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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches restaurant delivery service in London via the Prime Now app; delivery is free on all orders over £15 — Back in July we reported that Amazon was set to launch a restaurant delivery service in London for its Amazon Prime customers and now the e-commerce giant has done just that.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Adult site Brazzers forum hacked, 800K account details leaked including emails, usernames and plaintext passwords — Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. Although the data originated from the company's separate forum …
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| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
LG unveils V20 5.7-inch phone with Android 7.0 Nougat, secondary “ticker” screen, 3200mAh removable battery, available in Korea this month, other regions later — LG's latest big-screened handset boasts a metal body and removable battery — along with new cameras and a secondary ticker display.
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Report: over 4.5M network appliances, IoT devices, and embedded systems vulnerable by reusing known private keys for HTTPS and SSH servers — IoT == Immensely Obvious Threat — Millions of internet-facing devices - from home broadband routers to industrial equipment … | Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Oracle acquires cloud-based warehouse management company LogFire to boost its Supply Chain Management division — As Oracle looks to take on SAP, it has acquired LogFire to boost its SCM division. — Oracle announced Tuesday it's acquiring LogFire, an Atlanta, Ga.-based company …
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| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Sources: Microsoft working on a Slack competitor called Skype Teams; service to include threaded messages, channels, DMs, video calls, meeting scheduling, more — It was recently reported that Microsoft wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion. Slack, for those unfamiliar …
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Thanks:@pradeepviswav| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IDC: Fitbit leads wearables as Apple Watch shipments drop 58% YoY; basic wearable devices like simple fitness bands rise 48% YoY; smart wearables down 27.2% YoY — According to new data from IDC, Apple Watch shipments plunged nearly 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
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Inquirer, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, Silicon Valley Business …, The Register, IDC and Fortune. Tweets: @w_scottweiss
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What to expect from Sony's Sept. 7 event: quieter PS4 Slim with updated DualShock controller, more powerful PS4 “Neo”, and an update on PlayStation VR — Slim PS4, upgraded “Neo” console, and more should be discussed. — Sony stayed strangely quiet about its upcoming hardware plans … | Bloomberg: |
Snapchat ends its Local Stories section as it shifts to live events, fires about 15 curators — Snapchat Inc. is ending its daily local stories for cities feature, which pulled together video of everyday activities — concerts, cute puppies in the park — shot by users in locales such as New York.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: Apple to announce new wireless earbuds called AirPods, which will target the premium headphone market and use custom “Bluetooth-like” low-power tech — Apple's new wireless earbuds, expected to be announced this week as “AirPods,” are said to feature a custom-designed wireless chip …
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
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| Chase Gunter / Federal Computer Week: |
ITIF releases review of Clinton's and Trump's positions on tech; Clinton provides specifics, Trump lacks articulated policy — With the presidential election fast approaching, technology-minded groups are delving into the agendas put forth by the presidential candidates.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Huawei Honor 8 smartphone review: great performance for price, solid camera, excellent battery life, but is buggy, has subpar LTE performance, slow to charge — Huawei's budget sub-brand Honor is the subject of increasing chatter in phone geek circles of late.
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| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Dell completes its $60B acquisition of EMC, the largest tech M&A deal ever; the company will now become Dell Technologies with 140K employees — 'We feel very well positioned both in the new areas of technology and in the existing areas of technology,' says CEO Michael DellSponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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