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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 …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook says it now counts activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures to help protect them and will remove sexual content targeting celebrities — Facebook said it will remove “severe sexualizing content” targeting public figures — including celebrities …
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About Facebook, Reuters, Associated Press, The Wrap, Forbes, PCMag, CNET, The Hill, Engadget, and The Verge
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Activision announces the Ricochet anti-cheating system for Call of Duty: Warzone, which uses a PC kernel-level driver and ML to examine player behavior — Activision is cracking down on Call of Duty cheaters — Activision and Raven Software are finally cracking down on cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone.
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Call of Duty, Activision Support, VICE, USA Today, GamesRadar, Comic Book, IGN, Neowin, Shacknews, Eurogamer.net, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Polygon, Game Rant, Dot Esports, Engadget, GameSpot, SlashGear, TechSpot, and IGN
Tweets: @webjedi, @shgames, @lkarlslund, @pepverbsnouns, @charlieintel, @cloudthejoke, @recordscod, and @foxhoundfps
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Internal documents show Amazon's Indian arm ran a systematic campaign to create knockoff goods and boost them in search, starting in 2016 — A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results …
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The Verge, The Register, PYMNTS.com, MSPoweruser, Liliputing, New York Post, Pixel Envy, CNBC, KnowTechie, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Input, Protocol, Insider, and Engadget
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| 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 … | Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Facebook sets some internal message boards to private, including discussions on platform safety and election integrity, limiting which employees have access — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it was making some of its internal online discussion groups private, in an effort to minimize leaks.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 7 review: bigger display, dust resistance, and multiple timers, but only one day battery life and no third-party watch faces or Qi charging — A bigger screen and faster charging are nice, but not reasons to upgrade — The most important questions to ask …
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Tweets: @neilcybart, @caro_milanesi, @backlon, @cherlynnlow, @tomwarren, @nateingraham, @dcseifert, @nicnguyen, @parkerortolani, @jetscott, @nicnguyen, and @tailosivetech
| 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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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to commission an independent human rights review of its law enforcement and government contracts, in response to a shareholder proposal — After shareholder proposal, Microsoft to commission independent report on company's contracts. — Microsoft Corp. …
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Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, MSPoweruser, Open MIC, and GeekWire
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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.
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Protocol. Tweets: @normative, @jeffjarvis, @brendannyhan, @brianroemmele, and @counteringcrime
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Mindbody acquires ClassPass, a subscription-based fitness marketplace recently valued at $1B, in an all-stock deal and raises $500M led by Sixth Street — ClassPass, the subscription-based fitness marketplace most recently valued at $1 billion, is today announcing that it has been acquired by Mindbody.| Tara Deschamps / Canadian Press: |
Up to 70% of Instacart couriers in the US and Canada could walk off the job this weekend, demanding at least a 10% default tip, commissions, and pay by order — Canadian and American Instacart workers plan to walk off the job this weekend in a bid to secure better pay and more benefits.| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: competitors are gaining on Huawei and Apple in the 5G equipment and handset markets; US is catching up fast to China in 5G subscriptions per capita — The competition among equipment makers, countries and cellphone companies is heated. Here are the leaders in each of those races.
Tweets: @meghanbobrowsky, @atbwebb, @chinarealtime, @edourdooo, @andylangenkamp, and @jojjeols
| 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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CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Forbes, MobileSyrup, ZDNet, TechRepublic, Engadget, Wccftech, Coinspeaker, and iMore
Tweets: @gregjoz, @dylandkt, @dsccross, @markgurman, @dsccross, @iphonedo, @markgurman, @backlon, @markgurman, @bzamayo, @vadimyuryev, @dohyun854, and @markgurman
| 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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Bloomberg, MobileSyrup, MacRumors, Fortune, Barron's Online, Benzinga, FierceWireless, iThinkDifferent, Reuters, KnowTechie, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, Gamereactor UK, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Coinspeaker, Apple Must, iMore, ZDNet, SamMobile, BGR India, PCMag, Tom's Guide, TheStreet, and Cult of Mac
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Matik, which offers businesses data-driven and automated tools for making personalized PowerPoint presentations for customers, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — Matik, which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations …
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Andreessen Horowitz. Tweets: @kshenster, @nik_mijic, @menloventures, @npilosof, and @bayareawriter
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Weights & Biases, which builds tools for machine learning researchers, raises a $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation from Felicis and others — Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake! — What do you call AI these days?| Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: |
Payment processing and automation company AvidXchange closed flat in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the company at ~$4.9B, after raising $660M in an IPO — - Fintech firm raised $660 million in IPO priced at top of range — CEO sees ‘massive white-space opportunity’ in middle market| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US to host a two-day ransomware virtual event from Wed. with 30 countries, excluding Russia and China; source says Russia wasn'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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NBC News, The White House, Washington Post, Reuters, The Hill, CNET, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, and Associated Press
Tweets: @martinmatishak, @ericgeller, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
TikTok now lets LIVE creators mute specific viewers for up to an entire livestream, and says it removed 81M+ videos that violated its TOS in Q2 — As it looks to evolve the use of its live-streaming option into eCommerce, as part of its broader monetization push, TikTok is adding …
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TikTok, MobileSyrup, Communicate Online, Adweek, Engadget, and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit now lets subreddit moderators create Predictions Tournaments, where participating users get 1K tokens to bet on different questions — Reddit today is introducing a new way to post to its communities with the launch of the on-platform feature called “Predictions.”
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SlashGear, Social Media Today, Mashable, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
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