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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Amazon announces Luna cloud gaming service, going live in October for $5.99/month, with a gamepad and support for Fire TV, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android later — Spoiler: It's not a native iOS app. — 4m ago — Luna is what happens when you take the subscription model of Prime Video …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring unveils Always Home Cam, an autonomous drone that can fly around inside a house, expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year — The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device — Ring latest home security camera is taking flight, literally.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ring announces a new line of security cameras for cars and says it is working with Tesla and others to integrate existing cameras into the Ring platform — Also working with Tesla and others to integrate existing cameras into the Ring platform — Ring has announced its first foray …
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Observer, The Ring Blog, Android Headlines, SlashGear, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, and CNET
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon announces $250 Echo Show 10 with a motorized base that can move the screen, a 13MP camera that keeps the user in shot, and more, with pre-orders today — The latest Alexa-powered smart display isn't content with sitting still — Amazon has just announced the latest iteration …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says Alexa will start asking users questions to improve its conversation, change intonation depending on context, detect babies crying, and more — Today during its annual September hardware event, which was held virtually for the first time, Amazon announced updates across its portfolio of Alexa developer tools and frameworks.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, TechHive, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Reuters, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Verge, USA Today, CNET, and Engadget. Tweets: @alexmccollister
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon announces redesigned spherical Echo devices, including $99 Echo, $60 Echo Dot with Clock, and $50 Echo Dot, with on-board speech analysis — Amazon just unveiled an all-new Echo with a revamped design. It comes in three colors and features a spherical design.
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says a standalone, non-subscription version of Office will be released in the second half of 2021 for both Windows and Mac — Microsoft will release a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2021. The new perpetual release only appears in a single sentence …
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others form the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure Apple and other app store owners to make changes to marketplace rules — The Coalition for App Fairness is seeking legal and regulatory means to address how Apple, other app marketplace operators work with developers
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple is now letting customers return only the band, instead of the entire Watch, if they bought a Watch with an ill-fitting Solo Loop band — Apple has reversed course and created an online band-only return method for customers who purchased an Apple Watch Series 6 or Apple Watch SE …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon announces updated $40 Fire TV and $30 Fire TV Stick Lite with new home screen for easier content discoverability, arriving on September 30 — - Amazon announced two new Fire TV products during its big online hardware event on Thursday. — Amazon's Fire TV products compete directly … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says its test to prompt users to read articles before retweeting was a success, with users opening articles 40% more and sometimes opting not to retweet — Twitter's experiment to get people to actually read the content they're sharing is going so well the company plans to expand it to the platform at large “very soon.”
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon announces updated Eero mesh WiFi routers with support for WiFi 6 and Zigbee, available for $129.99 and $229.99 — The new Eero 6 starts at $129.99 — Amazon has debuted the $129.99 Eero 6 and the $229.99 Eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi routers that support Wi-Fi 6 and Zigbee.
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CNET, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Business Wire, Cord Cutters News, Android Central, and Engadget. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Wired: |
A look at Twitter's hack on July 15, the drastic changes it made in the immediate aftermath, and its plans to prevent an Election Day meltdown — On July 15, Twitter melted down. On Election Day, that's not an option. — JULY 15 WAS, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter.
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Twitter, NBC News, and ZDNet
Tweets: @racheltobac, @twittersupport, @kayvz, @brbarrett, and @nxthompson
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
Facebook says it removed 200+ accounts on Thursday that were associated with US election interference in the past “including those involved in DC leaks in 2016” — Facebook on Thursday removed over 200 phony accounts and dozens of pages that originated in Russia and pumped … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook outlines new rules for its internal Workplace, including banning profile pictures that promote specific political candidates or causes — - Facebook on Thursday outlined its new set of rules for employee communications within Workplace, the company's internal social network.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Zoom canceled a talk by a Palestinian hijacker at SFSU after threats of criminal liability for “material support”; YouTube, Facebook also stopped the talk — Facebook and YouTube also apparently intervened — Zoom has canceled a webinar due to be held at San Francisco State University …
Tweets: @adamjohnsonnyc and @skupor
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Facebook's Oversight Board says it expects to start before the election, in mid to late October, after criticism for a perceived lack of action — - The independent Facebook OverSight Board has confirmed to CNBC that it plans to launch ahead of U.S. election in November.
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| Financial Times: |
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he will invest €1B in European tech startups over the next decade, focused on “moonshots” in ML, biotech, and other sectors — Streaming company's chief to channel funding into early-stage start-ups over next decade
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Protocol, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Tech.eu, and Sifted
Tweets: @harrystebbings, @shak, @stevejang, and @hbarra
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out updates to Maps with a layer showing COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, with labels to indicate trends, coming to 220 countries and territories — Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Chernin Entertainment agree to a multi-year partnership for Chernin to develop movies and TV shows based on Spotify's podcasts — More Spotify podcasts could soon become TV shows or movies thanks to a new, multi-year partnership announced today between the streaming music provider …
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Spotify, The Verge, Deadline, SlashGear, Reuters, Neowin, Digital Trends, Variety, and Engadget. Tweets: @spotifynews
| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality — The rules of the new social network Telepath are simple: Be kind. Don't be mean. No harassment, and no fake news.
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| Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: |
CISA: a hacker accessed the network of an unnamed US federal agency using valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts and domain admin accounts — An unnamed U.S. federal agency was hit with a cyber-attack after a hacker used valid access credentials, authorities said on Thursday.| ProPublica: |
A malware attack on a rural Texas county's email system, sending fake emails to voters, shows a significant weakness of America's election security — Congress works for you. Learn how to be a better boss with the User's Guide to Democracy, a series of personalized emails about what your representatives actually do.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
EU releases a proposal for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins as part of its new Digital Finance Package — Valentus Capital, a private equity investment firm based in the U.S., is planning to raise $50 million for its first fund via a token sale. — The token offering is expected …
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CoinDesk, European Commission, Cointelegraph, and Decrypt
| Paul Ford / Wired: |
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software — The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening.
Tweets: @terronk, @backchnnl, and @nxthompson
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