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Tesla has been productive this year by increasing the production and even announcing a new vehicle, the reasonably priced crossover Model Y, but there should be still another vehicle coming soon.

Or at least, that is what we were told to expect. Musk talked about the upcoming pickup truck in June, and even assured it would be unveiled around the end of the summer. I guess the summer is continuing in Palo Alto, CA, since there hasn't been any Tesla pickup events, or even invites yet.

One can imagine that some problems with the product has appeared, although even without any obstacles Musk's schedules can be called hopeful at best. Fortunately we aren't totally in the dark, as Musk himself has decided to clear up the situation a tiny bit on Twitter.

Responding to a Twitter user asking whether he could expect an October reveal, Musk stated that it would most likely be November. Most likely, though, means that there's a chance – in this case very real chance – that it will be December, or even later.

However, Tesla pickup truck is still in the works if you were wondering. The "Cyperpunk truck" might be delayed but if you are looking for a futuristic replacement for your F-150, keep your eyes peeled from November onward.

Apple's new iPhone is just couple dozen hours away as Cupertino is readying for a celebration on Tuesday. Rumors and leaks have been circling the internet for weeks and months, and we've already got a fairly good and reliable guess at what to expect from the new iPhone 11.

Some changes are expected to happen. For example, at least some of the new iPhone models are going to have a new triple camera setup which is setup in a square module, if leaks are to be believed.

However, while this might suggest larger design revamps as well, leading Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that is not going to happen this year, 9to5Mac reports. According to the former KGI Securities analyst, nowadays representing TF International Securities, Apple is going to wait until next year for a major do-over.

Thus it would be the third year in a row that Apple has the same, or at least very similar iPhone design. The design is of course based on the 2017 iPhone X that changed pretty much everything about the iPhone.

The iPhone X brought a full screen display, notch with Face ID, and a new industrial body design.

Streaming music has been a thing ever since Spotify launched in 2006, but started off really, really slowly. It took years upon years for the service to get into the U.S., and other regions were even harder to capture.

Now it seems odd, that streaming music has been a dominant thing only for a few year. In fact, it was only in 2015 that streaming officially surpassed digital downloads as the number one revenue source.

Now, according to new report from RIAA, streaming constitutes 80 percent of the entire revenue of the music industry. Digital downloads are no longer a thing, and even physical copies have weathered the storm better.

Vinyl and CD sales actually went up in the first half of the year, 5 and 13 percent respectively. Although their share is still only around 13 percent with a combined revenue of just over $700 million.

The entire pie is worth $5.4 billion in the first six months of the year which means around $4.3 billion of that came from largely unfairly maligned streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.

While one can already hear the wails of people who want artists to be compensated more fairly, you cannot blame Spotify, a company who pretty much single-handedly turned the waning music industry around.

If you are like us, part of the tech press or even a fanthusiast of Apple, you've probably watched some of company's annual launch events online.

Streaming those things, whether it is the WWDC or the iPhone event, usually involves using your precious Mac, iPad or other Safari-powered device to watch Tim Cook do his best Steve Jobs impression.

But it's not always because you necessarily want to use an Apple product in one way of another, but it has been the way Apple has intended it to be.

At some point is was nigh impossible to watch Apple's press event streams without an Apple product, but they've slowly come around to welcome more people on the stream.

Now they've gone even further, and are truly welcoming everyone. Next week, Apple will stream their first ever press event, the launch of iPhone 11 if any of you live under a rock, on YouTube.

Never has Apple before streamed any of their events on YouTube, although they have used their YouTube channel to spread the word afterwards. In fact, you can watch whole launch events as far back as September 10, 2013 and the introduction of such gems as iPhone 5c.

Anyways, now you've been unofficially invited to join and watch couple hours of the best technology press event of the year next Tuesday right on YouTube.

Apple is becoming more and more influential in the finance space, especially with the new Apple Card developed in partnership with Goldman Sachs. The company is not stopping there, and why would you?

According to Apple VP of Internet Services, Jennifer Bailey, the company is closely watching the cryptocurrency space. In an interview with CNN, Bailey says that Apple sees long-term potential in the virtual currencies.

The likes of Facebook are already developing their own strategies with virtual currencies, and considering Apple has payment systems like Apple Pay and within Apple Card, it is not out of question that Cupertino might be developing their on Bitcoin, or perhaps join another effort.

One has to remember that Apple is always "interested" in things that they will not invest in, and you probably shouldn't hold your breath waiting for the Apple Coin. It might be that actual virtual currencies are not the technology Apple wants to pursue, but instead the more general technology of blockchain that has applications elsewhere as well.

