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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers show that they can use lasers to inject 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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, TechCrunch, Macworld, Financial Times, The Verge, Thurrott, Engadget, Computerworld, CNET, Digital Trends, iMore, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, Digital Photography Review, Android Central, MacRumors, KnowTechie, Designer, Appleosophy, and AppAdvice.com. Tweets: @photoshop. Thanks:@imhassan
| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @backlon, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @dcominottim, @reapercapital, and @numbersmuncher
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google Play Points, which rewards Android users with store credit or discounts for buying content like apps and movies, expands to the US from Japan and S.Korea — In September 2018, Google launched Google Play Points, a program that rewards Google Play Store customers with points that can be put toward purchase and rental credit.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to add new features to Teams, including Outlook and Yammer integrations, pinned channels, private channels, polls, tasks, surveys, and more — New files, pinned and private channels, and Yammer integration — Microsoft is unveiling a number of new features for its Teams client today.
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, Thurrott, GeekWire, Windows Central, The Verge, TechCrunch, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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Tweets: @tomwarren and @tomwarren
| 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, The Next Web, 9to5Google, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @dami_lee
| 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, The Verge, and MSPoweruser
| 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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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, Microsoft 365 Blog, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Petri, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @maryjofoley
| 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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App Store, Adobe Blog, SiliconANGLE, iMore, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @scottbelsky and @kyletwebster
| 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, Microsoft Azure Cloud …, and Redmond
| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
8chan returns as 8kun, claiming that anything considered illegal in the US will be removed; /pol, where mass shooters posted manifestos, is notably absent — The anonymous forum 8Chan—a haven for far-right extremists, conspiracy theorists, and internet filth—came back online today …
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CNET, Yahoo Finance, The Daily Dot, YouTube, The Verge, Washington Post, and Business Insider
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Deserve, which uses AI to check creditworthiness and offer credit cards to users with little or no credit history, raises $50M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — - Goldman Sachs is a lead investor in a $50 million round in Deserve, a firm that offers credit cards directly …
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PYMNTS.com and Seeking Alpha
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
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The Verge and Mashable
Tweets: @krmaher, @ryanmerkley, @internetarchive, @sfmnemonic, and @textfiles
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