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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option — The screen steals the show — The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries — The battery capacities and RAM inside the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR have surfaced in regulatory filings Apple … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 — Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3 — 20 ‘genre-defining’ games and two controllers for $99.99 — Sony is following in Nintendo's footsteps and bringing back its original PlayStation console nearly 25 years …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display — Expected this Fall — Apple's recently released iOS 12.1 beta contains code that suggests a new iPad is coming this fall.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market — Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61 billion this year, according to a new eMarketer study, up a whopping 60% from the projection of $2.89 billion in March.
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| 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?
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Fitbit launches a new premium fitness coaching service called Fitbit Care, available via a new Fitbit Plus app, that also lets users connect with their doctors — Today, Fitbit announced a new service called Fitbit Care that'll coach users on staying well, whether that means sticking to their fitness plans or managing diseases.
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers — Android phones will soon send Google Maps-like location data to emergency call centers — Emergency call operators will soon have an easier time pinpointing the whereabouts of Android phone users.
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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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| Garrett M. Graff / Wired: |
Court filing: US government seeks to continue FBI work with Mirai botnet hackers, who pled guilty to creating the malware last Dec., as part of their sentencing — THE THREE COLLEGE-AGE defendants behind the the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet …
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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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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How companies like Quanergy, Palmer Luckey's Anduril, and Alphabet-supported Cogniac are testing virtual patrols along the US-Mexico border using lidar and AI — In a rural Texas county, lidar sensor technology is being tested as a way to spot illegal intruders from Mexico.
Tweets: @nytimes and @puiwingtam
| Elaine Teng / ESPN: |
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the top Fortnite players in the world who shot to fame in March after he played the game with Drake — On a sweltering afternoon in Chicago, with the bass from the closest stage at Lollapalooza booming in the background …
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| 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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| Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com: |
Book excerpt: how Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian patched their fractured friendship and reclaimed Reddit's helm — Reddit's co-founders patched their fractured friendship to save the company that defined them. … Steve Huffman had been seeing a therapist for a few years … | 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 … | Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent Music Entertainment Group has confidentially filed for a $2B US IPO, down from the up to $4B rumored earlier — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's biggest music-streaming company, is seeking to raise about $2 billion in a U.S. listing … | Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Alibaba says it will set up a chip subsidiary to make customised AI chips for its cloud and IoT businesses, aims to launch its first AI chip in H2 2019 — HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will set up a dedicated chip subsidiary and aims to launch … | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent announces a China-focused platform, which includes WeChat's natural language processing capabilities, to help other companies pursue AI initiatives — Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings is looking to push its advances in artificial intelligence technology as the operating platform …
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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.| 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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VentureBeat, GeekWire, Quip, SiliconANGLE, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
| 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.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: great 4K gaming, excellent cooling, ray tracing tech has potential, but expensive and there are few games optimized for it — NVIDIA's new RTX graphics cards are for the gamer that wants it all. I'm talking about 4K gaming beyond 60 frames per second, with the graphics settings dialed to the max.
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