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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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The Keyword, ZDNet, Google Developers Blog, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Variety, Android Police, and PYMNTS.com
| 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, AnandTech, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Android Authority, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, FierceWireless, Android Police, PC Gamer, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Inquirer, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, and Fortune
Tweets: @jbogard, @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, The Verge, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, US Day One Blog, Fast Company, Zero Hedge, Fortune, Boing Boing, and CNBC
Tweets: @coryprovost, @kashanacauley, @rwdsu, @spettypi, @ranimolla, and @karlbykarlsmith
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG V40 ThinQ review: 6.4" QuadHD display, 6GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845, available for preorder now for $900+; five camera system is versatile but not high-quality — The V40 gives you a camera bag full of lenses in one device — All too often, when we evaluate smartphone cameras, we are looking at incremental improvements.
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LG Newsroom, Engadget, Android Police, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, CNET, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, and Android Beat
Tweets: @dcseifert and @dcseifert
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
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TechCrunch, Android Police, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Digital Trends, PCWorld, The Verge, GSMArena.com, Android Central, and AndroidHeadlines.com
Tweets: @dcseifert and @chriswelch
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
US government ran the first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET today, with a message going to all US wireless users — Beginning at 2:18 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Americans across the country were interrupted by an urgent notification on their cellphones.
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New York Times, Wired, Quartz, The Verge, CNN, The Atlantic, BBC, Slate, GeekWire, The Hill, USA Today, FEMA.gov, CNET, BuzzFeed News, Baltimore Business Journal, Fast Company, Motherboard, TechSpot, Mashable, Associated Press, The Register, TechCrunch, Android Police, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Android Authority, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @fema, @fema, @wired, and @ashleyfeinberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook briefed DHS officials last week and select lawmakers this week about its massive breach to help quell potential backlash in Washington — Social-media company has stepped up its cooperation with Washington as it faces the increasing possibility of more regulation
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TechCrunch, The Hill, New York Times, Softpedia News, KnowTechie, The Parallax, Threatpost, Lifehacker, WeLiveSecurity, Help Net Security, Facebook, BetaNews, BBC, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @dnvolz, @dseetharaman, and @itsnicolenguyen
| 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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Sandvine, Engadget, SlashGear, The Next Web, TorrentFreak, Polygon, IndieWire, PR Newswire, Fortune, CNET, The Mac Observer, Digital Music News, Decider, and reddit
| 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, CNBC, GeekWire, The Hill, KnowTechie, Bloomberg, InvestorPlace, CNET, Engadget, and Telegraph
Tweets: @shiraovide and @yoda
| 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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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, and Investor's Business Daily
Tweets: @mjasay, @ericjackson, and @alex
| 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.| 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, Honda Newsroom, CNBC, Axios, Bloomberg, InvestorPlace, Bloomberg, CleanTechnica, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, The Verge, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wired, Ars Technica, and Fortune
Tweets: @cruise, @binarybits, and @binarybits
| 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, NBC Bay Area, Digital Trends, AndroidHeadlines.com, Neowin, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, Facebook Code, Engadget, and ZDNet
| 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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Engadget, Fight for the Future, Ars Technica, MacDailyNews, and The Precursor Blog
| 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.
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Windows Experience Blog and Business Insider
Tweets: @ow, @ow, @ow, @luvsinha, @ow, @michaelgillett, @brianmcc, @markhachman, @realmacdan, @nmoneypenny, @panos_panay, @bradchacos, @daniel_rubino, @thurrott, and @thurrott
| Ryan Gilliam / Polygon: |
Blizzard co-founder Michael Morhaime steps down as president, will remain an advisor, is succeeded by World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack — World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack is new president — Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment …
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Blizzard News, VentureBeat, Business Wire, CNET, PC Gamer, Gamasutra, GameSpot, and destructoid
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon is transferring IT workers to Infosys as part of a $700M outsourcing agreement and has offered voluntary severance packages to about 44,000 employees — More than a quarter of carrier's workforce affected in effort to cut $10 billion in costs — Verizon Communications Inc.'s VZ .31% offer … | 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.”| 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
| 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
| 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 Experience Blog, Windows Experience Blog, ZDNet, Thurrott.com, Business Insider, Computerworld, PCWorld, Digital Trends, CNET, The Guardian, Microsoft Store, Windows Central, TechCrunch, BGR, MSPoweruser, The Register, Softpedia News, On MSFT, ITworld.com, AnandTech, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Mashable, Engadget, and BetaNews
Tweets: @steve_msft, @officenews, and @ow
| 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 …, 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, BetaKit, tnooz, Xconomy, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @mdudas. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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