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| Aditya Koolwal / Facebook: |
Facebook launches standalone Events app on iOS to help you find, track, and manage events; Android version is coming soon — Every day, more than 100 million people use Facebook events to discover things they can do with their friends — from festivals and 5Ks to neighborhood fairs and nightlife.
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App Store, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, The Next Web, USA Today, VentureBeat, Engadget, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, iPhone Hacks, Android Beat, Droid Life, Mashable and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @dannysullivan and @mgsiegler
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
After Samsung Galaxy Southwest Airlines incident, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile now offer exchange options for Note7 replacement models — A replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 started smoking and burned through the carpet on board a Southwest flight this week.| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
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| Bruce Schneier / Motherboard: |
Internet of things devices, which are often impossible to patch, will remain insecure 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.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft sends invites for Oct. 26 event; sources say desktop Surface PC is coming but no refreshes to Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book expected — Microsoft is holding a special Windows 10 and Surface event in New York City later this month. The software giant has started emailing out invites …
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ZDNet, Windows Blog, USA Today, ZDNet, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Liliputing, The Fire Hose and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @zdnet and @saschasegan
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Full panel of US Court of Appeals reinstates $120M verdict Apple won against Samsung in a patent case — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Appeals court said panel was wrong to toss verdict in February — Supreme Court to consider second Apple-Samsung case next week
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Comcast's 1TB data caps start to roll out nationwide — Go over that amount and you could face overage charges. Unlimited data costs $50 extra. — Comcast's data restrictions are going from testing to reality for most of its customers. Its 'XFINITY Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan …
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Comcast Voices, GeekWire, Techdirt, CNET, DSLreports, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Verge, TechHive, Digital Trends, CNET, Consumerist and Lifehacker
| Oculus: |
Oculus Connect 3 roundup: Touch, Santa Cruz prototype, Oculus-ready laptops, 400+ mobile VR apps, and more — This year's Connect is the third time we've brought the VR developer community together, and it's our largest event yet. There are nearly 3,000 people here today … | Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
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Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware and The Verge
| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
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GeekWire, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Engadget, The Verge, Fast Company, Road to VR, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNET, pcgamer, CNBC, New World Notes, Polygon, Silicon Valley Business …, Road to VR, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE and Associated Press
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Source: email scanner installed after government order was not a modified spam filter; Yahoo's security team thought it was a rootkit when they discovered it — The spy tool that the US government ordered Yahoo to install on its systems last year at the behest of the NSA or the FBI was a …
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The Intercept, American Civil Liberties Union, Tom's Hardware, InfoWorld, gHacks Technology News, Ars Technica, Breitbart and SlashGear
Tweets: @derektmead, @lorenzofb, @dinodaizovi, @trevortimm and @glynmoody
| 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 …
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Computerworld, Gizmodo, DSLreports, Communications …, New York Post, Light Reading, Vanity Fair, Silicon Valley Business …, SlashGear, RCR Wireless News, Silicon Republic, Beyond Search, Deadline, Tom's Guide, PYMNTS.com, emptywheel, SiliconANGLE, Consumerist, SiliconBeat, Tech Times, VatorNews, Engadget, Investor's Business Daily, Network World, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, USA Today, CNET, USA Today and Business Insider
Tweets: @snowden, @randomoracle, @csoghoian, @mikko, @abnerg, @dtunkelang and @jeremiahg
See also Mediagazer| 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 …
Tweets: @thenextwoods, @satariano and @business
| 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 …
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Tech Times, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Mashable, Engadget, Lifehacker, BetaNews and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jonrussell and @mapelen
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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