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October 20, 2016, 10:15 AM
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Brad Plumer / Vox:
Tesla says all new cars, including models in production, will come with self-driving hardware but features will be rolled out over time as software is perfected  —  On Wednesday night, Tesla, the electric car company helmed by Elon Musk, announced that all new cars in production would be equipped with …
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Sequoia Capital hires Yahoo's Jess Lee, CEO of fashion site Polyvore, as first female US investing partner  —  Lee will leave her post as CEO of fashion and home decor site Polyvore.  —  Sarah McBride  —  For the first time in its 44-year history, Sequoia Capital, one of the most vaunted …
More: Business Insider.  Tweets: @eladgil
Alex Heath / Business Insider:
Mark Zuckerberg defends having Thiel as a Facebook board member in internal memo, says it's important to stand up for peoples' right to hold different views  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg clearly doesn't intend to distance his company from board member and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google reaches deal with CBS to carry network on Unplugged web TV service on YouTube, to debut early 2017; talks ongoing with 21st Century Fox, Disney  —  New service, to be housed on YouTube platform, is likely to debut in early 2017  —  Google Inc. has reached an agreement …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple sends out invites for event at 10AM PT on October 27 at its Cupertino campus, with tagline “hello again”; new Macs are expected to be announced  —  And we're back to the Mac  —  As expected, Apple just sent out invites for an event in Cupertino next week on October 27th.
Deanna Ting / Skift:
Airbnb bans hosts in New York and San Francisco from listing multiple homes starting Nov. 1, will update tech to limit NYC listings to one address per person  —  Supporters of Airbnb hold a rally outside City Hall in New York.  Today, Airbnb announced new policies in an attempt to alleviate concerns …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
LinkedIn says a Russian man arrested in the Czech Republic is believed to be involved in the 2012 breach, which saw the release of 117M passwords  —  Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say.  —  An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google releases Android 7.1 developer preview to beta testers with Nexus 5X, 6P, and Pixel C devices  —  No major surprises here: Earlier this month, Google announced that the Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview and its SDK tools would roll out to developers sometime later this month …
Kurt Wagner / Recode:
NBA will broadcast one game per week, minimum 25 games this season, in VR, in partnership with NextVR  —  They wont be free, but they will be ad-free.  —  The NBA is expanding its push into virtual reality.  —  The league announced Thursday it will broadcast at least one game per week …
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:
Greg Gopman, hired this month as Twitter's VR program manager, says he has been fired, after his comments about SF's homeless resurfaced  —  PR recovery 101: when you screw up this reality, move on to the next one.  —  Twitter seems to be slowly building up its AR/VR hires as its other real-world hopes …
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
LeEco launches the Le Pro3, a $399 Android 6.0 smartphone with 5.5-inch display, 16 megapixel camera, Snapdragon 821 processor, and no 3.5mm headphone jack  —  LeEco announced that its first smartphone in the United States will be the Le Pro3.  While the phone has been available internationally since …

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Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
Comcast reports Peacock revenue up 54% YoY to $1.9B and its adjusted EBITDA of $189M, its first-ever quarterly profit; film revenue rose 25% YoY to $3.04B

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Forbes Chief Content Officer and magazine EIC Randall Lane has left after joining in 2011; executive editor Kerry Lauerman will oversee editorial operations

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Ryan Weber / The Keyword:
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Anti-Defamation League: 2.6M anti-Semitic tweets were posted from Aug. 2015-July 2016 with 19K+ directed at journalists; “Trump” found in bios of many offenders
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
T-Mobile fined $48M by FCC for mischaracterizing its “unlimited” plan and throttling users' data when they reached the limit
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