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Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year — - Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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MacRumors, CNET, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, Coinspeaker, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, Firstpost Tech, Digital Trends, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Wareable, MACお宝 …, iDownloadBlog.com, Thurrott, Engadget, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, and The Verge
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos, 17K channels, ~5x more than in Q1, and 500M+ comments since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June — Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings — Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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| Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: |
As a growing number of Americans over 50 play video games as a way to remain socially connected and cognitively sharp, some are finding stardom on Twitch — Audrey Buchanan, 88, has put more than 3,500 hours into “Animal Crossing” — and been able to connect with her grandson across the country.
Tweets: @pcacares_org, @justinmerriman, and @nancyleamond
| Rachel Cericola / Wirecutter: |
Review of Neighbors, Ring's neighborhood watch feature: great for locals concerned about crime but its privacy policy is lacking and it is not really “opt-in” — Security cameras and doorbell cameras can make people feel safer, but they also raise privacy concerns.| Axios: |
Podcasting startup Himalaya overstated its $100M fundraise in February, as it did not have that much money in hand, nor were all the stated investors on board — Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.| Isabella Steger / Quartz: |
A look at the growing interest in Twitter among the protesters in Hong Kong and the struggles new users face getting on to the platform — For over two months, Hong Kong's protesters have shown an uncanny ability to learn and adapt, whether it's figuring out how to deal with tear gas …
Tweets: @stegersaurus, @maryhui, and @ellan_ou
| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
Tweets: @joyclee, @carnage4life, @michaelperry, @seema_econ, @seema_econ, @jonsteinberg, and @mdudas
| Mish Mashkautsan / LocalGlobe Notes: |
An analysis of 257 European Series A rounds from 2014-2018, led by the 20 most active lead VCs in Europe — 9 months ago we published, together with Dealroom and Atomico, actionable benchmarks on Seed funding in Europe — round sizes, conversion rates and time to Series A.
Tweets: @mishmashkautsan and @petrikajander
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Small business loan platform Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, a marketing tech firm with a database of ~20M small and medium businesses in the US — Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending … Sponsor Posts
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