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| 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 … | 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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TheStreet, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Reuters, ZDNet, Digital Trends, KnowTechie, Redmond Pie, MarketWatch, BBC, 9to5Mac, Livemint, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Apple Must, Cult of Mac, BGR India, TNW, Gamereactor UK, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Coinspeaker, PCMag, iMore, Pocketnow, MACお宝 …, and Benzinga
Tweets: @vladsavov, @htsfhickey, and @davemcclure
| Reuters: |
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 … | 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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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Telecoms.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dnystedt, @mit_obe, @kennedycsis, @pareekhjain, @debjani_ghosh_, @dnystedt, and @dnystedt
| 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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Cambridge Judge Business …. More:
Bloomberg, CNBC, Decrypt, The Block, South China Morning Post, BBC, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, DealStreetAsia, New York Post, CoinJournal, Wired UK, cryptodaily.co.uk, cryptonews.com, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @stimuluspkg822, @pkedrosky, @marathondh, @kenziesigalos, @twobitidiot, @cambridgejbs, @samjoiner, @mattsteinglass, and @sdbernard
| Cathy Gellis / Techdirt: |
An overview of possible Section 230 reforms and why each proposed change might as well be an outright repeal, given each one's practical effect — Some lawmakers are candid about their desire to repeal Section 230 entirely. Others, however, express more of an interest to try to split this baby …
Tweets: @mmasnick, @senatorshoshana, and @evan_greer
| 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: @brianroemmele, @normative, @counteringcrime, @jeffjarvis, @brendannyhan, @anupamchander, @fightextremism, @omidyarnetwork, @willoremus, @wexler, @iethics, @fightfortheftr, @freedomonthenet, and @alfunk
| 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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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, MacRumors, YouTube, CNET, inews.co.uk, CNBC, British GQ, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Yahoo Finance, CNN, The Independent, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, Six Colors, Pocket-lint, Daring Fireball, Daily Express, Input, Pocket-lint, TechRadar, iClarified, NextPit, 9to5Mac, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @backlon, @tomwarren, @dcseifert, @nicnguyen, @jetscott, and @nicnguyen
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Snap says it is aware of an issue that has taken some Snapchat features offline for over two hours — The company was aware of the issue — For a couple of hours on Wednesday morning, Snap Streaks were at risk as many users reported they couldn't successfully post story updates or send messages on the service.
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| 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.
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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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| 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.”| 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: @edourdooo, @meghanbobrowsky, @atbwebb, @andylangenkamp, @chinarealtime, 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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| 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?| 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 … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Karat, which helps companies conduct technical interviews, raises a $110M Series C at a $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global — The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation.
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TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Acer announces ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop, which uses eye tracking for a glasses-free 15.6-inch 3D display, available in December starting at €3,599 — That kind of tech doesn't come cheap, though — Acer is finally bringing its glasses-free 3D SpatialLabs tech to a laptop you can buy …
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PCWorld, CNET, ZDNet, AndroidPolice, 9to5Google, Laptop Mag, Thurrott, XDA Developers, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Ars Technica, Engadget, Engadget, techadvisor.com, Laptop Mag, CNET, TechRadar, Windows Blog, PR Newswire, Liliputing, SlashGear, and Pocket-lint
| 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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Livemint, Moneycontrol, NDTV Gadgets 360, and Channel NewsAsia
| 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, Wall Street Journal, CyberScoop, CNET, The White House, Euractiv, Washington Post, Axios, Associated Press, The Hill, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @martinmatishak, @ericgeller, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Hibob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, raises a $150M Series C, reportedly at a $1.65B valuation, led by General Atlantic — On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday, one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some fundning.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
In open letters, NHTSA calls Tesla's use of NDAs with its FSD customers “unacceptable” and questions its use of an OTA safety update instead of issuing a recall — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a pair of letters to Tesla targeting the company's use … | 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 … | 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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TechCrunch, Benzinga, Bitcoinist.com, Silicon Republic, Coinspeaker, cryptonews.com, Bitcoin Magazine, altfi.com, cryptodaily.co.uk, Cointelegraph, and Finextra
Tweets: @gponcin, @collision, @brian_armstrong, @pinboard, @passy, @stefdelev, @grady_booch, @alexisohanian, @gladstein, @iamchrisani, @mayazi, @joemccann, @patrickc, @coindesk, and @julieverhage
| 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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SiliconANGLE and VentureBeat
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