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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option — The screen steals the show — The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries — The battery capacities and RAM inside the new iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR have surfaced in regulatory filings Apple …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 — Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers — Android phones will soon send Google Maps-like location data to emergency call centers — Emergency call operators will soon have an easier time pinpointing the whereabouts of Android phone users.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market — Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61 billion this year, according to a new eMarketer study, up a whopping 60% from the projection of $2.89 billion in March.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says regulators are probing how Amazon gathers and uses info on sales made by competitors on Amazon Marketplace — - EU's Vestager is checking how Amazon uses rival sales data — Amazon has dual purpose as retailer and host to other sellers
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma backs down from promise to Trump, made early last year, to bring 1M jobs to the US, citing the current state of US-China trade relations — - Jack Ma, founder of Chinese retail giant Alibaba, has recanted his promise to Donald Trump to create 1 million U.S. jobs.| New York Times: |
Inside Facebook's election “War Room”, which will be the company's hub for safeguarding elections around the world — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display — Expected this Fall — Apple's recently released iOS 12.1 beta contains code that suggests a new iPad is coming this fall.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitLab raises $100M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a valuation of $1.1B — Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq Capital, with participation from existing investors GV and Khosla Ventures.
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Sources: Tencent Music Entertainment Group has confidentially filed for a $2B US IPO, down from the up to $4B rumored earlier — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's biggest music-streaming company, is seeking to raise about $2 billion in a U.S. listing … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Fitbit launches a new premium fitness coaching service called Fitbit Care, available via a new Fitbit Plus app, that also lets users connect with their doctors — Today, Fitbit announced a new service called Fitbit Care that'll coach users on staying well, whether that means sticking to their fitness plans or managing diseases.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce debuts two new AI voice assistants atop its Einstein platform, Einstein Voice for enterprises and consumer-facing Einstein Voice Bots — Amazon's got Alexa. Microsoft has Cortana. And Google has the Google Assistant. It seems like practically every tech giant has its own voice platform …
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| ProPublica: |
Investigation: 15 employers, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex in the past year, with many ads playing to stereotypes — Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: “Driving toward something?
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How companies like Quanergy, Palmer Luckey's Anduril, and Alphabet-supported Cogniac are testing virtual patrols along the US-Mexico border using lidar and AI — In a rural Texas county, lidar sensor technology is being tested as a way to spot illegal intruders from Mexico.
Tweets: @puiwingtam and @nytimes
| Garrett M. Graff / Wired: |
Court filing: US government seeks to continue FBI work with Mirai botnet hackers, who pled guilty to creating the malware last Dec., as part of their sentencing — THE THREE COLLEGE-AGE defendants behind the the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 AmazonGo cashierless stores by 2021 — - Rapid expansion would rank it among biggest convenience chains — Retailer is testing different formats for AmazonGo strategy — Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open … | Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child — The far-right figure allegedly met a teen on SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he told her he was a ‘big deal.’ — The founder of a an alt-right crowdfunding site and a 3-D gun-printing company …
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KVUE-TV, Gizmodo, Mashable, New York Times, Ars Technica, BREAKER, and Wired
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3 — 20 ‘genre-defining’ games and two controllers for $99.99 — Sony is following in Nintendo's footsteps and bringing back its original PlayStation console nearly 25 years …
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PlayStation.Blog, BBC, Polygon, CNET, Mashable, TechCrunch, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Motherboard, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, Wired, Engadget, Boing Boing, BetaNews, GameSpot, Inquirer, bit-tech.net, Forbes, Business Insider, SlashGear, Firstpost, InvestorPlace, BGR, Geek.com, Thurrott.com, gHacks Technology News, Fortune, Technabob, Ars Technica, Neowin, Forbes, The Next Web, IGN, VG247, VentureBeat, Engadget, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @vladsavov
| Elaine Teng / ESPN: |
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the top Fortnite players in the world who shot to fame in March after he played the game with Drake — On a sweltering afternoon in Chicago, with the bass from the closest stage at Lollapalooza booming in the background …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Apple finishes paying $15.3B in back taxes to Ireland, prompting EU regulators to drop lawsuit against the country — Just over two years after the European Commission ruled that Apple was receiving illegal state aid from Ireland — where it had reportedly paid less than 2 percent …
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