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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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| 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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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?| 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.| 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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| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
Google rolls out patch to partially fix bug that caused Google Home Minis to repeatedly record, transmit audio to company, says it is working on a long-term fix — When the first home assistants were announced, I was excited. A device I could wake up with a simple hotword that would answer my questions …
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| John McCrank / Reuters: |
Equifax says that 15.2M records from 693,665 UK customers were accessed during US hack — (Reuters) - Credit reporting agency Equifax Inc (EFX.N) said on Tuesday that 15.2 million client records in Britain were compromised in the massive cyber attack it disclosed last month …
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| 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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| 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.| 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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| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
New Android Wear 2.0 features can now be delivered through the Play Store, no OTA required — Android Wear is entering a potentially critical time. Wear 2.0 hasn't been received nearly as well as might have been expected, with many observers understandably worrying for its future.
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plus.google.com, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android and Me, Droid Life, and Liliputing
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Podcast app 60dB, which focuses on personalized short-form audio content, to shut down November 10 after being acquired by Google — Google has purchased podcast app 60db, which will shut down on November 10, Business Insider has learned. — “We are thrilled to be joining the team at Google.| 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.
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Yandex, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Engadget, and CNBC
| 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 … | 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 … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft opens up Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK to all and renames Windows Store to Microsoft Store — During its Windows Developer Day event today, Microsoft launched the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update software development kit (SDK). Developers can download the new SDK now from developer.microsoft.com/windows.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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