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Sources: Apple strikes deal with Steven Spielberg to remake Amazing Stories, an 80s sci-fi series, in its first major foray into creating original content — Director's Amblin Television, NBCUniversal TV production unit to make new episodes of sci-fi series from the 1980s
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Macworld, Deadline, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Recode, Reuters, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Financial Times, The Verge, Fortune, BGR, TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Magazine, Silicon Valley Business …, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, Investor's Business Daily, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, and MacDailyNews
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Snapchat debuts context cards to let you hail rides, book tables, and more by swiping up on some Snaps; partners include Foursquare, OpenTable, and Lyft — I don't know I've reached Snap's global headquarters until I am standing in front of them, leaning on the handle of my rolling suitcase and puzzling over a map app.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter adds “Happening Now” feature to timelines on Android and iOS to group tweets by events, starts with sports and will expand to TV and breaking news — Twitter is adding a “Happening Now” feature that will group tweets by event, the company announced today.
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MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Adweek, Tech Narratives, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
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Tweets: @jesarshah, @jesarshah, @kcoleman, @anildash, @sriramk, and @caseynewton. Thanks:@kantrowitz
| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a smart doorbell service to allow safe deliveries to inside the home and is partnering on system to deliver to car trunks — - Amazon is in advanced talks with Phrame, a smart license plate maker, to ship packages to your car's trunk, CNBC has learned.
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The Next Web, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechSpot, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Geek.com, Phandroid, The Verge, and Liliputing. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Felix Krause: |
Developer shows how malicious apps on iOS can easily replicate the native system dialog box to phish for Apple ID passwords — Do you want the user's Apple ID password, to get access to their Apple account, or to try the same email/password combination on different web services?
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MacRumors, Ars Technica, openradar.appspot.com, The Register, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Fortune, Motherboard, iMore, The Hacker News, and Neowin
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for a tone-deaf VR avatar tour of Puerto Rico devastation that he livestreamed — Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing today after his Facebook Live video discussing his company's efforts to aid Puerto Rico's recovery raised some serious eyebrows.
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USA Today, The Guardian, TheStreet, The Next Web, Salon, Fortune, and Newser
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wells Fargo says 5,000+ US ATMs will let customers withdraw money using NFC with Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Wells Fargo's Android wallet app — Wells Fargo's ATMs are getting an upgrade. The bank announced today that more than 40 percent - or over 5,000 of its ATMs …
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newsroom.wf.com, 9to5Mac, Android Police, MacRumors, Engadget, Android Authority, Neowin, USA Today, Cult of Mac, and iPhone Hacks
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft brings Cortana into Skype, over a year after first announcing the integration, to offer in-context assistance within chats, such as restaurant options — Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana has finally arrived in Skype. Announced at last year's Microsoft Build 2016 event … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils Pegasus computing platform for level 5 fully autonomous cars, delivering over 320 trillion operations per second, over 10x its predecessor — No steering wheels, no pedals, no mirrors — Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards … | Katie Benner / New York Times: |
How Masayoshi Son plans to invest his ~$100B SoftBank Vision Fund: AI firms related to transportation, agriculture, medicine, more — SAN FRANCISCO — When Eric Gundersen, the chief executive of a mapping start-up called Mapbox, met Masayoshi Son, the head of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen raises $11M Series A, led by True Ventures — Big screens apparently mean big money. — Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen has added $11 million in Series A funding to its pocketbooks as it looks to weather some waning investor interest … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Nokia says it will stop work on future versions of its Ozo VR camera and cut up to 310 jobs in its Nokia Technologies unit, about 30% of the unit's workforce — In an abrupt about-face, Nokia said Tuesday it will halt work on future versions of its Ozo virtual reality camera and cut …
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Nokia, Digital Trends, MacRumors, Reuters, TechSpot, BBC, Gizmochina, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Fast Company, ZDNet, Financial Times, and Fortune. Tweets: @fjeronimo
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds OnePlus' OxygenOS does not anonymize telemetry data, lacks an opt-out setting — OxygenOS, a custom version of the Android operating system that comes installed on all OnePlus smartphones, is tracking users actions without anonymizing data, allowing OnePlus to connect each phone to its customer.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Russian internet giant Yandex launches Alice, an AI-powered Russian language assistant for its platform — Yandex is virtually unknown here in the States, but it's become something approaching a Russian Google (and Amazon and Uber) in the 20 years since its founding.| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
In the last year, Google has paid partners, including Apple and Android device manufacturers, $7.2B to be the default search, over 3x what it paid in 2012 — Traffic acquisition costs raise concern about pressure on margins. — There's a $19 billion black box inside Google.
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9to5Google, Android Authority, Phandroid, BGR, MacDailyNews, Android Central, and Slashdot
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researchers found Accenture left huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers in mid-Sept., including 40K unencrypted passwords; firm downplays hack — The four exposed servers had no password, but contained the “keys to the kingdom.” — Technology and cloud giant Accenture …
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Engadget, The Register, HackRead, Tom's Hardware, and CRN
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, @profcarroll, and @gossithedog
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Medium expands its partner program, now letting any author or publisher join it, so that anyone can publish behind its paywall — Medium is expanding its subscription efforts today by allowing any author or publisher to join its partner program. — That's the program where readers can pay a monthly fee … Sponsor Posts
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