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Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips — KEY POINTS — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple to introduce a new scissor switch keyboard which aims to offer durability and longer key travel, in the 2019 MacBook Air and the 2020 MacBook Pro — Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker sentenced to 27 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks on many gaming services from December 2013 to January 2014 — Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started all the Christmas DDoS attacks, gets prison time. — A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week …
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| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human … | Jasper Jolly / The Guardian: |
UK's competition regulator orders Amazon to pause integration efforts with Deliveroo pending investigation into potential breaches of competition rules — Enforcement order issued after online retailer bought stake in food courier service — The UK's competition regulator has ordered Amazon …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's SwiftKey starts rolling out Puppets, Animoji-like 3D animals that use AI to replicate a user's detailed facial expressions, for Android in beta — SwiftKey is embedding a new animated emoji feature directly into its mobile keyboard app, with the Microsoft-owned company leveraging …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces that a new version of Outlook for the web will be rolled out in late July with dark mode, categories, a snooze option, and more — Microsoft Outlook on the web plays catch-up with Gmail with a new look and new features rolling out soon.| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Given Apple's less hardware-centric strategy, this was the right time for Jony Ive to depart; Jeff Williams is being positioned as Apple's new “product guy” — Between the lines of Jony Ive's exit from Apple — To me, all information is about triangulation.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Naspers-owned payments company PayU to enter Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Red Dot in a deal that values the Singapore-based e-commerce startup at $65M — PayU, the Naspers owned fintech firm that specializes in emerging markets, is broadening its global reach into Southeast Asia …
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Australian consumer watchdog sues Samsung for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy phones as suitable for use in non-fresh water — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) Australian unit …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Waresix, which aims to digitize logistics in Indonesia, raises $14.5M Series A led by EV Growth; Indonesia, with 17K+ islands, has unique logistical challenges — Waresix, one of a handful of startups aiming to modernize logistics in Indonesia — the world's fourth most populous country …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A long Q&A with three Google engineers on Android Q and Project Mainline, which aims to let Google and OEMs only update certain parts of the OS at a time — Ars interviews Android Engineers Dave Burke, Iliyan Malchev, and Anwar Ghuloum. — As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O …
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