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Google rolling out Assistant update in US that connects users with local home services, with prescreened providers in many cities — No matter what questions you're asking—whether about local traffic or a local business—your Google Assistant should be able to help.
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The Next Web, Fone Arena, Android Police, PhoneDog.com, TechCrunch, Droid Life, BGR, Android Central, and The Verge
| Taylor Martin / CNET: |
Google Home adds support for two voice commands at once — You no longer have to separate all your commands when talking to Google Home. It can handle two requests at once. — One of the more frustrating experiences when using a smart speaker is trying to accomplish several things at once.| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
AWS Cloud9 collaborative cloud-and-browser-based IDE launches, pre-packaged with popular programming languages, based on open source Ace Editor and c9.io IDE — Amazon Web Services launched a new service today that's designed to provide developers with a full development environment running in its cloud.
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| Cheng-Ting-Fang / Nikkei: |
Sources: Apple is designing its own power-management chips for use in iPhones from as early as 2018; current supplier Dialog Semiconductor sees shares drop ~19% — Frankfurt shares of current developer Dialog Semiconductor hit — TAIPEI — Apple is designing its own main power management chips …
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| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
Five women accuse Shervin Pishevar, Uber investor and prominent defender of Travis Kalanick, of sexual misconduct when meeting with him in professional contexts — Five women tell Bloomberg the venture capitalist used his position of power to pursue romantic relationships and unwanted sexual encounters.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google announces $45 AIY Vision Kit for Raspberry Pi, touting it as a cheap and simple computer vision system that doesn't require access to cloud processing — Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers to use its AI tools. It just announced the AIY Vision Kit …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Lite rolling out to 24 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, after Philippines test showed a 50% increase in tweets — Twitter is rolling out its “Lite” version, after a successful trial in the Philippines.The Android app will become available …
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| Ankit Ajmera / Reuters: |
Qualcomm files three new patent infringement complaints against Apple, seeks ITC ban on iPhones that use competing Intel chips — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Thursday it filed three new patent infringement complaints against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), saying there were 16 more of its patents that Apple was using in its iPhones.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google's new Play Store policy bans all non-lockscreen Android apps from placing ads on the lockscreen — Ads are just a fact of life in mobile apps. You can't completely avoid them, but there are some ad implementations that are so annoying that Google has explicitly disallowed them from the Play Store.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Pinterest President Tim Kendall is leaving at the end of 2017 to work on his own healthcare startup; Jon Alferness to take over his responsibilities — Kendall is going to build his own health care startup. — Tim Kendall, Pinterest's president and its most important business executive … | Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Google Cloud announces that the former head of Intel's data center group, Diane Bryant, will join the division as its COO — Diane Bryant is joining Google Cloud as its new Chief Operating Officer. — Google Cloud boss Diane Greene made the announcement through a blog post on Thursday.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Lyft made $483M in revenue in the first half of the year, more than all of last year; net loss fell from $283M last year to $206M — Lyft's finances improved in the first half of 2017, new documents show, as the company lost less money on revenue estimated to be 200% higher than the year-earlier period.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes Edge for iOS and Android generally available, after unveiling it last month — Microsoft unveiled a beta version of its Edge web browser last month for iOS and Android. Testers had to sign-up to get special access to the new browser, but Microsoft is making both the Android and iOS versions generally available today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Fire TV adds support for voice commands on third-party apps, including Hulu, NBC, Bravo, Showtime, Sony PlayStation Vue, and CBS All Access — Amazon Fire TV owners will now be able to control more video apps using Alexa and their voice, the company announced today.
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