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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss — Solid updates to a winning formula — Last year, Apple did something out of character: it introduced the usual update to the iPhone …
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Women startup founders own 39 cents for every dollar of equity a male founder owns, says study that used anonymized data from more than 6,000 US-based companies — New study shows that female employees at startups own 47 cents for every dollar of equity a male employee owns
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces it will shut down its standalone Gaming app and launches a new YouTube Gaming destination at youtube.com/gaming, first coming to the US — YouTube will no longer maintain a separate app targeting gaming and live game streaming, the company announced today.| ProPublica: |
Investigation: 15 employers, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex in the past year, with many ads playing to stereotypes — Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: “Driving toward something?| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Kerry Flynn / Digiday: |
HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll becomes CEO, replacing Rus Yusupov, who will take a creative role, as the company previews a new Wheel of Fortune-like game — HQ wants to prove it's more than a one-trick pony. Almost a year ago, the mobile app, launched by Vine's cofounders within …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Google Maps is now available on Apple CarPlay with iOS 12, which previously just supported Apple Maps; Waze also plans to support CarPlay in a future update — Google Maps for CarPlay in iOS 12 is now available with version 5.0 out now on the App Store. Apple released iOS 12 just yesterday …
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| Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: |
Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies — Over the last 2 years AMP has grown from a tiny open source project with just 2 contributors to a much larger one with over 700 folks contributing over 10,000 commits running on many millions of websites.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out Chrome OS 69 with Material Theme, Linux support, Night Light, dictation, and more — Chrome OS 69 is rolling out today following the Android and desktop release last week. Version 69 includes the Google Material Theme to coincide with the browser's 10th anniversary.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations — The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Salesforce updates Quip, adding a new PowerPoint-like feature called Slides with real-time collaboration, new apps from Dropbox and Box, and Giphy integration — Quip's Slides rounds out the Salesforce's productivity play. A familiar interface with multiple collaboration tools may make those internal decks a bit more functional.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tesla under criminal investigation by DOJ over public statements made by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk, alongside a previously-reported civil inquiry by SEC — Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
In a leaked email, Evernote CEO says the company has cut 54 jobs, or 15% of its staff; the news comes amid a recent report that several senior execs have left — It's no secret that Evernote, the productivity app that lets people take notes and organize other files from their working and non-work life …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon launches the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit, a set of software tools designed for third-party gadgets that connect with Amazon's Echo devices via Bluetooth — Amazon has already made a point of making it as easy as possible for developers to build their own Alexa devices.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to provide Android-powered infotainment systems, with integrated maps, assistant, more, starting in 2021 — Car makers have been reluctant to cede control to tech rivals; drivers will have better integration of Google's maps, app store and voice-activated assistant
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Google's Family Link, which allows parents to set screen time limits and more, expands to teens, adds support for Google Assistant, and rolls out worldwide — Parents will be able to manage their teens' existing Google accounts with Family Link — Family Link, the parental control hub Google introduced …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram to run ads in Stories and feed to point US users over 18 to midterms voting registration info, will let users add an “I Voted” sticker — Facebook is getting ready to purposefully influence the U.S. mid-term elections after spending two years trying to safeguard against foreign interference.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, a web browser built to work with VR and AR headsets, available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores — The browser is now available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores. — Mozilla on Tuesday released version 1.0 of Firefox Reality …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Microsoft says HoloLens apps Remote Assist and Layout generally available on Dynamics 365 along with previews of new AI-infused CRM tools on Oct. 1 — With its first two business apps built in-house for use with HoloLens, Microsoft is taking off the training wheels to bring its mixed reality headsets …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, ZDNet, CNBC, and Windows Central. Tweets: @alexrkonrad. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Cloud launches Work Insights, a tool that provides data on G Suite adoption rates and collaboration patterns across teams in a company, available in beta — Google has today announced a couple of new tools for G Suite users. — First up, the company lifted the lid on a completely …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Google Cloud Blog, Neowin, and G Suite Updates Blog
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare adds new “one-click” DNSSEC setup to make it far more difficult to spoof websites, likely increasing the protocol's woeful adoption rate — Bad news first: the internet is broken for a while. The good news is that Cloudflare thinks it can make it slightly less broken.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Shopify adds support for AR Quick Look, an iOS 12 feature that lets users place models of products in real environments from within Safari — Augmented reality without leaving your browser — E-commerce platform Shopify now offers support for AR Quick Look, an iOS 12 feature …
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