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| The Verge: |
Everything Amazon announced at its product event: Alexa Emergency Assist for $6/month, Alexa Eye Gaze to control devices, the $50 Echo Pop Kids, and more — Amazon is kicking off its annual fall product announcements at its HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils generative AI updates for Alexa, aiming to become more conversational and personalized, available as a free preview on all Echo devices in the US — During a press event this morning at its HQ2 headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Amazon announced that it'll soon use …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces the $150 Echo Show 8 with a new design, a centered camera, a smart home hub, Spatial Audio, and a changing home screen based on proximity — Amazon kicked off today's Fall Devices Event with an update to its Echo Show 8. The small smart screen features smart home hub functionality and improved audio quality.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces updated Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, offering enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation, and six hours of battery for $270 — Amazon today unveiled a new generation of Echo Frames, its Alexa-powered glasses, with enhanced speech processing, better noise isolation and a $269.99 price tag.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| BBC: |
After Meta criticized the UK's potential E2EE rules, the UK says Meta “failed to provide assurances” over keeping its platforms “safe from sickening abusers” — Facebook's owner Meta has hit back at a new government campaign strongly critical of its plans to encrypt messages.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
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| CNBC: |
Sources: as equities soared in 2020, Apple and Goldman were working on an iPhone stock trading feature but shelved the project when markets turned south in 2022 — - Apple was exploring the launch of an iPhone feature that would let users buy and sell stocks, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select markets, for $21.99/month/page for each or $34.99/month/page for both — Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 review: Double Tap is great, but Precision Finding requires an iPhone 15, and the Siri and brightness improvements feel minor — Iterative updates aren't flashy, but these smartwatches are mainly for folks who don't have Apple Watches yet.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
On WeChat, China's Ministry of State Security says the US, since 2009, has continuously hacked Huawei's servers, stolen critical data, and installed backdoors — Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying — China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.
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| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
Neuralink is recruiting for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, expected to take about six years, likely for fewer than 10 people — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board … | Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Sources: the Kirin 9000S SoC has four CPUs that use Arm designs, the other four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon developed the GPU and NPU, and more — Facing US sanctions, Chinese company emulates Apple by using its own designs in chips for Mate 60 Pro
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| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp releases a beta for iOS via Apple's TestFlight with a companion mode for iPadOS, built using Mac Catalyst, after years of user requests for an iPad app — WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 23.19.1.71.| The Verge: |
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with “supporting or contradicting information found by Search” — Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI debuts DALL-E 3, which can be summoned and controlled using ChatGPT, and plans to make it available to ChatGPT+ and enterprise customers in October — OpenAI is offering an early look at DALL-E 3, the next version of its image generation tool. The update allows DALL-E 3 to be summoned …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Bluesky Stats: on September 18, Elon Musk floated charging all X users, and on September 19, Bluesky signed up 53,585 users, or 5% of its ~1,125,499 accounts — The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day — Would you pay to use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter?
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative — At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LimeWire, which pivoted from piracy to content creation, acquires generative AI image tool BlueWillow, which has 2.5M Discord members and has made 500M+ images — In the Wild West of generative AI, a new, unlikely cowboy is riding into town. LimeWire — once infamous for music piracy …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
1Password rolls out passkey support to its iOS and Android apps and web extensions; replacing the user's master password with a passkey is coming later in 2023 — Following months of teasing, 1Password has announced that support for passkeys — a new login technology that replaces passwords …
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