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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 6 for $399 in new colors, including red and graphite, with a similar design, a chip that's up to 20% faster, blood oxygen sensor — Including a Product (RED) model for the first time — Apple has announced the Apple Watch Series 6, the latest in its line of popular smartwatches.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Apple Watch SE with a Series 4-type design, S5 chip for up 2x faster performance than Watch Series 3, and GPS support, for $279 or $12/month — Apple today introduced the new Apple Watch SE. The new Apple Watch SE has the same design as the Apple Watch Series 4 and later …
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook, which says it has increased monitoring of content — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act — Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SoC — - Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple updates iPad Air with 10.9" edge-to-edge display, iPad Pro-like design, Touch ID in power button, USB-C, and A14 chip, shipping next month from $599 — Apple has a familiar-looking design for its latest iPad Air update — Apple is unveiling a new iPad Air today that looks very similar to the company's iPad Pro.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates entry-level 10.2-inch iPad with A12 chip, bringing “Neural Engine” capabilities, similar design to last model, for the same price of $329 — Apple today announced the 8th-generation iPad, featuring an A12 chip compared to the previous-generation's A10 processor.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple tells staff it's no longer offering credit cards via Barclays, which offers zero interest financing, as it shifts to Apple Card financing plans — - Longtime credit-card deal offered Apple customers no interest — Company to focus on Apple Card installment payments instead
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Reuters, iMore, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @markgurman
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country — An executive order banning TikTok from the US won't affect employees' paychecks, the Trump administration said Monday in a court filing.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google unveils its own Meet hardware bundle meant for conference rooms, including a Smart Camera, Smart Audio Bar, remote control, and more, starting at $2,699 — The Series One kits will be available for preorder soon — Google has rapidly updated its videoconferencing Google Meet software …
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ZDNet, 9to5Google, CNET, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, SlashGear, and Engadget. Tweets: @gsuite
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces Fitness+, a workout class subscription service for Watch and iPhone, for $9.99/month with three months free with an Apple Watch purchase — Apple today announced a new fitness service, set to rival the likes of Peloton. Apple Fitness+ will integrate with the Apple Watch and the Fitness app on the iPhone.
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TechCrunch, Apple, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, The Verge, Apple, Pocketnow, and BGR
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Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @caseynewton, @jason, @markbozon, and @cdotharrison
| Seth Schiesel / Protocol: |
Q&A with Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on his skepticism about cloud gaming and Microsoft's new subscription and installment pricing plans for Xbox — Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, has an ambitious goal for his company.
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The Verge, Gamasutra, CNBC, GameSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Games Insider, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @aaronvalue, @sethschiesel, and @agoyal00
| TechCrunch: |
Home buying startup Opendoor announces it's going public by merging with Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC — Today, Social Capital Hedosophia II, the blank-check company associated with investor Chamath Palihapitiya, announced that it will merge with Opendoor, taking the private real estate startup public in the process.
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Tweets: @opendoor, @adambain, @alexisohanian, and @chamath
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success — Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @microsoft, @saemin4655, @migueldeicaza, @andylapteff, and @msftresearch
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber partners with TurboVote to launch an in-app feature designed to help users register to vote and will again offer discounted rides to polling places — With the 2020 general election coming up in November, Uber has partnered with TurboVote to launch an in-app feature designed to help riders …
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Uber Newsroom, CNET, Tech Xplore, TheStreet, Travel + Leisure, The Hill, and Mashable
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 will be officially released on September 16 — Apple today announced that iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 will be officially released on Wednesday, September 16.
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| Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard: |
Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app — Spotify has partnered with concert discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings to the platform … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Over 400,000 people have registered to vote in 2020 on Snapchat, according to data reported within the app, already passing its numbers for the 2018 election — As of Monday evening, 407,024 people have registered to vote on Snapchat, according to data reported within the app.| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
As Big Fish Games announces $155M class action settlement in WA, 21 users describe how they were hooked on casino-style apps and lost significant sums of money — Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic.
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Facebook launches an information center to combat climate change misinformation and pledges to cut greenhouse gases from its global operations this year — It's also working to bring more reliable climate information to its users — Facebook today pledged to slash greenhouse gases …
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