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Kuo: Apple to introduce a new scissor switch keyboard which aims to offer durability and longer key travel, in the 2019 MacBook Air and the 2020 MacBook Pro — Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker sentenced to 27 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks on many gaming services from December 2013 to January 2014 — Six years later, DerpTrolling, the hacker who started all the Christmas DDoS attacks, gets prison time. — A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week …
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Samsung says it projects Q2 operating profit of ~$5.5B, beating analyst estimates but down ~56% YoY following weakness in the price and demand of memory chips — KEY POINTS — Samsung Electronics said on Friday that profits for the three months that ended June more than halved …
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Microsoft announces that a new version of Outlook for the web will be rolled out in late July with dark mode, categories, a snooze option, and more — Microsoft Outlook on the web plays catch-up with Gmail with a new look and new features rolling out soon.| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
A California law went into effect July 1 banning bots from pretending to be real people without disclosure while selling products or influencing votes — When you ask experts how bots influence politics—that is, what specifically these bits of computer code that purport to be human … | Tom Westbrook / Reuters: |
Australian consumer watchdog sues Samsung for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy phones as suitable for use in non-fresh water — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's (005930.KS) Australian unit …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's SwiftKey starts rolling out Puppets, Animoji-like 3D animals that use AI to replicate a user's detailed facial expressions, for Android in beta — SwiftKey is embedding a new animated emoji feature directly into its mobile keyboard app, with the Microsoft-owned company leveraging … | M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Given Apple's less hardware-centric strategy, this was the right time for Jony Ive to depart; Jeff Williams is being positioned as Apple's new “product guy” — Between the lines of Jony Ive's exit from Apple — To me, all information is about triangulation.| Allie Funk / Wired: |
Until the US Biometric Exit Program prioritizes privacy and resolves technical and legal shortcomings, airport travelers should opt out of facial recognition — Last month, I was at Detroit's Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A long Q&A with three Google engineers on Android Q and Project Mainline, which aims to let Google and OEMs only update certain parts of the OS at a time — Ars interviews Android Engineers Dave Burke, Iliyan Malchev, and Anwar Ghuloum. — As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Waresix, which aims to digitize logistics in Indonesia, raises $14.5M Series A led by EV Growth; Indonesia, with 17K+ islands, has unique logistical challenges — Waresix, one of a handful of startups aiming to modernize logistics in Indonesia — the world's fourth most populous country …
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Federal appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party seller products, says it enables vendors to conceal themselves from the customer — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) in a case that could expose the online retailer …
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