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| Maddy Myers / Kotaku: |
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content providers; 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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| 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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Tweets: @carnage4life, @socal_crypto, @business, @alexeheath, @backlon, and @stevemoser
| 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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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will let users opt out of human review of the voice recordings picked up by Alexa, following similar moves by Apple and Google — - Alexa reviewers transcribe, annotate some voice recordings — Apple, Google suspended human voice review programs this week
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Facebook to rebrand Instagram and WhatsApp to “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook”, sources say causing surprise and confusion internally — In a big shift, Facebook plans to signal its control of Instagram and WhatsApp by adding its name to both apps …
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9to5Mac, Reuters, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, International Business Times, Android Police, Firstpost Tech, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, CNET, Gizmodo, Slashdot, Neowin, Fast Company, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @kateconger, @sandofsky, @iamjustyy, @mkbhd, @rafalrudol, @eshap, @vincenzolandino, @patrickmoorhead, @caro_milanesi, @saradietschy, @rdrv3, @benmcerickson, @801drew, @samuelborg, @seldo, @rsg, @gilx87, @anthpb, @brooke, @octothorpe, @hallstephenj, @mehedih_, @alexeheath, @ldignan, @ow, @wongmjane, @riptari, @amir, @mattnavarra, @brianmcc, @theryanford, @richardjnieva, @mattnavarra, @ibogost, @elainedmoore, @gaberivera, @chris_ciaccia, @caseynewton, @johnpaczkowski, @can, @benbajarin, @aarrogan, @mikeisaac, @levynews, @richardjnieva, @reckless, and @shiraovide
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Inside “Instabeach”, Instagram's annual invite-only party in Malibu for 500 of its top creators, which has become a who's who of young Hollywood — At 3:30 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Instagram influencers descended on Gladstones Malibu, an old-timey seafood restaurant …
Tweets: @jeremysliew, @jayshams, @ahmed, @sara_mcalpine, and @taylorlorenz
| 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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PR Newswire, PE Hub Blog, and Xconomy
| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
UK data science company DataSparQ has developed “AI Bar”, an AI-powered facial recognition system to help bartenders check IDs, fill orders faster and fairer — Facial recognition systems have, to date, proven to be biased, unjust, flawed, and deeply powerful.
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DataSparQ, Telegraph, YouTube, Mashable, VICE, and The Register
Tweets: @philotoff, @_farmergeddon, @telegraph, @hypervisible, and @douglasbulloch
| 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.| 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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Patently Apple
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction — Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
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FutureSin, The Keyword, Digital Trends, Android, Android Beat, Bloomberg, TechSpot, BBC, Reuters, Tom's Guide, TalkAndroid.com, Financial Times, Mashable, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, Inquirer, CNET, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @yegg, @counternotions, @lutherlowe, @peterkirn, @peterkirn, @campaignmag, @business, @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @techcrunch, and @suka_hiroaki
| Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph: |
Sources: US officials warn the UK that a free trade deal would not happen if digital services tax on companies like Google and Amazon becomes UK law this fall — Donald Trump's administration is warning Britain that it will not get a free trade deal unless a new tax affecting US tech giants is dropped, The Telegraph can reveal.
Tweets: @benrileysmith, @pmdfoster, @telegraph, @feorlean, and @martinsfp
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