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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review: great camera, display, and improved battery life but lack of new design is a let down and transition to wireless audio will be rough — In-depth with the new phones, the AirPods, A10 Fusion, the cameras, and more. — Up until now, every one of Apple's iPhone hardware updates has been additive.
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it will cap Note7 charging at 60% in OTA update, starting Sept. 20 in S. Korea, is in talks with telcos from 9 other countries for similar rollouts — Samsung will limit the battery charging cap for Galaxy Note 7 users to 60 percent through a Over-the-Air (OTA) software upgrade on September 20 following more explosions.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says there was an issue with iOS 10 software updates impacting some devices during first hour of availability, and affected users can update via iTunes — Update: Apple has released a statement saying that the following iOS 10 update issues should now be resolved:
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| Lauren Smiley / Backchannel: |
An inside look at Rothenberg Ventures, a seed-stage firm with stakes in companies like SpaceX, as it loses staff, changes name, and faces an SEC investigation — the last Monday in August, Mike Rothenberg—millennial venture capitalist, virtual reality check-writer, unhappy title-holder of …
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| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
In letter this morning, Rothenberg asks limited partner investors to contribute working capital to keep the firm going — Rothenberg Ventures has been the talk of Silicon Valley over the last two weeks, as the small venture-capital firm led by charismatic 32-year-old Mike Rothenberg has essentially imploded.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
YouTube launches beta of Community, which lets creators share photos, text, more into Subscriptions feed; subs can opt-in to new post notifications — Text, still images, and GIFs are now part of the mix that the service gives creators to keep their fans engaged.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Sources: next year's iPhone will have a full-screen front face with the virtual button built directly into the screen — Apple's iPhone, just short of 10 years old, has hit puberty. — Like adolescents coping with awkward changes to their bodies, the iPhone 7, due for release on Friday, introduces some uncomfortable transitions.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Microsoft Outlook's mobile app updates with some Sunrise-inspired features and design tweaks including event icons, map integration, “interesting calendars” — When it acquired calendar app Sunrise, Microsoft promised that its features would eventually come to Outlook.
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Apple releases iOS 10, tvOS 10, and watchOS 3 to the public — Apple on Tuesday made available iOS 10 for iPads, iPhones, and the iPod touch bringing mass enhancements to messages, Maps, Siri, Photos, Apple Music, News, and more. — The first version of iOS 10, version 10.0.1 …
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, launches an ad exchange to help marketers display “acceptable ads” to users; Google and AppNexus are partners — Eyeo, the company behind the popular online ad blocking software Adblock Plus, said Tuesday it's launching an online advertising service …
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See also Mediagazer| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Nvidia debuts new AI-focused processors for data centers based on its Pascal design, says the new chips have 4x speed, 3x efficiency of previous models — Nvidia has launched a pair of GPUs that the chip giant claims are four times faster than last year's offering.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Azure Service Fabric for running and managing microservices is coming to Linux — Microsoft's CTO for Azure (and occasional novelist) Mark Russinovich is extremely bullish about microservices. In his view, the vast majority of apps — including enterprise apps — will soon be built using microservices.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014 — Cash burn shows the challenge the music-streaming service faces in competing with rivals Spotify and Apple Music — STOCKHOLM—In the year rap mogul Jay-Z took control of Tidal … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Viacom, Hasbro, and others fined $835,000 for ad tracking on children's websites — The Attorney General's investigation found that websites for Barbie, Dora the Explorer, and other popular children's brands were tracking users to serve ads. While common on the web, ad tracking is forbidden …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 10 review: Apple moves apps past isolated silos with iMessage App Store, SiriKit, CallKit, Maps extensions, rich notifications; iPad changes seem uninspired — Sometimes, change is unexpected. More often than not, change sneaks in until it feels grand and inevitable.
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