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Facebook debuts Portal TV, a TV accessory for video calling, streaming, AR gaming, and co-viewing Facebook Watch shows, shipping November 5 for $149 — Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook unveils 2nd-gen 10-inch Portal for $179, and 8-inch Portal Mini for $129, with WhatsApp call support, picture-in-picture viewing, and Prime Video — The $179 Portal and $129 Portal Mini are Facebook's latest hardware products — Facebook today announced three new products as part …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Facebook shares more on its upcoming Oversight Board for content decisions and how members are picked, says decisions will be binding even if Facebook disagrees — 'The board's decision will be binding, even if I or anyone at Facebook disagrees with it,' says Zuckerberg
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence — In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it's made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 5 review: the best smartwatch with an always-on screen, a beautiful display, and new apps, but its battery life hasn't improved — There's basically no competition — The highest praise I can give the new Apple Watch Series 5 is simply this: it's an Apple Watch.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats Pixel 3 in low light — And the best camera you can get on a phone — The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max did not arrive at the splashiest Apple event ever.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
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| Tavi Gevinson / The Cut: |
Founder of the Rookie mag reflects on being an early influencer and the effect that Instagram had on her life and career as Instagram's aesthetic keeps evolving — My senior year of high school, I had three Instagram accounts: a public one, a private one for friends and internet friends, and a private one that was just for me.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators — Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe — KEY POINTS — Facebook has partnered with Luxottica to develop augmented-reality Ray-Ban glasses, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month — Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO Fi cell service: Unlimited.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
HP debuts 13" Elitebook Dragonfly ultra-light business convertible with Intel Core vPro processor, 2TB storage, 16GB RAM, available Oct. 25, starting at $1,549 — HP is chasing superlatives again. Last year, the company launched the Spectre Folio — the first laptop made out of leather.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
London's Gatwick to become the UK's first airport to use facial recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks for passenger boarding — Gatwick has become the UK's first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a permanent basis for ID checks before passengers board planes.| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Studies that try to place a monetary value on consumer privacy have such varying results that researchers are beginning to conclude that it's the wrong approach — No one knows. And it might be time to stop asking. — For big tech platforms, this was the year when violating users' privacy got expensive.
Tweets: @privacyproject, @willoremus, @profcarroll, @willoremus, and @lemonsand
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Descript, which offers tools for creating podcasts, raises $15M Series A from a16z and Redpoint, and acquires Lyrebird, which built audio transcription tools — The boom in popularity for podcasting has given a new voice to the world of spoken word content that had been largely left for dead with the decline of broadcast radio.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Amazon's spend on One Day shipping aligns with its customer-centric focus, its product selection policies stressing profitability risk its “Day One” culture — Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: … Bezos went on to give advice about how to avoid Day 2 …
Tweets: @wilreynolds and @carnage4life
| U.S. Department of Justice: |
US files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden after the publication of his book Permanent Record, alleging he violated NDA agreements with the CIA and NSA — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: ~75 countries are using AI for surveillance and Huawei is providing surveillance tech in 50 countries, far more than its nearest competitor Hikvision — China leads world in facial-recognition and other new surveillance technologies, report says — WASHINGTON—China leads the world …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
FarmWise, which is developing autonomous farming robots for removing weeds, raises $14.5M Series A, following a $5.7M seed round in 2017 — Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy companies are giving it their best shot.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
A look at how Facebook's AI researchers are trying to build smart chatbots using unsupervised training of neural networks for natural language processing — Bots still can't converse like humans. But Facebook's AI researchers are making major inroads—with implications for the company's messaging apps and beyond.| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Sources: as Amazon gets ready to add linear TV channels to IMDb TV, partners push back against its plans to sell all ads with 55% revenue share to publishers — Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming video service IMDb TV plans to follow rival services by adding linear channels from TV networks …
Tweets: @tvrev
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