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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google announces $799+ 5.5" Pixel 3 and $899+ 6.3" Pixel 3 XL with slimmed down bezels, wireless charging, dual front cameras, preorder now, available Oct. 18 — Google just unveiled the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, its latest flagship Android smartphones. There was little left to “unveil” …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Google says Duplex AI coming to Pixel phones in NYC, Atlanta, Phoenix, and SF by year's end as part of Assistant, will only make restaurant reservations for now — “Uhm,” said the female voice. “Can I book a table for tomorrow?” The question came not from a person …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has fixed a data deletion bug and is re-releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update that it pulled over the weekend — Software maker is making changes to Windows 10 testing — Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update today, following the company pulling …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces 7-inch Home Hub, to compete against Amazon's Echo Show, which comes in four colors, has no camera; pre-order today for $149, ships October 22 — With the Home Mini and Home Max in 2017, Google was able to inundate the market with affordable smart speakers, while offering an audiophile experience for the high-end.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Live Albums, which uses AI to automate the sharing of photos with groups of people and displays them on the Home Hub as they are taken — Just ahead of today's Google's hardware event, the company quietly rolled out an update to its Google Photos application which introduces a new …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US GAO releases report highlighting Pentagon failures around cybersecurity, including security of weapons, like using weak passwords — A government watchdog has said the Department of Defense has not done enough to protect critical weapons systems from cyberattacks.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Twitter says it will remove the ability to create Moments from its iOS and Android apps on October 23, making it a desktop exclusive — Twitter has announced today that it is removing the ability to create Twitter Moments from its iOS and Android applications.
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BGR India, AndroidHeadlines.com, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, and Search Engine Journal
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| Motherboard: |
Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile deny being the “US telecom” mentioned in today's Bloomberg story alleging compromised Supermicro hardware — No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek's bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.| Bloomberg: |
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| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Microsoft has discontinued support for the Apple TV version of Minecraft from September 24 due to lack of players, undermining Apple's push into gaming — - “Minecraft” is one of the most popular games in the world, and the second highest-selling game of all time.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Report: Apple “dramatically” reduced the rate of fraud in its Chinese retail stores in recent years using secretly marked parts, changed repair policies, more — If you've ever wondered why Apple employees seem at least a little skeptical during requests for repairs …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Google debuts Pixel Slate, a Chrome OS tablet with a 3000×2000 display, 8-16GB of RAM, front and rear cameras, no 3.5mm jack; coming later in 2018 from $599 — Google just took the wraps off a new Chromebook device at its hardware event today. The company is launching its new Pixel Slate …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Source: Meicai, an online marketplace in China for vegetables and more, has raised about $800M, led by Hillhouse Capital and Tiger Global, at a $7B valuation — - Tiger Global, Hillhouse are said to back veggie-app Meicai — Veggie-selling app Meicai is said to raise new capital
Tweets: @technology, @tekkamana, @jasonlk, and @luluyilun
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Andreessen, Altman, Kalanick, others named to a Saudi advisory board for a $500B megacity project amid journalist's disappearance; Jony Ive dropped from list — - More than a dozen high profile tech executives, including famous venture capital investors Marc Andreessen and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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Tweets: @tomgara, @tomgara, @robaeprice, @rashmi, @rafat, @teddyschleifer, @jrivanob, and @amir
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will use machine learning to scan photos to detect bullying and send them to community moderators for review if needed, rolling out in coming weeks — Instagram and its users do benefit from the app's ownership by Facebook, which invests tons in new artificial intelligence technologies.
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Tweets: @mosseri and @joshconstine
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Transcript of remarks on Dragonfly by Google search chief Ben Gomes to staff seem to contradict Google's claims about limited progress on Chinese search engine — “We have to be focused on what we want to enable,” said Ben Gomes, Google's search engine chief. “And then when the opening happens, we are ready for it.”
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision — On Monday morning Facebook revealed a new gadget — a voice-activated video chat tablet with an always-listening microphone …
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Tweets: @cwarzel, @alex, @joshconstine, @dakami, @segphault, @jason, @m2jr, and @buzzfeednews
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