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Live blog of Amazon's fall hardware event, where new Alexa devices, including Echos, are expected — ‘Alexa, show me a thousand Echo devices’ — For the third year in a row, Amazon is holding a fall event to showcase its newest Echo (and other) hardware ahead of the holiday season.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Amazon announces high-end Echo Studio, available for pre-order today for $199, with five speaker drivers and 3D audio support — It supports 3D audio from Dolby Atmos — Amazon announced its first high-end smart speaker at its annual hardware event today, called the Echo Studio.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces updates to Alexa: a new multilingual mode, celebrity voices for $0.99 each, starting with Samuel L. Jackson, frustration detection, and more — Alexa's gaining more human-like speech — and learning to understand multiple languages at once.
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| Molly Price / CNET: |
Amazon announces Echo Dot with Clock, available for pre-order today for $59; original Echo Dot will still be available — Amazon held its annual product announcement event Wednesday in Seattle, and that included a new Echo Dot with a digital clock display. — The white, LED display works with several Alexa functions.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Quest will be updated in Nov. to be able to wire up directly to PCs, like the Rift, and in 2020 will get support for hand tracking, no controllers needed — Just before the annual VR/AR conference Oculus Connect 6, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a teaser video hinting …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on cracking social in VR, updates to the Quest headset, and how the future of Oculus' AR ambitions are grounded in its VR efforts — I'm led down a staircase by a small team of Facebook communications people, into a high-ceilinged, wide-open office … | Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
Interviews with 20 people show Uber's 80-strong Special Investigations Unit, which deals with severe incidents, often puts Uber's interests ahead of riders' — Investigators say drivers get three “strikes” for bad behavior — and may just end up driving for Lyft.
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
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| Google AI Blog: |
Google has released a dataset of ~3,000 deepfake videos to help researchers develop deepfake detection techniques — Deep learning has given rise to technologies that would have been thought impossible only a handful of years ago. Modern generative models are one example of these …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: 2020 iPhones will have a new metal frame structure similar to iPhone 4 to reduce the negative impact of metal on the efficiency of the internal antenna — Apple will unveil redesigned iPhones next year that boast a new metal frame structure reminiscent of the iPhone 4 …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FTC sues Match Group, alleging Match.com connected daters with accounts known to be fake to get them to subscribe, leading to 499,691 new subscriptions — The FTC says more than 400,000 people subscribed because of these fraud messages — Match.com may have connected non-paying daters …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 10 (Go edition), aimed at low-end devices with less than 1.5GB RAM, will launch this fall with speed and security improvements — Last year, Android (Go edition) launched with Pie, and Google today is detailing the latest version of its OS for entry-level smartphones with less than 1.5GB of RAM.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay announces CEO Devin Wenig is leaving the company and appoints CFO Scott Schenkel as interim CEO — Online commerce giant eBay has announced that CEO, president, and company director Devin Wenig is leaving the company, with former chief financial officer (CFO) Scott Schenkel stepping in to the hotseat on an interim basis.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies — Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
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| South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba unveils its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, used within Alibaba for product search, translation, and recommendations, not for sale to third parties yet — The chip's launch comes amid a national drive by China to integrate emerging technologies such as AI and next generation 5G wireless networks …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1 — - WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down but retain his seat as nonexecutive chairman, the company says.
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The Information, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Business Wire, Forbes, TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Atlantic, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, NBC News, and Crunchbase News
Tweets: @tenuous, @ellenhuet, @teddyschleifer, @bespokeinvest, @carnage4life, @shiraovide, @teddyschleifer, @mcm_ct, @lianabaker, @dgelles, @arashmassoudi, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @caseynewton, @jameshurley, @ellenhuet, @atulacharya, @chris_ciaccia, @cnbcnow, @rstephens, @adamsinger, @voxdotcom, and @schuldensuehner
| Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable: |
Samsung: 44% of viewers switch back and forth from streaming to linear TV; 45% of viewing time is spent on streaming, of which 40% is spent on ad-supported VOD — Consumers switching from linear to streaming — While the number of consumers watching streaming video has grown to 74% … Sponsor Posts
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