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Amazon Key bundle launched with security camera and smart door lock that lets couriers unlock your door; price starts at $250, preorder today, available Nov. 8 — The new in-home service will roll out to 37 US metro areas next month and eventually allow you to let in a dog walker or house cleaner, too.
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Microsoft has stopped manufacturing Kinect, the depth camera and microphone that sold ~35M units since 2010, but will continue to support it for Xbox customers — But its influence, and core technology, lives on across the industry. — Manufacturing of the Kinect has shut down.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Google and Cisco partner on hybrid cloud offerings, slated for release in first half of 2018, that will span on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform — - Google and Cisco will jointly develop products for use in the cloud and in on-premise data centers.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
As it expands into TV, Apple is seeking family-friendly shows and avoiding edgy content, but some Hollywood insiders doubt the company has a clear strategy — A conservative corporation takes its first steps into a new industry. — Days before Apple Inc. planned to celebrate the release …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Slack updates screen sharing feature to allow collaborative editing, marking up of docs, more and says Screenhero to be shuttered in December — As Slack moves more and more into trying to become a go-to tool for workplace collaboration — especially in the face of competition from Atlassian …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo announces Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for Android and iOS, coming in late November — Nintendo has announced Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for smartphones, due for release on iOS and Android in late November. The title looks much like other games in the Animal Crossing series …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at Jack Dorsey's Square, whose success in recent quarters and steadily rising stock price means it could soon pass Twitter in market cap — Twitter may be President Trump's favorite platform, but Square, a payments company also run by Jack Dorsey, has had more success in recent quarters.| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
Profile of Angela Ahrendts, who's reimagined Apple Stores and the community role they serve as “modern-day town squares”, amid lean years for physical retailers — The mall is dying — but Apple's retail chief Angela Ahrendts is reimagining the company's stores anyway.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky says it briefly obtained archive of NSA-linked Equation Group source code after scanning an infected PC in 2014; PC likely belonged to NSA contractor — Apparently, a pirate download of Microsoft Office could be the root of all the trouble. — Kaspersky has acknowledged …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings Science Journal data monitoring app to iOS and redesigns it to improve note taking — Last year, Google released a nifty Science Journal app that takes advantage of the sensors in your Android device to capture various scientific readings. Google has now redesigned the app … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple let suppliers reduce accuracy of iPhone X's Face ID to speed up production and make manufacturing easier; Apple says report is “completely false” — The company let suppliers reduce accuracy of the phone's Face ID system to speed up production.
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| Sidney Fussell / Gizmodo: |
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