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Andy Rubin talks about the Essential PH-1 smartphone and Home at Code Conference — Rubin was interviewed live at Code Conference by Walt Mossberg. — Andy Rubin is the creator of Android and built the Danger Hiptop, one of the first devices to merge threaded messaging, email and the full web into a phone.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Essential Home announced as a privacy-focused Amazon Echo competitor, to have a round “auto-display” and be less cloud dependent, reportedly coming late summer — ‘An entirely new type of product’ — Essential Home is the new intelligent assistant with round “auto-display” just announced by Andy Rubin's new venture.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Essential began with a $30M investment from Playground and Redpoint and raised a second round; Tencent, VY, Altimeter, Access Tech logos also visible on site — Andy Rubin's startup, Essential unveiled its new smartphone earlier in the day, but has been mum on who is providing …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber fires VP Anthony Levandowski for refusing to cooperate in the Uber vs Waymo case, according to an internal email — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company's self-driving automobile efforts …
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| Peter Han / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft says “Always Connected” Windows 10 ARM PCs are coming from Asus, HP, and Lenovo, and shows Asus and Dell Windows Mixed Reality headsets — This year I had the pleasure of taking the keynote stage with Nick Parker, CVP, consumer and device sales and Matt Barlow, CVP … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nest unveils Cam IQ, a smart home camera with a 4K video sensor that uses Google's AI for facial recognition; preorders open now for $299, ships end of June — The Cam IQ presents an intriguing mix of high-fidelity video and smart motion detection and alerts
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| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Twitter creates Requests inbox that filters DMs from people you don't follow, rollout for iOS and Android apps today, coming to web within months — Twitter may never stop tweaking it's direct messaging function. Last summer, the social network added so many features to the DM tab … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Reddit now lets users tag their posts with location, powered by Foursquare data, coming first to mobile — Reddit has been quietly transforming into a more mature social network, and today it's adding another small but critical piece: the ability to add location tags to posts.
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| Kbeneven / Check Point Blog: |
Researchers find 41 Android apps from a single developer with several million downloads that fraudulently click on ads, now removed from Play Store — Check Point researchers discovered another widespread malware campaign on Google Play, Google's official app store.
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| Bloomberg: |
US Supreme Court rules against Lexmark, finding ink cartridges in printers can be resold despite patent holder restrictions — Ruling is blow to printer companies, pharmaceutical industry — Patent rights end once company sells product, Roberts says — The U.S. Supreme Court …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Sony's XZ Premium is available to preorder starting June 12, and goes on sale unlocked from June 19, for $799 — Available to pre-order from June 12th and buy unlocked from June 19th — It seems like a long time since Sony unveiled its flagship XZ Premium at MWC in February, but the luxe handset is finally going on sale in the US.| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
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