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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Motorola announces a new Razr phone with a 6.2" touchscreen display that folds like a clamshell, launching in January on Verizon in the US for $1,500 — The Razr returns — The Razr is back, but now it's an Android smartphone that can fold in half. Motorola has officially announced its much-rumored …
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Tweets: @mcwm, @dcseifert, @steimer, @chainotcoffee, @ow, @backlon, @rossrubin, @benedictevans, @ideafaktory, @ow, and @mgsiegler
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
How Motorola created the foldable-screen Razr and why it claims it solved the problems faced by Samsung's Galaxy Fold, by focusing on a hinge design — Exclusive: Motorola, in need of a comeback, wants to reignite the excitement over foldables with a phone that's equal parts retro and cutting edge.
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CNET, The Verge, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Verge, T3, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, and Wired
Tweets: @techledes, @cgartenberg, and @themrmobile
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is considering bundling News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music as soon as 2020 to attract subscribers, meaning less money for News+ publishers — - Company keeps rights to bundle News+ service with TV+, Music — Move may woo more subscribers, but lower publishers' News+ cut
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @markgurman, @mattrosoff, and @benbajarin
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch; US users can enroll in three health studies — Following the announcement at the September event, the Apple Research app is now available to download for iPhone and Apple Watch. Users in the United States can sign …
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App Store, Apple, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, iMore, AppleInsider, USA Today, VentureBeat, MacRumors, AppAdvice.com, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, and STAT. Tweets: @chrissyfarr
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Toronto-based password manager 1Password raises $200M Series A led by Accel, its first external round of funding in its 14-year history — 1Password, a Toronto-based password manager, announced today it has raised $200 million in a massive Series A funding round that was led by Accel.
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TechCrunch, BetaKit, 1Password Blog, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @joelgascoigne, @dhh, @1password, @chriseyin, @ourielohayon, @mariosundar, @stshank, @flyosity, @imyke, and @adamfeldman. Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Oculus CTO John Carmack says he is stepping down but will remain as a “consulting CTO” and will work on an artificial general intelligence as a personal project — One of the driving forces behind Facebook's virtual reality efforts is leaving his post: Oculus CTO John Carmack …
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Tweets: @oculus, @davidgaw, @a9felix, @tomchivers, @musings_n, @jank0, @devinreimer, @jabe8, @ku1deep, and @auradeluxe
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub says PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub, affecting over a hundred thousand performers using the site as a source of income — \u003Cp\u003E Late Wednesday night, Pornhub announced that PayPal is no longer supporting payments for Pornhub—a decision that will impact thousands …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces improvements to code search and notifications and unveils its first native mobile app, available in beta for iOS, with Android app coming soon — At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability …
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| New York Times: |
How startups around the world, using SoftBank funds, got contractors like drivers and hoteliers to commit via unsustainable incentives, and then cut them off — SoftBank poured money into start-ups that use armies of contractors. That has upended the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music launches Replay, letting subscribers look back at their favorite music in 2019, similar to Spotify's year-end review, Wrapped, but updated each week — Apple Music is taking on Spotify with the launch of a new feature, Apple Music Replay, that will allow subscribers to take a look back at their favorite music from 2019.
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| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Siren, which helps build knowledge graphs from enterprise data, raises $10M Series A led by Atlantic Bridge — Siren promises the benefits of knowledge graphs, without the hassle of reinventing your existing data management and infrastructure — Graph databases are amazing, but the knowledge graph is in your data already.
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VentureBeat, FinSMEs, The Irish Times, and PE Hub Blog
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce says it will use Microsoft's Azure for its Marketing Cloud service, signaling a thaw in a complicated relationship — - Salesforce will deploy its Marketing Cloud service on Microsoft's Azure public cloud infrastructure. — Salesforce already uses Amazon Web Services …
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Microsoft, ZDNet, GeekWire, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and MSPoweruser
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| Emma Grey Ellis / Wired: |
A look at how scientific experts debunk “lifestyle” misinformation and bad science on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube — A lot of the hacks and diets on social media are bogus, or even dangerous. These fact-checkers are using YouTube and Instagram to battle bad info.
Tweets: @wired, @alexhinojo, and @wired
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is expanding its test making Like counts private to the rest of the world beyond Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New Zealand — Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram tells TechCrunch the hidden Likes test is expanding to a subset of users globally.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @wongmjane
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Punchh, which provides app-based loyalty cards and other analytics services for retailers and restaurants, raises $40M at an estimated valuation of $300M+ — E-commerce accounts for around 11% of all retail sales in the US, but it's growing much faster than brick-and-mortar sales …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says the updated Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will ship in December, but does not provide an exact date — Apple has officially announced that its long-awaited Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available starting in December. — Apple also announced that the new Mac Pro …
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Apple, International Business Times, and AnandTech
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Following the introduction of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple is discontinuing the 15-inch model, which was refreshed in May 2019 — Goodbye to the classic screen size — The arrival of Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with an unexpected twist: the classic 15-inch model is being phased out entirely.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says requests from governments for user data in H1 2019 were up 16% over H2 2018 to 128,617, the highest on record, led by 50,741 demands from the US — Facebook's latest transparency report is out. — The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased …
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