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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Satya Nadella and Panos Panay Q&A on aiming to create a new device category with its dual-screen devices, not positioning Duo as a traditional phone, and more — It folds, but the screen isn't foldable. It sort of fits in your pocket. It has a camera. And it makes phone calls—but don't you dare call it a phone.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface Duo, a folding Android phone with two inner-facing 5.6" displays, coming late 2020 — It runs Android and will release holiday 2020 — Microsoft had one last surprise at its Surface event: a foldable Surface Duo phone that runs Android.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First look at Surface Neo, a dual-screen device with highly differentiated features like a keyboard that slides down to reveal a WonderBar touch screen area — The Courier dream is alive — Microsoft is creating a new version of Windows 10, designed exclusively for dual-screen and foldable devices.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Windows 10X, a variant for dual-screen PCs with 9" screens or larger, coming late 2020 alongside PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft — Microsoft today announced Windows 10X, a new flavor of Windows 10 designed for dual-screen PCs.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 in $999+ 13.5-inch and $1,199+ AMD-powered 15-inch variants with USB-C, fast charging, and new colors, arriving October 22 — Microsoft is introducing the third-generation of the Surface Laptop today. At its New York event, the company just took the wraps off …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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| The Keyword: |
Google brings incognito mode to Maps, expands auto-delete history to YouTube, and adds better privacy controls to Google Assistant — Our goal has always been to create products that are simple, helpful, and intuitive. It's no different with privacy and security: managing your data …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
An icon found in iOS 13.2 beta resembles an earlier leaked image of the alleged next generation AirPods — Rumors about new Apple AirPods with noise cancellation aren't exactly new, dating back a couple of years. But now a glyph found in iOS 13.2 reveals what the new AirPods with noise cancellation will look like.
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| McKenzie Funk / New York Times: |
An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants — After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data.
Tweets: @design__hole, @taniel, @timothys, @elizabeth_joh, @petersterne, @hypervisible, @reichlinmelnick, @hypervisible, @mckenziefunk, @hypervisible, @aprilaser, @william_fitz, @nytmag, @mckenziefunk, @bayneful, @dabeard, @_cryptome_, @mckenziefunk, @angelsdiaz_, @mckenziefunk, @mckenziefunk, @dianabudds, and @mckenziefunk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Action Blocks, a new accessibility tool that lets users create shortcuts for common multi-step tasks using Assistant — Google today announced Action Blocks, a new accessibility tool that allows you to create shortcuts for common multi-step tasks with the help of the Google Assistant.
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The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, ZDNet, 9to5Google, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @dpi_info and @dtunkelang
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Following scrutiny, Apple says it will release an iOS update later this year that will let Siri default to frequently-used third-party messaging apps — Apple Inc. said it will ease some restrictions on developers of third-party apps, responding to a Bloomberg News story about the rise …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber to launch Uber Works, a new app on Friday in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking for staffing — Uber is launching a new app on Friday in Chicago that will match temporary workers looking for shift work with businesses looking … | Annie Massa / Bloomberg: |
Online broker E*Trade cuts stock trading commissions in the US to zero, joining rivals like TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, and Interactive Brokers Group — - Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade announced zero fees yesterday — Shares of the brokerages have tanked as revenue faces threat| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Udaan, which operates a B2B marketplace, says it has closed $585M Series D from Tencent and other investors; source says at $2.3B-$2.7B valuation — Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has raised more than half a billion dollars … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will miss out on owning the social entertainment feed if Mark Zuckerberg views TikTok as merely an algorithmic video recommender like Instagram Explore — “It's almost like the Explore Tab that we have on Instagram” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in leaked audio of him describing TikTok during an all-hands meeting.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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