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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple unveils new iPad Pros with no home button, thinner design, smaller bezels, A12X SoC, USB-C, Face ID, no 3.5mm jack; 12.9" model for $999+, 11" for $799+ — After months of rumors, Apple has today announced a completely redesigned iPad Pro with slimmed-down bezels, Face ID, a USB-C port …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple unveils new $130 Pencil, which can attach magnetically to iPad Pro, uses inductive charging, and can detect double tap gestures on the side of the Pencil — Apple Pencil 2. Apple originally introduced the Apple Pencil in September 2015 as an accessory for the first-generation iPad Pro — the company's first iPad stylus.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Pro hands-on: beautiful screen, squared off design feels more dense and “pro”, lack of 3.5mm jack is puzzling; Pencil feels nicer and better integrated — Apple announced a new, completely redesigned iPad Pro moments ago in New York, and I just got to spend a few minutes trying it out.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1 with eSIM and dual SIM support, Group FaceTime, new emoji, real-time Depth Control, fix for bug that smoothed skin in selfies, and more — Apple today released iOS 12.1, the first major update to the iOS 12 operating system designed for the iPhone and the iPad. iOS 12.1 comes …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple unveils new MacBook Air with 13.3" Retina display, 50% narrower bezel, wedge design, Touch ID, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, 8th gen Intel CPU, for $1,199+ — Apple has brought the MacBook Air back to life today, announcing the first proper refresh of its super thin laptop line in three years during its October hardware event.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces an updated Mac mini in space gray with Intel 8th gen CPU with four to six cores, up to 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD, starting at $799 for 8GB RAM model — Now that the Air's got shiny new update, it's time for the other major neglected entry in the Mac line.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new MacBook Air: glossy screen is great, mostly on par with the MacBook Pro, but the third-gen butterfly keyboard remains a polarizing design — This is the MacBook most people should get — Apple has finally unveiled a long-awaited revamp of the MacBook Air …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| William Turton / VICE News: |
Reporters tried to buy fake Facebook ads on behalf of all 100 US senators and Facebook approved all of them, following other high profile fake ad approvals — One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is to require those paying for the ads to make a …
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Facebook reports Q3 revenue of $13.73B, up 33% YoY, DAUs of 1.49B on average, up 9% YoY, says mobile ad revenue represented ~92% of all ad revenue — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue …
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| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
How Instagram has become a refuge for far-right figures who have avoided being banned from the site, including Alex Jones — Instagram hosts accounts from prominent right-wingers who have already been banned from Twitter and Facebook. — Alt-right social network Gab shuttered itself … | Asiff Hirji / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase raises $300M Series E led by Tiger Global Management at a post-money valuation of $8B+ — At Coinbase, we believe that cryptocurrencies and the technologies that power them represent a breakthrough in computer science that will change both the internet and the global financial system for the better.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces Ride Pass, a $14.99+ per month service that locks in a flat fare for UberX and UberPool trips, available today in five US cities — For $14.99 a month, riders get flat, heavily discounted fares that can save them 15 percent on travel — Uber has a new plan to lock customers …
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Uber Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Business Insider, TechSpot, and Mashable. Tweets: @andrewgordonmac
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail for iOS will let users view all of their accounts in a single inbox, like Gmail for Android; feature rolling out over the next 15 days — Today, Google announced that all of the email accounts you manage in the Gmail app on iOS can be viewed in a single, universal inbox.
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G Suite Updates Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, and VentureBeat
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
One year after doubling tweet length, Twitter finds the average tweet is now 33 characters, one fewer than before the change; 5% are longer than 190 characters — Nearly a year since Twitter doubled the character limit of tweets from 140 to 280, the company has found that the most common length …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waymo granted the first permit from California's DMV for driverless testing of autonomous cars on public roads, will start with limited tests in Silicon Valley — Waymo is the first company in California allowed to test robot cars on public roads with no human driver behind the steering wheel, it said Tuesday.
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Twitter's new dedicated page for the US midterms, meant to provide commentary and analysis, quickly surfaced tweets from conspiracy theorists and bots — Twitter launched an events page for the upcoming US midterm elections on Tuesday. And already it is surfacing tweets from popular online figures …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amid uncertainty about slow international sales and other factors, Amazon's market value has declined by about 25%, or about $250B, since September — - E-commerce leader saw sales slow internationally and in cloud — Talk of a tax in Europe and further tariffs add to worry
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Fortune, PYMNTS.com, and Business Insider
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon debuts Alexa Presentation Language in public beta, a suite of dev tools for making “visually rich” skills for devices like Echo Show, Fire TV, Echo Spot — Amazon introduced the Alexa Presentation Language (APL), a suite of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Nintendo says it sold 3.19M Switch units in Q2, passing the GameCube's total sales with 22.86M units, and reports profit of ~$274M on revenue of ~$1.96B — The Nintendo Switch has overtaken another console in lifetime sales: the GameCube. The company sold 3.19 million units in the last quarter …
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