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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
EU fines Google a record €4.3B (~$5B) in antitrust case for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine — Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine by EU regulators for breaking antitrust laws.
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| Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Android has created more choice, not less, and that Google will appeal the EU ruling — If you buy an Android phone, you're choosing one of the world's two most popular mobile platforms—one that has expanded the choice of phones available around the world.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service that would undercut Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on price — Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, people familiar with the situation told The Information.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A reporter posing as a Dublin Facebook moderator found that pages from far-right groups face looser content standards; Facebook vows to improve its training — A new documentary details how third-party Facebook moderators ignore the company's rules — An investigative journalist …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iCloud user data in China is now being stored by a division of state-owned China Telecom — If you're an Apple customer living in China who didn't already opt out of having your iCloud data stored locally, here's a good reason to do so now. That information, the data belonging …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says Nest CEO to exit, sources say after employee revolt; sources: Alphabet tried selling Nest to Amazon; Nest now part of Google's home devices unit — Five months after Nest rejoined Google, the search giant told employees Tuesday that Marwan Fawaz will no longer be CEO of Nest … | Olivia Solon / The Guardian: |
Researcher shows Venmo transactions, which are public under default user settings, reveal details including real names, comments, and dates through a public API — A researcher has analysed millions of public transactions to prove just how much the app reveals about our life and habits
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| Angela Moscaritolo / PCMag: |
Google says it's building Dunant, a transatlantic cable between US and France, its second private intercontinental cable after Curie, connecting US and Chile — Google today announced a new private subsea cable project. — Expected to be operational by late 2020, the Dunant cable will cross …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Light, which makes a 16-lens camera, raises $121M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund to bring its camera tech to smartphones and self-driving cars — - Light, a Palo Alto-based company that makes a 16-lens camera, just raised a whopping $121 million from investors led by SoftBank's Vision Fund.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is building a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that works with security apps like Google Authenticator or Duo to thwart SIM hijackers — Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords …
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| Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: |
Google debuts visual snapshot for Assistant, a Google Now-like feature for proactive suggestions related to your commute, upcoming events, purchases, and more — The evolution of Google Assistant can be traced back to 2012 when Google Now was all the rage.
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| Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: |
Twitch streamers describe the sometimes psychologically taxing nature of broadcasting to no one and trying to get noticed to start building an audience — Looking for connections in 2018 — When John Hopstead first descended into the virtual world of Dark Souls in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying world.
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| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to launch a foldable-screen phone, with a 7-inch display that can be folded in half like a wallet, early next year — The phone will feature a roughly 7-inch display that folds in half — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to introduce … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
UPS tests an Amazon Key-style delivery program in New York using locks made by a startup, Latch; service works with the building, not individual apartment units — UPS has been quietly testing a program that lets the shipping service deliver packages inside multi-unit homes while occupants are out.
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UPS Pressroom, CNET, Engadget, and Retail Dive
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Interview with nine engineers who worked on Google's Safe Browsing, which now underpins user security in all of Google's major platforms and runs on 3B+ devices — IN THE BEGINNING there was phone phreaking and worms. Then came spam and pop ups. And none of it was good.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour says the firm is pausing work on fixing its verification policy to focus on more important areas like election integrity — The company will return to the issue over the coming weeks and months — Twitter doesn't presently “have the bandwidth” … | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Slack acquires Missions, a tool that helps automate routine processes and tasks in Slack without needing to write code — Slack is attempting to broaden its appeal to businesses and has bought a small enterprise software startup in Denver to help. — The workplace chat app company … | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Consortium backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oculus, and Valve announces VirtualLink spec for connecting next-gen VR headsets via single USB Type-C cable — While PC VR headsets are fun, no one has especially enjoyed the number of cables required to hook one up.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Digital Trends, The Verge, Firstpost, MSPoweruser, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, AppleInsider, CNET, and Road to VR. Tweets: @ryansmithat
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rebrands Cloud Launcher as GCP Marketplace, adds outside commercial and open source Kubernetes applications — Cloud Launcher has long been Google's marketplace for cloud-based application from third-party vendors that lets you deploy them in Google's cloud with just a few clicks.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Interview with Jim Keller, a microprocessor engineer known for his work at AMD and Apple, on his work heading up the Silicon Engineering Group at Intel — In the past, we've mentioned that in the semiconductor industry there are a few individuals that are more than worthy of the term ‘rockstar’.Sponsor Posts
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