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Apple acquires ten-year-old Auckland-based wireless charging company PowerbyProxi — Auckland entrepreneur Fady Mishriki set up PowerbyProxi in 2007. — Apple has bought Auckland technology company PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum. — The tech giant released the news on Wednesday …
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Sources: Apple let suppliers reduce the accuracy of iPhone X's Face ID system to make it easier to manufacture and speed up production — The company let suppliers reduce accuracy of the phone's Face ID system to speed up production. — As of early fall, it was clearer than ever … | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Twitter will now label political ads with sponsors, including spending and targeting disclosures, and establish a Transparency Center database with all ads — - Twitter will clearly label political ads and require campaigns and organizations to disclose who bought the ad and how much they spent.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
New “Bad Rabbit” ransomware targets corp networks in Ukraine, Turkey, Germany, infects devices through hacked Russian media sites using NotPetya type methods — A new wave of ransomware has hit several targets in Russia and Eastern Europe on Tuesday, according to media reports and several security companies.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
DoJ subpoenas Twitter seeking details about five Twitter accounts including @Popehat, following a smiley emoji reply to them from a security researcher — So, here's a fun one. Back in May, the Justice Department — apparently lacking anything better to do with its time …
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| Katie Bo Williams / The Hill: |
Bipartisan bill unveiled to reform NSA's warrantless surveillance program and reauthorize it for four years, adding more privacy and oversight protections — A group of 11 senators on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to substantially reform the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Honolulu passes law, effective Wednesday, allowing police to issue $35 fines for looking at devices while crossing streets on first offense, and $99 on third — Hate it when you see people staring at their phones while crossing the street? You'll like this, then: it's about to be banned by a city for the first time.
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Sources: Target and other retailers are using legal rights in lease agreements to limit what Amazon can do with Whole Foods stores in malls across the US — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market met a new foe this summer during talks to lease a top retail space in a San Francisco mall: the Target next door.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
FCC filing: DirecTV has plans for an Android TV-based OTT 4K set-top box, that includes remote with integrated touch pad that supports voice commands — AT&T's DirecTV is getting ready to embrace internet-based content delivery beyond its DirecTV Now service: The company is about to introduce … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD returns to profitability in Q3 with $71M in net income and $1.64B in revenue, up from $1.3B YoY, as Ryzen takes off, but stock drops 10%+ on weak Q4 outlook — Advanced Micro Devices reported a net profit in the third quarter, thanks to the strength of its Ryzen and Epyc series processors that launched earlier this year.
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Amazon debuts new Appstore app for Fire and Android devices with better discovery and a focus on Amazon Coins — Amazon's Kindle app isn't the only mobile app from the company getting a makeover today. Amazon has also now quietly introduced a new version of its Appstore app for Fire TV, Fire tablets and Android devices.
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon Key bundle launched with a security camera and smart door lock that lets couriers unlock your door; starts from $250, preorder today, available Nov. 8 — The new in-home service will roll out to 37 US metro areas next month and eventually allow you to let in a dog walker or house cleaner, too.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Early Bitcoin dev and proponent of Bitcoin's SegWit2x upgrade, Jeff Garzik, debuts a cryptocurrency, Metronome, which he says works on multiple blockchains — Metronome to make debut at industry conference in Las Vegas — Bloq co-founder Jeff Garzik helped develop bitcoin blockchain| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia data shows Apple's “App of the Day” App Store section, introduced in iOS 11, has boosted downloads by 1,747% on average and 792% for games — New research from Apptopia, out today, takes a look at the impact getting featured as the App or Game of the Day on the new iOS App Store has on app downloads.
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Apptopia Blog, AppAdvice.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Jonathan Kay, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacRumors. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Sidney Fussell / Gizmodo: |
Researchers exploit Tinder, Ok Cupid, and other dating apps, find vulnerabilities that gives them access to users' real names, location, login info, more — Security researchers have uncovered numerous exploits in popular dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and OK Cupid.
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Inside Silicon Studio's Yokozuna, AI software used by game makers to profile player actions and influence their behaviour and spending — Psychological profile used to influence behavior, spending — Deep-learning software used to predict player actions| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
HashiCorp raises $40M Series C led by GGV Capital and Redpoint Ventures to expand its cloud infrastructure automation services — HashiCorp is probably best known for Terraform, its open-source tool for automatically provisioning infrastructure by describing it as code.
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