|
September 17, 2015, 1:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Updating to iOS 9 and El Capitan partially mitigates AirDrop exploit on iOS and OS X; otherwise disable AirDrop until patch issued — One Great Reason To Update To iOS 9 - A Nasty Silent AirDrop Attack Is In Town — It's another big Apple AAPL -0.04% launch week with iOS 9 landing today …
More:
Wired, Threatpost, BGR, Telegraph, ReadWrite, Tech Insider, Tech Times, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, The Stack, Cult of Mac and Business Insider. Tweets: @jabolins
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 9 review: great multitasking support for newer iPads, searchable Settings, proactive Siri not as useful as Google Now — iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed — Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. — iOS 8 wasn't the smoothest operating system rollout in Apple's history.
More:
iMore, Search Engine Land, CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gigaom, eWeek, The Verge, Macworld, MacRumors, Patently Apple, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, iMore, Tech Times, CIO.com, Cult of Mac, The Tech Report, Engadget, BGR, ABC News and OMARCAST. See also Mediagazer
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
MacStories, AnandTech, The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Slate, MacRumors, TechSpot, BGR, Tech Insider, The Overspill, International Business Times, Pixel Envy, Business Insider and NEWS.com.au. Tweets: @spacekatgal
| Re/code: |
Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M — Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense … | Wall Street Journal: |
Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally — Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries
More:
Times of India, SiliconANGLE, Engadget and TechNode
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug — Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. — “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.
More:
BuzzFeed, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET, 500ish Words, Washington Post, InvestorPlace, blog.chron.com, Talking New Media, Fortune, BBC, SiliconBeat, MacRumors, App Advice, MacRumors, BetaNews, International Business Times, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, New York Times, AppleInsider, Wearable Tech Insider, NEWS.com.au, The Next Web, The Wirecutter, The Mac Observer, Re/code, iDownloadBlog.com, Daring Fireball, iLounge, Wareable, Engadget and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database — Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker — Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple's first Android app ‘Move to iOS’ is now available in Google Play store — Apple's ‘Move to iOS’ app is now available on Android — The first Android app credited to “Apple Inc.” has arrived. Apple's still working on Apple Music for Google's mobile OS … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Google hiring engineers, including three from Amazon's Lab126, for Project Aura, a new wearable tech initiative that builds on Glass — Google has hired a bunch of engineers from Amazon's Lab126 for a new wearable tech initiative called ‘Project Aura’ — Google is working …
More:
Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, Re/code, 9to5Google and Phandroid. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Stephen Schenck / Pocketnow: |
Leak of Amazon 10-inch Fire tablet shows repositioned front-facing cam, new button placement, lightweight UI, more — Amazon ten-inch Fire tablet leak hints at lightweight new UI — It's been about a year now since Amazon's last big refresh of its Fire tablet lineup …
More:
AFTVnews, Good E-Reader, TechnoBuffalo and Phandroid
| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
iRobot's WiFi-connected Roomba 980 maps your home via camera and can be controlled with an app, available in October for $900 — iRobot's Roomba 980 Maps Your Home Via Camera and Takes Smartphone Commands — iRobot Corp. decided to straighten its Roomba robot vacuum out.
More:
The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, PC Magazine, TIME, CNNMoney, USA Today, The Verge, Mashable and Wired
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook will likely launch a freemium version of its workplace product Facebook at Work by the end of the year in attempt to compete with Slack, Yammer — Facebook Is About to Take the Training Wheels off Facebook at Work — Facebook is preparing to push its new workplace product into a lot more cubicles.
More:
The Verge, Business Insider, Social Media Today, WebProNews and BuzzFeed
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property — China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms — HONG KONG — The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage …
More:
GeekWire and Bloomberg View
| Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter: |
News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility … Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Announcing Zoho POS for South Africa—expanding our commitment to the MEA — We're happy to announce that Zoho POS is now available for South African retail businesses, supporting the region's VAT requirements.
Announcing Zoho POS for South Africa—expanding our commitment to the MEA — We're happy to announce that Zoho POS is now available for South African retail businesses, supporting the region's VAT requirements.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Training Data:
Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:30 AM ET, September 17, 2015.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
The Wrap:Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
More:
Engadget, The Register, The Next Web, Business Insider, Fusion, GeekWire, Fortune, Microsoft News, Thurrott.com, Pocketnow, BetaNews, Neowin, WinBeta and Ubergizmo