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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone XR review: despite some drawbacks, the XR has a better price, battery, and more colorful design than the XS, making it hard to recommend the XS over XR — The iPhone XR has a few price-cutting compromises, but great battery life, Face ID and a colorful design make it the best iPhone to buy
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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.| 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.”
Tweets: @nitashatiku, @ruchowdh, @carnage4life, @mat, @chrisalensula, @lam_barrett, @wired, @robinwauters, and @matthewstoller
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation finds network of 125+ Android apps, installed 115M+ times, and websites, some targeted at kids, are part of a multi-million dollar ad fraud scheme — Last April, Steven Schoen received an email from someone named Natalie Andrea who said she worked for a company called We Purchase Apps.
Tweets: @backlon, @craigsilverman, and @lisatozzi
| 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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| 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.| 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.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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TechCrunch, Windows Central, GeekWire, and On MSFT
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Google says it will roll out a software update in the coming weeks to fix the Pixel 3's photo-saving issue — Google will fix an issue that caused some photos taken with Google Camera on the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL to not properly save. A Google spokesperson provided this statement …
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| 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.
Tweets: @nattgarun, @chrisgrant, and @backlon
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 hours
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Telegraph, The Verge, Crunchbase News, Engadget, and Lyft Level 5. Tweets: @bluevisionlabs. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Misfit announces the Vapor 2, available “soon” for $249.99, with NFC, standalone GPS, two size options, and a higher-PPI display — After the delayed and drawn-out launch of its first touchscreen smartwatch last year, Misfit is back with its successor.
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Android Police, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, and Engadget. Tweets: @backlon
| 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.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: new iPad mini is in the works and could be announced as soon as next week's event; new AirPods and AirPower charging pad coming in late 2018 to early-2019 — Ahead of Apple's October 30th event, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared some details about what we can expect to see Apple …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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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| 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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| 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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle acquires DataFox, a developer of “predictive intelligence as a service” across 2.8M companies' records and growing — Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 7 hours — Oracle today announced that it has made another acquisition, this time to enhance both the kind of data …
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| 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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