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Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year — - Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos, 17K channels, ~5x more than in Q1, and 500M+ comments since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June — Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri about the company's strategy to transform all of its products to “as-a-service” offerings — Exclusive: Neri tells Ars about the leap HPE is making—and why not everyone will make it. — It's been just over two years … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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| Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: |
As a growing number of Americans over 50 play video games as a way to remain socially connected and cognitively sharp, some are finding stardom on Twitch — Audrey Buchanan, 88, has put more than 3,500 hours into “Animal Crossing” — and been able to connect with her grandson across the country.
Tweets: @pcacares_org, @justinmerriman, and @nancyleamond
| Rachel Cericola / Wirecutter: |
Review of Neighbors, Ring's neighborhood watch feature: great for locals concerned about crime but its privacy policy is lacking and it is not really “opt-in” — Security cameras and doorbell cameras can make people feel safer, but they also raise privacy concerns.| Axios: |
Podcasting startup Himalaya overstated its $100M fundraise in February, as it did not have that much money in hand, nor were all the stated investors on board — Himalaya Media launched in February as a San Francisco-based podcasting startup that had raised an eye-popping $100 million.| Isabella Steger / Quartz: |
A look at the growing interest in Twitter among the protesters in Hong Kong and the struggles new users face getting on to the platform — For over two months, Hong Kong's protesters have shown an uncanny ability to learn and adapt, whether it's figuring out how to deal with tear gas …
Tweets: @stegersaurus, @maryhui, and @ellan_ou
| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
Tweets: @joyclee, @carnage4life, @michaelperry, @seema_econ, @seema_econ, @jonsteinberg, and @mdudas
| Mish Mashkautsan / LocalGlobe Notes: |
An analysis of 257 European Series A rounds from 2014-2018, led by the 20 most active lead VCs in Europe — 9 months ago we published, together with Dealroom and Atomico, actionable benchmarks on Seed funding in Europe — round sizes, conversion rates and time to Series A.
Tweets: @mishmashkautsan and @petrikajander
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Small business loan platform Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, a marketing tech firm with a database of ~20M small and medium businesses in the US — Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending … Sponsor Posts
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