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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will release iOS 12.1 on October 30 with Group FaceTime, new emoji, Dual SIM support, and more — iOS 12.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch will be available tomorrow as a free software update. The first significant update to iOS 12 brings a variety of features including Group FaceTime …
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Tweets: @steven_aquino and @jeremyburge
| Jason Cross / Macworld: |
What to expect from Apple's Oct. 30 event: new iPad Pros with Face ID and USB-C, Apple Pencil with gestures, new MacBook, upgraded iMacs and Mac mini, and more — On October 18, Apple sent out colorful invitations to a new event, to be held at the Howard Gilman Opera House in the Brooklyn Academy of Music on October 30.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: 200+ Google engineers organizing company-wide “women's walk” walkout, expected Nov. 1, following reports of Google protecting alleged sexual harassers — A group of more than two hundred engineers at Google are organizing a company-wide “women's walk” …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap's Evan Spiegel promoted Kristen O'Hara as Chief Business Officer, then changed his mind two days later, hiring an Amazon exec; O'Hara has departed — - Kristen O'Hara was picked first then offer was rescinded — Company has had high level of executive turnover since IPO
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases reCAPTCHA v3 API that is more customizable and runs adaptive risk analysis in the background to alert webmasters of suspicious traffic — CAPTCHAs are a common test on the web and are designed to differentiate between actual users and bots.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
In an attempt to recreate its success from the '90s, IBM has bought Red Hat; it's not clear, though, that the company or the market are the same — The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to start with IBM.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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| Rose Eveleth / Motherboard: |
NY's Lockport City school district has begun implementing a controversial surveillance system with facial recognition software and a tool to identify guns — Installed in the wake of recent high-profile mass shootings, controversial facial recognition systems that scan students' faces …
Tweets: @motherboard, @nyclu, @torproject, and @jason_koebler
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says over the last five years it has donated $100M+ to charity through AmazonSmile, its shopping portal that donates to a charity of the shopper's choice — Amazon revealed that it has donated more than $100 million to charitable causes since the launch of AmazonSmile exactly five years ago.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel says it has achieved “full US workforce representation” 2 years ahead of 2020 goal and that US staff is 26.8% female, 9.2% Hispanic, 4.6% African American — Chip maker calls it a first step as it now employs 27% women, 9% Hispanic and under 5% African American
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| Ian Small / Evernote: |
Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill to depart and be replaced by Ian Small — Hi, I'm Ian Small. — Today is my first day as CEO of Evernote. — This morning, the Evernote board announced to the team that Chris O'Neill was leaving the company and that I was joining as CEO.| Bruce Murphy / The Verge: |
How Foxconn's initial plans for a heavily taxpayer-subsidized $10B mega plant in Wisconsin have devolved into a more modest factory with a robotic assembly line — Governor Scott Walker promised billions to get a Foxconn factory. Now he's running away from it
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Boing Boing and DISPLAYBLOG
Tweets: @reckless, @reckless, @tamarine608, @ezraklein, @mattyglesias, @guenterhack, @peterwsinger, and @reckless
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OnePlus 6T debuted with in-screen fingerprint scanner, 6.41" screen, dual rear cameras, smaller notch, starting at $549, unlocked or via T-Mobile in US — After month of leaks and teases, OnePlus has finally launched its ninth smartphone. — The OnePlus 6T was officially unveiled at an event …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech, closes $30M Series A led by Paradigm with Intel Capital, Sequoia, Coinbase Ventures among investors — Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors …
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StarkWare Industries, SiliconANGLE, and PE Hub Blog
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Lime has hired Uber's former business chief David Richter to oversee M&A, sales strategy, and other finance operations; he will also serve as interim CFO — David Richter will serve as Lime's chief of business, where he will oversee mergers and acquisitions, sales strategy and other finance operations
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TechCrunch, Seattle Business Journal, and PR Newswire
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sam's Club, the Walmart-owned members-only retail store, says it will soon open an Amazon Go-like cashierless store called Sam's Club Now in Texas — Walmart's warehouse club, Sam's Club is preparing to open the doors at a new Dallas area store that will serve as a testbed for the latest in retail technology.
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Sam's Club Home, GeekWire, Digital Commerce 360, BGR, TechSpot, Dallas Morning News, Reuters, and The Verge. Tweets: @sarahintampa
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists — Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers's anti-Semitic …
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