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| Keith Collins / Quartz: |
Android phones send nearby cell tower address data to Google even when location services are disabled; Google says it will end the practice by end of November — Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps …
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Tether, a service that offers dollar-backed digital tokens, says tokens worth $30M were stolen by hackers and it has suspended its back-end wallet service — Tether, the company behind a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency widely used in the market's exchange trade, is claiming that its systems …
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Tether, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Inquirer, Bank Innovation, The Next Web, BleepingComputer.com, Quartz, The Verge, BBC, CryptoCoinsNews, Mashable, HackRead, BetaNews, Tech Times, OKEx, Seeking Alpha, Motherboard, The Hacker News, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, NEWSBTC, The Register, Fortune, Cointelegraph.com News, CNBC, DataBreaches.net, and Virtual Mining Bitcoin News
Tweets: @ofnumbers, @thestalwart, @ummjackson, @fdevillamil, and @ummjackson
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Skype has been unavailable on Apple and third-party Android app stores in China for nearly a month — SHANGHAI — One of the last foreign-run tools for online communication in China appears to be in trouble with the authorities there. — For almost a month, Skype, the internet phone call …
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Windows Central, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Axios, The Verge, Softpedia News, Mashable, The Daily Caller, Gotta Be Mobile, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, On MSFT, iLounge, Ubergizmo, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @paulmozur
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's HomePod speaker, which has limited features compared to Amazon's Echo, started as a side project and was cancelled and revived several times — The Apple speaker started as a side project, was cancelled and revived several times and can't do as many things as the Echo.
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CNET, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Seeking Alpha, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @markgurman and @charlesarthur
| CNBC: |
DoJ files antitrust suit to block AT&T/DirecTV's $85B proposed acquisition of Time Warner, says merger would lessen competition and result in higher prices — The Department of Justice is suing to block AT&T's $85 billion deal to buy Time Warner. “Today's DOJ lawsuit is a radical …
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Tweets: @adamshermanesq, @mcuban, @tonyromm, @danprimack, @tvnewser, @ceciliakang, @reuters, @danprimack, @pkafka, and @stevekovach
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches AWS Secret Region for US intel agencies and their partners working with “secret” classified data, to complement its air-gapped Top Secret Region — Amazon today announced that its AWS cloud computing service now offers a new region that's specifically designed … | Tamara Chuang / Denver Post: |
Colorado fines Uber $8.9M after investigation found Uber allowed drivers with suspended or revoked licenses and felony convictions — Competitor Lyft also was investigated but no violations were found — Colorado regulators slapped Uber with an $8.9 million penalty for allowing 57 people … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC unveils its plan to repeal net neutrality rules, a move that would give ISPs broad powers to determine which websites and online services customers use — Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Justice Department charges Behzad Mesri, an Iranian citizen, for allegedly hacking HBO and demanding a $6M bitcoin ransom in July — The Department of Justice announced charges against the hacker who ruined HBO's summer. — In July, a hacker leaked scripts for popular HBO series … | The Economic Times: |
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, says it will roll out blockchain-enabled smart contracts in beta by next month — BENGALURU: India's largest lender State Bank of India will roll out beta launches of blockchain-enabled smart contracts by next month, according to Sudin Baraokar, head of innovation, SBI.| Pan Yue / China Money Network: |
Chinese ride-booking app Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur raises $105M from NIO Capital, Baidu, and Silk Road Huachuang Beijing, bringing Series B total to $193M — Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur, a Chinese ride-booking app backed by Beijing-based automobile company Shouqi Group …
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| Reuters: |
Uber to buy up to 24K SUVs from Volvo equipped with autonomous technology in a non-exclusive deal from 2019 to 2021; Uber will add its own self-driving tech — STOCKHOLM/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking the transition of the U.S. firm …
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