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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple debuts iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max, with 5.8" and 6.5" screens, no 3D Touch, better battery life, triple camera system with zoom and wide angle, in 4 colors — As usual, Apple's latest batch of iPhones aren't exactly surprising, thanks to plenty of detailed leaks throughout the year.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models feature Haptic Touch, which was introduced in iPhone XR, effectively discontinuing 3D Touch from the newest iPhones — When introducing the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models on stage this morning during the “By Innovation Only” keynote, Apple execs mentioned …
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| The Verge: |
Hands-on with iPhone 11 Pro: looks slightly better than XS, but the camera bump is big and Apple is not trying to hide it, the new camera interface is great — The glass is nice, but we can't judge the cameras yet — Apple just announced the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple unveils the 6.1" iPhone 11, the XR's successor, with low-light night mode, A13 Bionic chip, dual cameras with an ultra wide lens, in six colors — A successor to the default iPhone — Apple is introducing a successor to its iPhone XR today, dubbed iPhone 11.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| New York Times: |
California passes landmark bill that requires gig economy workers to be treated as employees, going into effect Jan 1, affecting companies like Uber and Lyft — SACRAMENTO — California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google introduces a new Chrome webpage sharing feature in version 77, letting users easily send links to other devices where they use Chrome — Not available on macOS just yet — Google is starting to make its Chrome 77 browser update available to Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android this week.| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 13 GM and latest iOS 13.1 beta reference stereo AR headsets and apps, suggesting support for a face-mounted AR experience similar to Google's Daydream — As 9to5Mac's Gui Rambo first shared back in April and detailed more specifics just last week, Apple is working on bringing Stereo AR …
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Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @_inside, @_inside, @stroughtonsmith, @markgurman, and @gartenberg
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple announces Watch Series 5 with built-in compass, always-on display, and new materials, shipping on September 20 from $399; Series 3 price drops to $199 — Apple has just officially announced the next generation of the Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Series 5.
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| P. R. Sanjai / Bloomberg: |
Apple says its TV+ streaming service will cost ~$1.40/month in India when it launches on November 1, undercutting both Netflix and Amazon — - Price undercuts Netflix, Amazon as OTT competition intensifies — Apple TV includes original content, ‘thousands’ of films| The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
Cloudflare discloses potential sanctions violations in SEC filing, says its products were used by blacklisted entities such as terrorists and drug traffickers — Technology company says it determined that its products were used by certain blacklisted individuals and entities| Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times: |
Prosus, a holding company for African giant Naspers' stakes in tech groups such as Tencent, opens at €76 on Amsterdam's stock exchange, valuing it at €123B — A company holding Naspers' stakes in internet technology groups such as Tencent soared in its Amsterdam stock trading debut …
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it has laid off 170 people from its product team and 265 people from its engineering team — Uber has laid off 435 employees across its product and engineering teams, the company announced today. Combined, the layoffs represent about 8% of the organizations …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: antitrust officials from the FTC have begun interviewing merchants on Amazon to determine whether the e-commerce giant is abusing its market dominance — A team of Federal Trade Commission investigators has begun interviewing small businesses that sell products on Amazon.com Inc …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Oregon-based Dutchie, a Shopify-like e-commerce platform used by 450 cannabis dispensaries in 18 states, raises $15M Series A — Ross Lipson comes from an entrepreneurial family, so perhaps it's no wonder that as a college student, he dropped out of school to jump into the online food space …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla partners with Cloudflare to launch the beta of Firefox Private Network VPN, a VPN service via a browser extension for US desktop users — Mozilla today announced that it is bringing back the Firefox Test Pilot program to allow users to try out new features before they are ready for mainstream usage.
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The Mozilla Blog, VentureBeat, The Hacker News, The Next Web, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, bit-tech.net, and TechSpot
Tweets: @theponderheart and @firefox
| John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal: |
Interview with Bill Gates on his public image, Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Jobs, and more ahead of a docuseries, Inside Bill's Brain, debuting on Netflix Sept. 20 — A new documentary profiles the tech-titan-turned-philanthropist. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Gates reflects on his shifting public image.
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