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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google Maps expands its beta AR walking navigation feature, called Live View, to all Android and iOS devices that support ARCore and ARKit, starting this week — Google wants its Maps app to be about more than just getting directions. The search giant on Thursday announced a handful …
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Tweets: @asianmack and @googleeurope
| Craig Lloyd / iFixit: |
iPhones now do not display the Battery Health feature when their batteries are replaced by unauthorized service providers — By activating a software lock on newer iPhones, Apple is announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
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YouTube, VICE, The Next Web, Axios, ZDNet, ExtremeTech, Michael Tsai, MacRumors, Lifehacker, Engadget, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, iMore, The Mac Observer, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, Patently Apple, SlashGear, Mashable, Cult of Mac, TechSpot, Inquirer, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Softpedia News, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Boing Boing, 9to5Mac, Firstpost Tech, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @robzacny, @nproctor, and @ow
| Uber: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue of $3.17B, up 14% YoY, net loss of $5.2B and a loss of ~$1.3B excluding stock based compensation, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 31% YoY — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.
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Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @glenngabe, and @zkahn
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who heads its Pixel division, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of Sundar Pichai — Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who serves as general manager of its Pixel smartphone business, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of CEO Sundar Pichai, Axios has learned.
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
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Sources: Facebook is offering millions of dollars to news outlets to license their content for a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
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The Hill, Business Insider, and Boing Boing
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms Galaxy Note10 and 10+ won't work with its Gear VR headset — Phone-based VR is on the decline — Samsung's just-announced Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus are “not compatible” with Gear VR, the company's virtual reality headset that works only with a phone slotted in front of the lenses …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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Tweets: @anshelsag, @laurengoode, @geoffreyfowler, @andrewmartonik, @mkbhd, @backlon, @sharatibken, and @backlon
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Check Point researchers: Facebook has failed to address a WhatsApp flaw that lets hackers alter messages and sender identities, a year after it was reported — Cybersecurity experts who found a way to hack WhatsApp and manipulate chat messages said on Wednesday that Facebook has failed to address the flaws …
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| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
How Hacker News moderators Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell practice a personal and slow approach, engaging with users in e-mail chains that can last for years — Can a human touch make Silicon Valley's biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place? — Open-plan offices offer few pleasures …
Tweets: @buzz, @yuris, @mhbergen, @willoremus, @cwarzel, @annawiener, @garrytan, @joshuarothman, and @sriramk
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it may have shared users' data with its ad partners without user consent due to two ad targeting-related bugs that it says were fixed on August 5 — Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data …
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Twitter Help Center, Marketing Land, Tom's Hardware, Ad Age, CNET, Forrester, Naked Security, TechSpot, Inquirer, Reuters, MediaNama, and The Next Web
Tweets: @frank_rieger, @lukolejnik, @zackwhittaker, and @jedisct1
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apple brings Apple Music for Artists, its data dashboard for musicians, out of beta, with an iOS app and new features including data from Shazam — Apple Music launched its data dashboard for musicians more than a year ago. Today, the company is taking that product — Apple Music for Artists …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Broadcom acquires Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B in cash — KEY POINTS — U.S. President Donald Trump jokes with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan as he announces that Broadcom would be moving back to the U.S. in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2017.
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Reuters, Symantec Corporation, BNN, CRN, and IT PRO
Tweets: @lamonicabuzz and @antoinegara
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rules Facebook must face a class action suit claiming that its facial recognition practices violated an Illinois biometric privacy law — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's (FB.O) effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming …
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Tweets: @natashanyt, @natashanyt, @natashanyt, @natashanyt, and @aprilaser
| Kim Zetter / VICE: |
ES&S claims that its election systems are never connected to the internet, but researchers find 35 ES&S systems in 10 states have been online over the last year — The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet.
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The Verge. Tweets: @buckleup36, @sarahjeong, @hodgesmr, @jason_koebler, @chillmage, @derektmead, @kimzetter, @learnonaut, @derektmead, @motherboard, and @colinjones
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How user-facing platforms, infrastructure companies, and democratically elected governments can get better at deciding what content should be moderated and when — On Sunday night, when Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced in a blog post that the company was terminating service for 8chan, the response was nearly universal: Finally.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BBC and ITV's BritBox and CollegeHumor's Dropout — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller. — The social giant is launching …
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Vox, Engadget, Tubefilter, Adweek, The Streamable, CNET, MSPoweruser, Fast Company, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @pkafka, @mattnavarra, @rdrv3, @xpangler, and @markscott82
| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch launches its first broadcasting software, Twitch Studio, aimed at new streamers and in closed beta, available today on PC — This is the company's first broadcast offering — Twitch just launched Twitch Studio, the company's first broadcasting software.
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blog.twitch.tv, Engadget, Windows Central, TechSpot, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @twitchsupport, @kellykiewel, and @awnr
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with members of a 900-strong private Facebook group for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram showcase the unreliability of Facebook's Ad Manager — - Advertisers say system has crashed regularly since November — Social-media company says it's ‘committed’ to fixing issues
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @panzer, @matthewstoller, @aahaworth, @matthewstoller, @panzer, @shiraovide, and @jstrauss
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