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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Dell announces premium $599 Inspiron Chromebook 14 with 14-inch FHD touchscreen, Core i3 processor, Intel UHD 620 graphics, 4GB of RAM, available October 23 — The Inspiron 7000 and 5000 families get a bunch of premium updates as well. — Dell added a new member to its Inspiron line ahead of IFA 2018.
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VentureBeat, The Verge, Android Police, 9to5Google, Engadget, SlashGear, Inquirer, and Digital Trends
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dell unveils its fall line-up of Alexa-ready Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro laptops and 2-in-1s, updated with 8th Gen Intel Core processors — Dell revealed its new line-up of laptops, 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrids, and monitors with the latest components from Intel.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Skagen unveils a minimalist Wear OS-based Falster 2 smartwatch with a heart-rate sensor, GPS, and NFC, available September 12 and priced from $275 — Skagen's Falster has been one of the darlings among Wear OS smartwatches thanks to its posh yet minimalist look, but it was hard to recommend …
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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Inquirer, The Verge, Thurrott.com, CNET, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNET, and Pocket-lint
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Blockchain-based cloud computing project DFINITY raises $102M from Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, and others — An ambitious blockchain project called Dfinity wants to reinvent computing by replacing large platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce with a cheaper, decentralized alternative.
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TechCrunch, a16z crypto, CNBC, CoinDesk, Silicon Valley Business …, Forbes, Bloomberg, and PE Hub Blog. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Robert Mitchell / Variety: |
Facebook announces the international rollout of Facebook Watch, which first launched in the US a year ago this month, starting on Thursday — Facebook has announced the international rollout of Facebook Watch, its video destination for episodic content, which first launched in the U.S. a year ago this month.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Facebook, AdExchanger, Engadget, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, FierceVideo, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google redesigns Wear OS with a Google Assistant feed, one-swipe access to Fit, and revamped notifications — And adding a Google Assistant feed — If you have a newer Wear OS watch, sometime in the coming month, you'll get a software update that will change what happens when you swipe on your watchface.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: 100+ Facebook employees form an online group to create space for ideological debate after an internal post challenging its “intolerant” liberal culture — SAN FRANCISCO — The post went up quietly on Facebook's internal message board last week.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
What to expect from IFA 2018: Sony XZ3, Huawei Mate 20, new smartphones from BlackBerry, HTC, and Nokia, and updated laptops from Dell and Lenovo — Fall is almost here, and it's bringing lots of new gadgets — Aside from CES, IFA is probably the biggest tech show in the world …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add AI-powered audio and video transcription, file recommendations, and content-sharing tools to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint later in 2018 — Microsoft is adding automated audio and video transcription, file recommendations and new content-sharing options to its OneDrive …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Inquirer, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Thurrott.com, Softpedia News, Windows Central, eWeek, TechSpot, PCWorld, SlashGear, Engadget, Neowin, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase survey of 675 US students shows 18% own cryptocurrency, and 21 of the top 50 US universities offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency — University students are clamoring for more courses about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
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| Ryan Felton / Jalopnik: |
Report: Waymo's autonomous vans struggle to smoothly perform rather mundane driving tasks, often slowing or stopping at odd times, risking fender benders — If the autonomous revolution ever arrives, it's almost certain that self-driving cars will drive with an over-abundance of caution …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free, ad-supported video service for its ~48M Fire TV streaming video device users that is being developed by IMDb — Amazon.com is planning to launch a free, advertising-supported video service for the estimated 48 million people who use …
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The Next Web, Android Police, Axios, TechSpot, Engadget, CordCutters, Pocket-lint, Firstpost, SlashGear, Fortune, CNET, BGR, and Business Insider. Tweets: @cityofthetown
| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
An excerpt from Sarah Jeong's book “The Internet of Garbage”, which discusses online harassment as a threat to the useful functions of the internet — Today, The Verge is publishing an interim edition of Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage, a book she first published in 2015 but has since gone out of print.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @reckless, @tressiemcphd, @yurivictor, @attackerman, @presenteric, and @posty
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Core U and Y series chips, which were codenamed Whiskey and Amber Lake, saying they improve battery life and connectivity with integrated Wi-Fi — Intel is rolling out six new processors in the new Whiskey Lake U-series and Amber Lake Y-series.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Interview with Google's Group Product Manager on how Android Pie's Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness work to optimize battery life and screen brightness — Long before Google announced the Android Pie name, the company was talking up AI in the latest version of its mobile operating system.
Tweets: @epro
| Ellen Pao / Wired: |
CEOs of social media companies should not hide behind “naiveté” and “free speech” as an excuse for letting fake news and harassment flourish on their platforms — IT'S NOT OFTEN you hear some of the richest, most powerful men in the world described as naive, but it's becoming pretty commonplace.
Tweets: @wired, @ilvestoomas, and @wired
| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Two cryptographers have run a blockchain timestamping hash once a week in the New York Times classified section since 1995 — This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record”. — The first time I heard about blockchains was at a party where a friend of mine spent the night talking … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
New zero-day flaw found in Microsoft Windows task scheduler that can allow a local user to gain system privileges in Windows 10 — Updated: There is no known workaround for the security flaw. — Microsoft has quickly reacted to the disclosure of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system.
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US-CERT, TechSpot, Thurrott.com, Inquirer, Silicon Republic, BleepingComputer, The Register, DoublePulsar, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Windows Latest, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, Threatpost, Softpedia News, Neowin, CSO, Security Affairs, On MSFT, and AskWoody. Tweets: @sandboxescaper
| Jack Ellis / Tech in Asia: |
South Korean blockchain-based PayPal alternative Terra raises $32M seed funding from four top crypto exchanges and others — Mainstream adoption. It's the most significant challenge faced by cryptocurrencies. As cynics are wont to say: It's all very well to have dozens …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google says it's rebranding Tez, its payments app for India, as Google Pay, will expand it to cover micro-loans and add Tez features to Google Pay worldwide — Google launched its Tez paymen app in India a year ago, and now the company is giving the service major push into retail as it prepares …
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Official Google India Blog, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, ExchangeWire.com, The Next Web, PaymentsSource, Payments News, Firstpost, Android Beat, Gizbot, @businessline, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jasuja, @jasuja, and @techcrunch
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Facebook says cross-posted tweets disappeared from users' profiles because Twitter deleted the Twitter app for Facebook; the deleted posts are now restored — A number of Facebook users were surprised Tuesday when some of their old posts disappeared — specifically, all the updates that had been cross-posted from Twitter.
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TechCrunch, Mashable, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, SlashGear, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @inafried. Thanks:@inafried
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Acer launches detachable OJO 500 Windows Mixed Reality headset with built-in speakers, shipping November starting at $399 — Acer announced its latest Windows Mixed Reality headset during a packed press conference at the annual IFA event in Berlin this morning.
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Windows Central, Engadget, Acer, Engadget, Thurrott.com, Digital Trends, The Verge, and SlashGear
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Cloudian, which specializes in helping businesses store petabytes of data, raises $94M Series E, bringing its total funding to $174M — Cloudian, a company that specializes in helping businesses store petabytes of data, today announced that it has raised a $94 million Series E funding round.
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, and VentureBeat
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FCC to fund rural broadband for more than 700,000 homes and businesses, with more than half getting access to download speeds of 100Mbps or more — As part of its efforts to make broadband more available in rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission announced that the Connect America Fund Phase II …
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Federal Communications …, USA Today, GOOD4UTAH, WTRF-TV, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lincoln Journal Star, and FierceWireless. Tweets: @ajitpaifcc
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