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Facebook unveils Oculus Go, a new $199 standalone wireless VR headset, shipping early next year with Gear VR support, integrated spatial audio, and new optics — Onstage at Oculus Connect 4 in San Jose, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new mobile headset called “Oculus Go.”
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Facebook drops Oculus Rift's price with bundled Touch controllers to $399 — Summer of Rift had a major impact on the VR industry, and the community's response showed that the appetite for best-in-class VR hardware and games is stronger than ever. We want to continue getting VR into more people's hands …
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Facebook debuts Rift Core 2.0 with redesigned Dash UI featuring dock-like hub and Home, the desktop-like space that can be shown to friends in VR, coming in Dec — Today, we announced Rift Core 2.0, a complete overhaul of Rift's core experience that lets people do more in VR than ever before.
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Facebook plans Venues app for '18 to let users experience events with thousands of others, shows prototype that brings inside-out tracking to standalone headset — Today at its fourth developer conference in San Jose, Oculus announced its newest and most affordable VR headset, called Oculus Go.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon's Alexa can now recognize different voices and give personalized responses — Your Echo just got smart enough to tell you apart from the people you live with — The battle of the smart speakers has become a constant back and forth between Amazon and Google.
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
In an interview focusing on augmented reality, Tim Cook says the technology doesn't exist to make quality AR smart glasses — In a wide-ranging interview, the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world explains how AR will change our lives, and why he thinks the world is actually getting better
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| Aamna Mohdin / Quartz: |
Apple's VP of diversity Denise Young Smith says she is “a little” frustrated that “diversity” is “tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT” — Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley's most powerful black woman. “My name was not talked about prior to maybe 5 years ago,” she says.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Areas of Facebook's political ad review process still lacking clarity: review guidelines, which topics are “debatable social issues”, what varies by region — Nearly a year after Election Day, Facebook's role in our modern political infrastructure is finally coming into focus.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Google says it will permanently remove top touch functionality on Google Home Mini after report that device would repeatedly record, transmit audio to company — Google is permanently disabling a feature on the forthcoming Google Home Mini smart speaker, after a reviewer discovered …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures to join Disney's Movies Anywhere service — Movies Anywhere provides digital storage to watch on devices — Paramount, Lions Gate are said supportive, not participating — Several major Hollywood movie studios have signed …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke on integrating Whole Foods despite cultural differences and the reasoning behind opening a second headquarters — Amazon's head of world-wide consumer talks about integrating Whole Foods—and what it is like to disagree with CEO Jeff Bezos| Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm fined $773M by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission for violating antitrust rules for at least seven years — Qualcomm Inc. was fined a record NT$23.4 billion ($773 million) by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission in the latest blow from regulators over the way the U.S. company prices mobile phone chips and patents.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils new waterproof Kindle Oasis with a 7-inch screen and support for Audible audiobooks, available to order now starting at $249.99, ships October 31 — We called Amazon's last Kindle Oasis “the perfect e-reader for the one percent.” That still describes the new Oasis, which Amazon is officially unveiling today.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
eShares, which helps companies track and value equity and manage corporate governance, raises $42M Series C led by Menlo Ventures and Social Capital — eShares wants to be the platform for all things equity. — From cap table management to secondary transactions, eShares' software helps businesses … | John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
ROSS Intelligence raises $8.7M Series A to help legal teams search case law using machine learning — Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda …
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Brilliant, which makes a $199 smart home hub, raises $21M Series A led by August Capital — Funding was led by August Capital — Talk about a lightbulb moment. — Aaron Emigh was taking some time off after Shopkick, a startup he co-founded, was acquired for about $250 million.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
California DMV revises rules to allow testing of autonomous cars without human drivers, steering wheels, mirrors, more starting in 2018 — 42 companies are now testing 285 self-driving cars in the Golden State — The California Department of Motor Vehicles will allow autonomous cars … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources say Kaspersky antivirus tool was modified for espionage purposes to search for terms like “top secret” and that the firm must have known — Searches exploited popular Russian-made antivirus software to seek classified material, officials say
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Tweets: @mla1396, @mikd, and @scottshanenyt
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Box unveils Box Skills, AI-powered tools that help users manage audio, image, and video files — Box CEO Aaron Levie has always had a vision for the company that extended well beyond its earliest use case as way to transfer files between machines online. His company has continually kept looking …
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