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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
In a letter, the FCC has told Sprint and T-Mobile that it needs more time to review their proposed merger — - The agency has paused an “informal” 180-day transaction clock “to allow for thorough staff and third-party review” of recently submitted materials.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Coinbase, Circle, and other crypto companies are forming the Blockchain Association, the first lobbying group in DC representing the cryptocurrency industry — The price of bitcoin may be down, compared with last year's meteoric heights. But industry officials aren't waiting for the next spike …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Verizon says its wireless 5G home broadband service will launch Oct. 1 in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento starting at $50/mo after free trial — Verizon announced that, starting Thursday, customers in its four 5G launch markets will be able to sign up for Internet service.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Facebook deploys AI system called Rosetta to extract text in real time from images and video frames to improve search, detect images with hate speech, and more — People online tend to communicate not just with words, but also with images. For a platform like Facebook …
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| Greg Sandoval / INSIDER: |
A look at upcoming Google Cloud head of AI Andrew Moore's military ties, including leading a task force with Robert Work, who reportedly created Project Maven — - Andrew Moore, the new chief of Google Cloud AI, co-chairs a task force on AI and national security with deep defense sector ties.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
RiskIQ report on British Airways data breach links it to Magecart group, active since 2015, which used tactics similar to their recent Ticketmaster breach — ON FRIDAY, BRITISH Airways disclosed a data breach impacting customer information from roughly 380,000 booking transactions made between August 21 and September 5 of this year.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
US federal judge rules that a pair of allegedly fraudulent ICOs may fall under securities laws, allowing the criminal case to proceed to trial next year — A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a pair of reportedly fraudulent initial coin offerings fall under securities laws.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
Samsung has opened its biggest store worldwide in Bengaluru, India, just two months after inaugurating the world's biggest smartphone plant outside New Delhi — MUMBAI (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd opened its biggest mobile store in the world in India on Tuesday as it tries … | Hayley Peterson / Business Insider: |
Interviews with 31 current and former delivery drivers for Amazon's third-party partners describe missing or late pay, no health insurance, pace pressure, more — - Business Insider spoke with 31 current or recently employed drivers about what it's like to deliver packages for Amazon.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Media center app maker Plex announces it's shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November, citing costs — Media center app maker Plex informed its users Tuesday that it is shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November. Plex Cloud was meant to simplify the management … | Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researcher shows flaw to spoof URLs in Safari and Edge while visiting a malicious link; weeks after disclosure, Microsoft has patched the flaw, but Apple hasn't — Egghead says Apple has yet to patch spoofing vulnerability — A security researcher has disclosed a flaw that could be used … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Comma.ai's George Hotz steps down as CEO, joins new Comma.ai research division focusing on building out AI models for cars; new CEO to be named Friday — A new CEO will be named Friday. — 7 hours — Comma.ai's board, of which founder George Hotz is the only member … | Rani Molla / Recode: |
A look at the rising prevalence of Amazon ads, as report suggests share of Amazon product page views that come from sponsored ads has roughly doubled YoY to 8% — Amazon-sponsored product ads have been around since 2012. But lately, as the company has invested in growing its advertising business, they've become more aggressive.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
California bill that would require “reasonable security” for all new IoT devices, the first of its kind in US, heads to governor's desk to be signed into law — California IoT security bill criticized by security researcher. Expert says bill “is based upon an obviously superficial understanding of the problem.”
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay open sources HeadGaze, an ARKit-based tool that uses the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera to help visually impaired users interact with apps via head movements — eBay has lifted the lid on new technology that helps physically impaired users interact with their iPhone X screen through head movements.
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| Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress: |
ThinkProgress alleges censorship after its story on Kavanaugh's approach to abortion was deemed “false” by the Weekly Standard, a Facebook fact-checking partner — A perfect example of how Facebook is catering to conservatives. — Last year, Facebook announced that it would partner …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Before EU's top court, the EU's executive arm joined Google in opposing expanding “right to be forgotten” beyond EU; a non-binding court opinion expected Dec 11 — European Commission argued that a global application would stretch privacy laws beyond their intended scope
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Tesla's wireless smartphone charger with 6,000 mAh battery and 5W of output, which quickly went out of stock last month, is back on its US online store for $49 — The charger now costs $49, down from $65 — Tesla has started informing customers that its wireless smartphone charger …
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| Joseph Pisani / Associated Press: |
Amazon to sell $115 7-foot Fraser firs, per an Amazon holiday preview book, and other holiday plants, offering preorders, with some trees to have Prime shipping — NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out for the 7-foot box on the doorstep. Amazon plans to sell and ship fresh, full-size Christmas trees this year.
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Engadget, The Verge, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Fortune, 9to5Toys, GeekWire, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed News, and CNET. Tweets: @johnbattelle
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
MSRC, the Microsoft unit that receives and handles bug reports, details for first time the internal procedures it uses to prioritize and classify security bugs — The Microsoft Security Response Center publishes two documents detailing internal procedures used by its staff to prioritize and classify security bugs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time — Apple's iPhone press event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time, TechCrunch has confirmed. This news backs up an earlier report from last month, which claimed Apple would expand the ability to watch …
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