Blockchain could, for exampole, be harnessed to process Apple Pay transactions. This wouldn't make Apple Pay, or Apple Card for that matter, any more volatile or questionable, and could further embolden the security of their monetary service, an aspect that Apple often flaunts.

World's largest streaming music platform Spotify is known for having apps for every platform. Even when your device hasn't got an app installed you can go ahead and use the web player to bust out some beats.

This features is something Apple is interested in adding to their repertoire as well, as evident from the fact that they've just brought it to beta testers.

Apple is now allowing Apple Music subscribers to try out their new beta web player. It is an open beta which means all subscriber around the globe are welcome to test it out at beta.music.apple.com.

Currently, as the app is in beta, all features aren't there but you can definitely find the basics. You can search, play songs from your library, use playlists as well as the main menu with thins like Radio and For You.

However, more complex features will be added later as Apple continues to develop the web player. You might also want to keep in mind that not all features work perfectly at this time, and you might run into some issues.

As long as you aren't too bothered with some hiccups, and have a modern web browser, you can listen to Apple Music on devices without apps.

Facebook has launched a new dating service inside its flagship service. New Facebook Dating is easy to see as a direct competitor to the likes of Tinder.

Facebook Dating is available in the US and 19 other countries, including Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, etc, but excluding Europe. European launch is set for early 2020.

As you might imagine, there's not much to the premise of the service. It is a dating feature, within Facebook's core app, with Facebook-enabled features. This means that it can do things like use interests set in Facebook to match people.

According to Facebook, it has tried to minimize the effort needed to join the service, although not having a Facebook account might be quite a hurdle for some.

Facebook Dating profile can include things like Instagrams posts and later on the company intends to add possibility to add Facebook and Instagram Stories posts too.

Rather obviously you can use Facebook photos in your profile.

Secret Crush feature allows you to show affection to a crush of yours. However, the secret is that it only lets the person know about the crush if it is reciprocated.

Even though the service is seen as a Tinder competitor, Facebook say that "Facebook Dating isn't about swiping or having to wait for someone to like you to get a first chance at reaching out."

As faster and faster 4G connections are available for cheaper than ever, one must wonder why would we ever need a 5G connection on our devices.

Well, this is just the rehash of the good ol' "640 kilobytes should be enough" that has been misattributed to Bill Gates. Of course we will find ways to use the extra bandwidth, and perhaps reduced latency, provided to us by the grace of new cellular towers.

However, it isn't exactly easy to see how this will happen.

According to Microsoft, one clear application is gaming, more specifically cloud gaming. The Redmond company is partnering up with Korean SK Telecom to demo their xCloud cloud gaming service.

As an exclusive test partner SK Telecom will provide Korean customers a first-ever experience with xCloud in both 4G and 5G networks starting in October.

One can imagine Microsoft is working on singing similar deals with carriers in other countries as well, although not many places are where South Korea is in terms of 5G development and deployment.

Also being extremely densely populated, like, say, Seoul, makes 5G deployment much more efficient than pretty much anywhere in the US.

Apple is developing a new fingerprint technology that it is going insert into future iPhone displays.

Even before the release of iPhone X there were rumors that Apple would bring an in-screen fingerprint sensor to the iPhones. Now, according to Bloomberg, it is indeed happening.

As Apple was preparing the launch of iPhone X in the summer of 2017, the press was split on whether they'd release a new authentication system based on face recognition or in-screen fingerprint reading. As we know, the former won and rightly so.

The in-screen technology just wasn't there in a way that Apple would've liked it to be, even though multiple Android manufacturers introduced devices with hidden fingerprint sensors right before and especially after the launch of iPhone X.

However, in-screen fingerprint sensors have gotten much better, and Apple is developing their own too. According to the information, Apple might be ready to use the technology in their devices as soon as early next year. Although Bloomberg's sources aren't sure that it will find its way to iPhones even in 2020.

Over 400 million phone numbers related to Facebook users has been recovered from a leak. The numbers consist users all around the globe and are connected to Facebook profiles.

A large portion of the numbers are from the United States, around 133 million of the 419 million total phone numbers. Vietnam is represented strongly with 50 million, and UK with 18 million numbers, TechCrunch reports.

Alongside the number is found the Facebook profile identification corresponding to the number. In some, one could argue most, cases this will give them the real name to go along with the phone number.

According to Facebook, the numbers have been snatched from their servers before spring of 2018. After that Facebook has limited the default public details it offers. The numbers were stored in a unencrypted server that made it easy to access the data.

