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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google launches $599 Pixel 6, with 90Hz 6.4" display, and $899 Pixel 6 Pro, with 120Hz 6.7" display, both featuring an upgraded 50MP rear camera, coming Oct. 28 — Google claims to finally be ready to take on Apple and Samsung — After many leaks, official teases, and months of waiting …
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
A look at Pixel 6 and 6 Pro's cameras: main sensor takes in 150% more light, Real Tone can more accurately capture skin tones, Face Unblur, Magic Eraser, more — New cameras and sensors aim to put the Pixels back on top of mobile photography — Today at its Pixel Fall Launch event …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google releases Android 12 to current Pixel devices, featuring Material You, revamped Quick Settings, and more — Just as Google kicks off its big Pixel 6 event, the company has finally started rolling out Android 12 on Pixel 3 and above. The company released the first public beta …
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Android Authority, CNET, Google Developers, ZDNet, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Android Police, CNET, The Verge, Droid Life, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mishaalrahman, @jeremyburge, and @google
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Q&A with Google executives on the Pixel 6's new Tensor SoC, which has two big ARM Cortex-X1 cores, 2 medium cores, and 4 efficiency cores — Learn more about the Google Tensor from the people that designed it. — The Pixel 6 is official, with a wild new camera design, incredible pricing, and the new Android 12 OS.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, AnandTech, CNET, Android Authority, XDA Developers, Engadget, Android Police, The Verge, XDA Developers, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @ohmdee
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google debuts a Pixel Pass plan starting at $45/month for a Pixel 6 plus an upgrade in two years, 200GB of Google One, Play Pass, YouTube Premium, and more — The rumors were true: Google has an answer to the Apple One bundle. The company has introduced a Pixel Pass subscription that includes …
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Tweets: @mattmoniz, @nikkeiasia, and @joshuaswingle
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
MacBook Pro updates show Apple listened to pro users, who never warmed to the Touch Bar or lack of ports — - Apple's new MacBook Pro models, announced on Monday, conspicuously lack many of the least popular features from the 2016 design. — They include ports for connecting cameras and displays …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, Wired, Washington Post, Mashable, and OneZero
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple botched the notch on the MacBook Pros by leaving out Face ID; the bezels are smaller but not ultrathin like on Dell and HP rivals — All the downsides of the notch, without the Face ID benefits — The day that many have been dreading has finally arrived. Apple has added a notch to its new MacBook Pros.
Tweets: @pogue, @kingthor, and @cgartenberg
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Facebook starts testing its Novi wallet in the US and Guatemala, letting users trade the Paxos Dollar; Coinbase will provide custody services — Facebook's Novi wallet is ready to launch - but it won't be launching with the Diem (formerly Libra) stablecoin.
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The Coinbase Blog, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, PCMag, The Block, Financial Times, Finextra, The Daily Hodl, CNBC, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, cryptodaily.co.uk, and TechCrunch
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Republic, which lets non-accredited investors buy startup stakes as tiny as $10, raises $150M Series B led by Valor Equity Partners, after March's $36M Series A — There's plenty of frustration in the world of startups over when a digital asset does and does not constitute a security … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Facebook settles with DOJ over claims it discriminated by favoring temporary visa holders over US workers; Facebook will pay $4.75M and up to $9.5M for victims — - Facebook settled claims that it refused to recruit or hire U.S. workers for positions it set aside for temporary visa holders with the Department of Justice.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Alongside Pixel 6, Google unveils Wait Times, which lists the current hold time for a customer support number, Hold for Me, Direct My Call, and more — It can tell you how long hold times are and figure out which business is calling — The Pixel 6 is Google's first phone with a custom-designed SoC …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Android Police, Bloomberg, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches a global creative studio called Arcadia to help brands develop AR advertising and experiences, partnering with companies like Verizon and WWE — Snap announced on Tuesday that it's launching a global creative studio to help brands develop augmented reality (AR) advertising and experiences.
