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Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
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mislove.org, Mashable, and Telegraph
| Amazon US Day One Blog: |
Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC — Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers. — Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
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CNBC, TechCrunch, The Verge, Fortune, The Digital Reader, SlashGear, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Mashable, GeekWire, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, and CNET. Tweets: @sub8u
| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus responds to Brian Acton's interview, defending Zuckerberg and his protection of WhatsApp within Facebook, says Acton's attack was “low-class” — [Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
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| Benjamin Mayo: |
Apple's first iOS apps on Mac, via its universal framework Marzipan, are sluggish, have UI quirks, non-standard behaviors, should not be preinstalled on Mojave — I don't like marzipan. And I don't like Marzipan. — I haven't been running Mojave on my machine in the beta period.
Tweets: @jerkob, @fakebaldur, @zeveisenberg, and @stroughtonsmith
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016 — The famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman often says that his biggest investing whiff was passing on Stripe Inc. As each year ticks by, it's becoming easier …
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Stripe Blog, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Axios, PaymentsSource, Crowdfund Insider, Reuters, Business Insider, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @jamie_farrelly, @valleyhack, @sacca, @hunterwalk, @sub8u, @jordanhmckee, @collision, and @zck
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7 — Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
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Stock Exchange …, TechCrunch, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, BitMEX Blog, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Coingeek, NullTX, China Money Network, TechNode, NewsBTC, SludgeFeed, CNBC, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @jonrussell, @francispouliot_, @kr00ney, @ampressman, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
TechInsights teardown: iPhone XS Max components cost an estimated $443 for the 256GB model, nearly $50 more than last year's 64GB iPhone X — The iPhone XS Max with 256GB of storage costs an estimated $443 to make, according to estimates shared by TechInsights in a teardown of the new device.
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Seeking Alpha, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, SlashGear, ZDNet, and InvestorPlace
| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45-minute video that it sent to team leaders at Whole Foods; Amazon says Gizmodo “cherry-picked soundbites” — Amazon, the country's second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union.
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Tweets: @bryandisagrees, @tylerkenthill, @alexpalombo, @fightfor15, @alibreland, and @heidigroover. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions — Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
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Circle, Circle, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoinist.com, and ETHNews
Tweets: @circlepay and @josh_rager
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users — Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information …
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Uber Newsroom, State of California, Inquirer, CNBC, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, Mercury News, GeekWire, Cyberscoop, TechCrunch, and USA Today. Facebook: Attorney General Maura Healey
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Breakdown of the topics covered during Wednesday's US Senate hearing on privacy: big tech prefers federal legislation, Google evades questions on China, more — Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress. — Wednesday's hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple …
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The Intercept, CNBC, VentureBeat, Wired, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, Firstpost, Reuters, Axios, Boing Boing, South China Morning Post, AdExchanger, and The Verge
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @carnage4life, @zackwhittaker, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, and @robpegoraro
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at how, ten years after Google introduced Android to prevent the industry's other players from becoming dominant, its mobile OS has become just that — It's an Android world; we just live in it — Android is 10 years old now, give or take. It was revealed on September 23rd …
Tweets: @ow, @brchastain, @indeadline, and @verge
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Lyft's revenue more than doubled in the first half of 2018 to $909M but its net loss grew 46% to $373M — Lyft appears to be getting better at controlling its costs. — The ride-hailing firm more than doubled revenue to $909 million in the first half of 2018 compared with a year earlier … | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says Facebook and Messenger Stories now have a combined 300M DAUs and it will roll out ads to Facebook Stories globally now and Messenger Stories soon — Facebook announced today at a press event in NYC that Stories now has 300 million daily active users across Messenger and Facebook …
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