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Pixel 4's dual camera system adds better zoom capability, live-view HDR+ to fine-tune shots, revamped portrait mode, and extends Night Sight to astrophotography — Over the last three years, Google's Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interview with Google execs about Project Soli, the tech behind Pixel 4's Motion Sense radar, and why they think gesture-sensing is more than just a gimmick — Why does a phone need radar? — By now, you've heard: the new Google Pixel 4 has a tiny radar chip inside it, which allows you to swipe or wave your hand to do a few things.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Events, a new free tool to plan, announce, and invite people to meetups in the physical world, starting Oct. 17 in English-speaking countries — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with around 650 million users, is known best as a place …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders' tweets that violate its rules, will let users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, or share — Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon says its consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes in ~7,500 Oracle DBs to multiple AWS database services — AWS said that Amazon's consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes of data …
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| Rob Merrick / The Independent: |
After delays, the UK government quietly drops its controversial plan to implement an age verification requirement for porn websites — The long-delayed measure - one of the first of its kind in any democratic country - had been plagued by legal and technical difficulties| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Big data analytics service Databricks brings its open source Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation — Databricks Inc.'s Delta Lake today became the latest open-source software project to fall under the banner of the Linux Foundation. — Delta Lake has rapidly gained momentum since …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In a joint effort with UK and South Korea, US DOJ says it took down one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web, containing 200K unique videos — The Justice Department says it's dismantled one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web.
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says sales were $86B, up ~25% YoY with 185M+ smartphone shipments, up 26% YoY, between January and September 2019 — A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration's efforts to hobble it. — BEIJING — Huawei said on Wednesday … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google claims that ~80% of the top “several hundred” Android apps are now optimized for ARC++, the compatibility layer that enables them to run atop Chrome OS — Google's freshly unveiled Chrome OS clamshell, the Pixelbook Go, won't ship with much new software.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
At the fourth Democratic debate, candidates quarreled over the power of Big Tech and remedies, with O'Rourke, Yang, and others critiquing Warren's plan — And it was all over the place. — Democrats running for president had their most vigorous debate yet about the power of tech companies …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Giphy launches Giphy Arcade, a gaming platform that lets users easily create, play, and share mini-games — Giphy is creating a database of bizarre web games — Giphy today announced the launch of Giphy Arcade, a gaming platform designed to let people play, create, and share mini web games as easily as they would animated GIFs.
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
EU's Margrethe Vestager deploys a rarely used tool against Broadcom to halt possible anti-competitive practices during an ongoing enquiry; Broadcom will appeal — Ms. Vestager, the E.U.'s antitrust regulator, ordered Broadcom to halt possible anticompetitive practices while an inquiry is underway, signaling a more aggressive approach.
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