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- Samsung Galaxy Note9 review: compelling S Pen and performance updates will please power users, but it ships with Android Oreo and Bixby is still kind of a mess (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- Coinbase rebrands Toshi to Coinbase Wallet, a crypto wallet for accessing decentralized apps and managing ETH, will support BTC, BCH, and LTC "very soon" (Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu/The Coinbase Blog)
- Court docs: FBI served Google a warrant with gag order for info on all users at two locations, a space of 45 hectares, amid robberies; Google didn't provide it (Thomas Fox-Brewster/Forbes)
- Cisco reports Q4 profit of $3.8B, up 57% YoY, and revenue of $12.8B as it transitions to subscription-based services; stock up 6%+ after hours (Robert Hof/SiliconANGLE)
- Best Buy acquires GreatCall, which offers health response services and connected devices for the elderly, for $800M; GreatCall has 900K customers (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)
- Sources: Japan trade commission is investigating allegations that pressure from Apple forced Yahoo Japan to pull back from its web-based game platform Game Plus (Nikkei)
- Twitter has put the Infowars Twitter account in read-only mode for seven days shortly after doing the same for Alex Jones' Twitter account (Ryan Mac/BuzzFeed News)
- Jack Dorsey says Twitter is considering promoting alternative viewpoints in timeline, labeling bots, and redesigning the like button and follower count display (Washington Post)
- Google says developers seeking to qualify their app for Wear OS must follow design guidelines by October 1, as it tries to improve the quality of apps (Ryan Whitwam/Android Police)
- Ahead of Twitter API changes coming on August 16, Tapbots removes several features from Tweetbot for iOS, following similar moves by Twitterrific and others (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
- Facebook says over $300M has been raised for causes through birthday fundraisers since the feature launched a year ago and announces new tools for nonprofits (Asha Sharma/Facebook)
- Uber's Q2 2018 financials: revenue rose 51% YoY to $2.7B as adjusted EBITDA losses widened to $404M, up from $304M in Q1; gross bookings rose 41% YoY to $12B (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
- Google says there are now 200+ Android Go devices available and details Go for Android 9 Pie, aimed at emerging markets, which takes less space and boots faster (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Square says it cut chip card processing time to two seconds, down from 3.6 a year ago, and no longer requires signatures on card transactions in US and Canada (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- Google launches the online searchable library of federal election-related ads it promised US lawmakers last year, but it does not include political "issue ads" (David McCabe/Axios)
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- Ex-Tesla employee Martin Tripp posted dozens of photos that he alleges came from inside of Tesla (TSLA)
- How Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are shaking up healthcare ? and what it means for the future of the industry (AAPL, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN)
- How advances in edge computing are addressing key problems in the healthcare, telecommunications, and automotive sectors
- China says it will launch 2 robots to the far side of the moon in December on an unprecedented lunar exploration mission
- A former exec says Google once pulled the plug on videoconferencing tech because it couldn't identify people of color (GOOG, GOOGL)
- A common weed-killer chemical is at the heart of a $289 million cancer lawsuit against Monsanto. Here?s how worried you should be
- Inside the Hong Kong billionaire enclave name-dropped in 'Crazy Rich Asians,' where Alibaba founder Jack Ma may have bought a $191 million mansion
- Cisco beats Wall Street by a hair on earnings (CSCO)
- Uber could rake in more than $10 billion in revenue this year, but its growth is starting to slow down
- Google's parent company revealed its plan for a high-tech neighborhood in Toronto ? and it could be the world's largest tall timber project
- We shopped at Whole Foods and Walmart to see which curbside pickup service is better ? and the winner is clear
- These are the 20 best-selling sedans in America in 2018
- 17 real women share what it takes to land the job, grow your paycheck, and get ahead in your career
- 'We'll have a cordless world': Verizon's latest 5G announcement seems to be a missile aimed directly at the cable-TV business
- I would play the Nintendo Switch way more than I do if it had these 3 features (NTDOY)
- A Silicon Valley startup with Chelsea Clinton on its board is launching the first at-home test for an HIV prevention drug, and you can try it right now
- An ExxonMobil-backed startup that delivers gas to people's cars is growing across the US
- How anesthesia affects your brain and body
- Jeff Bezos runs Amazon with 14 demanding leadership principles. Here's how a 23-year-old engineer leveraged 5 of them to land a job.
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