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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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 second-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 …
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Facebook confirms it was collecting Portal audio clips, some of which were transcribed by contractors, says 2nd-gen Portal devices will offer an opt-out option — - Company previously criticized for transcribing Messenger calls — New and old Portal devices will now offer an opt-out option
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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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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Instagram's Close Friends feature proves controversial as both an influencer revenue stream and superficial gateway to intimacy — Gabi Abrao, better known as @sighswoon on Instagram, is “developing a language with the invisible.” Her page is half memes, half photos of her—eating fresh fruit …
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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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| 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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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sonos Move review: loud and full sound that is great indoors or out, reliable wireless connectivity, but too big and heavy for travel, significant setup bugs — Sonos' first portable speaker is more comfortable at home than on the go — For the past week or so, I've been listening to music …
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| 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.| 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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Tweets: @kevin_indig and @googlewmc
| 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.| Katrina Brooker / Fast Company: |
As Google develops more powerful AI and proliferates it across the tech world, its real-world ethical ramifications become more consequential and murky — Google has more computing power, data, and talent to pursue artificial intelligence than any other company on Earth—and it's not slowing down.| 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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover a weakness in the WS-Discovery protocol, found in over 800,000 IoT devices, that lets hackers amplify DDoS attacks — WSD is supposed to be confined to local networks. It's not, and researchers are concerned. — Hackers have found a new way to amplify the crippling effects …
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The Akamai Blog, CSO, and Wired
| 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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Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Road to VR, The Verge, Inquirer, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, UploadVR, Engadget, CNET, Business Insider, The Verge, Wareable, TechSpot, Patently Apple, Thurrott, Pocket-lint, PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @alexeheath, @stephennellis, @dariasolo, @david_ingram, @cnbc, @chrismessina, @mattnavarra, @alexqgb, and @thekenyeung. Thanks:@sal19
| 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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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
PlayVS, a platform that provides esports infrastructure for US schools, raises $50M Series C led by NEA, bringing its total raised to $96M — PlayVS, the platform that allows high school students to compete on varsity esports teams through their school, has today announced the close …
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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.| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Facing mounting antitrust pressure, Google and Facebook have been cozying up to publishers, offering oft-requested fees and news-ranking changes — Facing mounting antitrust probes, tech platforms offer fees, news-ranking changes media outlets have pursued for years
Tweets: @buzzfeedben
| Sean Silcoff / Globe and Mail: |
Toronto-based TouchBistro, which offers a payments platform and more for restaurants globally, raises $158M Series E led by OMERS Growth Equity — Pension giant Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has made its largest investment in a Canadian early-stage technology company …
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BetaKit, FinSMEs, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM unveils a 53-qubit quantum computer, scheduled to arrive next month, making it the largest universal quantum computer available for external use — IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network.
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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.Sponsor Posts
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