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The New York Times is buying online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M — Brian Lam sells his online consumer guide to the paper of record. — Amelia Krales for Recode
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Samsung's rushed replacement of Galaxy Note7 before finding the root cause of fires doomed the smartphone — On the verge of challenging Apple's mobile phone dominance, the South Korean company made a rushed decision, based on incomplete evidence, that later forced it to kill the model.
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In wake of botnet DDoS attack on DynDNS, Hangzhou Xiongmai issues US recall of webcam models that had easy-to-guess default passwords — Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co Ltd said it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after it was identified by security researchers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
IDC: Q3 smartwatch shipments down 51.6% YoY to 2.7M with Apple Watch down 72% YoY to 1.1M units, but the impact of new Apple Watch models remains to be seen — Maybe not everyone is convinced they need a smartwatch? According to a new industry report from IDC out this morning …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 10.1 with the iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait mode, which is still in beta — Apple has just released the first significant update for iOS 10. As expected, the main focus of iOS 10.1 is that insane Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. The update is rolling out and is available … | Bloomberg: |
TD Ameritrade and Toronto-Dominion Bank to acquire Scottrade for $4B — Acquisition would combine two of the largest online brokerages — Industry has been facing pressure from lower trading volumes — TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and its largest stakeholder, Toronto-Dominion Bank …
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| David Henry / Reuters: |
19 US banks to offer a money-transfer app Zelle with instant deposits by early next year, to compete against PayPal, Venmo, and Square Cash — By the end of December some U.S. bank customers may begin to notice features of the new Zelle instant payments network appearing on their mobile phone …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, CoinTelegraph.Com News, TechSpot, Tom's Guide and NFC World. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger, which currently only supports debit cards, will get new PayPal payment option in US; users will also get in-app PayPal payment notifications — PayPal has announced that it's rolling out as an additional payment option within Facebook Messenger, which currently supports payments via debit cards.| Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: |
Inside the discovery, investigation, and attempted mitigation of the devastating OPM breach last year — The US OFFICE of Personnel Management doesn't radiate much glamour. As the human resources department for the federal government, the agency oversees the legal minutiae of how federal employees … | Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Study: share of women in the US computing workforce on pace to decline from 24% to 22% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more to study computer science — SAN FRANCISCO — New research warns that the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 …
Tweets: @sumaya
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile Q3 earnings beats estimates with revenue up 18% to $9.2B, 969K new postpaid customers, net income of $366M up from $138M a year earlier — Unlimited data, Binge On attracts 969,000 monthly users — Carrier driving profits despite price cuts, giveaway promos
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GeekWire, GeekWire, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MarketWatch, NASDAQ.com and Reuters. Tweets: @business
| Ben Sullivan / Motherboard: |
Researchers phish their way into a 3D printer-connected computer to sabotage blueprints for a drone propeller, causing the drone to crash 2 minutes into flight — It's 2016, and mostly anything is hackable. And while the ramifications of computer hacks are usually limited to leaks … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers demonstrate exploiting the Rowhammer hardware flaw from app with no special user permissions, rooting devices from LG, Motorola, Samsung, OnePlus — Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. — Researchers have devised an attack …
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Inquirer, Wired, NDTV Gadgets 360, The Hacker News and Tech Times
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