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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Samsung's “Unpacked” event, where new Note devices, Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Watch, Tab S7 and S7 Plus, and more are expected — There are going to be a lot of devices — Samsung is holding an online-only “Unpacked” event to announce its latest products.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung announces 6.7" Galaxy Note 20 and 6.9" Note 20 Ultra with Android 10, Snapdragon 865+, and more, starting at $999 and $1,299 — Samsung's Galaxy Note lineup has evolved over the years, but always remained a series for power users. Today, Samsung is launching the Galaxy Note 20 series … | YouTube: |
Livestream of Samsung's Galaxy “Unpacked” event — Witness power like never before. The #SamsungEvent is LIVE. Learn more: http://smsng.co/GalaxyNote20 To view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer you'll need: • Most recent version of Google Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge or Safari
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Buds Live with active noise cancellation, water resistance, and removable tips, available now for $170 — Samsung's made quality earbuds for a number of years now. They're never particularly exciting or innovative, but they're always a solid choice in an overcrowded market.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Instagram Reels, its TikTok competitor that lets users create and publish 15-second videos, in 50+ countries, including the US, UK, and Japan — Instagram Reels, the company's significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Source: Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30B, or as low as $10B, and plans to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks — - Microsoft and TikTok plan to finish acquisition talks within the next three weeks, ahead of the Sept. 15 deadline, CNBC's David Faber reported Wednesday.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ has grown to 60.5M subscribers, up from 54M in May, and it has 100M+ paid subs for streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ — Disney+ had more than 60.5 million paying subscribers as of yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company's CEO Bob Chapek.
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
HeadSpin to return ~$95M to investors and has replaced its CEO after an internal review of financial irregularities; its valuation now down from $1.16B to $250M — HeadSpin, a mobile app testing company recently valued at $1.16 billion, plans to return up to $95 million in funding to investors …
Tweets: @om, @readdanwrite, @yongfook, @fansince09, @edbott, @mrinaldesai, @amir, and @om
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google says Google Play Music shutdown starts this month, global streaming will shut down in October, and music collections will be deleted in December — August begins the four-month Google Music shutdown. — Google Play Music has been given the death sentence by Google …
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Tweets: @franconianexile, @bruno_j_navarro, @ugildor, @timbray, @marxculture, @namofako, and @iateyourmic
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A hacker has posted a list of usernames, passwords, IP addresses and SSH keys of 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers on a Russian-speaking hacker forum — EXCLUSIVE: The list has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum frequented by multiple ransomware gangs.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Files by Google adds a PIN-encrypted folder to protect sensitive files on Android — It's aimed at users who share devices, Google says — The Files by Google app, which primarily gives Android users an easy way to manage files and free up space on their phone, is getting a new PIN-protected “Safe Folder” feature.| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Review of Amazon's Echo Frames, $180 Alexa-enabled glasses that debuted last year: their internet connectivity is flaky and Alexa is too chatty and disruptive — You have to really love Amazon's Alexa to let the Echo Frames whisper in your ear all day. — What do you call it when there's … | Bill Kisliuk / UCLA: |
UCLA and Apple launch a study to see whether iPhones, Watches, and Beddit sleep monitors can help in understanding how daily routines impact depression symptoms — Researchers from the Depression Grand Challenge collaborate with Apple — Researchers from the Depression Grand Challenge collaborate with Apple
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SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Micky, and Input
Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @depressionlab, @ucla, @ucla4cola, @nikillinit, and @ivanbeckley
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Anthony Levandowski, ex-Uber self-driving head, was sentenced to 18 months in prison as he files a new lawsuit against Waymo and Uber — Maverick self-driving car engineer will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer …
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| Bloomberg: |
Square reports Q2 total net revenue of $1.92B, up 64% YoY, with Cash App generating $875M in bitcoin revenue, gross profit up 167% YoY; stock up 13% — - Online payment volume jumped more than 50% year over year — Square's Cash App has more than 30 million monthly customers
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Tweets: @jaguaranalytics and @optionstrader32
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is preparing its first Prime Day during COVID-19 in India with a virtual operations room, stringent hygiene protocols for packers/deliverymen, and more — Amazon.com Inc. will kick off its first Prime Day since the coronavirus outbreak later this week in India, modifying almost everything … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google launches Nearby Share on Android, an AirDrop-style tool, rolling out to Pixel and Samsung devices; support for Chromebooks will arrive in coming months — It only took Google nine years to catch up to AirDrop — It will finally be slightly easier to share files, images, links, and other content between Android devices.
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The Keyword, Gizchina, Chrome Unboxed, Micky, Fossbytes, Tom's Guide, BGR India, Firstpost Tech, and The Next Web
Tweets: @cassidyjames, @lehtimaeki, @suka_hiroaki, @davey_burke, @andrewmartonik, and @backlon
| Apple: |
Greg Joswiak will replace Phil Schiller as SVP of Worldwide Marketing; Schiller becomes an Apple Fellow and will continue to lead the App Store and Apple Events — Greg Joswiak joins Apple executive team as senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing — Cupertino, California …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Profile of Mohamed Al-Sharifi, aka GamerDoc, a volunteer who has spent two years hunting cheaters in Overwatch and Valorant, getting ~50K-70K cheaters banned — This 24-year-old Iraqi who lives in London has spent two years hunting cheaters in Overwatch and Valorant, getting thousands …
Tweets: @lorenzofb, @vice, @josephfcox, @motherboard, @motherboard, @josephfcox, @motherboard, and @jason_koebler
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Apple says there are no talks to buy TikTok, and it isn't interested, after sources said it is among the companies that have expressed interest in buying TikTok — President Trump said twice Monday that the U.S. Treasury would need to get a portion of the sale price of TikTok, as a condition of regulatory approval.
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Tweets: @danprimack, @danprimack, @danprimack, @gruber, @padresj, @kantrowitz, @vladsavov, @axios, @mgsiegler, @karlbode, @backlon, @danprimack, @mkbhd, @theromit, @pranavdixit, and @lisaabramowicz1
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