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Apple Watch Series 2 review: serious fitness tracker with GPS, better performance, but display not visible in direct sunlight, software glitches remain — A GPS sensor and better water resistance make the new Apple Watch a serious fitness tracker — Let's call it what it is: a fitness tracker.
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| Signe Brewster / TechCrunch: |
A look at the experience of riding in Uber's autonomous vehicle as pick-ups start in Pittsburgh — Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. — The announcement comes a year …
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Tim Cook favors AR over VR, suggests it may be more commercially viable because it allows users to be more “present” — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he favors augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR), and suggested the emerging technology …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Spotify hits 40M paid subscribers, up 10M in five months, compared to Apple Music's growth of about 4M over roughly the same period — In a tweet shared by Spotify's official Twitter account today, the company's CEO and Founder Daniel Ek hinted that the service has hit the 40 million subscriber milestone.
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
New Twitter app launches on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One, brings free video content from Periscope, Vine, and partners like NFL, NBA, and Bloomberg — Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft will now let devs distribute repackaged Win32 desktop apps through the Windows Store, which was previously limited to Universal Windows Platform apps — The Project Centennial “bridge” for Win32 apps is now ready for production. — Traditional desktop Windows applications …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon restocks the Echo Dot at $49.99, down from the $89.99 launch price, and adds a white option — We already knew it was coming - thanks to an accidental tweetAmazon posted earlier this week - but now it's official: Amazon's connected speaker Echo Dot is back in stock and at a lower price point of $49.99.| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
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| Bruce Schneier / Lawfare: |
Companies running critical Internet infrastructure are observing recent probe-like DDoS attacks at a scale that points to state actors, likely China or Russia — Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.
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Tweets: @sheeraf, @reimers_ and @hunterwalk
| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
EU publishes proposals for new copyright rules which would allow news publishers to demand payment from aggregators like Google News — Copyright plan may curb online use of news articles, content — EU also seeks to bolster rights of music performers, authors
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Google and AppNexus sever ties with ComboTag, the partner company behind Adblock Plus' ad exchange; ComboTag says the exchange will still go ahead — Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus' recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform.| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Sapphire Ventures, whose sole investor is SAP, raises $1B to invest in late-stage startups — Sapphire Ventures has closed on a $1 billion fund to invest in privately held start-ups, easing fears about a downturn in the venture capital industry. — Sapphire Ventures, a venture capital firm … | Harriet Taylor / CNBC: |
Forrester: AI will eliminate 6 percent of jobs in customer service, trucking, taxi industries in five years — A Forrester Research report expects intelligent agent to displace about 6-percent of positions within the next five years. — Within five years robots and so-called intelligent agents … | Jasper Jackson / Guardian: |
Google-backed First Draft's new coalition network, which aims to help improve social media newsgathering, adds Twitter and Facebook as partners — Channel 4 News, Telegraph, New York Times, Washington Post and BuzzFeed have also signed up to network organised through Google-backed First Draft
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Samsung says it will replace Note7 in US and Canada after country safety regulators end investigations, plans to offer replacements in Singapore this week — Smartphone's recall hurts consumer and investor confidence in South Korean company — Samsung Electronics Co. is facing growing consumer confusion … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
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