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Motorola announces new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell for $1,500, launching in January on Verizon in the US — 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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Oculus CTO John Carmack says he is stepping down but will remain as a “consulting CTO”, 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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| 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
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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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| 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.| 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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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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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| 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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| 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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The Verge, Kirkville, Cult of Mac, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Memeburn, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @samir_javer
| 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 ~5% after hours 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.| 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
| Khamila Mulia / KrASIA: |
Indonesia-based accommodation-sharing platform Travelio raises $18M Series B co-led by Pavilion Capital and Gobi Partners, bringing its total funding to $24M — Indonesia's accommodation sharing platform Travelio has collected USD 18 million funding in a Series B round on Thursday, co-led by Pavilion Capital and Gobi Partners.
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| Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge: |
Privacy-focused open source browser Brave officially launches version 1.0, available on all major platforms — And it has a plan to pay users and publishers for ads — Today marks the official launch of Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser. The beta version has already drawn 8 million monthly users … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker restructures, raises $35M from Benchmark and Insight Partners, sells its Docker Enterprise business, team, and IP to Mirantis — Mirantis today announced that it has acquired Docker's Enterprise business and team. Docker Enterprise was very much the heart of Docker's product lineup …
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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 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Moveworks, which builds an AI platform to automate IT support issues, raises $75M Series B, bringing its total raised to $105M — IT issues take time, which costs money. A PagerDuty survey found that 38.4% of organizations that take more than 30 minutes to resolve IT incidents see an impact on consumer-facing digital services.
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