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Pixel Visual Core is Google's first custom image processing SoC in the Pixel 2 phones, for accelerating HDR+ processing and opening it up to third-party apps — The Pixel Visual Core is a big deal — One thing that Google left unannounced during its Pixel 2 launch event on October 4th … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixel 2 and 2 XL review: amazing camera and good speakers, represents the best Android experience, but design lacks flair and it has no headphone jack — Sharp shooter — Without fail, every person who has picked up the Pixel 2 XL has said virtually the same thing: “It feels like it's made out of plastic.”| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft debuts $1,499+ 13" and $2,499+ 15" Surface Book 2 with Nvidia GeForce GPUs, updated design, up to 17 hours battery; preorder Nov. 9, ships Nov. 16 — Microsoft's super-flexible systems get potent upgrade. Alas, still no Thunderbolt 3. — Just over two years ago … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Garmin's Speak is a tiny Echo Dot-like device that puts Amazon Alexa on your car windshield, available today for $149 — At a recent Amazon event, the company announced BMW would integrate Alexa into its 2018 models. It's no secret that Amazon wants to stick Alexa anywhere and everywhere it can, and BMW is only the beginning.| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Google Maps to remove test feature for iPhone users that showed how many calories or “mini cupcakes” you would burn if you walked after strong user feedback — Google Maps has a new feature for walking directions. Now, it shows you how many calories you would burn if you walked:| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
How KRACK made it past scrutiny of researchers: IEEE's standards specs are hard to access and handshake and encryption protocols were vetted separately — The big news in crypto today is the KRACK attack on WPA2 protected WiFi networks. Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens at KU Leuven … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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PayPal announces over two million US retailers will begin accepting Venmo payments starting this week — NEW YORK (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc said more than two million U.S. retailers will be able to accept payments through its mobile app Venmo starting this week, seeking to broaden … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google launches new “advanced protection” setting for Google accounts of high-risk users, which requires use of a hardware key with every login — WHEN IT COMES to the eternal tradeoff between digital security and convenience, most tech firms focus their efforts on the vast majority … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple held talks, that are now over without a deal, to buy Crossover Health, approached One Medical as part of push into health care — - It's not clear if Apple wanted to own and operate a network of health clinics, like its retail stores, or simply partner to sell products with a health-related angle, like the Apple Watch| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
On-demand dog-walking app Wag, which sources say raised over $59M, is being criticized for losing dogs and fighting with customers, spooking potential investors — The pet-care app is being criticized for losing dogs and fighting with customers—spooking potential investors.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook buys anonymous teen compliment app tbh, which has had 5M+ downloads and over a billion messages sent in “past few weeks”, will let it continue to run — Facebook wants tbh to be its next Instagram. Today, Facebook announced it's acquiring positivity-focused polling startup tbh … | Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Twitter launches new Video Website Card ad format that pairs an autoplay video with a website link, available now to all advertisers worldwide — Tapping the ad on mobile will load the brand's web page while continuing to play the video atop it. — Twitter's rolling out a way for advertisers … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Indiegogo announces Marketplace for selling products that were successfully crowdfunded on site or elsewhere; Indiegogo will take around 10% or 15% cut on sales — And the products don't have to be originally funded through the site, either. — In the past, entrepreneurs …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Simplifying benefits management in Zoho People — Let's consider a new hire on their first day of orientation. They receive a brief introduction to the benefits plans, and almost immediately, questions start to surface …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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