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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
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PCMag, Reuters, ZDNet, TNW, AppleInsider, Benzinga, Tom's Guide, SamMobile, BGR India, Livemint, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, MacRumors, iTnews, phonearena.com, BBC, Pocketnow, iMore, TechRadar, MarketWatch, Barron's Online, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, iThinkDifferent, MACお宝 …, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Insider
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and Sony are planning a semiconductor factory in Japan, opening in 2024 and costing ~$7B, half of which will come from the Japanese government — Toyota group parts maker Denso considers signing up — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about — To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support — Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event will be held virtually on October 20 at 7am PT — Who's left? — Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It's called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year — Coinbase is joining the non-fungible token (NFT) arms race. — The U.S. crypto exchange is launching “Coinbase NFT,” a marketplace that will allow its users to buy …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Regulating social media algorithms, an increasingly appealing idea among US lawmakers, is very hard to get right without running afoul of the First Amendment — Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won't be easy.| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Funnel, which makes a no-code tool to organize and create reports from marketing data, raises $66M, says it is planning for an IPO in Sweden — The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech. But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is exploring adding health-related features to AirPods, including for enhancing hearing, reading body temperature, and monitoring posture — Earbuds could be offered as hearing aids and include an in-ear thermometer and posture warnings — Apple Inc. is studying ways … | Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US to host a two-day virtual event from Wed. on ransomware with 30 countries, except Russia and China; source says Russia isn't invited “for a host of reasons” — The Biden administration did not invite Russia to participate in the first meeting of a global effort to combat cybercrime …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
1Password launches Psst!, which lets users share login credentials with just a link — Even those who don't have a 1Password account. — Password sharing in the workplace and at home is a common practice, but doing so securely can be tricky. 1Password aims to address that with its new feature …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace — Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful.
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PCMag, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, MSPoweruser, TechCrunch, and Engadget. Tweets: @glassruss
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Research: China's bitcoin hashrate share fell from 44% to 0% between May and July, as the US rose from 17% in April to 35% in August and Kazakhstan rose to 18% — Crackdown on digital currencies knocks country's share of crypto production to zero — The US overtook China as the world's biggest source …
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Decrypt, Bloomberg, The Block, CoinDesk, Nikkei Asia, Wired UK, and CNBC
Tweets: @samjoiner and @sdbernard
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ohio-based Aware, which analyzes internal company chat tools for legal compliance, sentiment, and more, raises a $60M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — Organizations have been using social media monitoring for years to get a better idea of how they are being perceived in the world at large …
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| Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: |
Slack has changed corporate culture, acting as a Trojan horse that flattens the communication hierarchy, largely to the benefit of employees — In 2014, the executives at a brand-new start-up called Andela made a decision whose consequences they would only understand much later.
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One Degree. Tweets: @beccarosen, @patcaldwell, @paulbisceglio, @bernstein, @theatlantic, @yappelbaum, @andersen, @tomgara, @dkthomp, @timothynoah1, @johnghendy, @tabir, @kantrowitz, @caseynewton, and @cwarzel
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Carl Pei's Nothing, which launched Ear (1) earlier this year, raises a $50M “Series A Extension”, bringing total funding to $74M — In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1), Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date.
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