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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the Galaxy Note10 with 6.3" screen, wide angle and telephoto rear cameras, Snapdragon 855, coming Aug. 23 with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage for $949 — Available on August 23rd starting at $949 — Samsung is announcing not one, but two versions of its flagship Galaxy Note 10 smartphone …
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Tweets: @anshelsag, @andrewmartonik, @mkbhd, @sharatibken, and @backlon
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Book S, a $999 ultra-thin 13" laptop with LTE, claimed battery life of 23 hours, and a Snapdragon 8cx chipset, coming in September — New smartphones weren't the only thing Samsung announced today at its Galaxy Unpacked 2019 event in Brooklyn.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Samsung announce a partnership to bundle Microsoft's Your Phone app with Note10 and integrate OneDrive into Samsung's Gallery app to sync photos — Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 has more Microsoft in it than any other Android phone — Microsoft and Samsung are forming …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
A look at Samsung's updated DeX feature, which offers a desktop-like computing mode for its smartphones and has been expanded to work with Windows and macOS PCs — New compatibility with Windows and Mac puts your phone's screen on your laptop's display — Among the many new updates …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung says Galaxy Note10+ 5G with 256GB storage will be $1,300, the 512GB model will cost $1,400; in US, Verizon will have exclusivity initially — Temporarily exclusive to Verizon in the US — Just as it did with the Galaxy S10, Samsung is making a 5G version of the Galaxy Note 10.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Source and documents show Microsoft contractors are listening to some Skype calls made using the app's translation service — Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal conversations of Skype users conducted through the app's translation service, according to a cache of internal documents …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Sources: Instagram has banned “preferred marketing partner” HYP3R, which scraped millions of posts per month, including Stories, and tracked users' locations — - A buzzy San Francisco startup has been secretly saving what appears to be millions of Instagram users' stories and tracking their locations.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony say they will require game publishers to disclose the odds of receiving types of in-game items from loot boxes starting in 2020 — And a handful of publishers, too — The three major video game console manufacturers — Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo …
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Tweets: @tonyromm, @harrymccracken, and @db
| Daniel Lippman / Politico: |
Sources: White House is circulating drafts of an executive order addressing alleged anti-conservative bias on social media, although exact details are unclear — The White House is circulating drafts of a proposed executive order that would address allegations of anti-conservative bias …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook is rebuilding Instagram's messaging feature using Messenger tech, with Instagram's team reporting to Messenger; Instagram's look won't change — - Social network takes first steps to combine messaging products — Instagram's direct messaging team now reports to Messenger| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
IBM researchers detail “warshipping”, a technique whereby attackers build and mail a device capable of hacking WiFi networks to the target — Why break into a company's network when you can just walk right in — literally? — Gone could be the days of having to find a zero … | Bloomberg: |
FedEx says it will not renew its ground-delivery contract with Amazon when it expires at the end of this month, as the e-commerce giant emerges as a competitor — FedEx Corp. is snipping another tie with Amazon.com Inc. as the e-commerce giant emerges as a competitor by building its own shipping network.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK filings show Google's DeepMind reported a loss of $572M in 2018 on revenue of $124.9M, while it has $1.2B+ of debt due for repayment this year — - AI company revenue doubled in 2018 but losses are spiralling — Auditors confident Alphabet will maintain financial support
Tweets: @sam_l_shead, @ruskin147, and @yoda
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon now gives users the ability to choose how fast Alexa talks by saying “speed up” or “slow down”, with seven different speed options — There are seven speeds — Amazon is launching a new ability for it's Alexa smart assistant today: the ability to choose how fast it talks.
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| Lyft, Inc.: |
Lyft reports Q2 revenue of $867M, up 72% YoY, and an adjusted net loss $197.3M compared to an adjusted loss of $176.5M a year ago — Second quarter revenue grew to $867 million, up 72% year-over-year — Based on execution and improving market environment, raising outlook for fiscal 2019
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Tweets: @amir, @bizcarson, @alex, and @ericnewcomer
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Webflow, a simple website builder for non-coders, raises $72M Series A led by Accel, after previously raising only $2.9M; sources say valuation is $350M-$400M — Covering venture capital, software and startups — On his fourth attempt at building the company of his dreams …
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Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @rrhoover, @gilbert, @austen, @tylertringas, and @webflow. Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber is partnering with US public transit agencies to gain more riders and revenue, but city officials are wary of losing commuters and not getting rider data — The ride-hailing company, craving growth, is looking to public transit for riders and revenue. Cities aren't sure whether to welcome it.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce announces it has acquired field service software company ClickSoftware for $1.35B — Another day, another Salesforce acquisition. Just days after closing the hefty $15.7 billion Tableau deal, the company opened its wallet again, this time announcing it has bought field service …
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| Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News: |
The El Paso and Dayton shootings once again show how disinformation can spread on hard-to-track private messaging apps, oftentimes by bad actors — Just after the El Paso shooting, a video of a young man in glasses driving and rapping to Kendrick Lamar began to spread on Telegram.
Tweets: @tomnamako, @elamin88, @cwarzel, and @janelytv
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Broadcom nears a deal to buy Symantec's enterprise business for $10B after earlier attempts to buy the whole firm failed; deal may be announced Thursday — Potential deal could value Symantec division at around $10 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter
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