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Analysis of Infowars Twitter content shows videos that led to YouTube and other bans were still live, while other tweets showed more Twitter rules violations — Why Facebook,YouTube and Apple are removing InfoWars content — Twitter's vice president for trust and safety, Del Harvey …
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Samsung announces Galaxy Note9, shipping August 24, with a 6.4" display, Snapdragon 845, 4,000mAh battery, dual rear cameras, DeX, 128GB/512GB storage for $950+ — After months of rampant speculation (and plenty of leaks and rumors), it's finally here: the Samsung Galaxy Note9 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Galaxy Note9: a solid refinement over the Note8 with a similar design and the same camera as the Galaxy S9+; microSD slot is a nice addition — A refinement of last year's model with incredibly powerful hardware — Samsung is coming off of a disappointing launch for its Galaxy S9 …
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Sources: Tesla's board to meet with advisers to discuss Musk's take-private proposal; source: Musk previously talked with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — - The Tesla board is taking Elon Musk's offer to take the company private at $420-per-share seriously and may tell Musk to recuse himself …
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Doug Field, former SVP of engineering at Tesla, returns to Apple, sources say to work in Bob Mansfield's project Titan group — Here's some interesting hiring news I've heard through the little birdie grapevine:1 Doug Field — who left Tesla in May after overseeing Model 3 production …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Home, a Bixby-based smart speaker with built-in subwoofer, six speakers, and eight far-field microphones; pricing and availability TBA — Samsung has announced its entry into the smart speaker market with the Galaxy Home. It's a high-end speaker meant to go head …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung and Spotify partner to build Spotify's services into smartphones, Bixby, and other Samsung devices — Samsung has announced that it's entering a long-term partnership with Spotify, including support for the just-announced Galaxy Home smart speaker.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $339.2M, up 27% YoY, vs $331M est., 11.9M paid users, up from 9.9M YoY, and announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving — Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Macs can be remotely hacked when connecting to Wi-Fi for first time; issue fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, but machines with older OSes remain vulnerable — APPLE'S SUPPLY CHAIN is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control the company exerts and keen interest from third parties.
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| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Gaming chat app Discord launches a games store in beta, available to 50,000 randomly selected customers in Canada, and says it has 150M users — Discord, the online chat and video service used by 150 million gamers, drops into the video game sales business Thursday with the launch …
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L'Oreal's ModiFace partners with Facebook to test AR experiences for shoppers, such as trying on virtual foundation shades or eyebrow shapes and hues — PARIS (Reuters) - Maybelline parent L'Oreal (OREP.PA) is pairing up with Facebook to roll out virtual tests for shoppers to see how they might look … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces open source Alexa Auto SDK, available on GitHub, to let automakers integrate Alexa into cars and infotainment systems — Amazon today announced an open source release of the Alexa Automotive Core (AAC) SDK, or Auto SDK, to help automakers integrate Alexa voice control …
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VP of policy details Facebook's limits to free speech: physically or financially endangering people, intimidating via hateful words, tricking people for profit — Hard Questions is a series from Facebook that addresses the impact of our products on society.
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