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Google Maps expands its beta AR walking navigation feature, called Live View, to all Android and iOS devices that support ARCore and ARKit, starting this week — Google wants its Maps app to be about more than just getting directions. The search giant on Thursday announced a handful …
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Tweets: @asianmack and @googleeurope
| Craig Lloyd / iFixit: |
iPhones now do not display the Battery Health feature when their batteries are replaced by unauthorized service providers — By activating a software lock on newer iPhones, Apple is announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics — Search for what you want to hear — Google is taking the next step in making podcasts easier to find.| Uber: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue of $3.17B, up 14% YoY, net loss of $5.2B and a loss of ~$1.3B excluding stock based compensation, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 31% YoY — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms Galaxy Note10 and 10+ won't work with its Gear VR headset — Phone-based VR is on the decline — Samsung's just-announced Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus are “not compatible” with Gear VR, the company's virtual reality headset that works only with a phone slotted in front of the lenses … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who heads its Pixel division, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of Sundar Pichai — Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who serves as general manager of its Pixel smartphone business, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of CEO Sundar Pichai, Axios has learned.
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Check Point researchers: Facebook has failed to address a WhatsApp flaw that lets hackers alter messages and sender identities, a year after it was reported — Cybersecurity experts who found a way to hack WhatsApp and manipulate chat messages said on Wednesday that Facebook has failed to address the flaws …
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| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
How Hacker News moderators Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell practice a personal and slow approach, engaging with users in e-mail chains that can last for years — Can a human touch make Silicon Valley's biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place? — Open-plan offices offer few pleasures …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it may have shared users' data with its ad partners without user consent due to two ad targeting-related bugs that it says were fixed on August 5 — Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook is offering millions of dollars to news outlets to license their content for a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Apple brings Apple Music for Artists, its data dashboard for musicians, out of beta, with an iOS app and new features including data from Shazam — Apple Music launched its data dashboard for musicians more than a year ago. Today, the company is taking that product — Apple Music for Artists …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How user-facing platforms, infrastructure companies, and democratically elected governments can get better at deciding what content should be moderated and when — On Sunday night, when Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced in a blog post that the company was terminating service for 8chan, the response was nearly universal: Finally.| Kim Zetter / VICE: |
ES&S claims that its election systems are never connected to the internet, but researchers find 35 ES&S systems in 10 states have been online over the last year — The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BBC and ITV's BritBox and CollegeHumor's Dropout — Facebook is dipping its toes into the subscription VOD waters — as an aggregator and reseller. — The social giant is launching …
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Vox, Engadget, Tubefilter, Adweek, CNET, The Streamable, MSPoweruser, and Fast Company
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch launches its first broadcasting software, Twitch Studio, aimed at new streamers and in closed beta, available today on PC — This is the company's first broadcast offering — Twitch just launched Twitch Studio, the company's first broadcasting software.
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blog.twitch.tv, Engadget, Windows Central, TechSpot, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @twitchsupport, @kellykiewel, and @awnr
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rules Facebook must face a class action suit claiming that its facial recognition practices violated an Illinois biometric privacy law — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's (FB.O) effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with members of a 900-strong private Facebook group for advertisers on Facebook and Instagram showcase the unreliability of Facebook's Ad Manager — - Advertisers say system has crashed regularly since November — Social-media company says it's ‘committed’ to fixing issues
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @panzer, @matthewstoller, @aahaworth, @matthewstoller, @panzer, @shiraovide, and @jstrauss
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
ScaleFactor, which is building a financial SaaS platform for SMBs, raises $60M Series C, seven months after a $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $100M — Austin-based fintech startup ScaleFactor has raised a $60 million Series C just seven months after closing its $30 million Series B … | Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix signs multi-year film and TV deal with Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss; sources say the deal is worth $200M — David Benioff and Dan Weiss have signed a multiple-year film and TV pact with the streamer, which was bidding for the duo's services alongside Disney and Amazon.
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