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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
iPhone X: 5.8" edge-to-edge OLED Super Retina display without home button, A11 SoC, Face ID, dual OIS 12MP rear cameras, Qi wireless charging — ‘The future of the smartphone’ — The long-awaited and extensively leaked special edition iPhone is finally upon us, and it's called the iPhone X …
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| Apple: |
iPhone X is available in silver or space gray, priced at $999 for 64GB, $1,149 for 256GB; preorders start October 27, ships November 3 — Packed with Innovative Features Including a Super Retina Display, TrueDepth Camera System, Face ID and A11 Bionic Chip with Neural Engine
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
Google, Facebook, and Amazon are on a dangerous collision course with political power in the US — The bad new politics of big tech. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — The blinding rise of Donald Trump over the past year has masked another major trend in American politics: the palpable …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus: 6-core A11 “Bionic” SOC with Apple-designed GPU, glass back, Retina HD True Tone display, 12MP cameras, Qi wireless charging — Apple just unveiled the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at its press event. It looks a lot like the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, but with a glass back.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone 8, 8 Plus hands-on: glass blends well into sides, True Tone display not noticeably better than iPhone 7's, glass back design is big aesthetic improvement — The new middle children — Apple just wrapped up its presentation announcing the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus …
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| New York Times: |
30 current and former SoFi employees describe years of misconduct by executives including CEO Mike Cagney and a rancorous workplace environment — SAN FRANCISCO — For months, the text messages came. Some were flirtatious, asking her to meet him late at night. Sometimes, the texts were sexually explicit.
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| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple has signed deals to sell movies in 4K with every major Hollywood studio, except Disney — Apple TV will offer Hollywood movies in the high-resolution format, called either 4K or UHD, for ultra-high definition — Apple Inc. AAPL -.40% has signed new deals to sell movies … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton says he's leaving after eight years, and will start a nonprofit at “the intersection of nonprofit, technology and communications” — Acton has a net worth of $6.5 billion. — WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the company to start his own non-profit.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
How the specs of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X compare to iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung Galaxy devices, Essential Phone, LG V30, Pixel, Pixel XL, and HTC U11 — The iPhone X is here, and it might be the most dramatic update to Apple's flagship smartphone in years.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Chris Nolter / TheStreet: |
Apple Watch Series 3 LTE plans: $10 per month on AT&T, $10 per month on Verizon with three months free, no prices yet for Sprint and T-Mobile — Apple (AAPL) Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams gave A&T (T) a plug during the tech company's special event on Tuesday …
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| Youkyung Lee / Associated Press: |
Samsung says it aims to launch a foldable smartphone next year under its Galaxy Note brand and is working with Harman on speaker assistant — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it aims to launch a foldable smartphone next year under its Galaxy Note brand.
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| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
Turkey arrested 75K citizens for downloading encrypted messaging app ByLock; legal opinion in UK says the arrests were illegal — Legal opinion published in UK argues that the arrest of 75,000 suspects, primarily for downloading ByLock app, is illegal — Tens of thousands … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Apple's Steve Jobs Theater and surrounding area, with 1K seats, rotating elevator — Apple's new spaceship campus, named Apple Park, opened to employees back in April, and today it hosts hundreds of reporters as the company unveils its new iPhone X hardware.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iTunes 12.7, with focus on music, movies, TV, and podcasts, and removes built-in App Store; apps can now only be downloaded using an iOS device — In a day filled with surprises, Apple has shocked us once again with the release of iTunes 12.7, which entirely revamps the iTunes App.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources say Uber's chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, to leave company after Kalanick in May said the firm would seek new general counsel — Uber's chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, is expected to leave the company in the near future, according to two people briefed about the matter.
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