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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers show that they can use lasers to send commands to smart speakers, tablets, and phones via Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant from far away — By pointing lasers tuned to a precise frequency at a smart assistant, researchers could force it to unlock cars, open garage doors, and more.
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Ars Technica, Android Police, The Seattle Times, and 9to5Mac
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| Antonio Lucio / Facebook: |
Facebook debuts logo with text that has context-dependent coloring, says it's to further distinguish the company from the Facebook app, which keeps its branding — Facebook started as a single app. Now, 15 years later, we offer a suite of products that help people connect to their friends and family …
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| Apple: |
Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
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| Imran Hussain / Wccftech: |
Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store, with full PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, and more, for $9.99 per month and a 30-day free trial — Adobe has finally released the first version of Photoshop for iPad. The update is available as a 30-day trial …
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Adobe Blog, MacStories, App Store, The Verge, Engadget, iMore, MacRumors, Macworld, Financial Times, Digital Photography Review, Computerworld, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, Android Central, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @photoshop. Thanks:@imhassan
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Adobe says it is developing Illustrator for iPad, which will include the core tools alongside new tools made for touch, to be released by the end of 2020 — The long-awaited Photoshop for iPad is available to download today, and to keep the momentum going, Adobe is announcing that it's …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Adobe debuts Photoshop Camera app, which uses its Sensei AI to recognize subjects and suggest which filters to apply, in a limited preview on iOS and Android — Let AI edit your photos for you — Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app, available now to a select group …
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Adobe Blog, Adobe Blog, Engadget, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @dami_lee
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Office app on iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, PowerPoint functionality into one app, expanding from initial debut with Galaxy Note10 — Microsoft is looking for new ways to encourage people to use Office apps on their mobile phones by combining lightweight versions of the core apps into a single app.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Points, which rewards Android users with store credit or discounts for purchases like apps and movies, expands to the US from Japan and South Korea — Google Play is launching a new rewards program, Googe Play Points, that will allow you to earn points for everything … | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser to be generally available on Jan. 15, with new privacy features including InPrivate browsing and tracking prevention — After launching a beta test for the new Chromium Edge in September, Microsoft is now gearing up to officially launch the browser on January 15th, 2020.
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| Uber: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue of $3.8B, up 30% YoY, gross bookings of $16.5B, up 29%, net loss of $1.2B; Uber Eats revenue up 64% to $645M; stock down 5%+ after hours — Revenue of $3.8 billion, with growth accelerating to 30% year-over-year, or 31% on a constant currency basis
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft debuts Project Cortex, a new Office 365 service for knowledge management that uses machine learning to classify documents into topics and collections — At its annual Ignite IT conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft today announced Project Cortex, its first new commercial product since the launch of Teams.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Microsoft 365 Blog, VentureBeat, Forrester, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Information Age, IT Pro, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, Neowin, OnMSFT.com, Computerworld, and Petri. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
1,100+ Googlers sign a letter asking Google to commit to eliminating its carbon footprint by 2030 and stop working with orgs harming climate change refugees — Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030.
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Bloomberg, Google Workers For Action …, Vox, The Guardian, CNET, CNN, and Gizmodo
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google News for Android and iOS adds an option to show stories for up to two languages and regions — In recent years, Google has strived to make its products work better internationally. Google News for Android and iOS now supports bilingual feeds to show stories for up to two “languages & regions of interest.”
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The Keyword, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Neowin, and Android Police
Tweets: @wongmjane, @peggyktc, and @googlenewsinit
| Frank Pallotta / CNN: |
Netflix added a “skip politics” button to a segment of Seth Meyers' new comedy special “Lobby Baby”, following a request from the comedian — New York (CNN Business)Seth Meyers thinks some comedy fans may be burned out by DC politics, so he asked Netflix (NFLX) to help him do something about it.
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Tweets: @martinsfp, @timothysandefur, @frankpallotta, @cetincem, @saba_h, @cnn, @vulture, @splitsider, @daveweigel, and @esaagar
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox rolls out Transfer, its file transfer tool that debuted in beta in July, to all users; Transfer lets paid users share 100GB files and free users 100MB — Dropbox is rolling out its previously announced file transfer service to all users from today after a four-month beta period.
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Work in Progress, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and The Verge
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft announces Azure Arc, which extends its hybrid cloud management tech to Linux and Windows servers and Kubernetes clusters running on any infrastructure — Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies …
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TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE, Japan Today, VentureBeat, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and SiliconANGLE
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2 seem to terminate apps in the background far more aggressively, hurting the multitasking experience, especially on the iPad — A growing number of iPhone and iPad users have complained about poor RAM management on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, leading to apps like Safari … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cloud HR software company Workday to acquire Scout RFP, which makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software, for $540M — Based in San Francisco, Scout RFP makes cloud-based e-sourcing and procurement software. — Workday announced Monday that it plans to acquire Scout RFP …
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Workday Blog, TechCrunch, Workday, MarketWatch, Nasdaq, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @eastdakota and @halletecco
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Adobe releases Aero, its free iOS app to let designers build AR experiences without coding knowledge via imported files from Dimension and Photoshop — Only available on iOS for now — Adobe is releasing its augmented reality app Aero today at its annual Max conference.
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Adobe Blog, App Store, Digital Trends, Engadget, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @kyletwebster and @scottbelsky
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google Nest Wi-Fi review: faster than Google Wi-Fi, easy guest network setup, secondary points double as smart speakers, but only two Ethernet jacks on router — Google's latest mesh router system is even faster and more capable than before — Five years ago, the router world was dominated …
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Ars Technica and SlashGear
| Financial Times: |
Sources: following WeWork's collapse, moving forward SoftBank will add new governance standards for companies it backs, to limit outsized control of founders — SoftBank is tightening governance at companies it backs as the Japanese conglomerate and its $97bn investment powerhouse try … Sponsor Posts
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