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iPhone XR review: competitive price for Apple's latest processor and cameras with a great battery life, but comes in only one size and the display is not great — Big screen, small compromise — Video by Phil Esposito & Becca Farsace — Here's a question: how much do you care about the display on a phone?
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story — ‘[Tim Cook] is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’ — Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors — A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.”
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple says iOS 12.1 will fix a bug that resulted in smoother-looking photos taken by the iPhone XS and XR's front camera, thus improving selfie quality — Beautygate no longer — Ever since the iPhone XS came out, there's been criticism of its front camera — specifically, that it overly smooths skin.
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC begins taking preorders, only in cryptocurrency, for its blockchain phone Exodus 1 for 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH, about ~$960, and expects to ship in December — You have to buy it in bitcoin or Ether — HTC just announced actual specs for its much-hyped blockchain phone, the Exodus 1, and is letting people sign up for preorders.| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance — Today we're seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor …
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son cancels speaking engagement at Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative, but may still attend the event — Mr. Son becomes latest executive to cancel plans after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — RIYADH—SoftBank Group Corp.'s Chief Executive Masayoshi Son …
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| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
Sources: US Cyber Command targets Russian operatives to deter them from spreading disinformation, in first known overseas cyberoperation to protect elections — WASHINGTON — The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation … | The Verge: |
Android: a visual history of Google's OS on its 10th anniversary — Google's Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1 on October 22nd, 2008. A decade might seem like a long time, but on the scale of the PC's growth, it's a blink of an eye.| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Chrome enables Picture-in-Picture support on desktop by default on macOS, Windows, and Linux — It's a popular feature on Android, especially useful if you want to watch YouTube videos while you do other things, and now Picture-in-picture (PiP) is officially coming to the desktop.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's former Windows chief Terry Myerson says he's joining Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner and the Carlyle Group as an operating executive — The former head of Microsoft's Windows unit has resurfaced after leaving the company earlier this summer and will be involved with two different investment firms.
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Lyft acquires UK-based AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveils its first Ford test vehicle for its Level 5 self-driving initiative — The company has acquired the AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveiled its first Ford test vehicle — Ingrid Lunden , Jonathan Shieber 7 hoursThanks:@ingridlunden
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Uber will invest $260M and introduce a £0.15 per mile charge on each trip to help all of its London drivers switch to electric cars by 2025 — - Uber will invest £200 million to tackle air pollution in Britain's capital, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; from Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to buy a $10/month VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi — Selected Firefox users will be able to purchase a ProtonVPN version for $10. Some of the money will go to support Mozilla and Firefox.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Repl.it, a startup letting users write and ship code from their browsers, raises $4.5M Series A led by a16z, with YC, Paul Graham, and others participating — - Repl.it is a start-up whose technology lets software engineers quickly write and ship code from a web browser.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior — After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Envoy, which sells an iPad-based visitor management product, raises $43M Series B led by Menlo Ventures and plans new smart office products by end of year — Larry Gadea says he knew his startup Envoy was truly taking off when he found out WD-40 was using its software in multiple offices.| Anna Escher / TechCrunch: |
Predictive sales tool People.ai, which tracks every communication touchpoint between sales teams and customers, raises $30M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — Anna Escher @https://www.twitter.com/annaescher / 7 hours — Dirty data means bad business.
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| Piper Jaffray: |
Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in US, and Instagram is now teens' most-used social platform, eclipsing Snapchat — Our 36th semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens survey included results from 8,600 teens across 48 states with an average age of 16.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Afiniti, which uses AI and behavioral science to better match customers with customer service agents, quietly raises $130M Series D at a $1.6B valuation — Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 7 hours — Artificial intelligence touches just about every aspect of the tech world these days … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at Thalmic Labs' new normal-looking smart glasses, called Focals, that display info in the right lens and will ship next year for $1,000 — Although few people seem to really want to wear smart glasses or goggles — think Google Glass or Snapchat Spectacles — a startup thinks it's figured …
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Verizon Q3 beats estimates with net addition of 295K subscribers, net income of $4.92B on total operating revenue of $32.61B — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for net new phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill, helped by promotional offers for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPhones.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India's latest generation of unicorn startups have targeted fundamental and local issues like insurance, education, logistics, and lodging — The country's latest generation of $1 billion apps have focused on local issues in education, logistics, and lodging.Thanks:@pelstrom
| Michael Laris / Washington Post: |
Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021 — The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington …
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