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Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light photos and video recording, new iPads, larger MacBook Pro — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.
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Inquirer, TechCrunch, The Verge, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Tom's Guide, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Patently Apple, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @business, @tomwarren, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google is planning an update to the Home Mini, called the Nest Mini, with a similar form factor, wall mount, improved sound, and 3.5mm jack — Google plans to launch a followup to 2017's Google Home Mini with a second-generation ‘Nest Mini,’ a reliable source tells 9to5Google.
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Thurrott, Phandroid, TweakTown News, Pocket-lint, Chrome Unboxed, XDA Developers, Engadget, SlashGear, Droid Life, Android Police, Android Authority, VentureBeat, Android Central, and CNET. Thanks:@technacity
| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android to better worldwide accessibility and names Android Q Android 10, refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Assessing the impact of telecoms' poor privacy practices through the story of a woman stalked by a man who obtained her real-time location data from T-Mobile — Telecom giants are giving up customers' real-time location data to stalkers and bounty hunters. Now, Motherboard speaks to a victim.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Big data analytics service Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05B — The company announced the deal along with its second quarter financial results, which topped estimates. — Splunk delivered better-than-expected second quarter financial results and announced …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style sues Spotify claiming copyright infringement, challenges the constitutionality of the Music Modernization Act passed in 2018 — Eight Mile Style alleges “Lose Yourself” and many of the rapper's hits aren't licensed by the streamer. Now comes a suit eyeing Spotify's billions.
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Tweets: @nickstatt, @_tonymc, and @eriqgardner
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google officially rolls out a redesign for the Play Store, using its Material design language, and creates two distinct destinations for games and apps — After months of waiting and temporary appearances, the Play Store Material Theme redesign is now official on Android.
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Android Developers Blog, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, SlashGear, GSMArena.com, Neowin, Thurrott, and Droid Life. Tweets: @googleplaydev
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IBM, ARM, Intel, Red Hat, and others form the Confidential Computing Consortium to promote better data security practices — A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces …
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Tweets: @merriew, @brendandburns, and @markrussinovich
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft contractors say they listened to recordings, including accidentally invoked ones, of Xbox users, many of them children, to improve voice command tech — Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Google, Mozilla, Apple to block root certificate issued by Kazakhstan which could be used to monitor users; Microsoft says cert not in its Trusted Root Program — Browser makers announced they would block the Kazakhstan government's root certificate, which was designed to spy on citizens' internet usage.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Zenoti, which develops booking software for spas and salons, raises $20M from Steadview Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$100M — Zenoti, a Bellevue, Washington-based startup developing booking software for the spa and salon industry, today announced that it's raised $20 million …
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FinSMEs, GeekWire, PR Newswire, PR Newswire, and VCCircle
| Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: |
A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine — This week, we look at the ways the internet could have been—and could be—different. — Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0 …
Tweets: @mariosundar, @db, and @nicholaspersac
| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who led a heavily criticized unit focusing on practical AI uses, has been placed on leave for unspecified reasons — - Mustafa Suleyman is head of applied artifical intelligence — He led heavily critized unit focusing on AI and healthcare
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Tweets: @robaeprice, @oliviasolon, @ruskin147, @jillianiles, and @bryce
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher who was banned from Valve's HackerOne bug bounty program after submitting a Steam 0-day that Valve downplayed, reveals details of another Steam 0-day — Valve gets heavily criticized for mishandling a crucial bug report. — A Russian security researcher has published details about a zero-day in the Steam gaming client.
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Threatpost, Inquirer, amonitoring.ru, The Register, The Next Web, bit-tech.net, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @k8em0, @_r_netsec, @bad_packets, @originalesushi, @hanno, @digitalresidue, @spencerdailey, and @jgamblin
| Ryan Calo / OneZero: |
The definition of hacking under US federal law needs to evolve to account for new technological developments such as adversarial machine learning — Using adversarial machine learning, researchers can trick machines — potentially with fatal consequences. But the legal system hasn't caught up.
Tweets: @techpolicylab
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Drop, which scans users' credit card purchases and offers personalized rewards, raises $44M Series B led by HOF Capital — Commerce and marketing are radically changing these days. Consumers are increasingly looking for brands they identify with, while at the same time …
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Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, FinSMEs, BetaKit, Startups News, and PR Newswire
| Rose Eveleth / Slate: |
A look at the weird and wacky patents filed by tech companies, some seemingly unrelated to the industry, and the reasons behind filing for them — Companies are constantly patenting strange things they have no intention of developing. Here's why. — Amazon is putting humans in cages to protect them from machines!
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @stanfordlaw, @roseveleth, @blakesobczak, @offby1, @carolineha_, @npseaver, @roseveleth, @karppi, @roseveleth, and @shobitap
| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
The European Commission is planning regulation to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology by companies and public authorities — Brussels is exploring ways to impose strict limits on the use of facial recognition technology in an attempt to stamp out creeping public surveillance of European citizens.| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Fitbit wins a Singapore government contract to provide fitness trackers for free for up to a million citizens who subscribe to the $10/month premium service — KEY POINTS — Fitbit is providing devices for potentially hundreds of thousands of people in Singapore who commit to a monthly subscription.
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The Verge, Channel NewsAsia, Fast Company, Fitbit, Inc., KrASIA, NASDAQ.com, Reuters, Engadget, Wareable, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @chrissyfarr and @oaktree_dave
| Rani Molla / Vox: |
A snapshot of Amazon's financial history and why free cash flow, which Bezos called Amazon's “ultimate financial measure”, is always higher than its profits — It's all about investing in the future. — Amazon skeptics have long repeated a narrative about the e-commerce behemoth …
Tweets: @recode, @naijaflyingdr, @recode, and @recode
| Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times: |
Amazon is bringing its online grocery store, Amazon Fresh, which will offer two-hour delivery, to India, starting with Bengaluru on August 23 — Customers will be able to choose from 5,000 fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, ice-creams, and dry grocery like staples, packaged food, personal care and home care| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Investigation reveals popular on-demand massage app Zeel repeatedly ignored therapists' complaints about sexual harassment and inappropriate client behavior — When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client's Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, @denisehearn_, @bcmerchant, and @meghanemorris
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