Canalys: Amazon retook smart speaker crown from Google in Q3 2018
Google’s Wear OS Version H improves battery life and app switching
Apple pursues Qualcomm chip engineers as modem legal battle deepens
Smart dashcam company Owl challenges OnStar with automatic crash response service
Universal and Ludia launch DreamWorks Dragons: Titan Uprising mobile RPG
Lyft introduces default 5-star ratings for drivers and automatic tips
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PerceptIn unleashes a driverless mobile vending machine that displays video ads
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ brings more compute power to small DIY devices
Bunch raises $3.8 million for video chat for mobile games
Amazon Go competitor Standard Cognition raises $40 million to expand its cashierless store solution
Firefox Monitor expands to more than 26 languages, Firefox gets website data breach alerts
Airtable raises $100 million to build out enterprise offerings
Huawei promises AR glasses in 1-2 years, but sets expectations low
Tappy debuts finger-scanning watch bands for mobile payments
L’Oréal releases wearable UV exposure tracker with NFC and no battery
Google My Business app revamped to make it easier to connect with customers
Google’s Night Sight arrives for Pixel phones — here’s how it works
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The 5-Point 2018 iPad Pro review: Awesome hardware held back by software and pricing
Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite casts its spell in 2019
ProtonVPN passes 1 million users and launches on iOS
Microsoft previews PlayFab multiplayer game services
Mojo Vision launches ‘invisible computing’ AR platform out of stealth with over $50 million in funding
Jam City acquires Disney’s Emoji Blitz mobile game studio, cuts multiyear licensing deal
TransferWise opens API access for businesses to integrate money-transfer services into their own apps
Snap reveals U.S. subpoenas over 2017 IPO disclosures
Intel’s Neural Compute Stick 2 is 8 times faster than its predecessor
Withings launches the $130 Pulse HR activity tracker, its second product since spinning out of Nokia
Samsung’s 8-nanometer Exynos 9820 is 20% faster in single-core tasks
Facebook tweaks group mentorship tool so users can choose their mentors
Google launches ‘enhanced network’ for Project Fi with VPN for all connections
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