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Oculus demos standalone, midrange headset named Santa Cruz; prototype features four cameras to detect the real-world environment so you can walk around in VR — SAN JOSE, California — For as far VR has come and as good as the experiences have gotten, there still aren't many options for those who don't have a high end PC.| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
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Spotify and Apple Music add support for user-uploaded remixes after deal with music rights management firm Dubset — SoundCloud's big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don't release and that isn't on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren't.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant … | Bruce Schneier / Motherboard: |
Internet of things devices, which are often impossible to patch, will remain unsecure unless government steps in to regulate the industry — Brian Krebs is a popular reporter on the cybersecurity beat. He regularly exposes cybercriminals and their tactics, and consequently is regularly a target of their ire.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Duolingo launches iPhone-only AI chatbot to help users learn German, French, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon — Today's chatbots, for the most part, aren't all that useful, but what if you could use them to learn a new language? When it comes to learning languages … | Bloomberg: |
Inside Rocket Internet: an incubator that's much better at starting new companies than running them, and whose stock price has fallen 53% since its IPO in 2014 — Founder Oliver Samwer says his company is in great shape. But an examination of Rocket's operations reveals an incubator that's … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC to vote Oct. 27 on broadband privacy rules, requiring users to opt in on sharing sensitive data like location, children's information, and browsing history — Pay-for-privacy plans won't be banned, but ISPs face new opt-in requirements. — The Federal Communications Commission plans … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
LG's V20 flagship phone available in US on October 28 for $830 on AT&T; preorders start October 7 — Following an announcement from T-Mobile earlier today, AT&T has now confirmed that preorders for LG's new V20 flagship smartphone will kick off tomorrow Oct. 7 ahead of a launch on Oct. 28.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AT&T and Amazon sign multi-year deal for use of AWS on AT&T's network, with a focus on IoT, security, and more — The companies will focus on enterprise hybrid cloud deployments and networking, Internet of things, security and integration. — AT&T and Amazon Web Services have forged … | Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission opens investigation into Galaxy Note7 that forced evacuation of flight — Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Report: Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is planning an IPO for March 2017 that could value the company at $25B+ — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
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Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans — Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version …
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