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| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
iPhone X review after one week: fast and powerful, both front and back cameras are great, Face ID works effectively but can't distinguish between some twins — The iPhone X changes everything. But the future is in good hands. — Apple's iPhone X is the beginning of something new.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
iPhone X one week review: great all-screen experience, decent battery life, Face ID is fast, new gestures easy to learn, but software has some weird UX choices — The iPhone X has the 8 Plus's killer cameras, in a size that's much better for small hands. — iPhones have had the same thick borders …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone X review after 24 hours: gorgeous design and display, notch is ugly but tends to fade away, but it's expensive and Face ID can be spotty in some lighting — Works in progress can still be great — After months of hype, endless speculation, and a wave of last-minute rumors about production delays …
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple changed its standard iPhone review PR strategy for the iPhone X, prioritizing YouTubers and celebrities over established names in tech journalism — ‘Unusual’ change in strategy means latest phone got less testing than most of its predecessors before reviews could be published
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Senate hearing: Google explains delay in removing RT from ad program; Twitter says ~5% accounts are spam; Facebook says it's disclosed all known Russian ads — A live look at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Russian election interference. — Facebook, Google and Twitter are in Washington …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Senators raise issue to Facebook, Twitter, Google of shell firms obscuring identities of advertisers, a fundamental obstacle to efforts to increase transparency — How can Internet giants know that innocent-seeming US companies aren't actually shell vehicles for malicious foreign actors to buy ads to interfere with elections?| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook, Google, Twitter to tell Congress that Russian election meddling wider than reported; source says 126M Facebook users may have seen content — Read early testimony from Facebook, Google and Twitter before they appear at hearings on Capitol Hill this week.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 11.1 with new emoji, 3D Touch app switcher, UI and security bug fixes — Apple today released iOS 11.1, the first major update to the iOS 11 operating system available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. iOS 11.1 comes more than a month after iOS 11 was first released …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
G Suite debuts $1,999 Hangouts Meet hardware kit with touchscreen controller, speaker and microphone, 4K camera, and ASUS Chromebox — Hangouts Meet, Google's service for running video and audio meetings, is getting a few new hardware companions. The company today announced …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it will launch business-focused Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced in December for $1,149+ — Microsoft today announced that in December it will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced support to its business customers. Panos Panay, Microsoft's corporate VP for Windows devices …
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Microsoft Devices Blog, ZDNet, Digital Trends, PCWorld, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, On MSFT, Lowyat.NET, Fone Arena, The Tech Report, Forbes, Laptop Mag, Ubergizmo, The Register, BetaNews, The Verge, Softpedia News, Inquirer, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and SlashGear. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out LinkedIn integrations in Outlook.com, for richer contact info in inboxes — Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of business networking site LinkedIn is starting to pay off - at least in terms of product integrations that make sense. The company today announced …
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Office Blogs, Engadget, Computerworld, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and On MSFT
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green leaves Microsoft after 25 years, having played key roles in development of Office and Windows — Twenty-five-year Microsoft veteran and former Windows and Office exec Julie Larson-Green is leaving the company ‘to pursue new adventures.’| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung Electronics' Q3 profits, driven by memory chip demand, nearly tripled YoY to $12.92B on $55.18B revenue, up 30% YoY, mobile sales rose 23% YoY to $2B — The Korean company is making a lot of money from its components business. — Samsung may be known for its phones …
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