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Phil Schiller talks about the R in iPhone XR and the choices Apple made to make it more appealing to a broader audience — The iPhone XR might be the most interesting phone Apple has made in years. — Think about it: Apple just released its flagship XS and XS Max to a chorus of positive reviews …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Odyssey+, a $499 Windows Mixed Reality headset, with new light diffusion tech to address the screen door effect, available now in the US — Leaked two months ago by the FCC, Samsung's HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality headset became official today with a somewhat unexpected feature …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Brendan Iribe, co-founder and ex-CEO of Oculus, is leaving Facebook; source: move follows shakeups in Oculus' VR arm that include canceling PC-powered Rift 2 — Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed — ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’ — The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
White House to meet executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM today urging them to make it easier for their workers to do tours of duty in government — The White House plans to convene technology giants including Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and IBM on Monday and urge … | New York Times: |
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level — At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
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| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
China's internet censor releases draft rules for blockchain startups, requiring registration of users with real names, censoring posts, and storing user data — - Cyberspace Administration of China published draft regulations on Friday for public consultation until November 2
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds — Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home Hub review: smart photo frame and home control panel, a capable digital assistant, photos and videos look crisp but sound quality is mediocre — Google Assistant helps this tiny screen feel powerful — $149.00 — CNET may get a commission from these offers. — Compare These
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Huawei says it will not be selling its latest flagships, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, in the US after its predecessor was dropped by US carriers and Best Buy — - Huawei won't be selling its latest flagship devices, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro smartphones, in the US.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Pulumi launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service, raises $15M in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group — It didn't take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was worthy of additional investment.
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YouTube says it will spend $20M as part of its YouTube Learning initiative to develop educational content that will be hosted on a new Learning channel — YouTube will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content on the platform, the company has announced.
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Recent news serves as a reminder that operators in startups and venture capital should work to ensure their investors are not bad actors — I got an email from the CEO of one of our portfolio companies last week. — It asked a very basic question, but one that I don't recall being asked before:
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