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DHS officials say “hundreds of victims”, not a few dozen, have been impacted by Russian hackers infiltrating control room networks of US electric utilities — Blackouts could have been caused after the networks of trusted vendors were easily penetrated
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Google Cloud announces Cloud Services Platform, an integrated set of cloud services that can be deployed both in the cloud and on premises — The cloud isn't right for every business, be that because of latency constraints at the edge, regulatory requirements or because it's simply cheaper …
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G Suite adds Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware customers, and its Smart Reply feature to Hangouts Chat — At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google debuted several new capabilities for the productivity suite, which now has more than 4 million customers.| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Apple issues a fix for 2018 MacBook Pro CPU throttling/thermal management issues via macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update — Apple has been catching heat over the performance of its new MacBook Pro laptops, but the company hopes a new software update will cool off outraged power users.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay to add support for Apple Pay, beginning rollout this fall in US, and partners with Square Capital on seller financing — Ebay announced this morning it will begin accepting Apple Pay on its marketplace starting this fall, and has also teamed up with Square Capital on seller financing.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU fines Asus €63.5M, Philips €29.8M, Pioneer €10.1M, and Denon & Marantz €7.7M for online price fixing — The European Union's antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at how retailers and consumer brands use bots to scrape prices and other information from rivals' websites, amid efforts to detect and block them — COMPANIES ARE WAGING an invisible data war online. And your phone might be an unwitting soldier. — Retailers from Amazon and Walmart … | Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Verizon is seeking to partner with Google or Apple to provide a TV service when it launches 5G to homes in LA and Sacramento later this year — - First wireless broadband service with video launches this year — Live, online TV to be part of showcase for superfast network| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Chrome 68, rolling out today, shows a “not secure” warning for any HTTP website; in October the warning's color will change to red — Three and a half years ago, Google predicted that the day would come when Chrome would warn us all of the security risks of using …
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Verizon beats estimates in Q2 with net income of $4.12B and total revenue of $32.20B, adds 398K net postpaid subscribers — (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) reported a 5.4 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, as it attracted more postpaid subscribers with unlimited data plans.| Arunima Banerjee / Reuters: |
Ford Motor says it will invest $4B through 2023 in its new Ford Autonomous Vehicles unit; the investment includes $1B pledged to startup Argo AI last year — (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said it would invest $4 billion through 2023 in its newly formed autonomous vehicle unit, Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC … | Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft working on two new Xbox consoles, one of them a lower-powered streaming box for upcoming game streaming service referred to as Scarlett Cloud — Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Jeff Bezos-backed cloud simulation startup Rescale raises $32M Series B led by Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, and Initialized Capital — Rescale Inc., a startup harnessing the public cloud for scientific simulations and other complex workloads, today announced that it has raised $32 million in fresh funding.
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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was $8.3B; stock up 4%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Security Keys in place of passwords — Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017 …
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Engadget, Inquirer, Business Insider, TechSpot, Naked Security, Silicon Republic, PYMNTS.com, Ubergizmo, Android Police, 9to5Google, and CNET. Tweets: @chriskeall
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon adds audio equalizer controls for Echo devices in Alexa app, as well as via English voice commands in US, and opens the EQ functionality to third parties — Audiophiles love to nitpick over the way their music sounds, but until now, you haven't been able to do that with any of Amazon's Echo smart speakers.| Ry Crist / CNET: |
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