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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google announces $799+ 5.5" Pixel 3 and $899+ 6.3" Pixel 3 XL with slimmed down bezels, wireless charging, dual front cameras, preorder now, available Oct. 18 — Google just unveiled the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, its latest flagship Android smartphones. There was little left to “unveil” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Live Albums, which uses AI to automate the sharing of photos with groups of people and displays them on the Home Hub as they are taken — Just ahead of today's Google's hardware event, the company quietly rolled out an update to its Google Photos application which introduces a new …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces 7-inch Home Hub, to compete against Amazon's Echo Show, which comes in four colors, has no camera; pre-order today for $149, ships October 22 — With the Home Mini and Home Max in 2017, Google was able to inundate the market with affordable smart speakers, while offering an audiophile experience for the high-end.
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| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Google's Pixel 3 and 3 XL has a robot call screener feature called Call Screen that can respond to unknown callers; feature will come to other Pixels “soon” — Today, Google is announcing the latest versions of its flagship phone, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, at an event in New York.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Motherboard: |
Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile deny being the “US telecom” mentioned in today's Bloomberg story alleging compromised Supermicro hardware — No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek's bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.| Bloomberg: |
Yossi Appleboum, a security expert working for a “major” US telco provides docs allegedly showing Supermicro sent it hacked hardware; Supermicro stock down ~16% — Discovery shows China continues to sabotage critical technology components bound for America
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Google debuts Pixel Slate, a Chrome OS tablet with a 3000×2000 display, 8-16GB of RAM, front and rear cameras, no 3.5mm jack; coming later in 2018 from $599 — Google just took the wraps off a new Chromebook device at its hardware event today. The company is launching its new Pixel Slate …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will use machine learning to scan photos to detect bullying and send them to community moderators for review if needed, rolling out in coming weeks — Instagram and its users do benefit from the app's ownership by Facebook, which invests tons in new artificial intelligence technologies.
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision — On Monday morning Facebook revealed a new gadget — a voice-activated video chat tablet with an always-listening microphone … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Transcript of remarks on Dragonfly by Google search chief Ben Gomes to staff seem to contradict Google's claims about limited progress on Chinese search engine — “We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google's search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Report: Apple “dramatically” reduced the rate of fraud in its Chinese retail stores in recent years using secretly marked parts, changed repair policies, more — If you've ever wondered why Apple employees seem at least a little skeptical during requests for repairs …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Hardware security expert Joe Fitzpatrick, a named source in Bloomberg's China spy chip investigation, casts doubt on the story's accuracy — Security researcher Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the few sources named in Bloomberg Businessweek's bombshell Chinese hack investigation …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US GAO releases report highlighting Pentagon failures around cybersecurity, including security of weapons, like using weak passwords — A government watchdog has said the Department of Defense has not done enough to protect critical weapons systems from cyberattacks.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: 2018 iPad Pro models to sport thin bezels with no notch, will support Face ID in both portrait and landscape; new Pencil will have proximity pairing — Apple is widely expected to hold an event this month to introduce new 2018 iPad Pro models, new Macs, and more.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: some advertisers are moving over half of their budget for Google search to Amazon ads instead, amounting to a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars — - In some cases, brands are moving 50 to 60 percent of their Google Search ad budgets to Amazon, two media agencies noted.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Andreessen, Altman, Kalanick, others named to a Saudi advisory board for a $500B megacity project amid journalist's disappearance; Jony Ive dropped from list — - More than a dozen high profile tech executives, including famous venture capital investors Marc Andreessen and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Wunderlist's founders raise $19M Series A for Pitch, a presentation tool they plan to launch by summer 2019 — Microsoft's Powerpoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Alphabet appeals the record $5B fine imposed by European Union antitrust regulators three months ago for its practices involving Android — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google on Tuesday challenged a record 4.34-billion euro ($5 billion) fine imposed by European Union antitrust … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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