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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
What to expect from Apple's “Hi, Speed” event: four new iPhones with iPad Pro-like design supporting 5G, smaller HomePod, over-ear headphones, AirTags, and more — There's some mystery about what could be announced besides iPhones — Apple's next fall event kicks off tomorrow at 1PM ET …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Alleged iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max renders leak before Apple's event, showing color options, including blue, and LIDAR sensor — The best look yet at Apple's new iPhones — Apple will reveal its latest iPhones in just a few hours, but if you can't wait until …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Alleged HomePod mini renders leak, showing a spherical design and black and white color options ahead of Apple's event — In addition to sharing what appear to be official images of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, reputable leaker Evan Blass today has shared images of what he claims is the widely-rumored …
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The Verge, AppleInsider, Forbes, Gizmodo, CNET, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, and NextPit
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides — Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger gets a visual update, custom reactions, chat themes, and more, as cross-app communication between Instagram and FB rolls out to North America — Facebook Messenger is getting a visual update and a number of new features, including support for chat themes, custom reactions, and soon, selfie stickers and vanish mode.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Q3 2020: Gartner says PC shipments in the US totaled 16.57M, up 11.4% YoY, while IDC finds PC shipments to be 81.3M units worldwide, up 14.6% YoY — According to Gartner, PC shipments in the US increased 11.4% in the third quarter of 2020 — the strongest growth in the US in a decade.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Laptop Go review: solid design, fast, excellent keyboard and trackpad, but very low screen resolution, 8GB RAM limit, and max 256GB storage — It's hard not to love the Surface Laptop Go at first sight. Microsoft took the basic style of its Laptop line, shrunk it down, and created an adorable sibling with a 12.4-inch screen.
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PCWorld, The Verge, Windows Central, ZDNet, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, CNET, Windows Central, Gizmodo, and SlashGear. Tweets: @devindra
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Symantec, ESET, and other tech companies orchestrated an attempt to take down the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers — FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
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Microsoft on the Issues, Threatpost, The Independent, WeLiveSecurity, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, ESET, and Lumen
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney announces a reorg, says its “primary focus” for entertainment will be streaming, as the pandemic has dramatically impacted its theatrical business — - Disney is restructuring its media and entertainment divisions. — In order to further accelerate its direct-to-consumer strategy …
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Stratechery, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, Bloomberg, Light Reading, Engadget, Coinspeaker, Android Headlines, Looper, IndieWire, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, and GameSpot
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series that influenced hacktivists like Aaron Swartz — Cory Doctorow's Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists. But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it's all grown up.
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Researchers demo plugging a modified USB-C cable into a Mac to hack T2 chip; Apple has debuted six Mac models with T2 chips since the checkm8 flaw became public — The T2 exploit team who found a way to take over the security chip in modern Macs has demonstrated a way to do so without user intervention …
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The T2 Development Blog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, YouTube, YouTube, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @benlovejoy, @mjg59, and @aurynn
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces that it is working with several nonprofits and advocacy organizations to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities — AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities …
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The AI Blog - Microsoft, The Next Web, New.blicio.us, TechRepublic, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @chriscapossela, @msftresearch, @wendyabc, @stevecla, and @stevegleason
| Michael Scherer / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan donate $100M to election administrators, despite pushback from a conservative legal group, following a previous gift of $300M — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced Tuesday an additional $100 million in donations …
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| Daniel Bader / Android Central: |
Sources: Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, has left the company in recent weeks after rumors of a power struggle with current CEO, Pete Lau — His departure comes after launching the Nord sub-brand earlier this year. — OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has left the company, Android Central can confirm.
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Tweets: @qbking77, @2shar, @pudiharicharan, @varunkrish, @r3dash, @aamirxda, @prateekp95, @sandeep9sarma, and @chunkynerd
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Qatalog, which develops a virtual workspace that brings together disparate SaaS tools, raises $15M Series A led by Atomico, bringing its total funding to $18.5M — Qatalog, a London-based startup that has developed a “virtual workspace” that brings together disparate SaaS tools …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kahoot, which develops a user-generated gamified e-learning platform, raises $215M from SoftBank amid a surge in demand for remote education — After announcing a modest $28 million raise earlier this year, the user-generated gamified e-learning platform Kahoot today announced a much bigger round …
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