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• Google launches three new Nest cams and a redesigned Home app (theverge.com)
  New wired Google Nest cameras and a video doorbell launch alongside Gemini for Home integration, and a redesigned Home app.
• Lab on a chip: actin up (arstechnica.com)
  Using actin filaments propelled by myosin II motor fragments researchers …
• Alibaba slapped with record $2.7B antitrust fine (zdnet.com)
  Chinese e-commerce giant has been issued a record 18 billion yuan ($2.77 billion), an estimated 4% of its 2019 revenue, financial penalty f…
• Amazon’s ‘all-new’ Luna streams party games and Snoop Dogg (theverge.com)
  Amazon is planning to refocus its Luna cloud gaming service towards party games, in a bid to attract more Prime subscribers.
• Apple faces Nasdaq delisting because of stock option accounting problems (arstechnica.com)
  Mighty Apple takes some lumps from the Nasdaq stock exchange over a delayed …
• Netflix’s latest Frankenstein trailer is all about the creature (theverge.com)
  The Guillermo del Toro adaptation starts streaming in November.
• EMeet OfficeCore M2 Max conference speaker review: Useful daisy chain functionality (zdnet.com)
  The eMeet OfficeCore M2 Max is pitched at the office user, but if you want an excellent Bluetooth speaker for your home, the M2 Max will no…
• Invasion: Gulf Coast (arstechnica.com)
  The Chinese are coming. Well, Chinese tallow, at any rate.
• How Google is continuing to chip away at Microsoft's productivity dominance (zdnet.com)
  Dominant in search and Android, Google keeps advancing productivity-focused Chromebooks and web apps where they largely forfeit ad revenue…
• Samsung, SK Hynix partner with OpenAI to deliver chips for Stargate (theverge.com)
  The South Korean companies will scale chip production to meet the growing compute needs for OpenAI’s advanced AI models.
• AWS's Shane Miller to head the newly created Rust Foundation (zdnet.com)
  Shane Miller, Amazon Web Services Senior Engineering Manager will take on the job of the newly created Rust Foundation's first chairperson.
• MIT Media Lab research: less media, more healthcare (arstechnica.com)
  The new director of the MIT media Lab wants his researchers to design fewer …
• Sony’s updated PS5 Slim launches with less storage in Europe (theverge.com)
  Sony has launched a refreshed PlayStation 5 slim model in Europe, but it comes with less storage at the same €499 price, as spotted by YouT…
• Complaint filed with FTC over AOL data exposure (arstechnica.com)
  A number of people were angered by AOL's exposure of user search data last …
• Spotify now lets you exclude specific songs from your algorithm (theverge.com)
  Keep those guilty pleasures from ruining your recommendations.
• Microsoft revealed the latest truths about working from home. One is truly disturbing (zdnet.com)
  As many drift from working from home to a more hybrid model, what has been lost? And who has really, really gained? Microsoft knows things…
• Set up for a loss (arstechnica.com)
  Researchers are finding regions of the genome that are prone to rearrangements …
• Ubisoft launches Vantage Studios subsidiary to develop its biggest franchises (theverge.com)
  The new offshoot will be focused on Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six.
• Apple cuts approximately 30 percent of Taiwan sales team (arstechnica.com)
  Apple sales are dwindling in Taiwan if explanations for recent Apple layoffs …
• The terrible truth about travel locks (zdnet.com)
  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tells Beth Mauder, simply put, they’re terrible!
• Facebook's new open-source dataset could help make AI less biased (zdnet.com)
  The social media platform says that the new dataset could help researchers address discriminatory flaws in their AI systems.
• Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month (theverge.com)
  Microsoft is revamping its Xbox Cloud Gaming plans. Part of the revamp includes Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing increasing to $29.99 a mont…
• AMD responds to Woodcrest with new Opterons (arstechnica.com)
  Intel leaped back in front of the CPU arms race with the release of Woodcrest …
• Xbox Cloud Gaming comes out of beta with improved 1440p resolution (theverge.com)
  Microsoft is removing the beta tag from Xbox Cloud Gaming. It’s part of an upgrade that will see some games stream at 1440p resolution.
