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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a redesign for its Assistant app on Android and iOS, including introducing larger visuals and controls for smart home devices — Google today is launching a major visual redesign of its Assistant experience on phones. While the original vision of the Assistant focused mostly on voice … | Rachel England / Engadget: |
Google Assistant adds support for developers to sell digital goods and subscriptions, as well as Google Sign-In, which makes pre-purchase authentication easier — Google has taken steps recently to make its voice-controlled Assistant easier to use, and now it's rolling out features to developers …
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ZDNet, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Google Developers Blog, VentureBeat, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, and Variety
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Wi-Fi Alliance rebrands 802.11n as Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac as Wi-Fi 5, and the upcoming 802.11ax as Wi-Fi 6 — Quick quiz: Which is better, 802.11n or 802.11ac? — The answer, if you're familiar with Wi-Fi standards coming from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is 802.11ac …
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Wi-Fi Alliance, The Verge, Android Authority, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Michael Tsai, Redmond Pie, Cult of Mac, Android Police, FierceWireless, Engadget, PC Gamer, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, and Fortune
Tweets: @cnetnews, @darylbaxter, @reckless, and @notpatrick
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour; sources say bonuses could be hundreds per month — - Some long-time workers say the changes make their raises less — Amazon says all workers will see overall compensation increase
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The Guardian, Yahoo! Finance, Zero Hedge, US Day One Blog, and CNBC
Tweets: @ranimolla and @karlbykarlsmith
| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
In cease-and-desist letter, eBay alleges that ~50 Amazon sales representatives worldwide used eBay's messaging system to try and poach sellers from its platform — In a cease-and-desist letter, EBay alleges Amazon sales representatives sent more than 1,000 messages to sellers on its platform
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New York Times, The Verge, GeekWire, The Hill, Engadget, KnowTechie, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNET, InvestorPlace, and Telegraph
Tweets: @shiraovide and @yoda
| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Report: after years of steady decline, BitTorrent usage is once again growing, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services with exclusive content — BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
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Engadget, Sandvine, The Next Web, IndieWire, TorrentFreak, Polygon, PR Newswire, Fortune, CNET, The Mac Observer, Digital Music News, and Decider
| Padraic Halpin / Reuters: |
Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which regulates multinationals with HQs in Ireland, says it has opened a probe into Facebook's recent data breach — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook's (FB.O) lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) …
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Financial Times, Axios, TechCrunch, The Irish Times, and Reuters
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Tweets: @dpcireland, @skuranda, and @malwarejake
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils Fire TV stick with 4K, Dolby Atmos, and HDR10+ support, with a new Alexa Voice Remote, for $50, available for preorder now, ships October 31 — After years of offering 4K playback on its higher-end Fire TV devices, Amazon is ready to bring that extra resolution to its most affordable hardware.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Hortonworks and Cloudera announce all-stock merger valuing the new company at $5.2B; the two companies helped commercialize Hadoop open-source big data software — Cloudera stock jumped 17 percent on Wednesday after it announced an all-stock merger of equals with competitor Hortonworks.
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Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, and Investor's Business Daily
Tweets: @ericjackson and @alex
| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
GM and Honda partner to develop autonomous vehicles, with Honda investing $750M in GM's Cruise Automation subsidiary and contributing $2B towards development — Japan is bringing big money to self-driving car partnerships: General Motors has struck a new alliance with Honda to produce …
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Cruise, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Honda Newsroom, Bloomberg, CNBC, CleanTechnica, Wired, Bloomberg, InvestorPlace, Bloomberg, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, New York Times, and Fortune
Tweets: @cruise, @binarybits, and @binarybits
| Owen Williams / Charged Tech Blog: |
After years of trying, and as Apple increasingly drops the ball, Microsoft's hardware event showed a coherent and appealing lineup of PCs, desktops, and tablets — At a low-key event held in a New York City warehouse, Microsoft unveiled its next iterations in the Surface lineup.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
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Windows Blog, Windows Blog, Digital Trends, The Guardian, On MSFT, Digital Photography Review, Laptop Mag, Android Authority, PCWorld, ZDNet, Windows Central, The Verge, Thurrott.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, CNBC, Softpedia News, and Android Police
Tweets: @surface, @surface, @ow, @tomwarren, @luvsinha, @markhachman, @realmacdan, @ohmdee, @nmoneypenny, @tomwarren, @panos_panay, @thurrott, @bradchacos, @daniel_rubino, @thurrott, @thurrott, @thurrott, and @thurrott
| David McCabe / Axios: |
US government ran its first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET today, with a message going to all US wireless users — Federal officials on Wednesday afternoon will run the first nationwide test of the wireless emergency alert system.
