being born a decade ago.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mazzeo, @smc90, and @yuanlingy
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality — The rules of the new social network Telepath are simple: Be kind. Don't be mean. No harassment, and no fake news.
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @marcbodnick, @kiarichards_, @vivekxk, @shwetak_, @jasonpjason, @joshk, @thestefansmith, @sarahcuda, @tatiana_estevez, @tatiana_estevez, @marcbodnick, @marcbodnick, @bizcarson, and @tatiana_estevez
| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
DHS admits that 184K photos from a facial recognition pilot program were stolen from a CBP subcontractor and at least 19 were posted on the dark web last year — Traveler's faces, license plates, and care information were hacked from a subcontractor called Perceptics and released on the dark web.| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
CISA: a hacker accessed the network of an unnamed US federal agency using valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts and domain admin accounts — An unnamed U.S. federal agency was hit with a cyber-attack after a hacker used valid access credentials, authorities said on Thursday.
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us-cert.cisa.gov, ZDNet, and Threatpost
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple is now letting customers return only the band, instead of the entire Watch, if they bought a Watch with an ill-fitting Solo Loop band — Apple has reversed course and created an online band-only return method for customers who purchased an Apple Watch Series 6 or Apple Watch SE … | Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon announces updated $40 Fire TV and $30 Fire TV Stick Lite with new home screen for easier content discoverability, arriving on September 30 — - Amazon announced two new Fire TV products during its big online hardware event on Thursday. — Amazon's Fire TV products compete directly …
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The Verge, AFTVnews, CNET, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, The Streamable, Tom's Guide, and Mashable. Tweets: @peterrojas. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider …
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Spotify, Deadline, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, Reuters, and SlashGear. Tweets: @spotifynews
| ProPublica: |
A malware attack on a rural Texas county's email system, sending fake emails to voters, shows a significant weakness of America's election security — Congress works for you. Learn how to be a better boss with the User's Guide to Democracy, a series of personalized emails about what your representatives actually do.Sponsor Posts
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