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.
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
With a camera that captures detail … Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat : Innoventions wins patent on skin-based virtual touchpad for wearables David Ruddock / Android Police : With the Pixel 4, Google's sm...
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
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
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.
With the Pixel 4, Google is debuting its first voice recorder mobile app, which can transcribe speech in real time without an internet connection
But At Least They Actually Work George Nguyen / Search Engine Land : Google's voice AI resonates in new Pixel Recorder app Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hands off our phones, says Google: Radar-gest...
After delays, the UK government quietly drops its controversial plan to implement an age verification requirement for porn websites
The long-delayed measure - one of the first of its kind in any democratic country - had been plagued by legal and technical difficulties
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
the marketplace has spoken about isolating glasses/headsets https://www.engadget.com/...
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 …
At the fourth Democratic debate, candidates quarreled over the power of Big Tech and remedies, with O'Rourke, Yang, and others critiquing Warren's plan
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images — And it was all over the place. — Democrats running for president had their most vigorous debate yet …
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 …
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 …
In a joint effort with UK and South Korea, US DOJ says it took down one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web, containing 200K unique videos
The Justice Department says it's dismantled one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web.
As Facebook says politicians can lie in ads, so far in October it has banned 160+ ads from Trump, Biden, Warren, Sanders, Steyer for profanity and fake buttons
not bc Trump falsely said Biden offered $1B to Ukrainian officials to end an investigation of a company w/ connections to his son - Broken landing pages - Ads that look like they have “buttons” you ca...
Giphy launches Giphy Arcade, a gaming platform that lets users easily create, play, and share mini-games
Giphy is creating a database of bizarre web games — Giphy today announced the launch of Giphy Arcade, a gaming platform designed to let people play, create, and share mini web games as easily as the...
Big data analytics service Databricks brings its open source Delta Lake project to the Linux Foundation
Databricks Inc.'s Delta Lake today became the latest open-source software project to fall under the banner of the Linux Foundation. — Delta Lake has rapidly gained momentum since …
EU's Margrethe Vestager deploys a rarely used tool against Broadcom to halt possible anti-competitive practices during an ongoing enquiry; Broadcom will appeal
Ms. Vestager, the E.U.'s antitrust regulator, ordered Broadcom to halt possible anticompetitive practices while an inquiry is underway, signaling a more aggressive approach.
Inside's Apple steep learning curve with TV+ and Hollywood, as sources say the company already well outspent its projected $1B annual content budget
they are the suckers at this poker table. They should just cut a deal with @RobertIger or buy @Netflix and bring @reedhastings into the fold. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
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
in an alternate reality where the MacBook had a good keyboard”, @apple, your keyboard is literally a punchline now https://www.theverge.com/... Roland Quandt / @rquandt : Pixelbook Go M3 8/64GB = 649 ...
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.
Google claims that ~80% of the top “several hundred” Android apps are now optimized for ARC++, the compatibility layer that enables them to run atop Chrome OS
Google's freshly unveiled Chrome OS clamshell, the Pixelbook Go, won't ship with much new software.
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
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
House Transportation Committee chairman says Uber and Lyft declined to appear at a hearing, and committee will press on with ride-hailing legislation regardless
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post :
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
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Sources: Google staff are having a fiery debate on a mailing list about banning a Hong Kong protest game from Play; the issue also came up at an all hands
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :
CrowdStrike report details a multi-year China-linked hacking campaign against Western companies like GE that supplied components for China's Comac C919 airplane
the longer we allow them to rip us off (just so a few billionaire bankers and corporate executives can expand into “China's growing middle class") the greater the likelihood we lose this economic war ...
Google says its Stadia cloud gaming service will launch on November 19 for those who spent $130 on the Founder's Edition package
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
Excerpt from and Q&A with Marc Benioff on his new book Trailblazer, valuing all stakeholders and not just shareholders, pay scales for men and women, and more
especially as we move into artificial intelligence. https://fortune.com/...
Layer1 raises $50M from Peter Thiel and others at $200M valuation for a planned wind energy-backed bitcoin mining operation in Texas using custom cooling tech
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Cambridge, UK-based Healx, which aims to use AI to help discover new treatments for rare diseases, raises $56M Series B led by Atomico
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Denver-based Flowhub, a cannabis retail management platform that helps sellers navigate compliance, raises $23M Series A
Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News :
Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M and debuts $249 Level Lock, which makes existing dead bolt locks smart, and partners with Walmart for in-home delivery
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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
Joe Uchill / Axios : See also Mediagazer
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