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AT&T unveils plan for multi-gigabit Internet delivered over shaped radio transmissions that are guided by power lines; field trials set for in 2017 — Urban, Rural and Underserved Parts of the World Could Benefit from AT&T's Innovative Wireless, Multi-Gigabit-Speed Internet Connectivity …
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For 250 popular items tracked over several weeks, Amazon ranked its own and affiliated products higher about 75% of the time, even when cheaper options existed — Amazon bills itself as “Earth's most customer-centric company.” Yet its algorithm is hiding the best deal from many customers.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
macOS Sierra review: Siri and Optimized Storage features add convenience but can frustrate, as Siri lacks third-party tie-ins, and iCloud storage is too limited — For the last few years, nearly all of OS X's biggest updates have come in response to iOS. First, the Mac got iOS's apps.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for Mac with real-time collaboration features and more, alongside the launch of macOS Sierra — Alongside its public release of macOS Sierra, the latest major operating system release for Mac, Apple today updated its Pages, Keynote …
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
New federal rules for autonomous vehicles aim to avoid patchwork of state laws, include 15-point safety assessment to cover ethical, conflict situations on road — The White House vs. robot cars — So far, manufacturers of self-driving cars have operated in uncharted waters …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast CEO says the company plans to debut a wireless service by mid-2017, using leased Verizon airwaves and Comcast's 14M+ Wi-Fi hot spots — It will run on Verizon airwaves and also lean on Wi-Fi — Comcast just solidified long-rumored plans to launch its own MVNO cellular service.
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| Josh Smith / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google adds natural language search, improved spell checking to Drive and enhances multi-column support in Docs — (Cross-posted on the Google Drive Blog) — Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales — Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google sends out invites for October 4 “made by Google” hardware event in San Francisco, will livestream it on YouTube — Google today tweeted out an indication that it will unveil new devices on October 4. People have been expected Google to show new mobile devices …
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Tweets: @google and @daithaigilbert
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe reports Q3 record revenue of $1.46B, up 20% YoY, record Marketing Cloud revenue of $404M, and Digital Media annualized recurring revenue rises to $3.70B — Adobe shared its third-quarter earnings report today, revealing (for the third quarter in a row) “record” $1.46 billion in revenue and $0.75 (non-GAAP) earnings per share.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tinder integrates with Spotify and lets potential matches view users' favorite songs and artists — Tinder has revealed the next step in its mission to help users meet their perfect match, as Spotify opens up its catalog of songs to the perennially popular dating app.
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| Amelia Heathman / WIRED UK: |
WhatsApp adds @-mention support in group chats, will notify even if the chat is muted, expands group sizes from 100 up to 256 participants — You can now ‘@’ a user in a group chat to make sure they see the message — An update to the messaging tool WhatsApp now allows users to tag people … Sponsor Posts
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