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Microsoft debuts the Surface Pro 9, combining the Pro X and Pro lines, available on October 25 for $1,000+ with Intel's 12th Gen CPUs or $1,300+ with an ARM SQ3 — Microsoft is combining its Surface Pro X and Surface Pro lines into a single product this year, the Surface Pro 9.
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Tweets: @arm, @stroughtonsmith, @99_999_965, @pierce, @tomwarren, and @parkerortolani
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the 28-inch Surface Studio 2+ with Intel's 11th Gen i7, Nvidia's RTX 3060, Dolby Vision, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB SSD, for $4,299 or $4,499 — It's been a long time since Microsoft updated its Surface Studio line of all-in-one PCs. While rumors had suggested …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Teams Premium, with some AI-based smart features like meeting recaps and live translations, expected to launch in February 2023, pricing TBA — Microsoft is launching Microsoft Teams Premium today, a new offering designed to boost its chat and collaboration app with some AI-powered smart features.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Microsoft 365 Blog, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Windows Central, ZDNet, The Verge, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @quinnypig
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse keynote didn't address the enormous skepticism around his vision and shows why VR should have been an R&D project, not Meta's future — As Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the camera in a pre-recorded presentation on Tuesday to kick off Meta Platforms Inc.'s annual …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won't get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via the collective bargaining arrangement — Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store …
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| Taylor Locke / Fortune: |
Mango Markets, a Solana DeFi platform, says a hacker stole ~$100M by manipulating its coin's price; the hacker made a DAO proposal to waive any investigations — Mango Markets, a decentralized trading platform on the Solana blockchain, looks to be the latest victim of a massive hack within the crypto realm.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out beta features for creating and using passkeys on Android and building passkeys into websites for Chrome, ahead of a stable launch later in 2022 — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others in the industry want to replace website/app passwords with “passkeys” that just require you to unlock your device.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says Apple plans to launch desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps for Windows in 2023; Windows 11's Photos app will get iCloud integration — Microsoft today announced that desktop Apple TV and Apple Music apps will be available on Windows PCs next year, downloadable from the Microsoft Store.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Google Pixel Watch review: beautiful, comfortable, bright but cramped screen, lackluster battery life, slow charging, few apps, and no auto workout tracking — I'm late. I'm late. For a very important date. That's effectively the Google Pixel Watch's mantra.
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| Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: |
The UK's CMA details its concerns with Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, like withholding games from rivals; Microsoft says Sony is the market leader — The CMA expects the deal to impact PlayStation and game streaming — The Competition and Markets Authority has detailed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft plans to integrate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 into its newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge — Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI's AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Google approved Truth Social in the Google Play Store after the app updated its content moderation policies in response to being denied in August 2022 — Google has approved Donald Trump's Twitter-like social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, Axios has learned.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Blockchain search startup nxyz, founded by ex-Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy, raised a $40M Series A in May 2022 led by Paradigm; Ramaswamy also runs Neeva — - Sridhar Ramaswamy, who led Google's advertising business from 2013 to 2018, has launched a Web3 company called nxyz.
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Sources: ByteDance plans to expand its Resso music streaming service globally, starting with over a dozen markets excluding the US, and integrate it into TikTok — Company is negotiating with labels as it seeks more than a dozen new global markets — BeReal vs. TikTok: Can ‘Authentic’ Social Media Compete Without Ads?| Digiday: |
Sources: Apple held separate exploratory discussions with media agencies about monetizing its original video content through ads, possibly as early as 2023 — Apple's growing designs on the ad industry are already well-documented with the iPhone maker's media unit already generating $4 billion per year on search.
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| Christian Davenport / Washington Post: |
Amazon plans to launch its first two Project Kuiper prototype internet satellites in early 2023 on the new Vulcan rocket developed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin — Two prototypes would launch early next year as the company seeks to build a constellation that would eventually grow …
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About Amazon, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, ZDNet, and Reuters
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Corporate expense management tool TripActions raised a $154M Series G at a $9.2B valuation, up from $7.25B in October 2021, and $150M in structured financing — TripActions, a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion …
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TikTok plans to take prompt action against “exploitative begging” after an investigation found refugees in Syrian camps pleading for digital gifts on the app — BBC Global Disinformation Unit, BBC News Arabic and BBC Eye Investigations — Displaced families in Syrian camps … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Roku partners with Wyze to launch smart home products, including lighting, plugs, and cameras, sold exclusively at Walmart in the US starting on October 17 — Roku has officially announced a lineup of smart home gadgets that includes lighting, plugs, and cameras.
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Roku Newsroom, The Ambient, Fast Company, XDA Developers, Light Reading, BGR, Stacey on IoT, Variety, Wired, 9to5Google, Protocol, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Pocket-lint, HD Guru, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, AFTVnews, The Streamable, and Engadget. Tweets: @davezatz
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