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Sources: Apple strikes deal with Steven Spielberg to reboot Amazing Stories, an 80s sci-fi series, in its first major foray into creating original content — Director's Amblin Television, NBCUniversal TV production unit to make new episodes of sci-fi series from the 1980s
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Snapchat debuts context cards to let you hail rides, book tables, and more by swiping up on some Snaps; partners include Foursquare, OpenTable, and Lyft — I don't know I've reached Snap's global headquarters until I am standing in front of them, leaning on the handle of my rolling suitcase and puzzling over a map app.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter adds “Happening Now” feature to timelines on Android and iOS to group tweets by events, starts with sports and will expand to TV and breaking news — Twitter is adding a “Happening Now” feature that will group tweets by event, the company announced today.
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Tech Narratives
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
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Tweets: @jesarshah, @jesarshah, @kcoleman, @sriramk, @anildash, and @caseynewton. Thanks:@kantrowitz
| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a smart doorbell service to allow safe deliveries to inside the home and is partnering on system to deliver to car trunks — - Amazon is in advanced talks with Phrame, a smart license plate maker, to ship packages to your car's trunk, CNBC has learned.
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The Next Web, Business Insider, SlashGear, Engadget, The Verge, Phandroid, and Liliputing. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wells Fargo says 5,000+ US ATMs will let customers withdraw money using NFC with Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Wells Fargo's Android wallet app — Wells Fargo's ATMs are getting an upgrade. The bank announced today that more than 40 percent - or over 5,000 of its ATMs …
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newsroom.wf.com, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, USA Today, Android Authority, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, and AppAdvice.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft brings Cortana into Skype, over a year after first announcing the integration, to offer in-context assistance within chats, such as restaurant options — Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana has finally arrived in Skype. Announced at last year's Microsoft Build 2016 event … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for a tone-deaf VR avatar tour of Puerto Rico devastation that he livestreamed — Mark Zuckerberg is apologizing today after his Facebook Live video discussing his company's efforts to aid Puerto Rico's recovery raised some serious eyebrows.
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The Guardian, TheStreet, The Next Web, Salon, Fortune, and Newser
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils Pegasus computing platform for level 5 fully autonomous cars, delivering over 320 trillion operations per second, over 10x its predecessor — No steering wheels, no pedals, no mirrors — Nvidia, one of the world's best known manufacturers of computer graphics cards … | Katie Benner / New York Times: |
How Masayoshi Son plans to invest his ~$100B SoftBank Vision Fund: AI firms related to transportation, agriculture, medicine, more — SAN FRANCISCO — When Eric Gundersen, the chief executive of a mapping start-up called Mapbox, met Masayoshi Son, the head of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank … | Felix Krause: |
Developer shows how malicious apps on iOS can easily replicate the native system dialog box to phish for Apple ID passwords — Do you want the user's Apple ID password, to get access to their Apple account, or to try the same email/password combination on different web services?
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MacRumors, Ars Technica, The Register, Fortune, openradar.appspot.com, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, iMore, Motherboard, and The Hacker News
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Nokia says it will stop work on future versions of its Ozo VR camera and cut up to 310 staff, or about 30% of its workforce, in its Nokia Technologies unit — In an abrupt about-face, Nokia said Tuesday it will halt work on future versions of its Ozo virtual reality camera and cut …
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Nokia, Digital Trends, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Reuters, TechSpot, BBC, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Fast Company, ZDNet, Financial Times, and Fortune. Tweets: @fjeronimo
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen raises $11M Series A, led by True Ventures — Big screens apparently mean big money. — Virtual reality remote desktop app Bigscreen has added $11 million in Series A funding to its pocketbooks as it looks to weather some waning investor interest … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds OnePlus' OxygenOS does not anonymize telemetry data, lacks an opt-out setting — OxygenOS, a custom version of the Android operating system that comes installed on all OnePlus smartphones, is tracking users actions without anonymizing data, allowing OnePlus to connect each phone to its customer.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Russian internet giant Yandex launches Alice, an AI-powered Russian language assistant for its platform — Yandex is virtually unknown here in the States, but it's become something approaching a Russian Google (and Amazon and Uber) in the 20 years since its founding.| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
In the last year, Google has paid partners, including Apple and Android device manufacturers, $7.2B to be the default search, over 3x what it paid in 2012 — Traffic acquisition costs raise concern about pressure on margins. — There's a $19 billion black box inside Google.
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9to5Google, Android Authority, BGR, Android Central, and Slashdot
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researchers found Accenture left huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers in mid-Sept., including 40K unencrypted passwords; firm downplays hack — The four exposed servers had no password, but contained the “keys to the kingdom.” — Technology and cloud giant Accenture …
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