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Sources: Apple is working on a rear-facing 3D sensor for 2019 iPhone to improve AR capabilities — Apple looking at different technology from iPhone X's Face ID — New 3-D sensor would improve augmented-reality features — Apple Inc. is working on a rear-facing 3-D sensor system …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 57 “Quantum” browser, with faster browser engine, major visual overhaul, and Google as default search engine — Mozilla today launched Firefox 57, branded Firefox Quantum, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The new version, which Mozilla calls …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
HTC and Google cancel plans for the HTC Daydream VR standalone headset in western markets; Google says plans are still in place for a Lenovo Daydream headset — One of the only questions I've asked HTC VR execs consistently over the past several months is whether the Daydream version …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC intros Vive Wave VR Open Platform for hardware makers, unveils Vive Focus standalone VR headset for China with inside-out tracking; price, release date TBD — After a couple of teases earlier this year, HTC has finally unveiled its upcoming standalone VR headset at today's Vive Developer Conference in Beijing.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
UCSF and Cardiogram study: Apple Watch can detect hypertension with 82% accuracy, sleep apnea with 90% accuracy via Cardiogram's deep neural network DeepHeart — A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch …
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Canalys: Apple retook top spot in wearable band market in Q3 2017 with 3.9M shipments, or 23% of the market; Xiaomi came second with 21%, Fitbit third with 20% — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Tuesday, 14 November 2017 — Apple retook the lead in the wearable band market in Q3 2017 … | Williams Pelegrin / Android Authority: |
Lenovo debuts $299 Moto Tab running Android 7.1 for AT&T customers, with 10.1-inch FHD display, Snapdragon 625, 2GB RAM; first Moto branded tablet in 5 years — Being the first product to run Google's tablet-focused Android 3.0 Honeycomb, there was plenty of hype surrounding 2011's Motorola Xoom tablet.
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| Pam Belluck / New York Times: |
FDA approves first digital pill, which has an embedded sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it, sparking privacy concerns — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether …
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Google starts rolling out broadcast feature for Google Assistant, which allows users to broadcast messages on all Assistant-enabled speakers in a house — From dinner bells to shouting, attempting to gather the family from around the house is nothing new. And now, your Google Assistant is getting in on the game.
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| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Journalists at news organizations partnering with Facebook say its fact-checking tools have failed — Journalists fighting spread of fake news raise concerns over possible conflicts of interest and say site has refused to disclose needed data — Journalists working for Facebook …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Amazon sells AWS infrastructure assets in China to its Chinese partner Beijing Sinnet Technology Co. for as much as $300M, in order to comply with Chinese law — Updated 10:35pm: Amazon Web Services responded to reports out of China that it was exiting the country's cloud computing market with the following statement.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter launches premium APIs, starting with historical search to give developers more tweets per request, higher rate limits, and more complex queries — Twitter is offering a solution for developers who are angry about limitations imposed on their apps when they use the service's free APIs.| Freedom House: |
Report: governments in 30 countries manipulated social media to counter critics, drive specific agendas, more; elections in 18 countries may have been affected — Key Findings Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.
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Profile of Hikvision, the world's largest maker of surveillance cameras, 42%-owned by Chinese government, whose cameras are used even in sensitive areas in US — Company 42%-owned by the Chinese government sold devices that monitor U.S. Army base, Memphis streets, sparking concerns about cybersecurity| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Steve Jurvetson is leaving Draper Fisher Jurvetson in wake of an investigation into sexual harassment, is “on leave of absence” from boards of Tesla and SpaceX — The high-profile entrepreneur helped start Draper Fisher Jurvetson. — Famed venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson …
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