This was due to the fact that Facebook intended to use phone numbers as a means to search for people. However, searching by phone numbers didn't become a feature.

While phone numbers aren't really the most private of the information, combined with the persons name in a database it allows abuses like spamming and SIM swap scams.

USB specs have been updated once again. Just as we've started to get used to the sweet reversible USB 3 we are looking at a new generation of Universal Serial Bus.

Fortunately the new one features also a reversible Type-C connector, unsurprisingly, and is backwards compatible with both previous USB as well as Thunderbolt connectors. No worries there, then.

The largest change to its predecessor, USB 3.x, is therefore bandwidth.

According to USB-IF, who just released the final USB 4.0 specs, the new connection is able to transmit data at speeds up to 40 gigabits per second. That is double what the best USB 3.2 (aka USB 3.2 Gen 2 x 2) could muster and eight times as fast as the weakest USB 3.0.

USB 4.0 supports up to 5K displays, which it likely gets from Intel opening up the Thunderbolt specs to USB 4.0.

Charging speeds are expected to stay the same, as it offers the same maximum of 100 watts as the previous iteration.

USB 4.0 devices are still quite far off as the first of them are expected to land in stores in early 2021.

Mozilla has announced the newest version of their web browser Firefox. The new Firefox 69 aims to improve security and privacy of the users by blocking tracking cookies and more.

Firefox 69 is available now for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Straight out of the box is blocks cryptomining as well as third-party tracking cookies. Some other security improvements include asking for permission in case Flash is to be turned on.

The feature Mozilla calls Enhanced Tracking Protection isn't exactly a new one, it's been in Firefox previously in earlier iterations for years now. However, now it features more advanced tracking protection.

You can open Blocking Tracking Cookies from the shield icon in the URL bar to access the blocked trackers. From this view you can also turn off the blocking for specific websites.

The system still allows first-party tracking, used for logins and such, but blocks most of the tracking done by ad networks.

Other updates includes the addition of new Pocket-powered New Tab windows for US users, Windows Hello Web Authentication, support for mixed video WebRTC conferencing, performance boost for Windows 10 users, and battery improvement for macOS users.

Google's latest and greatest mobile operating system iteration has finally launched. New Pixel phones are yet to be released, we don't even know the release date yet, but at least we've got the Android 10.

Android 10 is of course the official name of the new version of Android, Google's mobile operating system, that no longer has a dessert-based alias.

The update is now shipping for Google's own Pixel phones first, and is probably quickly followed by manufacturers like Nokia, OnePlus, and perhaps Motorola that have been usually keen on releasing updates quickly.

However, you might have to wait for at least weeks if not months for your preferred phone, and if yours isn't fairly recent purchase you might not get the update at all.

If you own a Pixel phone, no matter which generation, you'll get the update right now among the first.

Perhaps the most sought after new feature of Android 10 is the new Dark Mode. Not only is easy on your eyes but on devices with OLED displays it's also easy on the battery.

You can also expect improvements to notifications, gesture navigation, privacy and security, as well as new features like Focus Mode for better digital well-being and Live Captioning for improved accessibility.

You can try out Ubisoft's Uplay+ subscription gaming service for free this month by getting a free trial.

Ubisoft's Uplay+ subscription gaming service was first announced and detailed at E3 2019, and has launched in beta today. The service costs $15 per month and will provide users will access to a library of over 100 titles, including new games. Subscribers also will be able to avail of additional benefits such as being invited to closed betas.

Uplay+ is expected to be out of beta and in full expansion early next year.

However, between today and September 30, you can get a free trial and check out the service yourself before you commit to any recurring fee. That said, Uplay+ is cancel anytime so that helps if you do decide to sign up permanently.

Are you getting spammed by Google Calendar? Google is aware of the widespread issue and is working on a fix.

Spammers and malicious actors are exploiting the default settings for Google Calendar to direct spam and potentially dangerous stuff. If you suddenly started receiving Event reminders from Google that inform you about an iPhone you won (see accompanied image for example), or some other suspicious message, it is likely you have been hit by this annoyance too. The event reminders typically also show malicious links that could be dangerous to open.

In a post to the Google Support Forums, employee Lesley Pace addressed the issue yesterday.

"We're aware of the spam occurring in Calendar and are working diligently to resolve this issue. We'll post updates to this thread as they become available," Pace writes. A link is also added if you require information on how to remove and to report spam.

The issue arises from the default settings of Google Calendar when it comes to automatically adding invitations and providing notifications by alert. By default, Events from GMail are also added to the Calendar which you can turn off in the Google Calendar settings.