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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixel review: fast, powerful, long battery, and great camera though it lacks optical image stabilization, but dull design and the software needs polish — Android by Google — Every Android phone has always been a little compromised, and everybody knows it.| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Google Pixel review: best premium Android phone, worth buying just for the impressive Assistant, but not water resistant — The new Pixel is a classy home for the new Assistant — At long last, almost 8 years to the day the first Android phone went on sale, Google is launching a smartphone …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Pixel camera review: fast and takes impressive photos, video stabilization works very well, though it has some quirks like choppy focal length adjustment — Google's new Pixel is an attempt by the Android maker to showcase the very best of Google, and that includes its imaging chops.
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| Ben Brody / Bloomberg: |
Wikileaks: leaked email from March shows Podesta's initial list of 39 suggestions for Clinton's running mate included Tim Cook, Bill Gates, and Melinda Gates — Podesta listed women, blacks, Hispanics, WikiLeaks says — Bill and Melinda Gates, Mary Barra, Tim Cook on early list
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon adds new Prime benefits: Family Vault, which gives up to 5 members access to unlimited photo storage, and photo printing which starts at 9 cents/print — One of the perks of Amazon Prime membership is free, unlimited photo storage via Prime Photos. Today, Amazon is extending …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Zenefits looks beyond past troubles with debut of app marketplace, called Z2, for its all-in-one HR platform, launching with 17 partner-made integrations — More than a year ago, Zenefits seemed to be riding high as a company Silicon Valley investors salivated over.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Samsung is setting up Note7 exchange booths at high traffic terminals in select airports around the world — Samsung is setting up Galaxy Note 7 exchange booths in airports around the world, hoping to stop customers taking the dangerous device onto flights at the last minute.| Matt Humrick / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces X50 5G modem, enabling 5Gbps downloads and arriving in products in 2018, and says smartphones with X16 gigabit LTE modems coming in 2017 — Qualcomm made three announcements about connectivity products today at it 2016 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FTC says it may lose ability to effectively regulate companies like Comcast, Google, and Verizon unless ruling from AT&T case is overturned on appeal — FTC seeks to reverse AT&T ruling that may gut consumer protection authority. — The Federal Trade Commission is worried …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IBM reports Q3 revenue of $19.2B, flat YoY; cloud as a service annual run rate now at $7.5B, up 66% from last year — IBM's strategic imperatives—new businesses that are getting investment—are starting to offset slower units. — IBM reported a better-than-expected third quarter …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Live unlocks scheduling and pre-stream lobby, first for verified Pages — Facebook is helping broadcasters plan and promote their Live streams ahead of time, and assemble their audiences in a waiting room so they have viewers the second the camera starts rolling.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Twitter hires AngelHack founder Gregory Gopman to work on its VR initiative — Twitter has hired AngelHack founder Gergory Gopman to work on its nascent virtual reality (VR) initiative, Variety has learned. The company may add native 360-degree video integration as well as 360-degree video live streaming …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Razer acquires audiovisual company THX as it explores growth beyond the gaming industry; THX will be “spun out” as a recapitalized startup — Razer, the company that develops hardware and services for gamers and the world of gaming, has made an acquisition to catapult …
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Thanks:@ingridlunden| Matt Pressberg / The Wrap: |
Netflix is abandoning plans to launch in China for now because of challenging regulations, but will still license content to existing online service providers — Streaming giant cites challenges in “regulatory environment for foreign digital content services”| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
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