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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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| 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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