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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max review: terrific camera, battery life, and performance, but it's close to being too big and 60Hz display lags behind the competition — Apple's biggest iPhone brings along an impressive camera — The iPhone 12 Pro Max is a big phone. The biggest iPhone ever made, in fact.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple MagSafe Duo charger review: useful, but underwhelming build quality and is expensive at $129, especially considering it does not come with a power adapter — In addition to the new iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max, I was able to try out Apple's new MagSafe Duo Charger.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Apple iPhone 12 mini review: easy to handle, screen and performance are excellent, but battery life is lackluster and charging with MagSafe is slower — The tech industry is obsessed with size, and it's easy to see why. “Bigger” is often used as shorthand for “better,” and if you need proof just look at phones.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoom agrees to enhance its security as part of a proposed settlement with FTC, after Zoom was accused of deceiving customers over end-to-end encryption and more — The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Zoom, after it accused the video calling giant of engaging in …
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| Chris Burns / SlashGear: |
Sling Media, a subsidiary of DISH, says it is closing down today and all Slingbox devices and services will become inoperable in November 2022 — Slingbox will no longer function as of November 9, 2022. Sling Media, a subsidiary of DISH, announced that they were closing shop on November 9, 2020.
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| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Following positive COVID-19 vaccine news, Zoom's shares fell 13%+ and other “stay-at-home” stocks like Amazon and Netflix dropped 3.4%-5.4% — - Zoom Video stock fell as names benefitting from people staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic came under pressure by the vaccine news.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Facebook and Google have been blocking political ads since Election Day, which Democrats say is hurting fundraising in the lead up to Georgia's upcoming runoffs — The fate of the United States Senate will be determined by two Georgia runoffs scheduled for less than two months from now …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt startup releases an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform, which allows organizations to build privacy-focused apps — Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple suspends new business with key supplier Pegatron after discovering violations of labor rules related to a student worker program — - Apple says Pegatron violated rules for student worker program — Company says new business paused until corrective action taken
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| Financial Times: |
SoftBank has removed three of its most senior executives, including Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra, from its board, amid calls to improve corporate governance — Japanese conglomerate also books a $1.3bn loss on its Nasdaq trades over the summer — Japan's SoftBank has culled three …
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's antitrust watchdog says it has opened a case against Google to investigate whether Play Store favors Google Pay over rivals — India's antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its app store to promote its payments service …
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| Bloomberg: |
Adobe says it will acquire Workfront, maker of employee collaboration and project management software for marketers, for $1.5B — - Closely held software company has about 1 million users — Deal brings business collaboration tools to Photoshop maker
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Silicon Macs will run iOS apps but some developers, including Facebook, Google, and the developers of Candy Crush and Among Us, have already opted out — Apple will hold another special event tomorrow, and we expect to see the first Mac with Apple Silicon chips.
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