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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with iPhone Xs and Xs Max: both feel like the iPhone X, and Xs Max feels better than any Plus model iPhone ever has — Apple just announced the iPhone XS and XS Max. They're iterations on last year's iPhone X, but the XS Max at least stands out in one very notable way: it's so much larger.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple announces 5.8" iPhone Xs and 6.5" Xs Max with OLED displays, A12 Bionic 7-nanometer processor, dual-SIMs, available in gold, silver, and space grey — Apple has announced its next generation of iPhones, and one of them is by far the biggest iPhone yet.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Breitbart posts leaked video of Google execs responding in dismay to Trump's election; Google says employees' personal views do not influence its products — - A leaked video shows Google's leaders responding in dismay at an all-hands meeting after the 2016 presidential election.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple announces Watch Series 4 with 40mm and 44mm displays, a larger focus on health data, 2x faster 64-bit Dual Core processor, watchOS 5, and more for $399+ — Heavily rumored since shortly after the release of its predecessor, and accidentally revealed in pre-event leaks of images and basic specs …
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| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google says it's decided to discontinue its email app Inbox, which focused on simplicity, by the end of next March — Back in 2014, the folks at Google responsible for Gmail did something unexpected: They introduced a new email app. On the back end, Inbox was the same thing as Gmail, and worked with your existing Gmail address.
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Tweets: @inboxbygmail, @thekitze, @harrymccracken, @grabbou, @moskov, @miyagawa, and @martinsfp
| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Olaf Carlson-Wee, who turned $14K into $150M by betting on cryptocurrency, and his fund Polychain Capital, which earned investors 2,303% last year — Now running the world's largest crypto hedge fund, the 29-year-old says he is undeterred by recent losses
Tweets: @mims, @whalepanda, @sqeeqee, @wsj, @gzuckerman, and @coindesk
| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Apple iPhone Xs models do not include eSIM tech in China, since carriers there stopped offering cellular service to eSIM-based Apple Watch models in 2017 — Apple Inc.'s latest iPhones show how the world's largest technology company has to adjust its strategy for the crucial Chinese market.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law — In another blow to the UK government's record on bulk data handling for intelligence purposes the European Court of Human Rights …
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| Megan Wollerton / CNET: |
Apple says new HomePod features, including setting multiple timers, making and receiving calls, and searching for Apple devices, are coming September 17 — Apple on Wednesday announced a few updates to its $349 HomePod smart speaker, all expected to hit on Sept. 17. They include:| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Reddit says EU's copyright law is “a significant blow to the open Internet”; Wikimedia says it's disappointed by “the missed opportunity to modernize copyright” — Google declined to directly criticize the directive — Today, the European Partliament voted in favor …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Four major US carriers detail “Project Verify” for letting web sites authenticate users via data unique to a customer's phone and mobile subscriber account — The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords …
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia announces the Tesla T4 for faster AI inference in data centers, claims it offers up to 12x the performance of previous-gen Tesla P4 for the same power — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at GTC Japan to announce the company's latest advancements in AI, which includes the new Tesla T4 GPU.| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Brave, with two co-plaintiffs, file GDPR complaints in UK and Ireland against Google and “others”, seeking probe into behavioral ad practices exposing user data — COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Brave, a privacy-focused web browser set up by Silicon Valley engineering guru Brendan Eich …
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| Olivia Beavers / The Hill: |
Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who was arrested by Spanish authorities last year, pleads guilty in a US District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet — A renowned Russian hacker on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet …
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| Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone: |
Spotify says users can now download 10,000 tracks on up to five devices for offline listening, up from 3,333 tracks on up to three devices — Streaming service expands number of songs that can be downloaded for offline listening — A common gripe among Spotify users is that the app limits …
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