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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats Pixel 3 in low light — And the best camera you can get on a phone — The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max did not arrive at the splashiest Apple event ever.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Facebook shares more on its upcoming Oversight Board for content decisions and how members are picked, says decisions will be binding even if Facebook disagrees — 'The board's decision will be binding, even if I or anyone at Facebook disagrees with it,' says Zuckerberg
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence — In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it's made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups …
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| Financial Times: |
Facebook to give body cameras to UK Met for firearms training exercises and will use the footage to train algorithms on real-life first person shooter incidents — Facebook will use footage from police body cameras to train its computers to recognise gun attack videos … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month — Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO Fi cell service: Unlimited.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe — KEY POINTS — Facebook has partnered with Luxottica to develop augmented-reality Ray-Ban glasses, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators — Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans “Nest Wifi” with a different design from Google's routers, featuring Eero-like satellite units with built-in Assistant-enabled speakers — Google is planning to launch a refreshed version of its ‘Google Wifi’ router at its hardware showcase next month, according to sources familiar with the matter.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
FarmWise, which is developing autonomous farming robots for removing weeds, raises $14.5M Series A, following a $5.7M seed round in 2017 — Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy companies are giving it their best shot.
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| Tavi Gevinson / The Cut: |
Founder of the Rookie mag reflects on being an early influencer and the effect that Instagram had on her life and career as Instagram's aesthetic keeps evolving — My senior year of high school, I had three Instagram accounts: a public one, a private one for friends and internet friends, and a private one that was just for me.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
HP debuts 13" Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light business convertible with Intel Core vPro processor, 2TB storage, 16GB RAM, available Oct. 25, starting at $1,549 — HP is chasing superlatives again. Last year, the company launched the Spectre Folio — the first laptop made out of leather.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn begins the global roll out of Skills Assessments, multiple-choice tests for users to verify their expertise across ~75 skills like coding — LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Amazon's spend on One Day shipping aligns with its customer-centric focus, its product selection policies stressing profitability risk its “Day One” culture — Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: … Bezos went on to give advice about how to avoid Day 2 … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
London's Gatwick to become the UK's first airport to use facial recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks for passenger boarding — Gatwick has become the UK's first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks before passengers board planes.| U.S. Department of Justice: |
US files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden after the publication of his book Permanent Record, alleging he violated NDA agreements with the CIA and NSA — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency …
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| Joshua Franklin / Reuters: |
WeWork parent says it expects to complete its IPO by the end of the year after shelving plans to launch an investor road show this week — (Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company said on Monday it expected to complete its initial public offering (IPO) by the end of the year …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Judge in California certifies lawsuit against Apple for offering refurbished replacement devices under AppleCare and AppleCare+, as a class action — A U.S. District Judge in San Jose today certified a class action lawsuit that accuses Apple of using “inferior” refurbished products …
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| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Sources: as Amazon gets ready to add linear TV channels to IMDb TV, partners push back against its plans to sell all ads with 55% revenue share to publishers — Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming video service IMDb TV plans to follow rival services by adding linear channels from TV networks …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Trulioo, a Vancouver-based electronic identity and address verification startup, raises ~$53M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, bringing its total raised to $96.6M — Vancouver-based Trulioo, a startup that provides electronic identity and address verification for 5 billion people …
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Following JPMorgan's JPM Coin, Wells Fargo announces plans to pilot a US dollar-linked stablecoin for internal settlement beginning next year — U.S.-based financial giant Wells Fargo is developing a U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin that will run on the firm's first blockchain platform.
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