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Alleged renders of Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL leak, showing dual front facing speakers, redesigned launcher with a Google search bar above navigation buttons — EXCLUSIVE: — Unlike Apple, Google tends to hold just a single major hardware launch per year — and just like last year's event, this one will also be held on October 4.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to hire 1000 more ad reviewers and make all the ads each organization buys visible to users, not just the targeted ones, to fight election interference — Today Facebook handed over 3,000 ads to congressional investigators that were bought by a Russian company to influence U.S. politics.
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Sources: Russian efforts included FB pages named Secured Borders, LGBT United, Defend the 2nd, alongside formerly reported fake blacktivist and muslim accounts — SAN FRANCISCO — The Russians who posed as Americans on Facebook last year tried on quite an array of disguises.| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
Facebook's Safety Check page for Las Vegas shooting promoted sites giving misinformation like Alt-Right News and End Times Headlines; Google highlighted 4Chan — In the wake of the deadly shooting in Las Vegas last night that left more than 50 dead and hundreds injured …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google ends controversial “first click free” policy, won't demote paywalled news sites in search results, and will offer new tools to help sell subscriptions — Search engine drops controversial ‘first-click free’ program — Company won't demote paywalled news sites in search results
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft discontinues Groove Music Pass service, effective December 31, partners with Spotify, which it will recommend to Windows users instead — Microsoft rebranded Xbox Music to Groove Music two years ago, in a bid to make its music streaming service more relevant to consumers.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Roku debuts $50 Streaming Stick with CPU update and voice control remote, $70 Streaming Stick Plus with HDR and 4K, and rolls out OS 8 with OTA programming — More TV streaming boxes — Roku just announced updates to five of its TV streaming products, as well as a new operating system …
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| Ash Bennington / CoinDesk: |
Ex-Facebook and Google employees to launch a cryptocurrency index fund backed by Naval Ravikant, as a market cap-weighted basket of the top 10 by network value — A startup led by former Facebook and Google employees is launching a cryptocurrency index fund.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple open sourced the kernel of iOS and macOS for ARM processors — Apple has always shared the kernel of macOS after each major release. This kernel also runs on iOS devices as both macOS and iOS are built on the same foundation. This year, Apple also shared the most recent version of the kernel on GitHub.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung, ADT announce new SmartThings-powered home security system; base bundle costs $550, includes a hub, two door and window detectors, and a motion detector — Samsung announced a new SmartThings-powered home security system today, but with an interesting twist: the company has partnered with ADT …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Oracle follows others with a new blockchain cloud service, built on the Hyperledger Fabric project, like IBM's Blockchain as a Service — Oracle is working hard to be a SaaS vendor that matters, whether with its new autonomous database service or getting involved with blockchain.
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| Costas Pitas / Reuters: |
Uber's head of Northern Europe Jo Bertram is departing amid battle to regain London licence, will be replaced by London GM Tom Elvidge on an interim basis — LONDON (Reuters) - Uber's [UBER.UL] top boss in Britain will quit the taxi hailing app just as the firm battles to overturn a decision …
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Facebook brings data-saving Messenger Lite beyond developing markets to the Google Play Store in US, Canada, UK, and Ireland, has no plans for iOS version — Facebook's data-conserving version of Messenger is no longer just for developing nations with slow networks.
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