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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG V40 ThinQ review: 6.4" QuadHD display, 6GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845, available for preorder now for $900+; five camera system is versatile but not high-quality — The V40 gives you a camera bag full of lenses in one device — All too often, when we evaluate smartphone cameras, we are looking at incremental improvements.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
LG announces Watch W7 with a 1.2" display, mechanical hands, Android Wear, Snapdragon 2100 chipset, and a watch-only mode, available Oct. 14 for $449 — Android Wear recently got a substantial overhaul, and now it needs some fancy new hardware to run on. That's where LG's new Watch W7 comes in.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
US government ran the first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET today, with a message going to all US wireless users — Beginning at 2:18 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Americans across the country were interrupted by an urgent notification on their cellphones.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a redesign for its Assistant app on Android and iOS, introduces larger visuals and controls for smart home devices — Google today is launching a major visual redesign of its Assistant experience on phones. While the original vision of the Assistant focused mostly on voice …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
TD Ameritrade and a slew of Wall Street firms invest an undisclosed amount in cryptocurrency exchange ErisX, which plans to launch spot trading in Q2 2019 — Brokerage giant TD Ameritrade, a slew of high-speed traders, and a long list of Wall Street firms are getting behind a brand new market …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to release a new version of Switch in the latter half of 2019, perhaps as soon as summer — Updated console isn't expected to adopt the OLED panels used in Apple's iPhone X series — TOKYO— Nintendo Co. NTDOY -1.78% plans to release a new version …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The upcoming Android app mirroring feature in Windows 10 is just the latest step Microsoft has taken to help align Android as the mobile equivalent of Windows — Android is the obvious choice for Windows users now — Microsoft unveiled a bunch of Surface hardware during a press event in New York City last night.
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| Ryan Gilliam / Polygon: |
Blizzard co-founder Michael Morhaime steps down as president, will remain an advisor, is succeeded by World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack — World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack is new president — Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Wi-Fi Alliance rebrands 802.11n as Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac as Wi-Fi 5, and the upcoming 802.11ax as Wi-Fi 6 — Quick quiz: Which is better, 802.11n or 802.11ac? — The answer, if you're familiar with Wi-Fi standards coming from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is 802.11ac …
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Tweets: @jbogard, @reckless, @notpatrick, @darylbaxter, and @cnetnews
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon is transferring IT workers to Infosys as part of a $700M outsourcing agreement and has offered voluntary severance packages to about 44,000 employees — More than a quarter of carrier's workforce affected in effort to cut $10 billion in costs — Verizon Communications Inc.'s VZ .31% offer …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a redesigned version of Nearby Friends that looks a lot like Snap Map — Helping friends meet up offline has been a massive missed opportunity for Facebook . Whether because the brand is too creepy or the politely opt-in 2015 rollout of its location sharing feature … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour; sources say bonuses could be hundreds per month — - Some long-time workers say the changes make their raises less — Amazon says all workers will see overall compensation increase
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Hortonworks and Cloudera announce all-stock merger valuing the new company at $5.2B; the two companies helped commercialize Hadoop open-source big data software — Cloudera stock jumped 17 percent on Wednesday after it announced an all-stock merger of equals with competitor Hortonworks.
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| Padraic Halpin / Reuters: |
Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which regulates multinationals with HQs in Ireland, says it has opened a probe into Facebook's recent data breach — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook's (FB.O) lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) …
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| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
GM and Honda partner to develop autonomous vehicles, with Honda investing $750M in GM's Cruise Automation subsidiary and contributing $2B towards development — Japan is bringing big money to self-driving car partnerships: General Motors has struck a new alliance with Honda to produce …
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Tweets: @cruise, @binarybits, and @binarybits
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Barnes & Noble to look at strategic alternatives including a possible sale, after receiving interest from multiple parties including Chairman Leonard Riggio — - The announcement follows expressions of interest from multiple parties, including its chairman Leonard Riggio, it said in a statement.| Samantha Cole / Motherboard: |
Wikipedia editors have voted to classify Breitbart as an unreliable reference for facts and decided that Infowars should be generally prohibited as a source — Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Interview with Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, on his new cryptocurrency startup Chia, which aims to be more eco-friendly than Bitcoin and launches next year — IN 2001, A 25-year-old unemployed college dropout named Bram Cohen crafted an elegant protocol for moving data around the internet.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank and Toyota partner to develop mobility services powered by autonomous cars, combining SoftBank's focus on IoT and Toyota's connected vehicles platform — SoftBank is getting into self-driving car services after the Japanese tech giant announced a joint-venture with Toyota in its native Japan.| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Report: after years of steady decline, BitTorrent usage is once again growing, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services with exclusive content — BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
US judge finds ZTE violated probation imposed in 2017, extends term of a monitor appointed to assess ZTE's compliance with US export control laws by two years — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday issued an order finding that China's ZTE Corp violated probation imposed in March 2017 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Marketplace introduces buyer and seller ratings and adds AI-based features to offer price range suggestions and auto-categorize items — Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered …
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