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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung announces its next Unpacked event will be held on August 7 in New York, will likely detail the Galaxy Note 10 — It's official. Samsung said Monday it'll hold its next big product launch on Aug. 7 in New York, confirming CNET's scoop from last month about the launch plans.
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The Independent, The Next Web, Samsung US Newsroom, Android Authority, Engadget, PCMag, and Pocket-lint
| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Tim Cook emails a reporter to say the WSJ report about Jony Ive's departure—and his frustration with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design—is “absurd” — In a rare, scathing statement sent exclusively to NBC News, Cook took issue with a report published Sunday night by The Wall Street Journal.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, iMore, Digital Trends, Engadget, Business Insider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechSpot
Tweets: @dylanbyers, @dylanbyers, @dylanbyers, @reckless, @pierce, @rjonesy, @rjonesy, @karissabe, @reckless, and @reneritchie
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
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Samsung Global Newsroom, The Verge, Engadget, Fast Company, Voicebot, ultimatepocket.com, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, and XDA Developers
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources its robots.txt parser and submits a proposal to IETF to make the Robots Exclusion Protocol an official standard — Google wants to turn the decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) into an official internet standard — and it's making its own robots.txt parser open source as part of the push.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform — Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
FOIA docs: Amazon worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to set up a package sting operation as part of a PR stunt for Ring, which resulted in no arrests — Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request reveal how Amazon, Ring, and GPS company 7P Solutions helped set …
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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price caps on .org domain names, letting the Public Interest Registry charge as much as it wants for them — ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price restrictions on .org domains. — As many feared, the comment period was just a formality.
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ICANN, Ars Technica, InternetCommerce.org, The Register, TechRepublic, and CircleID
Tweets: @douglevin, @hrbrmstr, and @davidu
| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Virginia becomes one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties for the distribution of non-consensual deepfake images and video — New text effective today adds “falsely created images” to state law. — As of today, Virginia is one of the first states in the country …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNET
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Meditation app Calm raises $27M Series B extension from Lightspeed and some celebrity angel investors at a $1B valuation, adding to its $88M Series B from Feb. — Meditation app unicorn Calm wants you to doze off to the dulcet tones of actor Matthew McConaughey's southern drawl or writer Stephen Fry's English accent.| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ahead of Prime Day, HBO's Last Week Tonight does a segment on workers' conditions at warehouses; Amazon's SVP of operations tweets that the show is “insulting” — Working conditions in Amazon's fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday.
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YouTube, Mashable, and CNBC
Tweets: @davehclark, @lastweektonight, @davehclark, @davehclark, @alyssapants, @benfoxrubin, @iamjohnoliver, @teamsters, @mattrosoff, and @stevekovach
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
As Alphabet's Loon prepares for its first commercial trial to deliver cell service via balloon in Kenya, some wireless carriers doubt the tech's viability — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's bet on balloons to deliver cell service soon faces a crucial test amid doubts about the viability … | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China ordered suspension or termination of 26 audio-focused apps on Friday; Apple restricted access to podcasts not hosted by Chinese partners in June — Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says its next Windows 10 feature update, expected in September, will focus on performance improvements and quality enhancements — Microsoft has finally announced Windows 10 19H2, and it's just as we expected. There's not much to see here, folks.
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Windows Experience Blog, PCWorld, Petri, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and Neowin
Tweets: @zacbowden and @whatthebit
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook-appointed auditors say its policy banning “white nationalism” and “white separatism” is too narrow as it only applies to posts using the specific terms — Company policy prohibits praise or support for specific term ‘white nationalism’
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VICE, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Firstpost Tech, Fortune, Engadget, KnowTechie, CNET, Reuters, Adweek, and Facebook
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