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Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — After weeks of equivocation, Twitter today permanently suspended the accounts of Infowars and its founder Alex Jones …
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| The Intercept: |
Interviews and documents show IBM used NYPD surveillance footage in 2012 to develop object identification tech that could search by skin color and more — In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google announces an event for October 9 in NYC where it is expected to announce the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL — Gosh, I wonder what it's announcing? — Google has sent out invites for an October 9th event that will almost certainly be the official announcement of the thoroughly leaked Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones.
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| Kif Leswing / INSIDER: |
Twitter says it's testing a redesign of its desktop site with night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and more; UI looks similar to Twitter on a mobile browser — Twitter is testing a redesign of its desktop website that adds a night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and other new features, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
BMW debuts the AI-powered BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant for its cars, available from March 2019 in 10 countries, including US and UK, and May 2019 in China — At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, BMW today premiered its digital personal assistant for its cars, the aptly named BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CFO says reports about the company abandoning plans to open a cryptocurrency desk are “fake news” — - The price of bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies tumbled after a report that the bank was ditching plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk.
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
British Airways says attack on its site, app from Aug. 21 to Sept. 5 exposed customers' personal and financial details, believes ~380K “card payments” breached — British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ announces hacking charges against a North Korean government spy, linked to the Lazarus Group, in connection with the 2014 Sony hack — The Justice Department will announce computer hacking charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2014 attack …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon debuts next gen Fire HD 8 with hands-free Alexa, 16 GB storage, support for up to 400GB via microSD; available for pre-order today for $79, ships Oct. 4 — An “all-new” Fire HD 8 tablet is on the way, but it's much more of a refresh than a major upgrade.
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft begins testing Cortana and Alexa support for the Xbox One, letting users power the console on and off and start games and apps — Microsoft's Xbox One is getting a whole lot easier to use. The company today announced a new Xbox Skill for Cortana and Amazon Alexa …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches a fleet of around 350 electric scooters in Denver, its first market, available for $1+ from 6AM to 8PM daily — The company is playing catch-up in a flush market, but it believes it can win by playing nice with cities — Lyft is the latest company to jump on the shared-scooter bandwagon …
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Sources detail how Spotify has quietly signed direct licensing deals with some artists, a move that is worrying major record labels — For decades, the path to stardom in the music industry has usually gone through a major record company. — Almost every artist today who reaches the top of the charts …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple to launch a web portal by the end of 2018 for authenticated law enforcement officers to submit data requests and is developing an online training module — Apple this week announced it will be launching a dedicated web portal by the end of 2018 for authenticated law enforcement officers …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber launching Uber Rent, which lets users book rentals from car sharing service Getaround, in SF this month, after originally saying it would launch in April — You may remember how Uber laid out its ambitions to become a multi-modal transportation company back in April …
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| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
Facebook says Joseph Chancellor, a psychology researcher tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has left the company, but declines to say when or why he left — A Facebook psychology researcher who previously helped harvest millions of Facebook users' profiles for the controversial Trump … | Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
A look at the rise of smart home fitness equipment startups, such as Mirror, which recently raised $25M, and Tonal, which makes a weight-lifting machine — Paul Wright, a smiling, impeccably jacked personal trainer, stared at me from the large screen mounted to the wall.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
MasterClass, which offers online classes from well known experts for a $180 annual fee, raises $80M Series D led by IVP — Filmmaking taught by Martin Scorsese? Comedy taught by Steve Martin? Chess taught by Garry Kasparov? Tennis taught by Serena Williams? Cooking taught by Gordon Ramsay?
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| Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Google gives YouTube TV subscribers the option of pausing their subscription for anytime between four weeks to six months — Pausing memberships isn't something that many subscription services offer, but YouTube TV is now joining that limited club. In the (probably pretty rare) …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart launches a new last-mile delivery pilot program called Spark Delivery in partnership with Bringg that costs $9.95/delivery with a minimum order of $30 — Walmart announced on Wednesday a new last-mile delivery pilot program, called Spark Delivery, which focuses on fulfilling customers' online grocery orders.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
PagerDuty, a provider of performance monitoring and notification tools for critical applications, raises $90M at a valuation of $1.3B — PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada is now running a startup valued at $1.3 billion. — Behind the scenes at companies like Capital One, PayPal and Netflix … | Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Uber partners with Japanese taxi company Fuji Taxi Group to let users hail cabs using the Uber app in Nagoya — - Users can hail cabs through Uber app in Nagoya from Thursday — Deal covers about 5% of taxis in Japan's third largest city — Uber Technologies Inc. has finally found … | Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: |
Review of DJI's Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom: reliable flying controls and great image quality but they're expensive and the battery on both is average — Choose your adventure: a bigger sensor or a zoom lens?| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell reports revenue of $22.9B, up 18% YoY, and projects $92B in adjusted revenue for 2019 as it weighs a plan to go public again — Dell Technologies Inc., the world's largest closely held technology company, reported growing sales, and increased its outlook for the year … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces a range of new chips to compete with Intel's lower-end lineup, including the dual-core Athlon 200GE for $55 — Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out its latest processors based on the Zen architecture that will attack the low end of rival Intel's product line.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Upwork, a marketplace for freelance developers, writers, and others, files for an IPO on Nasdaq and says it had $228M in revenue from June 2017-2018 — Another tech IPO is coming around the corner in what has been a strong year for startups taking the plunge and going public.
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