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| Maddy Myers / Kotaku: |
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates — A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
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Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @stephentotilo, @kezamacdonald, @bratterz, and @laura_hudson
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Data breach seller provides evidence that sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May, says 6.8M records with contact info and hashed passwords were taken — It wasn't “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: out of 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, ~50% have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000; only 13 have 10M+ users — Around 87% of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 1,000 installs. — There are 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store … | Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the “breakpoint” at which their service is so bad that a customer quits — Technology lets companies see how badly they can treat consumers, right up until the moment they bolt
Tweets: @alexhillman, @zackwhittaker, @georgebdavis, and @wsj
| FinSMEs: |
Boston-based Jobble, an on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work in the US, raises $11M Series A — Jobble, a Boston, Massachusetts-based community of on-demand workers, raised $11m in funding. — The round was led by Vestigo Ventures …
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| South China Morning Post: |
China is moving away from using QR codes for mobile payments and is increasingly adopting facial recognition payments technology from WeChat Pay and Alipay — In cities around China, vendors from supermarkets to bakeries have adopted facial recognition payments technology Facial recognition …
Tweets: @muloongo
| Colin Dixon / nScreenMedia: |
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively — New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV.| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
WeWork has acquired at least six software companies related to real estate, possibly to build a software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies — This week WeWork, also known as The We Company and best known for its global coworking business, is adding another software company to its portfolio of acquisitions.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple spent $4.2B, or 7.9% of its revenue, on R&D in Q3, the highest percentage of R&D spending since 2003, and is on track to spend $16B in 2019 — KEY POINTS — Apple CFO Luca Maestri hinted that R&D would continue to rise, and said that the company's $1 billion purchase …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success — KEY POINTS — Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone in less than two years.| Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: |
Diabetics in the US are increasingly using electronic skin patches and smartphones to better manage their disease through continuous glucose tracking — Wearable blood-sugar monitors deliver round-the-clock glucose readings—and relief from the daily grind of finger-stick blood tests
Tweets: @stefaniei
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Goldman Sachs reveals Apple Card customer agreement, says jailbreaking as well as purchasing cryptocurrency, casino chips, and lottery tickets is forbidden — Apple has revealed more details about its upcoming credit card, and the Apple Card will come with one unique restriction and one not-so-unique restriction.
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Reuters, Goldman Sachs, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CryptoGlobe, Hacked, Softpedia News, NullTX, MacRumors, CNET, iLounge, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, BitcoinExchangeGuide, iPhone in Canada Blog, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, Engadget, Cointelegraph, The Mac Observer, TechnoBuffalo, iMore, MacDailyNews, and The Block
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