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Sources: Apple to unveil high-end AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year — - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, Engadget, The Verge, Thurrott.com, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, and MAC blog. Tweets: @harshilshah1910
| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump admin planning rules to block firms with >25% Chinese ownership from buying firms with “industrially significant” tech, plus new export controls — Treasury is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in ‘industrially significant technology’| The Verge: |
As Trump admin prepares for $200B in new tariffs on Chinese goods, small US gadget makers fear that price increases on key parts may put them out of business — Trump's tariffs could spell doom for small hardware startups — As the White House barrels toward $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports …
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Missourinet, VentureBeat, The Guardian, and MarketWatch
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Experts say domestic abusers increasingly use connected home devices like smart locks, security cameras, and lighting to scare or spy on victims — SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AT&T confirms it will buy AppNexus, which operates one of the largest independent ad exchanges — Another legacy carrier built on offering phone services is now taking a deeper dive into the world of advertising and specifically ad tech to help catapult itself into the next generation of tech and communications.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Details of Qualcomm SDM1000, likely Snapdragon 1000, leak showing bigger, 20×15mm sized chip for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to compete with Intel Core Y and U CPUs — Design goes head to head with Intel's Y and U series Core-branded processors. — Details of the SDM1000 … | Benedict Evans: |
Machine learning may become a ubiquitous and fundamental enabling layer, similar to how relational databases impacted society in the eighties — We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it.
Tweets: @graph_zahl, @ethanhays, @abhijitbhaduri, @stevenjluck, and @valaafshar
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
As chain restaurants increasingly deploy tabletop tablets, servers find they have to contend with inaccurate rankings, unfair scores, and inappropriate comments — In data-hungry, tech-happy chain restaurants, customers are rating their servers using tabletop tablets, not realizing those ratings can put jobs at risk.
Tweets: @cavni
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Enterprise sales intelligence startup Tact.ai raises $27M Series C led by Amazon's Alexa Fund, Microsoft's M12, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures — Tact.ai, a Redwood City, California-based enterprise intelligence startup, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round led …
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, tact.ai, MSPoweruser, diginomica, and socalTECH.com
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Google says it is adding a file signature to the header of Android app metadata, helping users determine the authenticity of an app not from the Play Store — Google is changing how the Play Store app is verifying the authenticity of Android apps before installation.
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Android Developers Blog, Engadget, SlashGear, BetaNews, and Android Central
Tweets: @googleplaydev and @xdadevelopers
| Darrell M. West / Brookings: |
Survey of 2,021 US adult internet users: 61% are somewhat or very uncomfortable with robots; 52% say robots will perform most human activities within 30 years — Fifty-two percent of adult internet users believe within 30 years, robots will have advanced to the point where they can perform …
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Online dating apps like Tinder are struggling to sign-up female users in markets like India, where dating isn't yet mainstream and carries a social stigma — Online dating apps try to woo female users in one of the world's largest untapped markets; ‘not for average-looking guys’
Tweets: @sajithpai, @wsj, @b50, @wsj, and @benedictevans
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