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Sources: FTC is considering seeking an injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how it integrates its apps and their interoperability — Antitrust concerns lead agency to consider taking action against social-media giant as soon as January
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's next-gen Xbox, once-codenamed Project Scarlett, is officially called Xbox Series X, and looks more like a PC than past consoles — Xbox now looks like a PC — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed the name and console design on stage at the Game Awards today.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple buys Spectral Edge, a UK startup whose tech improves the colors in photos by taking infrared shots and blending it with standard photos — - Spectral Edge technology improves colors in smartphone photos — Photograph is a key differentiator in the smartphone market| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit, starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it's launching a rental service available …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump agrees to a limited trade deal with China that could result in Apple and others avoiding a 15% tariff on their products set to begin on Dec. 15 — Plan would prevent new tariffs planned for Sunday and roll back some existing tariff rates — President Trump has agreed …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
iOS 13.3 bug in Communication Limits, which lets parents control who kids interact with, lets kids skirt protections; Apple says it is working on a fix — - iOS 13.3 launched this week and introduced a new feature called Communication Limits that adds new parental controls.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected — Facebook announced an initial commitment of $130 million to launch its new Oversight Board, which is designed as a way for users …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages — After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google's interpreter real-time translation mode finally landing on mobile.
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The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Lifehacker, KnowTechie, Android Headlines, ExtremeTech, Neowin, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Search Engine Land, Android Central, XDA Developers, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Mashable, Android Police, Droid Life, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Engadget, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @ericcurts
| VICE: |
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called “Nulledcast” in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air — A blaring siren suddenly rips through the Ring camera, startling the Florida family inside their own home.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Apple News and Twitter will each co-host separate Democratic presidential debates in 2020, with Facebook absent after co-hosting debates in 2012 and 2016 — The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday the hosts of the next four presidential debates in the first four primary and caucus states.
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AppleInsider, Digital Trends, Engadget, Business Insider, Mashable, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, iMore, Gizmodo, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @sarafischer, @jbenton, @cwarzel, @b_fung, @digiphile, @matthewstoller, @cwarzel, and @megkinnardap
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it doesn't need to change its web tracking to comply with CCPA; source: Facebook contends its data collection doesn't count as a “sale” under CCPA — Google plans changes, but Facebook contends sites aren't ‘selling’ user data they collect and share
Tweets: @hoofnagle, @slpng_giants, and @justinbrookman
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bill.com, which automates payments for SMBs, prices its IPO at an above-range $22 per share to raise around $216M at a valuation of around $1.6B — Business-to-business payments company Bill.com priced its IPO today at an above-range $22 per share. The firm, selling 9.82 million shares in its offering …
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Business Wire, Forbes, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As it did in 2018, Twitter says it will add labels to 2020 House, Senate, and governor candidates who qualify for the general election ballot — The company will label 2020 candidates for US House, Senate, and gubernatorial races — For the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter introduced labels … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.61B, up 0.5% YoY and short of analyst estimates of $9.65B, with Cloud Services division revenue of $6.81B, up 3% YoY — - Oracle's revenue came in under expectations. — Mark Hurd, Oracle's co-CEO, died during the quarter.| Roma Slyusarchuk / The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Verified SMS, which labels messages from legitimate businesses, on Android in nine countries, expands spam detection in messages to the US — In addition to enhancing messaging on Android with Rich Communication Services (RCS) and bringing you helpful features with Messages …
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Android Authority, The Next Web, The Verge, Thurrott, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Droid Life, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Neowin, Android Central, MSPoweruser, Android Police, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @mattnavarra and @utkarsh
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and chief operating officer from his role of president and chief product officer; he will report to Marc Benioff — Salesforce announced today that it has named Bret Taylor as president and chief operating officer of the company.
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ZDNet, PR Newswire, and InfotechLead
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Police raided the Moscow offices of NGINX and detained employees over a copyright complaint from Rambler claiming full ownership of the NGINX web server code — Russian search engine Rambler.ru claims full ownership of NGINX code. — Russian police have raided today the Moscow offices of NGINX … | Sriram Krishnan: |
bluesky could enable alternate content moderation policies, verification policies, and content ranking models, but faces hard challenges including privacy — Learn more about me here or even better, subscribe to my newsletter here — Twitter and Jack Dorsey shared a intriguing proposal today …
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