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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: its camera system outperforms the Pixel 3 and Note10 in bright light and, with Night mode, usually beats Pixel 3 in low light — And the best camera you can get on a phone — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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Tweets: @viticci, @sdw, @ow, and @michaelbabich
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max review: improved battery life, flexible triple camera system, and great performance, but ultra-wide camera sometimes lacks detail — What does it mean for a phone to earn the name “Pro”? Lots of power, for one. Usually great cameras. And software robust enough to handle arduous tasks with ease.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 11 review: has a terrific battery life and excellent camera, and is the best phone for the average consumer, but iOS 13 is buggy — This was not a hard review — Video by Becca Farsace, Alix Diaconis, Phil Esposito, Andrew Marino, Grayson Blackmon, William Joel, Owen Grove, and Mariya Abdulkaf
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
The new iPhones' improvements, while nice, do not warrant upgrading for those with an iPhone X or later and aren't even must-haves for iPhone 6s owners — This is not your typical gadget review. That's because it is time to rethink when to upgrade your iPhone.
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| Joshua Franklin / Reuters: |
WeWork parent says it expects to complete its IPO by the end of the year after shelving plans to launch an investor road show this week — Joshua Franklin, Anirban Sen — (Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company said on Monday it expected to complete its initial public offering (IPO) …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: after setbacks, Facebook partners with Luxottica to help make “Orion” AR smart glasses designed to replace smartphones, with 2023-2025 launch timeframe — KEY POINTS — Facebook has partnered with Luxottica to develop augmented-reality Ray-Ban glasses, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fi debuts a more traditional unlimited plan for $70/mo. for a single line, but “may optimize” video to 480p and will throttle data past 22GB per month — Including some limits on video streaming and 100GB of cloud storage — Google is announcing a new plan for its MVNO Fi cell service: Unlimited.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Amazon Music HD, offering lossless audio for streaming or downloading, for $14.99/month or $12.99/month for Prime customers — RIP Tidal? — Amazon is launching a new tier of its music service today, dubbed Amazon Music HD. It offers lossless versions of audio files …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein — Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein's underage victims was “entirely willing.”
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| ProPublica: |
Medical images and health data, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, with names and birthdates, from 16M scans worldwide are available unprotected online — Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google will start surfacing key moments from videos in search results, highlighting them with direct links to timestamps provided by creators — Google today announced an update to how it handles videos in search results. Instead of just listing relevant videos on the search results page … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans “Nest Wifi” with a different design from Google's routers, featuring Eero-like satellite units with built-in Assistant-enabled speakers — Google is planning to launch a refreshed version of its ‘Google Wifi’ router at its hardware showcase next month, according to sources familiar with the matter.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn begins the global roll out of Skills Assessments, multiple-choice tests for users to verify their expertise across ~75 skills like coding — LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users … | U.S. Department of Justice: |
US files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden after the publication of his book Permanent Record, alleging he violated NDA agreements with the CIA and NSA — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency …
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Following JPMorgan's JPM Coin, Wells Fargo announces plans to pilot a US dollar-linked stablecoin for internal settlement beginning next year — U.S.-based financial giant Wells Fargo is developing a U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin that will run on the firm's first blockchain platform.
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Business Wire, The Block, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Altcoin Magazine, and CryptoGlobe. Tweets: @coindesk
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has updated its definition of “terrorist organizations” and changed its counterterrorism team's structure to curb white supremacist violence — In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook detailed the progress it's made in combatting terrorists, violent extremist groups …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Despite saying he was leaving 15 months ago, Facebook's former policy chief Elliot Schrage is still working as a full time employee with a new title — When Elliot Schrage announced his resignation last June, the buzz was that the Facebook Inc. executive—who had shaped the company's public messaging during …
Tweets: @chafkin, @kurtwagner8, @technology, @michaelcarusi, @shiraovide, and @nickconfessore
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Facebook shares more on its upcoming Oversight Board for content decisions and how members are picked, says decisions will be binding even if Facebook disagrees — 'The board's decision will be binding, even if I or anyone at Facebook disagrees with it,' says Zuckerberg| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat adds a 3D camera mode with 3D effects, lenses, and filters, which can be used by those with iPhone X and above, and viewed by users with other phones — The newest version of Snap's Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects …
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| Apple: |
Apple awards an additional $250M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning, bringing its total investment in the precision glass maker to $450M — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced it is awarding $250 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning Incorporated …
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| Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
NBCUniversal says its ad- and subscription-supported streaming service will be called Peacock and will launch in April 2020 with over 15,000 hours of content — Direct-to-consumer chairman Bonnie Hammer talks with The Hollywood Reporter about Peacock, the battle over library content and how the service impacts the cable brands.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
DevOps platform GitLab raises $268M Series E co-led by Iconiq Capital and Goldman Sachs at a $2.75B valuation, says its annualized revenue is growing 143% YoY — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Some tech companies shy away from putting a date on going public - or whether they plan to list their businesses at all.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump to visit Silicon Valley for a fundraiser on Tuesday, but its location is a mystery, even to donors; ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy is the likely host — Location of president's fundraiser in the Bay Area is being kept under wraps — Three years ago, an uproar among company employees forced …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says RideCheck, its tool that uses GPS and other sensors to detect abnormalities with the ride, such as a crash, is now live across the US — RideCheck utilizes the GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other smartphone sensors to detect a vehicle crash — Last year, Uber announced …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Crypto-exchange giant Binance makes a strategic investment in Chinese crypto media firm Mars Finance, at a post-money valuation of ~$200M — - Mars Finance reached a $200 million post-money valuation — Investors also include Bitmain co-founder's new crypto firm| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Amazon's spend on One Day shipping aligns with its customer-centric focus, its product selection policies stressing profitability risk its “Day One” culture — Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: … Bezos went on to give advice about how to avoid Day 2 … | Harriet Agnew / Financial Times: |
France says it has received €5B from institutional investors to invest in tech startups over the next three years, as it seeks to grow more unicorns — President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that France has drummed up €5bn of capital from institutional investors to pour …
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