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Wired, New York Times, The Verge, GeekWire, The Hill, The Atlantic, CNN, Quartz, The Register, USA Today, Slate, BuzzFeed News, Mashable, Engadget, Verizon Fios & Custom TV, Baltimore Business Journal, Fast Company, Motherboard, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Android Police, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, The Daily Caller, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, Vox, Newser, and FEMA.gov
Tweets: @digiphile, @fema, @cwarzel, @natashabertrand, @mattmcgee, @wired, @pinboard, and @ashleyfeinberg
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Four industry groups representing major cable companies and ISPs, like AT&T and Verizon, file suit seeking to block California's mandatory net neutrality rules — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four industry groups representing major internet providers and cable companies filed suit …
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Ars Technica and MacDailyNews
| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
More worrisome than foreign interference in US elections is how tech companies feed and profit from deepening domestic political polarization — More worrisome than foreign interference in our elections is how our own tech and media companies feed and profit from our deepening domestic political polarization.
Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @justinhendrix, @karaswisher, @zeynep, @aradwanski, @carnage4life, @frank_schaeffer, @marcacaputo, and @jwiechers
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Marketplace introduces buyer and seller ratings and adds AI-based features to offer price range suggestions and auto-categorize items — Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered …
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Facebook, AndroidHeadlines.com, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, Digital Trends, Facebook Code, Engadget, and ZDNet
| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Report: blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused startups have raised nearly $3.9B through VC investments in the first three quarters of this year, up 280% YoY — As the crypto industry sees a decline in initial coin offerings (ICOs) amid regulatory concerns and major losses across token markets …
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Diar, Bitcoin Magazine, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, PYMNTS.com, SludgeFeed, and NullTX. Tweets: @coindesk
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Freelancing platform Upwork closes up 40% on its first day of trading, with shares reaching $21, raising $187.1M+; the company is now valued at $1.5B — Freelancing platform Upwork's IPO received a hearty welcome on Wall Street as its public debut on the markets capped an unlikely journey …
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Silicon Valley Business …, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile travel booking app Hopper raises $100M Series D led by OMERS Ventures, sources says at a $780M valuation — Hopper — a mobile-only travel booking app cofounded by a former Expedia executive in Montreal, Canada that uses artificial intelligence to help you search for and book hotels and flights …
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PR Newswire, Bloomberg, BetaKit, tnooz, VentureBeat, Xconomy, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @mdudas. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Samantha Cole / Motherboard: |
Wikipedia editors have voted to classify Breitbart as an unreliable reference for facts and decided that Infowars should be generally prohibited as a source — Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces its Windows 10 October 2018 Update is rolling out today, the OS' sixth update so far — Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 October 2018 Update is rolling out today. For those keeping track, this update is Windows 10 build 17763 and will bring Windows 10 to version 1809.
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The Verge, Windows Blog, Windows Blog, Thurrott.com, PCWorld, Computerworld, Digital Trends, CNET, Windows Central, BetaNews, Business Insider, Microsoft Store, The Guardian, AnandTech, The Official NVIDIA Blog, DirectX Developer Blog, Ars Technica, Inquirer, BGR, MSPoweruser, The Register, and Softpedia News
Tweets: @steve_msft, @officenews, and @ow
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook confirms it recently increased the grace period to reinstate an account a user chooses to terminate from 14 to 30 days — Best to deactivate now if you want your data deleted — Facebook recently extended the deletion grace period for terminating your main account from 14 to 30 days, the company confirmed to The Verge.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw introduces Intra, an Android security app that prevents DNS manipulation attacks often used by governments to censor the internet — When Jigsaw tested this privacy app with a few dozen political activists in Venezuela, the company wanted to keep the trial small.| Sean Lyngaas / Cyberscoop: |
FireEye researchers identify North Korean hacking group APT38, which focuses almost exclusively on financial crimes and has tried to steal $1.1B so far — There is a distinct and aggressive group of hackers bent on financing the North Korean regime and responsible for millions of dollars …
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US-CERT, FireEye, Fortune, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, and ZDNet
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
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