Wed. 08/11 – Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Event

All the flipping and folding phone news from today’s Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event. A big crypto crime in the DeFi space. Did AWS beat out Microsoft for a secret NSA contract? And why are all the major tech platforms so concerned about protecting kids all of the sudden? Not that that’s a bad thing!

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• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 delivers S Pen, better screen durability, IPX8 for $1,799 (9to5Google)
• Samsung breaks the triple-digit barrier w/ Galaxy Z Flip 3 priced at $999 (9to5Google)
• THE GALAXY WATCH 4 INJECTS SAMSUNG’S CAPABLE HARDWARE WITH GOOGLE SOFTWARE (The Verge)
• At least $611 million stolen in massive cross-chain hack (The Block)
• Poly Network attacker returns $256 million of the stolen cryptocurrency (The Block)
• NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon (Nextgov)
• OpenAI launches Codex, an API for translating natural language into code (The Machine)
• Google restricts ad targeting of minors and will delist photos of kids at their request (The Verge)