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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says iPhone X will be available for walk-in customers at retail stores on launch day, Friday November 3, encourages customers to “arrive early” — Apple today announced that stores will have iPhone X available for walk-in customers, who it encourages to arrive early, on launch day.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft drops suit against the US DoJ after the department announced new policy to limit the use gag orders by prosecutors for accessing customer data — Microsoft says it's dropping a suit against the U.S. Justice Department that targeted a tactic commonly used by prosecutors …
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| Adam Mosseri / Facebook Media: |
Facebook says its News Feed test is about emphasis of personal stories, no plans to expand to more countries or ask publishers to pay for all distribution — There have been a number of reports about a test we're running in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook testing News Feed change in six countries, moving non-promoted posts from Pages to a secondary feed, decreasing engagement for some media — New system could destroy smaller publishers if implemented, after journalists report drop in organic reach - but users will still see their friends' posts
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Misfit's 1.39-inch Vapor smartwatch with Android Wear 2.0, AMOLED display, and 4GB of memory, goes on sale October 31 for $200 — Nobody can say that Misfit Vapor is vaporware anymore. The smartwatch will finally be available for purchase on October 31st from Misfit's website …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Automotive supplier Delphi acquires Boston-based self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450M — Both companies have autonomous driving pilots in Singapore — Delphi, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, is acquiring Boston-based self-driving car startup NuTonomy for an upfront purchase price … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: typical AI specialists receiving $300K-$500K a year in salary and stock; well-known names in the AI field have received compensation totalling millions — Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire TV (2017) review: polished interface, solid Alexa integration, and inexpensive, but small 4K HDR catalog, and no volume buttons on remote — Technically none of the lights — Amazon made a big splash when it announced the new $70 Fire TV — it's a tiny powerhouse of a media streamer …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
ARM unveils Platform Security Architecture, a common industry framework for enhancing the security of IoT devices built on ARM Cortex processors — Arm hopes the adoption of its new PSA system will help protect trillions of connected devices in the future.
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| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
A second Bitcoin fork expected to take place within days for Bitcoin Gold; new code to be released to public Nov. 1 — When a group of Bitcoin users and companies split the digital currency into two different versions in August, it was an unprecedented event in the technology's nine-year history.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
TiVo launches new $199.99 Bolt Vox DVR, $179.99 Mini Vox with inbuilt voice search, and a remote control with voice search for recent, existing TiVo hardware — The voice remote is available separately for recent TiVo boxes — TiVo announced three new products this morning including two set-top boxes …
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| Bloomberg: |
Airbnb's China chief Hong Ge resigns abruptly after four months on the job; its regional director for Asia Pacific Kum Hong Siew will take over in the interim — Airbnb still faces stiff challenges from local competitors — In a blow to Airbnb Inc., the head of the company's China business … Sponsor Posts
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