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Apple launches a public beta of Apple Music on the web, available to all subscribers worldwide — Apple Music is coming to the web. Apple today is launching a public beta of its popular music streaming service on the web, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in the US as an opt-in feature integrated with Instagram, for users 18 and over, with a separate profile — Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook …
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| Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
Facebook Dating, though separate from a user's main profile, is integrated with Facebook and designed to encourage the use of its properties that harvest info — This morning, Facebook finally launched its long-awaited (or, just as likely, long-dreaded) dating feature.
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and seven universities launch the “Deepfake Detection Challenge” to encourage better ways of detecting deepfakes — Deepfakes are improving. The contest, which will include deepfakes created by Facebook, is designed to help researchers keep up.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google unveils Assistant Ambient mode that turns docked Android phones and tablets into smart displays with calendar info, weather, smart home controls, more — Why does Google make everything twice? — Today at IFA, Google is announcing a new feature for Google Assistant: Ambient Mode.
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| MIT Technology Review: |
MIT Media Lab founder and former director Nicholas Negroponte defends Joi Ito's decision to accept Epstein's money post Epstein's 2008 conviction — At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sonos announces its first portable speaker, the $399 Sonos Move with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Sonos finally has a speaker that you can take out of your house — Sonos is finally jumping into the world of portable speakers.
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| Katherine Rosman / New York Times: |
YouTube launches a fashion vertical, aggregating the platform's fashion content into one place, as it seeks to expand in the industry — The video platform woos the style set. Will it work? — It's not a “collabo.” It's a “collab.” And it's pronounced “/kəˌlab.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: WeWork is considering seeking a valuation of ~$20B-$30B in its US IPO, marking a significant reduction from an earlier valuation of $47B — - Valuation would be a step down from earlier $47 billion — IPO plans have received criticism for ‘obfuscating’ details
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google is open sourcing its differential privacy library, which it uses to securely draw insights from data sets containing sensitive user information — Google is making differential privacy available to anyone — Google today announced that it is open-sourcing its so-called differential privacy library …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian announces new pricing tiers, including a free tier for all services, and new tools, such as data residency controls for companies — At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba buys import ecommerce platform Kaola from NetEase for ~$2B, will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border ecommerce platform in China — Alibaba Group said today it has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
In-depth Android 10 review: adds many oft-requested features, like a dark mode, and gesture navigation is great for a first try, but much work remains — Clear your schedule: this is our longest Android review ever. — It is once again time for Google's big yearly Android rollout.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
In a testimony to House committee staffers, 8chan owner Jim Watkins says 8chan “has no intent of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech” — The private deposition lasted around four hours — Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan, gave testimony to Congress on Thursday … | Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon confirms it has started testing the “New” badge to highlight newly released products in “select markets for certain customers” — KEY POINTS — It's still unclear what criteria is used for the badges on Amazon, which give sellers a significant advantage on the marketplace.| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
How a high-school dropout added a Huawei router zero-day to the Mirai botnet to create the formidable Satori botnet, which experts say infected 500K+ devices — Teenager behind notorious Satori botnet was an Xbox player who joined an online community that got their kicks from exploiting vulnerabilities … | Paige Leskin / Business Insider: |
Instagram influencers in countries affected by the removal of likes see less engagement and slower growth in followers, causing posts to sink down in the feed — - Instagram has been testing in some countries what its platform would look like without likes appearing on posts.
Tweets: @mattnavarra and @mattnavarra
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir has approached several major investors, like SoftBank, about a large funding round as it postpones its expected 2020 IPO until 2022 or 2023 — - Peter Thiel's data company in talks with non-U.S. investors — IPO could be postposend until 2022 or 2023, sources say
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Business Insider. Tweets: @profcarroll, @aoverk, @yoda, @vader7x, @propllrhead, @alistairmbarr, and @cullend
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung says it is canceling all Galaxy Fold pre-orders placed online through Samsung and will offer customers $250 credit for the Samsung store — Customers will get a $250 store credit as a consolation — Samsung may have finally fixed the Galaxy Fold and confirmed new release dates … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
Sally Floyd, one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), which helps regulate network traffic, died on August 25 at age 69 — In the early 1990s, Dr. Floyd was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability of the internet.Sponsor Posts
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