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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Home review: attractive design and good sound quality, but works with only one Google account at a time, and its assistant is not proactive — Help me, Google — For over a decade, Google search has been indispensable. It's the first place we go whenever we need to find information on virtually anything.
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See also Mediagazer| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Home's assistant outshines Amazon Echo's Alexa assistant as it can answer a variety of complex questions — Google has a winner with Google Home, for those who want a hands-free assistant that can answer a broad range of questions that come up during day-to-day activities in the house.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Huawei debuts Fit, a $130 basic fitness tracker with a continuous heart-rate monitor and a six-day battery life; initial use suggests it is overpriced — It's almost gift-giving season, and companies are scrambling to release products that will fill your loved ones' stockings later this year.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils the Mate 9, a $776 flagship smartphone with a 5.9-inch screen, 4000 mAh battery, fingerprint sensor, rear dual-camera system, USB-C, and 4GB RAM — A capable beast of a phone, with a 5.9-inch screen and 4,000 mAh battery — Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has unveiled its latest flagship device — the Mate 9.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft is testing differential updates for Windows 10 as part of its Unified Update Platform, potentially reducing download size by up to 35% — Change will bring smaller downloads and quicker checking for updates. — Major Windows 10 updates, including this summer's Anniversary Update … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out new comments system allowing creators to pin a comment to the top of the feed, and give hearts to acknowledge their favorite comments — YouTube today is rolling out an upgrade to its comments system, with the goal of putting creators more in control of which comments …
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| Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics: |
Report: Android captures record 88% share of global smartphone shipments in Q3 2016; iOS dips to 12% share worldwide — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached 375 million units in the third quarter of 2016.
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Google responds to EU allegations that Google skewed shopping search results to favor its own services, saying the revised case “doesn't fit the reality” — Search giant responds to EU statements of objections — Says EU fails to see Amazon and EBay are key competitors
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says Android developers will soon be able to set limited-time subscription prices for apps — All in hopes you won't cancel when the normal rate kicks in — At its Playtime event for Android developers today, Google announced that apps on the Play Store will soon gain a new option …
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Intel acquires Voke VR, which makes VR camera hardware and software for delivering VR sports content to a range of devices — Nov 3, 2016, 9:00 amNov 3, 2016, 11:51 am — Intel has made another acquisition to build out its virtual reality strategy and business: the chip giant …
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PCWorld, International Business Times, ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Recode and Silicon Valley Business …. Thanks:@lucas_matney
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Slack's ad in The New York Times made the company look afraid of Microsoft Teams, undermining its message and echoing past sentiments from companies like Rdio — Paper tiger — Slack has always been easy to like. The fast-growing team communication startup had a classic underdog story …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Analysis of 15 pay stubs shows Instacart workers now make about 30% less under new pay structure; CEO says pay cuts are essential for continued growth — Instacart workers are earning a lot less money after changes to the company's pay structure — changes CEO Apoorva Mehta told BuzzFeed News …
Tweets: @fwd, @mhbergen, @ceodonovan, @fart and @mikeisaac
| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Samsung's bigger Gear S3 smartwatches launch in the US on November 18 starting at $349; pre-orders begin November 6 — The latest Gear smartwatches up the features, but also the price. — Samsung's new Gear S3 watch line — which comes in both a Frontier and Classic model …
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