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Samsung says it will cap Note7 charging at 60% in OTA update, starting Sept. 20 in S. Korea, is in talks with telcos from 9 other countries for similar rollouts — Samsung will limit the battery charging cap for Galaxy Note 7 users to 60 percent through a Over-the-Air (OTA) software upgrade on September 20 following more explosions.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says there was an issue with iOS 10 software updates impacting some devices during first hour of availability, and affected users can update via iTunes — Update: Apple has released a statement saying that the following iOS 10 update issues should now be resolved:
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| Bruce Schneier / Lawfare: |
Companies running critical Internet infrastructure are observing recent probe-like DDoS attacks at a scale that points to state actors, likely China or Russia — Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet.
Tweets: @sheeraf, @reimers_ and @hunterwalk
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
YouTube launches beta of Community, which lets creators share photos, text, more into Subscriptions feed; subs can opt-in to new post notifications — Text, still images, and GIFs are now part of the mix that the service gives creators to keep their fans engaged.
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Microsoft Outlook's mobile app updates with some Sunrise-inspired features and design tweaks including event icons, map integration, “interesting calendars” — When it acquired calendar app Sunrise, Microsoft promised that its features would eventually come to Outlook.| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Pandora's new music services could launch as early as Thursday; deals set with Universal Music, Sony, and Merlin, but not yet Warner Music — Sources say it's aiming for a Thursday launch. — Pandora wants to launch two new music services, and it may be ready to do it this week.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial acquires US biometric authentication startup EyeVerify, source says for $100M — Alibaba's payments arm, Ant Financial, has acquired EyeVerify, a maker of optical recognition technology used byWells Fargo along with dozens of regional banks and credit unions across the country.| Jasper Jackson / Guardian: |
Google-backed First Draft's new coalition network, which aims to help improve social media newsgathering, adds Twitter and Facebook as partners — Channel 4 News, Telegraph, New York Times, Washington Post and BuzzFeed have also signed up to network organised through Google-backed First Draft
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Viacom, Hasbro, and others fined $835,000 for ad tracking on children's websites — The Attorney General's investigation found that websites for Barbie, Dora the Explorer, and other popular children's brands were tracking users to serve ads. While common on the web, ad tracking is forbidden …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft may discontinue Band fitness device, will focus instead on its cross-platform Health service — Microsoft's Band 2 fitness device looks to be at the end of its run. The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.
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| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
In letter this morning, Rothenberg asks limited partner investors to contribute working capital to keep the firm going — Rothenberg Ventures has been the talk of Silicon Valley over the last two weeks, as the small venture-capital firm led by charismatic 32-year-old Mike Rothenberg has essentially imploded.
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| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Nvidia debuts new AI-focused processors for data centers based on its Pascal design, says the new chips have 4x speed, 3x efficiency of previous models — Nvidia has launched a pair of GPUs that the chip giant claims are four times faster than last year's offering.
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Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal posted a loss of $28M in 2015, compared to $10M in 2014 — Cash burn shows the challenge the music-streaming service faces in competing with rivals Spotify and Apple Music — STOCKHOLM—In the year rap mogul Jay-Z took control of Tidal …
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See also Mediagazer| Hope King / CNNMoney: |
Sprint says the first three days of presales for new iPhones are up 375% vs last year; T-Mobile says the preorders are about 4x more than iPhone 6 — Demand for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus appears to be on fire. — T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S) announced on Tuesday pre-orders for Apple's …
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