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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola announces a new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell, launching in January on Verizon in the US for $1,500 — The Razr returns — The Razr is back, but now it's an Android smartphone that can fold in half. Motorola has officially announced its much-rumored …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
How Motorola created the foldable-screen Razr and why it claims it solved the problems faced by Samsung's Galaxy Fold, by focusing on a hinge design — Exclusive: Motorola, in need of a comeback, wants to reignite the excitement over foldables with a phone that's equal parts retro and cutting edge.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is considering bundling News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music as soon as 2020 to attract subscribers, meaning less money for News+ publishers — - Company keeps rights to bundle News+ service with TV+, Music — Move may woo more subscribers, but lower publishers' News+ cut| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch; US users can enroll in three health studies — Following the announcement at the September event, the Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch. Users in the United States can sign …
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App Store, Apple, Engadget, iMore, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, USA Today, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, and STAT
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history — 1Password, a Toronto-based password manager, announced today it has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round that was led by Accel.
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TechCrunch, BetaKit, 1Password Blog, VentureBeat, and Security Boulevard
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Oculus CTO John Carmack says he is stepping down but will remain as a “consulting CTO” and will work on an artificial general intelligence as a personal project — One of the driving forces behind Facebook's virtual reality efforts is leaving his post: Oculus CTO John Carmack …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub says PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub, affecting over a hundred thousand performers using the site as a source of income — \u003Cp\u003E Late Wednesday night, Pornhub announced that PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub—a decision that will impact thousands …
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| New York Times: |
How startups around the world, using SoftBank funds, got contractors like drivers and hoteliers to commit via unsustainable incentives, and then cut them off — SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music launches Replay, letting subscribers look back at their favorite music in 2019, similar to Spotify's year-end review, Wrapped, but updated each week — Apple Music is taking on Spotify with the launch of a new feature, Apple Music Replay, that will allow subscribers to take a look back at their favorite music from 2019.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces improvements to code search and notifications and unveils its first native mobile app, available in beta for iOS, with Android app coming soon — At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability …
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| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Siren, which helps build knowledge graphs from enterprise data, raises $10M Series A led by Atlantic Bridge — Siren promises the benefits of knowledge graphs, without the hassle of reinventing your existing data management and infrastructure — Graph databases are amazing, but the knowledge graph is in your data already.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says requests from governments for user data in H1 2019 were up 16% over H2 2018 to 128,617, the highest on record, led by 50,741 demands from the US — Facebook's latest transparency report is out. — The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased …
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| Emma Grey Ellis / Wired: |
A look at how scientific experts debunk “lifestyle” misinformation and bad science on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube — A lot of the hacks and diets on social media are bogus, or even dangerous. These fact-checkers are using YouTube and Instagram to battle bad info.
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @alexhinojo
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Following the introduction of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is discontinuing the 15-inch model, which was refreshed in May 2019 — Goodbye to the classic screen size — The arrival of Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Eigen, which helps enterprises like banks parse huge documents using AI, raises $37M Series B led by Lakestar and Dawn Capital, at a ~$150M-$180M valuation — One of the bigger trends in enterprise software has been the emergence of startups building tools to make the benefits …
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says the updated Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will ship in December, but does not provide an exact date — Apple has officially announced that its long-awaited Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available starting in December. — Apple also announced that the new Mac Pro …
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Apple, International Business Times, and AnandTech
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is expanding its test making Like counts private to the rest of the world beyond Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand — Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram tells TechCrunch the hidden Likes test is expanding to a subset of users globally.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @wongmjane
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q1 revenues of $13.16B, up 1% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $7.54B, down 1% YoY; stock down 7%+ on weak Q2 guidance — Cisco shares fell as much as 6% after the close of trading on Wednesday after the company gave fiscal second-quarter earnings that came in below analysts' estimates.
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| Adele Peters / Fast Company: |
AMP Robotics, which makes robots that recognize and sort recyclables, raises $16M Series A led by Sequoia Capital — The global recycling system is collapsing largely because it's been difficult for recyclers to accurately separate different materials. Robots can help.
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FinSMEs and The Robot Report
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