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September 29, 2022
NEWS

TechCrunch

Cloudflare wants to replace CAPTCHAs with Turnstile

Available to site owners at no charge, Cloudflare customers or no, Turnstile chooses from a rotating suite of “browser challenges” to check that visitors to a webpage aren’t, in fact, bots.

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CNET

Kindle Scribe Is More Than an E-Reader. You Can Draw on It, Too

When Amazon informed me that it was announcing a new Kindle, the Kindle Scribe wasn’t what I expected. But lo and behold, Amazon has released a large-format 10.2-inch E Ink e-reader that includes a stylus. One might say it is the spiritual successor to …

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IGN

PlayStation Plus Games for October 2022 Announced

Hot Wheels Unleashed, Injustice 2, and Superhot head to PS Plus. Ryan Leston. By Ryan Leston. Updated …

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WIRED

Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’

It’s an ominous looking disc that sits on a night table, resembling a tiny satellite dish. It uses radar to monitor your movements while you sleep, combining that data with information about your bedroom—temperature, humidity, and brightness—to measure …

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The New York Times

What You Really Need to Know From Amazon’s 2022 Fall Event

Echo Dot · Ring things · Blink Mini Pan-Tilt Mount and Wired Floodlight Camera · Fire TV Omni QLED · Halo Rise · Other notable announcements · Mentioned above · Further reading …

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The Washington Post

Amazon gives the Kindle a stylus and has a new way to track your sleep

The Alexa maker’s annual fall product launch event centered on making its disparate products work better together — and making surveillance sound helpful · Kindle Scribe: An e-reader you can e-write on · Halo Rise: An alarm clock that just wants to watch you …

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CNET

Microsoft Is Discontinuing SwiftKey for iOS

But there’s a silver lining for current iOS users: If you already have the auto-correct and predictive text keyboard downloaded on your iPhone, you’ll be able to continue using it as long as you don’t manually uninstall it.

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TechCrunch

Daily Crunch: Fast Company hacker sends 2 ‘obscene and racist’ notifications to Apple News users

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. With almost a hundred new stories on the site since the last Daily Crunch, we’re having a hard time picking the cream …

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Mac Rumors

Apple Seeds New Public Betas of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1 With Stage Manager for Older iPad Pro Models

Public beta testers who have signed up for Apple’s free beta testing program can download the ‌iOS 16.1 or iPadOS 16.1‌ betas over the air after installing the proper certificate from the Public Beta website. With the …

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TechCrunch

Amazon’s latest Halo device is a bedside sleep tracker

At today’s big virtual event, Amazon added a new product to the line. The Halo Rise is a sleep tracker, though it swaps the whole wearable thing for a design that sits on a bedside table. It’s not dissimilar from Google’s most recent Nest Hub in that …

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