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In wake of Google+ security incident, Alphabet shuts down Google+ for consumers, debuts more granular Google Account permissions, adds restrictions to Gmail API — Many third-party apps, services and websites build on top of our various services to improve everyone's phones, working life, and online experience.
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Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private profile data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and lack of misuse — Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.
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Facebook debuts video chat devices for home: the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen; preorders today, ships November — Facebook's first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
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Echo Show 2018 review: improved sound quality, bigger screen, and software easier to use, but no hardware shutter to block the camera, poor YouTube experience — New screen, same Show — After being confined to an audio-only experience for over two years, Amazon's Alexa assistant …
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Microsoft unveils Project xCloud, a game streaming service designed to work across consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, available for public trials in 2019 — Available for public trials in 2019 — Microsoft is unveiling its game streaming service for the first time today.
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Intel unveils 9th-gen Core i5, i7, and i9 chips including the i9-9900K (8-core) for gaming; preorders start today, ships October 19 — Among many of Intel's announcements today, a key one for a lot of users will be the launch of Intel's 9th Generation Core desktop processors …
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Intel unveils 28-core Xeon W-3175X CPU for workstations, with an unlocked multiplier running at up to 4.3 GHz in burst mode, coming in December — Intel on Monday officially introduced its 28-core processor for extreme workstations that it teased first back in June.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn acquires employee engagement platform Glint, which had raised nearly $80M to date — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users and now under the wing of Microsoft, has announced an acquisition as it continues to work on expanding the ways that people already on the platform use it.
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Why it is basically impossible to secure supply chains from attacks like the alleged Chinese embedded chip hack, and how we can mitigate the consequences — From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making …
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Google adds a new automated closed captions feature to Google Slides to create real-time subtitles from verbal presentations — Google is adding a new automated closed captions feature to its Google Slides presentation program, one that creates real-time subtitles from the spoken word.
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UK high court blocks mass legal action against Google over claims that it collected sensitive personal data from more than 4M iPhone users — Tech company faced claims it gathered personal data from more than 4m iPhone users — The high court has blocked a mass legal action against Google …
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Source: Tencent has agreed to invest about $200M in Brazil-based Nubank, which makes a “no-fee” credit card managed via a mobile app, valuing the startup at $4B — Chinese internet giant Tencent has agreed to invest about $200 million in Brazil's Nubank, which offers virtual credit cards …
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Study: Chinese VCs invested $3.9B in computer vision and AR in past 12 months; North American AR/VR investments fell from $1.5B in Q4 2017 to ~$120M in Q3 2018 — Last year, 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early-stage North American VR investment … Sponsor Posts
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