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Verizon says Yahoo breach in 2013 affected all of its 3B users, up from initially reported 1B users — Company disclosed late last year that 2013 hack exposed private information of over 1 billion users — A massive data breach at Yahoo AABA 1.95% in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed …
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| Alex Kipman / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft says developers can access Mixed Reality SteamVR preview and Halo: Recruit and other VR games are coming October 17 — Update 10/3/17, 7 p.m. PT: A recording of our event from today is now available to watch on demand. — Mixed reality will unleash the creativity of every person and every organization on the planet.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber board will add 6 new seats, approves resolution for Uber to go public by 2019; Benchmark conditionally agrees to drop its lawsuit against Kalanick — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's board of directors voted on Tuesday for governance changes that reshape the balance of power …
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| Droid Life: |
Walmart listing showed a $49 pre-order for Google Home Mini, arriving on October 19, and another image of the Pixel 2 XL — The Google Home Mini, a device we first revealed back in mid-September as the cheaper, smaller Google Home assistant speaker for $49, is now up for pre-order at Walmart.| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel's former CEO Paul Otellini has passed away at the age of 66; he joined Intel in 1974 and became its fifth CEO in 2005 — Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini has passed away at the age of 66. — Otellini was a lifelong Intel employee who had silicon in his blood.
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Tweets: @pschiller, @sundarpichai, @tim_cook, @intelnews, and @stevesi
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook should have a searchable database of all ads and ramp up authenticity requirements for all buyers, not just for those self-reporting as political — Fifteen years on, this paragraph from a Bill Gates' memo is a bit cringe-inducing: … Equivocating computer viruses …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Instagram adds polling stickers to Stories, an eyedropper color-picking tool to Android and iOS, and text and sticker alignment tool, limited for to iOS now — Instagram is making its Stories a little more interactive with a new polling feature that users can add with a “poll” sticker.| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Dropbox rolls out its first major redesign, with bolder colors, new logo, and global ad campaign — Dropbox announced a redesign today that introduces a whole lot more color into its former white-and-blue aesthetic. The new look also includes a flatter box logo that makes it look less …
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| Bloomberg: |
Rob Joyce, the White House cybersecurity czar, says it wants to end use of Social Security numbers for identification and is examining modern alternatives — Administration exploring new tech for personal identifiers — Ex-Equifax CEO tells Congress relying on numbers outdated| TechCrunch: |
Amazon has acquired 3D body model startup, Body Labs, for $50M-$70M — TechCrunch has learned that Amazon has acquired Body Labs, a company with a stated aim of creating true-to-life 3D body models to support various b2b software applications — such as virtually trying on clothes or photorealistic avatars for gaming.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Evan Spiegel says Snap has sold about 150K Spectacles so far — - Snap CEO Spiegel spoke to author Walter Isaacson at Vanity Fair's fourth annual New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills, California. — Spiegel's comments on Tuesday indicated that Spectacles unit sales are now higher …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app devs that complements Firebase Realtime Database — Google today launched a new database service for Firebase, its platform for app developers. The new Firestore database complements the existing Firebase Realtime Database and indeed …
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The Firebase Blog, The Firebase Blog, Firebase, The Register, eWeek, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @arturogdg
| Ryan Christoffel / MacStories: |
YouTube for iOS updates with iMessage app for sharing videos, with easy access to most recently watched — Today YouTube's iOS app received an update that includes the video service's first iMessage app. The app only focuses on a single function - sharing videos - but it does well with that one thing …
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