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Facebook debuts video chat devices for home, the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen; preorders today, ships November — Facebook's first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Project xCloud, a game streaming service designed to work across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, available for public trials in 2019 — Available for public trials in 2019 — Microsoft is unveiling its game streaming service for the first time today.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Why it is basically impossible to secure supply chains from attacks like the alleged Chinese embedded chip hack, and how we can mitigate the consequences — From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making …
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| David Brunnstrom / Reuters: |
DHS and UK's NCSC say they have “no reason to doubt” statements from Apple, Amazon, and others rejecting Bloomberg's story on China spying via microchips — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday it currently had no reason to doubt statements … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Echo Show 2018 review: improved sound quality, bigger screen, and software easier to use, but no hardware shutter to block the camera, poor YouTube experience — New screen, same Show — After being confined to an audio-only experience for over two years, Amazon's Alexa assistant …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 28-core Xeon W-3175X CPU for workstations, with an unlocked multiplier running at up to 4.3 GHz in burst mode, coming in Q4 — Intel on Monday officially introduced its 28-core processor for extreme workstations that it teased first back in June.
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| Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica: |
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week — Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive. — AUSTIN, Texas—As much as subscription services …
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WeChat posts the top ten rumors every month so it can debunk them, and also offers a mini program to assist in debunking rumors, used by 300,000 people/day — In China, WeChat has become a primary news source for Chinese internet users, just as Facebook in the West.| Press Association: |
UK high court blocks mass legal action against Google over claims that it collected sensitive personal data from more than 4M iPhone users — Tech company faced claims it gathered personal data from more than 4m iPhone users — The high court has blocked a mass legal action against Google …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
After troubles in Myanmar, a look at how Facebook has evolved its approach in getting people online in Africa by working with civil society groups and more — OVER THE PAST year, Facebook has faced a reckoning over the way its plan to connect the next billion users to the internet has sown division … | Molly McKew / Wired: |
Tracing the “information terrorists” who fuel conspiracy theories and battles from Gamergate and QAnon to attacks on Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford — The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon.
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| Tim Merel / TechCrunch: |
Study: Chinese VCs invested $3.9B in computer vision and AR in past 12 months; North American AR/VR investments fell from $1.5B in Q4 2017 to ~$120M in Q3 2018 — Last year, 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early-stage North American VR investment … | The Information: |
Source: Tencent has agreed to invest about $200M in Brazil-based Nubank, which makes a “no-fee” credit card managed via a mobile app, valuing the startup at $4B — Chinese internet giant Tencent has agreed to invest about $200 million in Brazil's Nubank, which offers virtual credit cards … Sponsor Posts
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