• Swedish political party offers commercial darknet access (arstechnica.com)
  The Swedish Pirate Party launches a new commercial darknet service. Is this …
• Worm targets Windows 2000 machines, Microsoft sets threat level to "low" (arstechnica.com)
  A new worm going by the name of "Win32/Graweg" is targeting Windows 2000 …
• Elon Musk's Neuralink: We taught a monkey to play Pong with its mind (zdnet.com)
  Elon Musk's mission to save humanity from artificial intelligence has shown a monkey playing a computer game with no hands.
• Eight Sleep’s first water-chilled pillow cover costs a cool $1,049 (theverge.com)
  The cover circulates temperature-controlled water beneath your head so your pillow is always comfortable.
• 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is $10 off ahead of October Prime Day (theverge.com)
  8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller for Switch and PC isn’t often discounted, but you can get one at Amazon for $10 off, just before October Pri…
• Dell recalls four million laptop batteries (arstechnica.com)
  Dell has announced that it is issuing a worldwide recall of over four million …
• Got iPhone 11 battery problems? Get it fixed now! (zdnet.com)
  Once iOS 14.5 lands, the 'battery recalibration' process could delay your repair by weeks.
• Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K lineup is befuddling. (theverge.com)
  The new model, announced yesterday, is the $39.99 4K Select. It’s pricier, yet it has worse specs than the $24.99 Fire TV Stick 4K (the Sel…
• Windows Live Safety Center renamed, goes international (arstechnica.com)
  Earlier today Microsoft rebranded the Windows Live Safety Center as the …
• Apple’s next-gen Vision Pro revealed in new regulatory filing (theverge.com)
  A new filing with the Federal Communications Commission appears to reveal Apple’s work on a new Vision Pro headset.
• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android is getting these new features (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft has announced a bunch of enhancements for its Teams Rooms on Android.
• The big list of Windows Live services (arstechnica.com)
  Have you ever wondered how many Windows Live services exist? Check out the …
• Everything about buying video games is getting more confusing and expensive (theverge.com)
  Price hikes on game consoles like the PS5 and Switch, and subscriptions like Xbox Game Pass, have turned the hobby into a headache.
• Application ready for Leopard, and not a moment too soon! (arstechnica.com)
  Ever since the announcement of the impending release of Leopard, we here at …
• Are you a video creator? Wibbitz can help you tell your stories (zdnet.com)
  Zohar Dayan, CEO of Wibbitz, explains to Tonya Hall how the user-friendly video creation platform can empower anybody to produce short-form…
• These are the terrible passwords that people are still using. Here's how to do better (zdnet.com)
  National Cyber Security Centre issues advice on best practice for passwords - and that includes not using the name of a pet or family membe…
• You can make 360 games with the XNA Game Studio Express software, but sharing them is quite the (arstechnica.com)
  Both the creator and player have to have a subscription to Microsoft's service …
• Satya Nadella appoints a new CEO to run Microsoft’s biggest businesses (theverge.com)
  Microsoft is promoting Judson Althoff to a new CEO position of its commercial business. It’s a move that will allow Nadella to focus on mor…
• IBM's new tool lets developers add quantum-computing power to machine learning (zdnet.com)
  Qiskit Machine Learning is designed to add a touch of quantum computing to machine-learning models, even with little knowledge of particle…
• Porsche’s electric Cayenne has so much screen they had to bend it (theverge.com)
  Porsche revealed the new interior of the upcoming Cayenne Electric, including its curved Flow Display center touchscreen.
• Owner-Free File System takes aim at copyright (arstechnica.com)
  The folks at the Digital Douwd have released a new peer-to-peer file sharing …
• Sony says no second half PSP price cut, as new and used inventory sits on store shelves (arstechnica.com)
  Sony needs to do something to get back in the portable game. With developers …
• Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input (zdnet.com)
  The researchers who discovered the bug have earned themselves $200,000.
• Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 7 is over $90 off at Amazon (theverge.com)
  Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 7 is on sale for $158.99, its lowest price yet. You can also grab great games, including Blue Prince and Hades on sa…
• Sony brings audio sharing to its flagship noise-canceling headphones (theverge.com)
  Sony released a firmware update for its WF-1000XM5 and WH-1000XM6 wireless headphones adding audio sharing and access to Google’s Gemini Li…
• Segway goes into the woods (arstechnica.com)
  The new Segway x2 is designed for much rougher terrain than the sidewalk …