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Google announces the Tensor G2 SoC, giving Pixel users new camera features, like Night Sight and Face Unblur, while retaining a similar architecture to the G1 — As expected, Google today launched its newest line of Pixel phones and — finally — the Pixel Watch.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the Pixel 7 Pro with a 6.7-inch 120Hz LTPO display, updated “camera bar”, Tensor G2, up to 256GB, Android 13, and face unlock, starting at $899 — At the latest Made by Google launch event, Google has fully detailed the Pixel 7 Pro following a number of early looks, leaks, and teases.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Musk-Twitter talks are stuck over debt-financing issue; Musk seeks to reserve rights to file a fraud suit over claims Twitter misled about bot accounts — Talks between Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. to reach a resolution of the $44 billion takeover are stuck in part over Musk's statement …
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Sources: Twitter agreed to delay a deposition of Elon Musk by its lead litigation attorney on October 6 in Austin, as both sides hash out the $44B deal — Tesla chief and social media group are negotiating end to legal fight to finalise $44bn buyout — Twitter has agreed to delay … | New York Times: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google announces the Pixel Watch with a 41mm case, circular, domed display, Fitbit-based health features, and more, starting at $350, preorders open today — Google gets into the smartwatch game for real with the $350 Wear OS device — 2021 was the Pixel's year.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Fake LinkedIn executive profiles, which pair AI-generated photos with text from real accounts, are becoming headaches for HR departments and invite-only groups — A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 14 Plus review: a multiday battery, a bright screen, and lightweight, but hard to use one-handed, no ProMotion, and adopting eSIM may be painful for some — Excellent battery life and a large display make the 14 Plus upgrade-worthy … This is the new iPhone that most people want.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal ByteDance report: revenue grew nearly 80% YoY to $61.7B in 2021 but operating losses more than tripled YoY from $2.14B to $7.15B due to growth spending — Social-media giant saw its operating losses more than triple last year to above $7 billion — TikTok, Instagram Reels … | Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicles, startups see little progress, falling back on simulations and remote operators as losses mount — The first car woke Jennifer King at 2 a.m. with a loud, high‑pitched hum. “It sounded like a hovercraft,” she says, and that wasn't the weird part.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products and say adding weapons will erode trust in robots — Several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, are pledging not to support the weaponization of their products and are calling …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Letter: Tiger Global is aiming to raise $6B for its next fund that invests in privately held tech companies, less than half of what it raised for its prior fund — Tiger Global is seeking to raise $6 billion for its next fund that invests in privately-held tech companies, according to an investor letter viewed by Axios.
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| Financial Times: |
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when secure software wiping exists — Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option
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| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
Sources: a Paris court lowered a 2020 antitrust fine against Apple from €1.1B to €372M; the fine was related to alleged behavior in Apple's distribution network — A French court on Thursday substantially lowered a fine against iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged anti-competitive behaviour …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter starts rolling out an edit button to Twitter Blue subscribers in the US, a few days after giving it to subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — Twitter's edit button is finally arriving in the US. The company will begin gradually rolling out the long-awaited feature …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Shopify settles a lawsuit with five major education publishers that claimed the platform ignored notices of users selling pirated textbooks and other materials — Shopify Inc has settled allegations by a group of major educational publishers that the Canadian e-commerce company enables piracy … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: to evade US sanctions, Huawei is supporting PXW, a startup based in its hometown Shenzhen that ordered chipmaking equipment for a semiconductor plant — When the US government blacklisted Huawei Technologies Co. as a national security threat, it cut the Chinese company off … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter makes crowdsourced fact-checking Birdwatch notes on tweets visible to all US users, says seeing them causes 15%-35% fewer likes or retweets on average — After last month's expansion of Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program known as Birdwatch, Twitter announced this morning … | Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
DeFiLlama: Circle burned a record ~$9B of its USDC stablecoin in the past 90 days, decreasing the supply from $55.55B to $46.57B, as lenders lower DeFi yields — - The USDC supply has dropped about $9 billion since early July. — This decline is due to an uptick in USDC redemptions for the U.S. dollar.
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