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Report: Huawei hedges its bet on Android by developing a new non-Android operating system in-house — Like Samsung before it, Huawei hopes to have a “Plan B” should Android terms go bad. — A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Huawei is building its own in-house OS as a possible “Plan B” to Android.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
HP's 0.41 inch-thick Spectre laptop outperforms the MacBook but trails on battery life, and like MacBook makes too many sacrificies for thinness — As laptops go on extreme diets, you need to ask yourself what you're willing to sacrifice in ports, power and battery life
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: smaller HTC Nexus will have 5-inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 2770mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit CPU — It's that time everybody: Nexus season. While the last substantive pieces of Nexus information we could share popped up nearly two months ago …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car — Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully staged … | Financial Times: |
Intel weighs sale of cyber security business — Intel is looking at options for Intel Security, including potentially selling the antivirus software maker formerly known as McAfee which it bought for $7.7bn almost six years ago. — The Silicon Valley chipmaker has been talking to bankers …
Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @nikcub and @nikcub
| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Apple clarifies differential privacy will be opt-in for iOS 10; data collected for user-added local dictionary words, emojis, deep links, lookup hints in notes — “Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime — For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
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| Bloomberg: |
China's search engines need to verify advertisers, clearly ID paid results from Aug. 1, following death of a student who accused Baidu of showing misleading ads — Avertisers' qualifications must be verified effective Aug. 1 — Banned content must be reported: Cyberspace Administration| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: Google is building a live support app with screen-sharing for Nexus devices — A long-standing gap in the Nexus device feature-set for “normal” buyers has been live on-device support. In the event you need help setting up your Nexus smartphone - a smartphone you bought on the internet …
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Engadget, Pocketnow, Ausdroid, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Phandroid, PhoneDog.com, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, Android Beat and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @mhbergen
| Scott Cendrowski / Fortune: |
Xiaomi struggles to expand abroad as its smartphone sales in China decline and ecosystem growth misses forecasts, making some question its $45B valuation — The “Apple of China” gets a reality check as its smartphone sales slump. … Xiaomi's tale may sound like merely another iteration …
Tweets: @fortunemagazine, @fortunemagazine and @amitbhawani
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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