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Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches — With the smartphone megapixel camera wars raging on, Samsung has fired a significant shot. It unveiled a 108-megapixel smartphone …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook halted acquisition talks with Houseparty late last year due to antitrust concerns and began internal changes to make itself harder to break up — SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the breakup of big tech companies like Facebook.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
As researchers find more ways to detect browser incognito mode despite Chrome 76 protections against it, NYT's paywall is back up for Chrome Incognito visitors — With the release of Chrome 76, Google attempted to put a stop to web developers and publishers detecting people using Chrome's Incognito Mode.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast — Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
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The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies — Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars — “They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars.
Tweets: @arstechnica, @aparanjape, and @ghosthayes
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows — Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B — KEY POINTS — Wheels Up, the private aviation start-up that counts Tom Brady and Serena Williams as members, says it completed …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China that shows only censored search results, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu — ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search …
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
Apple's wearables, now at a $16B annual run rate and growing at 55%-60%, will cross iPad and Mac by the end of 2020 to become its third largest product category — The wearables era at Apple began years ago. However, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are only now slowly starting to pay attention to what Apple has been building.| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017 — Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash (BCH) following its allegedly botched listing … | Canalys: |
Canalys: Samsung shipments in Europe grew 20% YoY in Q2 to give it a market share of 40.6%, while Xiaomi's grew 48%, Huawei's fell 16%, and Apple's fell 17% — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 12 August 2019
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