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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: improved battery life, flexible triple camera system, and great performance, but ultra-wide camera sometimes lacks detail — What does it mean for a phone to earn the name “Pro”? Lots of power, for one. Usually great cameras. And software robust enough to handle arduous tasks with ease.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 review: has a terrific battery life and excellent camera, and is the best phone for the average consumer, but iOS 13 is buggy — This was not a hard review — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, Owen Grove, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 Pro, Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats the Pixel 3 in low light — And the best camera you can get on a phone — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein — Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein's underage victims was “entirely willing.”
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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 — Joshua Franklin, Anirban Sen — (Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company said on Monday it expected to complete its initial public offering (IPO) …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Amazon Music HD, offering lossless audio for streaming or downloading, for $14.99/month or $12.99/month for Prime customers — RIP Tidal? — Amazon is launching a new tier of its music service today, dubbed Amazon Music HD. It offers lossless versions of audio files …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Ahead of the planned September 19 release date, Apple Arcade is rolling out to users running beta versions of iOS 13 or iOS 13.1, with 50+ games to play — Apple Arcade appears to be rolling out to a handful of users ahead of its planned September 19 release date, based on a few tweets and emails sent to MacRumors.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @pschiller, @kylebaker, and @stroughtonsmith
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple Arcade is a no brainer at $4.99/mo., with a strong selection of exclusives and a model that lets devs focus on fun instead of extracting money from users — Despite being just $5, Apple Arcade still seems like a tough sell for some gamers, who are already bombarded with other monthly services like Xbox Game Pass.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds a 3D camera mode with 3D effects, lenses, and filters, which can be used by those with iPhone X and above, and viewed by users with other phones — The newest version of Snap's Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects … | Apple: |
Apple awards an additional $250M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning, bringing its total investment in the precision glass maker to $450M — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced it is awarding $250 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning Incorporated … | ProPublica: |
Medical images and health data, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, with names and birthdates, from 16M scans worldwide are available unprotected online — Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records.
Tweets: @privacydigest, @jackgillum, @jackgillum, @ericuman, @propublica, and @chuckwendig
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
DevOps platform GitLab raises $268M Series E co-led by Iconiq Capital and Goldman Sachs at a $2.75B valuation, says its annualized revenue is growing 143% YoY — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Some tech companies shy away from putting a date on going public - or whether they plan to list their businesses at all.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Crypto-exchange giant Binance makes a strategic investment in Chinese crypto media firm Mars Finance, at a post-money valuation of ~$200M — - Mars Finance reached a $200 million post-money valuation — Investors also include Bitmain co-founder's new crypto firm
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Tweets: @cz_binance and @mdudas
| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the “reproducibility” crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems — Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites — LastPass has released a fix last week. Vulnerability details are now public. Users advised to update. — Password manager LastPass has released an update last week …
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| Yahoo News: |
Sources: Obama's move in 2016 to expel dozens of Russian diplomats and seize estates was in part due to a brazen Russian operation to breach FBI communications — On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours …
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Engadget. Tweets: @kimzetter, @nbcnews, @karolcummins, @kimzetter, @ldrogen, @rvawonk, @michaeldweiss, @nycsouthpaw, @20committee, and @sifill_ldf
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A new generation of cameras in the UK that feed into facial recognition software, enabling real-time identity checks, raises new privacy concerns among citizens — Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.
Tweets: @clareangelyn, @kenroth, @nytimes, @sandrawachter5, @nytimesbusiness, @cendemtech, and @satariano
| Tina Bellon / Reuters: |
To comply with NYC regulations, Uber will start locking out drivers from its app at times and in areas of low demand in the city, from Tuesday — (Reuters) - Uber on Tuesday will begin limiting drivers' access to its app in New York City to comply with regulation aimed at boosting drivers' pay … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Ironclad, a platform for legal teams to manage their contracts workflow, raises $50M Series C led by Y Combinator Continuity, bringing its total raised to $83M — Ironclad, a startup that makes it easier for legal teams to manage their contracts workflow, today announced that it has raised …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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