|
September 28, 2017, 1:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new Echo with smaller design, cloth surface and multiple color options, improved speakers, multi-room audio, for $100 or $250 for three — A smaller, more powerful voice device — Amazon introduced a second-generation version of the Echo today with a dedicated bass tweeter and a modified, shorter design.
More:
Business Wire, TechHive, Android Central, SiliconANGLE, Wired, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, BetaNews, CNET, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Droid Life, 9to5Google, Refinery29, ABC News, iMore, Liliputing, Engadget, ZDNet, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Toys, iPhone Hacks, Reuters, Slate, The Verge, BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, Associated Press, Ars Technica, Neowin, Axios, MacDailyNews, BGR, MacRumors, Variety, and Mashable
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @reckless, @backlon, @mgsiegler, @fmanjoo, @nickwingfield, @reckless, and @jandawson
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon launches Alexa-powered Echo Spot alarm clock with videoconferencing, as a smaller and more focused alternative to Echo Show, shipping in Dec. for $130 — Amazon's Alexa-themed event apparently includes Echo speakers for every possible use case under the Sun.
More:
The Verge, GeekWire, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Register, Amazon.com, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Fortune, Digital Trends, Mashable, and The Verge
Tweets: @pierce, @edzitron, @tim, and @caseynewton
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts updated Fire TV with 4K and HDR support, Dolby Atmos integration, 2160p video at 60 frames per second, available for $70 preorder today — And it's tiny, too — Amazon today introduced a new Fire TV with HDR and 4K capabilities, which marks the first time the device has offered the higher-resolution video.
More:
Amazon.com, Engadget, Droid Life, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Wired, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts $150 Echo Plus, which comes with built-in smart home hub that has 100 launch partners and ships with a free Hue light bulb; preorders start today — Sure, the new $99 Echo is a more premium (if lower cost) version of Amazon's wildly popular home assistant.
More:
Engadget, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, BetaNews, CNBC, The Verge, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon now has 5,000 people working on Alexa and Echo, up from 1,000 in May 2016; the company's job site lists an additional 1,500 related openings — - Amazon's hardware chief said more than 5,000 employees now work on the Alexa voice technology platform.
More:
Business Insider, GeekWire, Fortune, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Engadget
Tweets: @unionsquaregrp and @producthunt
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
Amazon.com, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Engadget, and Mashable
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
More:
Android Police, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, BGR, Gizmochina, MSPoweruser, Quartz, Mashable, TechCrunch, and Business Insider. Tweets: @itsnicolenguyen
| Mark Zuckerberg: |
Trump and some liberals say Facebook helped their opponents, but Facebook's role was different: enabling discussions, voter registration, and candidate outreach — I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.
More:
ZDNet, The Register, Bloomberg, Om Malik, BBC, CNNMoney, The Hill, Reuters, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, New York Times, The Verge, Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, Recode, Gizmodo, Fortune, and The Guardian
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @walldo, and @kevinroose
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
In tweets, President Trump accuses Facebook of always being “anti-Trump” and questions whether it colluded with newspapers and TV networks — President Donald Trump charged on Wednesday that Facebook was “always” opposed to him, suggesting it is part of a network of “collusion” …
More:
SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Gizmodo, Mashable, Axios, BuzzFeed, SlashGear, Fox News, The Hill, Bloomberg, CBS San Francisco, Business Insider, Business Insider, CNBC, USA Today, TechCrunch, Associated Press, and BetaNews
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @realdonaldtrump, and @kylegriffin1
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber shuts down its US auto-leasing business, affecting ~500 jobs, to find “a less capital-intensive approach” after it underestimated the loss per vehicle — Decision to close down Xchange Leasing will affect some 500 jobs — Uber Technologies Inc. on Wednesday confirmed …
More:
Recode, TechCrunch, CNBC, Axios, CNET, Consumerist, The Verge, Engadget, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, and Reuters
Tweets: @gregbensinger, @jolingkent, @scottmaustin, and @mikeisaac
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Apple publishes updated privacy page and white paper on Face ID, detailing security measures — A new technical paper sheds light on Apple's facial recognition system — Today, Apple published a newly refreshed privacy page. With it came the most new information the company has released … | Mark Harris / Wired: |
Profile of Anthony Levandowski, covering his early life and schooling, career before and after Alphabet and Uber, and AI-focused religion, founded in 2015 — Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence …
More:
CNET, Business Insider, and The Verge
Tweets: @nxthompson, @sepoy, @meharris, @mr_considerate, @meharris, @stevenlevy, @aatilley, @fordm, @oscarwgrut, and @ow
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank agrees to block any plans to elevate Travis Kalanick at Uber, removing an obstacle in ongoing investment talks — SoftBank to block any plan to make Kalanick CEO or chairman — Uber backer Benchmark wants guaranteed check on former CEO| Reuters: |
Sources: private trades in Spotify ahead of public offering value company at ~$16B, or about 4X its 2016 sales — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Private trades in Spotify shares are valuing the music streaming company at about $16 billion, according to people familiar with the deals, raising the prospect of a bumper flotation next year.
More:
RAIN News, Seeking Alpha, and hypebot
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
How Zoho Workplace eliminates knowledge silos and provides a workplace where information flows — Discover how Zoho Workplace tears down information silos. Bridge team gaps, centralize institutional knowledge …
How Zoho Workplace eliminates knowledge silos and provides a workplace where information flows — Discover how Zoho Workplace tears down information silos. Bridge team gaps, centralize institutional knowledge …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Training Data:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Matthew Smith — How America Runs Out of Natural Gas by 2030
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:30 AM ET, September 28, 2017.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Gene Maddaus / Variety:Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
More:
Recent Gists from Prof9, TechCrunch, Om Malik, Telegraph, The Guardian, The Register, Digital Trends, Lifehacker, Adweek, Tubefilter, InvestorPlace, Breitbart, Engadget, International Business Times, Polygon, Mashable, CNET, VentureBeat, TechCo, Search Engine Journal, Quartz, Consumerist, On MSFT, Ubergizmo, Socialnomics, hypebot, TechSpot, WebProNews, The FADER, ZDNet, Hacker Noon, iPhone in Canada Blog, AVC, Fone Arena, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Trak.in, Slate, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Nextgov, Tech Times, Ars Technica, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, BBC, Social Media Today, NPR, The Hill, CrackBerry.com, AppleInsider, Investor's Business Daily, PhoneDog.com, Phandroid, SlashGear, MacRumors, LJ infoDOCKET, 9to5Google, Forbes, iMore, Scripting News, Wired, BGR, New York Magazine, The Stranger …, NBC Bay Area, Social Thoughts, ABC News, Droid Life, Android Police, Gizmodo, and MacDailyNews
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |