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Google debuts 5.7" Pixel 4 for $799 and 6.3" Pixel 4 XL for $899 with gesture recognition, two rear cameras including one with a telephoto lens, coming Oct. 24 — The most-leaked phones ever are now official — You've seen them, you've read plenty about them, and now Google's latest smartphones …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Pixel 4's dual camera system adds better zoom capability, live-view HDR+ to fine-tune shots, revamped portrait mode, and extends Night Sight to astrophotography — Over the last three years, Google's Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says the Pixel 4 won't support its Daydream mobile VR platform, which is being phased out as it also stops selling the Daydream viewer — Google's Daydream, Android's built-in virtual reality platform, is as good as dead. Following the company's annual hardware event today …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Interview with Google execs about Project Soli, the tech behind Pixel 4's Motion Sense radar, and why they think gesture-sensing is more than just a gimmick — Why does a phone need radar? — By now, you've heard: the new Google Pixel 4 has a tiny radar chip inside it, which allows you to swipe or wave your hand to do a few things.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to restrict user interactions with world leaders' tweets that violate its rules, will let users quote-tweet, but not retweet, like, reply, or share — Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Events, a new free tool to plan, announce, and invite people to meetups in the physical world, starting Oct. 17 in English-speaking countries — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with around 650 million users, is known best as a place …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Amazon says its consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes in ~7,500 Oracle DBs to multiple AWS database services — AWS said that Amazon's consumer business has decommissioned its final Oracle database and migrated 75 petabytes of data …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says sales were $86B, up ~25% YoY with 185M+ smartphone shipments, up 26% YoY, between January and September 2019 — A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration's efforts to hobble it. — BEIJING — Huawei said on Wednesday … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Pixelbook Go, a Chromebook with 16:9 13.3" display, a 4K option, Intel CPUs, and up to 256GB SSD; pre-orders open today in US and Canada for $649 — It's small, it's cute, it's $650 — For the first time, Google is making a Chromebook that actually approaches a reasonable price … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Intel has agreed to purchase Smart Edge, a software business from Toronto-based Pivot Technology Solutions, for $27M to support its plans for 5G — (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) has agreed to purchase a software business from Toronto-based Pivot Technology Solutions Inc (PTG.TO) for $27 million, the U.S. chipmaker said on Tuesday.
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Skip, one of the original scooter rental startups SF granted a permit, leaves SF after its permit wasn't renewed, still operates in DC, San Diego, and Austin — The balance of scooter power in SF shifts — San Francisco announced recently that it was expanding its permit program to include Uber's Jump … | Joe Uchill / Axios: |
MIT researchers show ML models aren't yet capable of effectively distinguishing false news reports and reveal flaws in a commonly used database in the field — Current machine learning models aren't yet up to the task of distinguishing false news reports, two new papers by MIT researchers show.
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Nest Wifi Router, which is mesh-capable but lacks Wi-Fi 6, coming in Nov. for $269 for a two pack, and Google Assistant-enabled Nest Wifi Point — If you're in the market for a new router, good news: Google just announced a replacement for its long-in-the-tooth Google Wifi.
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