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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone XR review: competitive price for Apple's latest processor and cameras with a great battery life, but comes in only one size and the display is not great — Big screen, small compromise — Video by Phil Esposito & Becca Farsace — Here's a question: how much do you care about the display on a phone?
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Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @ow, @sdw, @wsj, @benbajarin, @llsethj, @reckless, @backlon, @backlon, @benedictevans, @chrisvelazco, and @nateingraham
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
iPhone XR review: despite some drawbacks, the XR has a better price, battery, and more colorful design than the XS, making it hard to recommend the XS over XR — The iPhone XR has a few price-cutting compromises, but great battery life, Face ID and a colorful design make it the best iPhone to buy
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Quartz, iMore, Business Insider, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and CNET
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple says iOS 12.1 will fix a bug that resulted in smoother-looking photos taken by the iPhone XS and XR's front camera, thus improving selfie quality — Beautygate no longer — Ever since the iPhone XS came out, there's been criticism of its front camera — specifically, that it overly smooths skin.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: a network of 125+ Android apps, installed 115M+ times, and websites, some targeted at kids, are part of a multi-million dollar ad fraud scheme — Last April, Steven Schoen received an email from someone named Natalie Andrea who said she worked for a company called We Purchase Apps.
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Marketing Land, Axios, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @lisatozzi, and @backlon
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase adds its first stablecoin, a Circle-issued coin called USDC tied to the US dollar, which US customers outside NY state can buy and sell — Crypto exchange Coinbase announced support for the Circle-issued stablecoin Tuesday. — In a blog post, the exchange said U.S. customers outside …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out a redesigned Messenger app with a focus on simplicity, using more white space and fewer tabs, and plans to add a dark mode in coming months — A powerful utility goes back to basics — Facebook is releasing a redesigned version of Messenger today that attempts to put the focus back on your chats.
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Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @ryanlawler, and @caseynewton
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: new iPad mini is in the works and could be announced as soon as next week's event; new AirPods and AirPower charging pad coming in late 2018 or early 2019 — Ahead of Apple's October 30th event, respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared some details about what we can expect to see Apple …
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9to5Mac, Thurrott.com, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, and SlashGear
| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
Sources: US Cyber Command targets Russian operatives to deter them from spreading disinformation, in first known overseas cyberoperation to protect elections — WASHINGTON — The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation …
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Ars Technica, Washington Post, Engadget, Axios, and TechCrunch
| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Apple plans to offer TV subscription service in 100+ countries, debuting in US in first half of next year, will offer free shows to Apple device owners — Apple is planning to launch its upcoming TV subscription service in more than 100 countries, three people familiar with the company's plans told The Information.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, MacRumors, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @jbenton
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at Thalmic Labs' new normal-looking smart glasses, called Focals, that display info in the right lens and will ship next year for $1,000 — Although few people seem to really want to wear smart glasses or goggles — think Google Glass or Snapchat Spectacles — a startup thinks it's figured …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors — A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.”
Tweets: @nitashatiku, @ruchowdh, @carnage4life, @randfish, @mat, @chrisalensula, @nitashatiku, @lam_barrett, @wired, @robinwauters, and @matthewstoller
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC begins taking preorders, only in cryptocurrency, for its blockchain phone Exodus 1 for 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH, about ~$960, and expects to ship in December — You have to buy it in bitcoin or Ether — HTC just announced actual specs for its much-hyped blockchain phone, the Exodus 1, and is letting people sign up for preorders.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Envoy, which sells an iPad-based visitor management product, raises $43M Series B led by Menlo Ventures and plans new smart office products by end of year — Larry Gadea says he knew his startup Envoy was truly taking off when he found out WD-40 was using its software in multiple offices.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lyft acquires UK-based AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveils its first Ford test vehicle for its Level 5 self-driving initiative — The company has acquired the AR startup Blue Vision Labs and unveiled its first Ford test vehicle — Ingrid Lunden , Jonathan Shieber 7 hours
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SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, The Verge, Crunchbase News, Engadget, Lyft Level 5, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @bluevisionlabs. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance — Today we're seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor …
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Qualcomm, Engadget, Android Police, 9to5Google, TechSpot, International Business Times, ZDNet, The Verge, Android and Me, XDA Developers, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and Android Authority. Tweets: @beebomco
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story — ‘[Tim Cook] is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’ — Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro …
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Tweets: @ajassy, @stevekopack, @kimzetter, @dnvolz, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @lorenzofb, and @mattblaze
| Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son cancels speaking engagement at Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative, but may still attend the event — Mr. Son becomes latest executive to cancel plans after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — RIYADH—SoftBank Group Corp.'s Chief Executive Masayoshi Son …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's former Windows chief Terry Myerson says he's joining Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner and the Carlyle Group as an operating executive — The former head of Microsoft's Windows unit has resurfaced after leaving the company earlier this summer and will be involved with two different investment firms.
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TechCrunch, Windows Central, GeekWire, and On MSFT
| Reuters: |
Sources: Cloudflare is looking to go public in the first half of 2019 at a $3.5B+ valuation with Goldman Sachs working as the lead investment bank — (Reuters) - Cloudflare Inc, a U.S. startup whose software makes websites load faster and with greater security, is preparing for an initial public offering …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Amazon adds new Business Prime benefits, including a credit card, extended payment terms via invoice, and free same-day or one-day shipping on select orders — The new American Express card could help Amazon reach more SMBs via its B2B platform. — Amazon on Tuesday rolled out new benefits …
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| BBC: |
Taxi company Addison Lee says it is partnering with Oxbotica to produce detailed maps of London, with an aim to launch self-driving taxis in the city by 2021 — Would you trust a taxi with no driver? — Taxi firm Addison Lee is betting its customers will be ready to, in London at least, in just three years' time.
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Self-Driven, The Guardian, TechSpot, CNBC, London Evening Standard, The Independent, The Guardian, and TechCrunch
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Misfit announces the Vapor 2, available “soon” for $249.99, with NFC, standalone GPS, two size options, and a higher-PPI display — After the delayed and drawn-out launch of its first touchscreen smartwatch last year, Misfit is back with its successor.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle acquires DataFox, a developer of “predictive intelligence as a service” across 2.8M companies' records and growing — Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 7 hours — Oracle today announced that it has made another acquisition, this time to enhance both the kind of data …
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ZDNet and Database Trends …
| The Verge: |
Android: a visual history of Google's OS on its 10th anniversary — Google's Android operating system has undergone a pretty incredible metamorphosis since it debuted on the T-Mobile G1 on October 22nd, 2008. A decade might seem like a long time, but on the scale of the PC's growth, it's a blink of an eye.
Tweets: @backlon, @chrisgrant, and @nattgarun
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Pixel 3 phones, which can fast charge wirelessly, can only do so with certified chargers, but Qi is an open standard, so this amounts to a DRM-like restriction — Qi wireless charging is a standard. This isn't supposed to happen. — Google's Pixel 3 smartphone is shipping out to the masses …
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