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Amazon launches restaurant delivery service in London via the Prime Now app; delivery is free on all orders over £15 — Back in July we reported that Amazon was set to launch a restaurant delivery service in London for its Amazon Prime customers and now the e-commerce giant has done just that.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Adult site Brazzers forum hacked, 800K account details leaked including emails, usernames and plaintext passwords — Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. Although the data originated from the company's separate forum …
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AOL, Tech Times, Mirror Online, The Independent, Naked Security, International Business Times, BBC, NEWS.com.au, CNET, HotHardware, Daily Mail, The Sun, Complex AU, Times of India, London Evening Standard, Infosecurity Magazine, The Inquisitr News, The Daily Dot, Help Net Security, Mashable, PC Magazine, InvestorPlace, Breitbart, Digital Trends, Slashdot, Newser, TechSpot, Nextgov, The Next Web, Boing Boing, Inquirer, Neowin, The Merkle and Quartz. Tweets: @j0hnnyxm4s
| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Report: over 4.5M network appliances, IoT devices, and embedded systems vulnerable by reusing known private keys for HTTPS and SSH servers — IoT == Immensely Obvious Threat — Millions of internet-facing devices - from home broadband routers to industrial equipment … | Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
LG unveils V20 5.7-inch phone with Android 7.0 Nougat, secondary “ticker” screen, 3200mAh removable battery, available in Korea this month, other regions later — LG's latest big-screened handset boasts a metal body and removable battery — along with new cameras and a secondary ticker display.
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Oracle acquires cloud-based warehouse management company LogFire to boost its Supply Chain Management division — As Oracle looks to take on SAP, it has acquired LogFire to boost its SCM division. — Oracle announced Tuesday it's acquiring LogFire, an Atlanta, Ga.-based company …
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Snapchat ends its Local Stories section as it shifts to live events, fires about 15 curators — Snapchat Inc. is ending its daily local stories for cities feature, which pulled together video of everyday activities — concerts, cute puppies in the park — shot by users in locales such as New York.
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Dell completes its $60B acquisition of EMC, the largest tech M&A deal ever; the company will now become Dell Technologies with 140K employees — 'We feel very well positioned both in the new areas of technology and in the existing areas of technology,' says CEO Michael Dell
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What to expect from Sony's Sept. 7 event: quieter PS4 Slim with updated DualShock controller, more powerful PS4 “Neo”, and an update on PlayStation VR — Slim PS4, upgraded “Neo” console, and more should be discussed. — Sony stayed strangely quiet about its upcoming hardware plans …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IDC: Fitbit leads wearables as Apple Watch shipments drop 58% YoY; basic wearable devices like simple fitness bands rise 48% YoY; smart wearables down 27.2% YoY — According to new data from IDC, Apple Watch shipments plunged nearly 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year.
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Inquirer, Business Insider, Telecompetitor, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider and IDC. Tweets: @w_scottweiss
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T, owner of DirecTV, exempts DirecTV from mobile data caps — Netflix and other video services count against AT&T caps—unless they pay up. — AT&T is now exempting DirecTV streaming video from data caps on AT&T's mobile Internet service. — AT&T purchased DirecTV in July 2015 … | Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Sources: Microsoft working on a Slack competitor called Skype Teams; service to include threaded messages, channels, DMs, video calls, meeting scheduling, more — It was recently reported that Microsoft wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion. Slack, for those unfamiliar …
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Tweets: @ow, @jonrussell, @pt, @jaycuthrell, @satyangajwani, @hanzo55, @alexjamesfitz, @martinsfp, @sarthakgh, @shiraovide and @adamhill
Thanks:@pradeepviswav| Chase Gunter / Federal Computer Week: |
ITIF releases review of Clinton's and Trump's positions on tech; Clinton provides specifics, Trump lacks articulated policy — With the presidential election fast approaching, technology-minded groups are delving into the agendas put forth by the presidential candidates.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: Apple to announce new wireless earbuds called AirPods, which will target the premium headphone market and use custom “Bluetooth-like” low-power tech — Apple's new wireless earbuds, expected to be announced this week as “AirPods,” are said to feature a custom-designed wireless chip …
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