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iOS and Samsung market share now tied in the U.S.

iOS and Samsung market share now tied in the U.S.

iOS and Samsung’s U.S. market share is now tied, following growth for Apple’s smartphone OS over the three months ending in August, based on new data from Kantar Wordpanel, which tracks smartphone market share by way of sales data. According to its analysis, iOS is up 3.7 percentage points year-over-year, to achieve 35 percent market share, while Samsung only grew 0.8 points, reaching a 35.2…

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Fortnite’s developers Epic Games are suing two aimbot cheaters

Fortnite’s developers Epic Games are suing two aimbot cheaters

Epic is living up to its promise of not tolerating cheaters in its recently released free-to-play Battle Royale mode. According to two legal complaints spotted by TorrentFreak this week, the developer has filed two lawsuits  accusing two people of using aimbots ‘with the deliberate intention of ruining the game for other players and players who watch streamers’. The interesting thing about this…

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Motorcars Honda named Cox Leader in Sustainability CHICAGO -- Motorcars Honda was presented with Cox Automotive's Leader in Sustainability Award on Thursday night during…

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Google, IBM and others launch an open-source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains

Google, IBM and others launch an open-source API for keeping tabs on software supply chains

Thanks to containers and microservices, the way we are building software is quickly changing. But as with all change, these new models also introduce new problems. You probably still want to know who actually built a given container and what’s running in it. To get a handle on this, Google, JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, Black Duck, Twistlock, Aqua Security and CoreOS today announced Grafeas (“scribe” in…

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DJI’s new interchangeable-lens drone camera takes aim at filmmakers

DJI’s new interchangeable-lens drone camera takes aim at filmmakers

DJI just introduced a new camera designed to work with drones, and in particular its Inspire 2 flyer. The camera is a “world first” in that it’s a super 35 digital film camera tailored for aerial cinematography — in other words, if you’re a filmmaker, documentarian or professional cinematographer, you are probably going to want one of these. The Zenmuse X7 camera has a large, Super 35 format…

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Omnyway raises $12.75M to connect advertising and mobile commerce Omnyway announced today that it has raised $12.75 million in Series A funding. Previously known as OmnyPay, Omnyway has built technology around what it calls “augmented digital commerce” — basically, helping retailers stay connected to consumers through their mobile phone during the in-store shopping process.

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Don’t trust investors asking how you’ll exit to Apple, says Apple CEO If you’re a budding entrepreneur and the VC you’re pitching switches gears and asks you about your exit strategy that’s your cue to get up and leave, says Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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Sony’s Xperia Touch is here to turn your walls into touchscreens for a big price Ever wanted your dining room table to become a big touchscreen tablet computer? That’s now possible, sort of, now that…

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Ingredients for Amazon’s HQ2 all available in St. Louis

Ingredients for Amazon’s HQ2 all available in St. Louis

A 12-year resident of St. Louis, Aaron Perlut is a founding partner of digital marketing firm Elasticity, as well as the Startup Voodoo innovation conference. There’s a whisper-quiet rumor making the rounds that Amazon is looking to establish a second headquarters outside of its initial digs in Seattle. It’s even got a name — HQ2 — and, in reality, Amazon’s announcement was a thunderous roar.…

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The Nintendo Switch is getting its own Battle Royale game

The Nintendo Switch is getting its own Battle Royale game

Black Riddles Studio has announced a crowdfunding campaign for a Nintendo Switch version of its third person shooter Crazy Justice. Players will take control of a hero who has to activate tesla coils hidden around the world in order to save its inhabitants from the invading forces of evil. The cel-shaded steampunk game will also bring the popular Battle Royale style of multiplayer to the Nintendo…

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Finbarr O'Neill to retire as CEO of J.D. Power; search for successor underway

Finbarr O’Neill to retire as CEO of J.D. Power; search for successor underway

Finbarr O’Neill: “This is a good time for me to hand off to the next generation of leadership.” Finbarr O’Neill plans to retire as CEO of J.D. Power in March 2018, the company said Wednesday. J.D. Power’s board has enlisted executive search firm Egon Zehnder to help identify a successor for O’Neill, who previously led Hyundai Motor America, Mitsubishi North America and Reynolds & Reynolds.…

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Everything announced at Oculus’ Connect 4 VR conference

Everything announced at Oculus’ Connect 4 VR conference

 Standalone headsets, VR replacements for your computer monitor and ways to share VR to the News Feed were highlights of today’s big Oculus conference. Click through or scroll down to get just the need-to-know info and GIFs from our in-depth coverage of Facebook’s vision for the future of virtual reality.   Read More Source link

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Citing ‘a few’ malfunctions, Google nukes touch function from Home Mini

Citing ‘a few’ malfunctions, Google nukes touch function from Home Mini

Google is permanently axing all “top touch” functionality from its new Home Mini device after a nasty bug was documented yesterday that essentially recorded everything around the gadget and sent it to Google. These things happen! Either the company couldn’t be sure it could fix it or it couldn’t be sure people would trust that it did — so they made the choice to nuke it from orbit. The bug, first…

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Facebook ‘3D posts’ let you play with VR objects in News Feed

Facebook ‘3D posts’ let you play with VR objects in News Feed

Facebook wants to let you create virtual objects in its Oculus Medium sculpting platform or Facebook Spaces VR hangouts and then share them with friends who don’t have a VR headset. Today at Oculus Connect 4, Facebook previewed 3D posts, a new type of News Feed post where users can grab, spin and interact with a 3D object to look at it from all angles. Below you can see how you can pinch, zoom…

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Tim Cook is optimistic about social progress

Tim Cook is optimistic about social progress

Apple CEO Tim Cook is optimistic about the progress of human rights across the globe, despite the fact that things seem to be growing more bleak by the minute. In an interview with the Independent, Cook explained history gives him hope that humanity is moving in the right direction: I think that history sort of ebbs and flows at time, but the arc always goes in a certain direction. And I think…

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Can’t find a SNES Classic in Australia? If you’re quick, you can snag one today Previously known as Catch of the Day, the Australian retail website Catch will be celebrating its 11th birthday by hosting…

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Amazon Alexa devices can finally tell voices apart One of the Amazon Echo’s biggest blindspots has just been addressed. Starting today, the company will finally start rolling out customized voice detection.