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Amazon and Microsoft partner to let Alexa summon Cortana, and vice versa, by year's end — In an unusual partnership, Amazon and Microsoft are working together to extend the abilities of their voice-controlled digital assistants. — SEATTLE — The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: next high-end iPhone model to have a software bar with new gesture controls to replace home button, an iPad-like app dock, redesigned multitasking — Premium device is said to come with new gesture controls to replace home button, taller screen with rounded corners.
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| Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times: |
Concerns raised after New America Foundation, a think tank funded by Google, fired Barry Lynn, a scholar who praised EU's antitrust fine against Google — WASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources detail Uber CEO process: Immelt withdrew early, Whitman overplayed her hand by negotiating for more control, then board went decisively to Khosrowshahi — SAN FRANCISCO — By last Friday afternoon, most of Uber's eight directors had gathered in San Francisco for a board meeting.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Dara Khosrowshahi's email to Expedia employees expresses optimism about his new role as Uber CEO but acknowledges that he's scared — Dara Khosrowshahi, the longtime Expedia CEO, emailed employees of the travel giant this evening as news broke that he had accepted Uber's offer to be its next chief executive.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google Assistant coming to new speakers from Anker, Mobvoi, and Panasonic, will be integrated with LG home appliances — Earlier today, at German consumer electronics and appliances show IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) in Berlin, Google announced that the Google Assistant will be coming to new smart speakers and home appliances.
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| Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
Samsung debuts $199 Gear Fit2 Pro fitness tracker with built-in GPS and Gear Sport smartwatch with round 1.2" AMOLED screen and Tizen UI, pricing TBD — Samsung held a press conference in Berlin today ahead of the official opening of IFA 2017, and unveiled its two new wearables that we've … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Samsung's Gear Sport, which is rated waterproof to 50M, has a rotatable bezel and a slim, ergonomic design, but lacks cellular connectivity — There's a new smartwatch in Samsung's portfolio and its purpose is stated by its name: the Gear Sport.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
FDA recalls around 465,000 St. Jude Medical pacemaker models in US, many implanted in patients, for firmware patching of vulnerabilities; OTA fix not an option — Heart patients will have to visit their doctors to have their pacemakers patched for the “voluntary” recall — but there are risks.
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Sources: 17 automotive engineers left Apple for self-driving car startup Zoox after Apple pared back its autonomous car ambitions — Startup grabs specialists in areas like braking, suspension — Apple working on self-driving systems rather than its own car| The Guardian: |
Over 21M comments have been submitted to FCC on its proposed neutrality roll-back as it closes submissions, although many are duplicates or created by spambots — The FCC has received nearly 22m comments on “Restoring Internet Freedom” with just hours left before the window for public feedback closes on Wednesday
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Acer launches fanless Switch 7 hybrid tablet with discrete Nvidia graphics and Intel's 8th-generation Core i7 processor, available in December for $1,699 — Acer's Switch 5 tablet wasn't something to write home about. The kickstand was clever, but what else was there to lure you away from, say, a Surface Pro?
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