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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google unveils Pixel 5 with a 6-inch 90Hz OLED display, ultrawide rear-facing camera instead of zoom lens, 5G, 8GB RAM, and fingerprint sensor on back for $699 — It's October, so despite the weird year we're having, Google is hosting a (virtual) event to show off its latest smartphone, the Pixel 5.
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Tweets: @google, @markgurman, @themrmobile, @joannastern, @ow, @jank0, @ow, and @ow
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Pixel 4a 5G with a 6.2" display, 6GB of RAM, 128GB storage, Qualcomm's 765G chipset, and 18W USB-C fast charging for $499 — After speculation, leaks, tidbits, and rumors, Google has now officially launched the Pixel 4a 5G during the online “Launch Night In” keynote.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google is rolling out an updated Google Photos editor on Android with a Suggestions tab, recommending edits like Color Pop and Enhance — A better editor powered by machine learning — Google is starting to roll out a new editing mode for Google Photos on Android, which adds machine …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook unveils cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, which works even for users without accounts on the other service, rolling out now — Facebook announced today it will begin rolling out new functionality that will allow Instagram and Messenger users to communicate across apps …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Palantir closed at $9.50 following its direct listing on the NYSE, after opening at $10 — - Palantir's public market debut on Wednesday comes 17 years after the company was created. — In pursuing a direct listing, Palantir is following the path of Spotify and Slack … | Sharon Weinberger / New York Magazine: |
Former US military and intel officials express concerns about Palantir, arguing its success is largely down to its software having a friendlier UI than rivals — Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a new Google TV service that brings streaming apps, a unified search, and live TV, through YouTube TV, into a single interface — Not to be confused with the smart TV platform of the same name (2010-2014, RIP) or the Android TV platform it's built on top of, Google has just taken the wraps off the new Google TV.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Brian Armstrong's apolitical goal for Coinbase is wishful thinking, limiting its politics to what he deems acceptable during a time of strife in America — At a highly polarized time, Brian Armstrong's controversial blog post is an act of wishful thinking — This story is part of a group of stories called| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: China is considering an antitrust probe into Google, after allegations by Huawei that Google leveraged the dominance of Android to stifle competition — BEIJING/SINGAPORE/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China is preparing to launch an antitrust probe into Alphabet Inc's Google …
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| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Microsoft says Windows 10 on ARM will get support for x64 emulation, letting users run 64-bit Intel apps, later this year — The idea that Microsoft was going to support AMD64 (or x64) emulation on Windows on ARM has been floating around since November of last year, when we exclusively reported that the company was working on it.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Nest Audio, a revamp to its discontinued Google Home speaker, available today for $99 — During Launch Night In, Google unveiled Nest Audio, a major revamp of the original Google Home speaker, and it's available on October 5 for $99. — At last year's Made by Google event … | NBC News: |
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies — On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 9, workers at the MKE1 Amazon fulfilment center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, received an alert …
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Internal docs: EU may ban big tech companies from preferencing their own services or exclusively pre-installing their own apps as part of Digital Services Act — - Gatekeeper platforms could also have to share data with rivals — EU to unveil regulatory proposal for platforms in December
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Financial Times, Reuters, and TechCrunch
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| Reuters: |
Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to sue Alphabet's Google as soon as next week, and is currently urging state attorneys general … | Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Xiaomi announces a range of new flagship devices: €499 Mi 10T, €599 Mi 10T Pro, and €279 Mi 10T Lite, all with 6.67-inch displays, and €99 Mi Watch — Xiaomi is known for its cheap phones, whether they come under its own brand name or its Redmi and Poco sub-brands.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Internal TikTok presentation: 17M Britons spend over an hour on the app daily, while France has 11M DAUs, Germany has 10.7M, Spain has 8.8M, and Norway has 1.2M — One in four Britons use TikTok every month, with 17 million regulars spending just over an hour a day on the app … | Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Golden, which aims to map all human knowledge using AI alongside humans to collect public information, raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z — Golden, a startup aiming to map all human knowledge, raised $14.5 million for its Series A round, the company announced Wednesday. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is expanding voice tweets to more iOS users and plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility — Voice tweets will come to Android and the web in 2021 — Twitter has just expanded its voice tweets feature, which lets you record a snippet of audio to include with a tweet, to more users on iOS.
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Tweets: @twittersupport and @liamodelluk
| Christopher Harland-Dunaway / The Verge: |
Profile of Tron founder and BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun, whose controversial reputation is built on a non-traditional leadership style and marketing stunts — When Chinese millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent, was he trying to skirt the trade war? Or fly right in the face of it, no matter the cost?
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BitcoinExchangeGuide, BitTorrent Inc., and Cryptonews
Tweets: @lukestokes, @cduhaime, @atmos_black, and @cburniske
| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Asana opened at $27/share on NYSE, valuing the company at $5.2B, with shares rising 9.6% minutes into trading — Workplace management software maker Asana Inc. is valued at about $5.2 billion in its trading debut through a direct listing, one of two companies on Wednesday using the alternative route to an initial public offering.| Amy Martyn / OneZero : |
Bird's Fleet Manager program, effectively a franchise model, has saddled some contract workers with debt on scooters they do not own amid the pandemic downturn — One Bird Charger estimates that he took on $40,000 in scooter debt — the time that Daniel got a surprise call from someone … | Bloomberg: |
Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day — Controversial private social app Clubhouse was again the target of criticism on Monday, after a conversation with hundreds …
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