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Snap Newsroom, Benzinga, Reuters, Neowin, and Marketing Dive
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Instagram says this week it will add a “Collabs” feature to let users co-author Reels and posts, the ability to post from desktop browsers, and more — Desktop posting, new video effects, and fundraiser tweaks are also on the way — Instagram is kicking off a week of product reveals …
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TechCrunch, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, CNET, Techweez, techadvisor.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @jamesrath and @officialjuan
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike details China-linked LightBasin, which has compromised 13 telecom companies since 2019, gaining access to subscriber info, call metadata, and more — An advanced network of digital spies with a nexus to Chinese interests has successfully compromised parts of the global telecommunications network …
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Gizmodo, The Guardian, The Hill, Reuters, Dark Reading, Light Reading, The Economic Times, BleepingComputer, and Sky News
Tweets: @byron_wan, @howelloneill, and @jeffstone500
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q3 revenue of $7.48B, up 16% YoY, operating income of $1.76B, up 33% YoY, and 214M paid subs, adding 4.4M YoY and beating estimates of 3.84M — - Netflix is set to report earnings after the bell Tuesday. — Netflix shares were up more than 2% after-the-bell Tuesday after the company posted third quarter results.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Roblox's efforts to engage an older audience while maintaining a safe environment for its youngest users offer a roadmap for other internet platforms — The company, which went public earlier this year, has lessons for other internet outfits aiming to attract younger users even as its own audience gets older.| Michael Wursthorn / Wall Street Journal: |
ProShares ETF gained nearly 5% in its NYSE debut, with ~$981M in trading volume, making it the second most traded ETF debut ever, according to FactSet — ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF advances nearly 5% following its closely watched launch — The first bitcoin-focused exchange-traded fund rose …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says macOS Monterey's Universal Control feature, which was never included in the betas, will launch “later this fall” — Following its special event earlier today, Apple has confirmed that macOS Monterey will be available to all users next week, on October 25.
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Daring Fireball, MacRumors, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and O'Grady's PowerPage. Tweets: @viticci
| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Internal doc: Amazon held talks with Starbucks to put its cashierless tech in a co-branded coffee shop, at one point aiming for a Q4 2020 launch — - Amazon and Starbucks want to launch a new co-branded lounge that would put Amazon Go cashierless stores within a cafe.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook Portal Go review: portable with decent ~6 hour battery life and good camera tracking, but too few apps and requires a Facebook or WhatsApp account — The main selling point of Facebook's line of Portal devices has always been its video chat capabilities.
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @katienotopoulos, and @jp2e
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says its Play Store labels that detail user data collection will launch in February 2022 — Back in May, Google announced a new Play Store requirement to have Android apps detail how they collect and use personal information. The Google Play “Data safety” section will go live …
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Android Developers Blog. More:
The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, and AndroidPolice
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
NSA, CISA, and FBI say that ransomware group BlackMatter is attacking critical US infrastructure, including the food sector, demanding $80K-$15M in crypto — A government advisory published Monday warned that BlackMatter ransomware attackers are going after U.S. critical infrastructure …
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CISA. More:
The Register, Tom's Hardware, ZDNet, Threatpost, SecurityWeek, Malwarebytes Labs, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and Heimdal Security Blog
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at Google's moonshot plans to run entirely on clean energy by 2030, going beyond pledges by Apple, Amazon, and others — Sundar Pichai wants to head the first giant company run without emissions around the clock. It will take far more than money to achieve
Tweets: @aaronrutkoff, @greenbuild, @climate, @aaronrutkoff, @climate, @qhardy, @aaronrutkoff, @climate, @aaronrutkoff, @annaedge4, @senwhitehouse, @sundarpichai, and @climate
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google says it updated its image search algorithms to show more racially diverse results, with the aim of promoting greater skin tone diversity — - Queries for beauty, family show greater skin-tone variety — Effort is meant to avoid incidents that show algorithmic bias
Tweets: @nicoagrant
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