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Amazon and Microsoft partner to let Alexa summon Cortana, and vice versa, by year's end — In an unusual partnership, Amazon and Microsoft are working together to extend the abilities of their voice-controlled digital assistants. — SEATTLE — The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants …
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Sources: next high-end iPhone model to have a software bar with new gesture controls to replace home button, an iPad-like app dock, redesigned multitasking — Premium device is said to come with new gesture controls to replace home button, taller screen with rounded corners.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources detail Uber CEO process: Immelt withdrew early, Whitman overplayed her hand by negotiating for more control, then board went decisively to Khosrowshahi — SAN FRANCISCO — By last Friday afternoon, most of Uber's eight directors had gathered in San Francisco for a board meeting.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Dara Khosrowshahi is officially Uber CEO, according to an email from company's board to employees; Travis Kalanick says he “couldn't be happier” — Uber's board of directors this evening sent an email to company employees, saying that it voted unanimously to name current Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi as its next CEO.
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| Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times: |
Concerns raised after New America Foundation, a think tank funded by Google, fired Barry Lynn, a scholar who praised EU's antitrust fine against Google — WASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google Assistant coming to new speakers from Anker, Mobvoi, and Panasonic, will be integrated with LG home appliances — Earlier today, at German consumer electronics and appliances show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin, Google announced that the Google Assistant will be coming to new smart speakers and home appliances.
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Samsung debuts $199 Gear Fit2 Pro fitness tracker with built-in GPS and Gear Sport smartwatch with round 1.2" AMOLED screen and Tizen UI, pricing TBD — Samsung held a press conference in Berlin today ahead of the official opening of IFA 2017, and unveiled its two new wearables that we've …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Acer launches fanless Switch 7 hybrid tablet with discrete Nvidia graphics and Intel's 8th-generation Core i7 processor, available in December for $1,699 — Acer's Switch 5 tablet wasn't something to write home about. The kickstand was clever, but what else was there to lure you away from, say, a Surface Pro?| The Guardian: |
Over 21M comments have been submitted to FCC on its proposed neutrality roll-back as it closes submissions, although many are duplicates or created by spambots — The FCC has received nearly 22m comments on “Restoring Internet Freedom” with just hours left before the window for public feedback closes on Wednesday
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FDA recalls some pacemaker models from St. Jude Medical, estimated at 465K units, for firmware update patching vulnerabilities; St. Jude first planned OTA fix — Heart patients will have to visit their doctors to have their pacemakers patched for the “voluntary” recall — but there are risks.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Asus unveils 13.9mm thick ZenBook Flip 14 with discrete Nvidia graphics weighing 3.08 pounds; all Flip laptops updated with Intel's latest quad-core processors — If you need a very light convertible or laptop and still want to do some light gaming or video editing, the latest ASUS ZenBook Flip and VivoBook models may do the trick.
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Apple, continuing its fight with media partners, will likely only succeed with TV when it brings its original shows to market — 4K movies? Sure. But that's not where Apple wanted to be in 2017. — Here's a head fake of a story: Apple and Hollywood studios are wrangling over pricing for … Sponsor Posts
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