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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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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
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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9to5Google, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web, GeekWire, Android Authority, The Verge, Thurrott, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, MSPoweruser, Fast Company, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @vladsavov
| 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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Tweets: @wongmjane, @rizzn, @nmasc_, @martinsfp, @ekp, and @mayazi
| 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.| 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.| 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 … | Jake Newby / RADII: |
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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| 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: @seema_econ, @joyclee, @carnage4life, @michaelperry, @seema_econ, @jonsteinberg, and @mdudas
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
OpenGov, a cloud platform for public sector budgeting and citizen engagement, raises $51M Series D, bringing its total raised to $140M — OpenGov, the firm co-founded by Panaltir's Joe Lonsdale that helps government and other civic organizations organise, analyse and present financial … | 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 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
How MuleSoft disclosed a critical security flaw, proactively contacting customers to verify patches were installed and openly responding to reporter questions — MuleSoft deals with a sensitive security issue and sets up an example for the whole industry to follow. — John is a software engineer and a pretty good one.Thanks:@campuscodi
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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