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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
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
New federal rules for autonomous vehicles arriving Tuesday, call for 15-point “safety assessment”, aiming to avoid inconsistent patchwork of state laws — The White House vs. robot cars — So far, manufacturers of self-driving cars have operated in uncharted waters …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
ICANN to change DNSSEC master key for the first time; new 2048 key will appear in DNS July 11, 2017 — Soon, one of the most important cryptographic key pairs on the internet will be changed for the first time. — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos gets in-app sharing and expands on auto-generated montage videos with “concept movies” that have a theme based on content — Getting emotional — Since the day it launched, one of Google Photos' more compelling features has been its automatically generated montage videos.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google launches Trips, a free Android and iOS app that serves as trip planner and travel guide, with custom itineraries as well as flight, hotel info, more — Going places — Google today announced Trips, a new app that serves as a trip planner and travel guide for anyone who is exploring a new place.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Intermittent and random glitch with iPhone 7's new Lightning EarPods stops volume controls from working; Apple says fix coming soon — Some iPhone 7 users have found an annoying glitch with the wired Lightning EarPods that come with the iPhone 7. — The issue, which I've also experienced …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google buys API.ai, a startup with dev tools for speech recognition and a conversational assistant app with 20M+ users — Google today said that it's acquired API.ai, a startup with tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Books launches “Discover”, a personalized suggestions feature, to better challenge Amazon's Kindle app — Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer a better challenge to Amazon's Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read.| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Interview with Intel's second-in-command Venkata Renduchintala on drones, cars, and the death of mobile Atom chips — Intel's second-in-command Venkata Renduchintala is feeling at home with his new company after he switched over from Qualcomm — Intel is now more than just a PC company.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook buys Nascent Objects, a startup with tools for rapidly prototyping hardware ideas — The company will join Facebook's new top-secret hardware lab, Building 8. — Facebook has acquired Nascent Objects, a small Bay Area startup that offers what the company calls a … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Grab, Uber's southeast Asia rival, raises $750M Series F led by SoftBank; source says post-money valuation is $3B — Grab, the largest company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, has confirmed that it has raised $750 million in fresh capital. — This is the company's Series F round …
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GeekTime, Tech in Asia, VentureBeat, Grab Singapore, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Straits Times, The Business Times, ZDNet, Tnooz and Reuters. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
iPhone 7 has the highest color accuracy and peak brightness of any mobile display, making it the “best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested” — The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …
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