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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
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: |
Uber starts self-driving car pickups 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-and-a-half after Uber hired dozens of researchers …
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| 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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| ABC News: |
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 six months, compared to Apple Music's growth of 4M in 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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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Amazon Echo available for preorder in UK for £149.99 or £99 with Prime, ships Sept. 28; available in Germany by invitation for €179.99 or €129.99 with Prime — Amazon's challenger to Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Now makes the leap from the US in the form of a smart home-controlling speaker
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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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| 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 … | 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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Tweets: @technology, @omarg and @jank0
| 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.
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Thanks:@annelisemcgough. See also Mediagazer| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial acquires US biometric authentication startup EyeVerify, source says for $100M — Alibaba's payments arm, Ant Financial, has acquired EyeVerify, a maker of optical recognition technology used byWells Fargo along with dozens of regional banks and credit unions across the country.| 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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First Draft News, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, ValueWalk, Digital Trends, Engadget and CNET. Tweets: @raju
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Pandora's new music services could launch as early as Thursday; deals set with Universal Music, Sony, and Merlin, but not yet Warner Music — Sources say it's aiming for a Thursday launch. — Pandora wants to launch two new music services, and it may be ready to do it this week.| 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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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Irish Times, TheDomains.com, Fortune and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @jeffjarvis. See also Mediagazer
| 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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New York State Attorney …, USA Today, CNET, Engadget and The Next Web
Tweets: @paul__walsh, @pokemonparent and @jeremiahg
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft may discontinue Band fitness device, will focus instead on its cross-platform Health service — Microsoft's Band 2 fitness device looks to be at the end of its run. The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.
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Engadget, The Tech Report, The Verge, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Windows Central, Liliputing, WinBeta and Neowin
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
In another Snapchat-inspired update, Instagram lets you save to camera roll by default photos and videos you post to stories, as well as mute others' stories — Instagram has issued another Snapchat-inspired update to its app, the latest in an aggressive series since the company's big redesign in May.
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Israel's Cato Networks raises $30M Series B led by Greylock Partners for its cloud-based network security technology — Shlomo Kramer is well-known in the security industry as the co-founder of Check Point, arguably the world's first network security firewall vendor.
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SiliconANGLE, Marketwire, FinSMEs, Globes Online, Fortune, Reuters, CRN, VentureBeat and GeekTime
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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