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| Aditya Koolwal / Facebook: |
Facebook launches standalone Events app on iOS to help you find, track, and manage events; Android version is coming soon — Every day, more than 100 million people use Facebook events to discover things they can do with their friends — from festivals and 5Ks to neighborhood fairs and nightlife.
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| Bruce Schneier / Motherboard: |
Internet of things devices, which are often impossible to patch, will remain insecure unless government steps in to regulate the industry — Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their ire.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify and Apple Music add support for user-uploaded remixes after deal with music rights management firm Dubset — SoundCloud's big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don't release and that isn't on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren't.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Full panel of US Court of Appeals reinstates $120M verdict Apple won against Samsung in a patent case — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Appeals court said panel was wrong to toss verdict in February — Supreme Court to consider second Apple-Samsung case next week
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft sends invites for Oct. 26 event; sources say desktop Surface PC is coming but no refreshes to Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book expected — Microsoft is holding a special Windows 10 and Surface event in New York City later this month. The software giant has started emailing out invites …
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Windows Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Liliputing, The Fire Hose and Pocket-lint
| Oculus: |
Oculus Connect 3 roundup: Touch, Santa Cruz prototype, Oculus-ready laptops, 400+ mobile VR apps, and more — This year's Connect is the third time we've brought the VR developer community together, and it's our largest event yet. There are nearly 3,000 people here today … | Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
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See also Mediagazer| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Comcast's 1TB data caps start to roll out nationwide — Go over that amount and you could face overage charges. Unlimited data costs $50 extra. — Comcast's data restrictions are going from testing to reality for most of its customers. Its 'XFINITY Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan …
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Comcast Voices, CNET, Techdirt, DSLreports, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Verge, PCWorld, Digital Trends, CNET, Consumerist and Lifehacker
| Bloomberg: |
Inside Rocket Internet, an incubator that's much better at starting new companies than running them, and whose stock price has fallen 53% since its IPO in 2014 — Founder Oliver Samwer says his company is in great shape. But an examination of Rocket's operations reveals an incubator that's …
Tweets: @thenextwoods, @satariano and @business
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Duolingo launches iPhone-only AI chatbot to help users learn German, French, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon — Today's chatbots, for the most part, aren't all that useful, but what if you could use them to learn a new language? When it comes to learning languages …
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Tech Times, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Mashable, Engadget, Lifehacker, BetaNews and VentureBeat
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC to vote Oct. 27 on broadband privacy rules, requiring users to opt in on sharing sensitive data like location, children's information, and browsing history — Pay-for-privacy plans won't be banned, but ISPs face new opt-in requirements. — The Federal Communications Commission plans … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Source: email scanner installed after government order was not a modified spam filter; Yahoo's security team thought it was a rootkit when they discovered it — The spy tool that the US government ordered Yahoo to install on its systems last year at the behest of the NSA or the FBI was a … | Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission opens investigation into Galaxy Note7 that forced evacuation of flight — Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission …
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