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Amazon unveils Echo Auto, a $49.99 dash mounted in-car accessory that puts Alexa in any car with an aux jack and gives directions using Waze — As Amazon noted at today's event, the company has already been working with a number of car companies bring Alexa to vehicles.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils $34.99 Echo Input that can plug into any speaker to turn it into a smart speaker; coming later this year to US, UK, and Germany — Amazon is introducing a small new device that you can plug into any existing speaker to turn it into an Echo. It's called the Echo Input …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces an update to the $49 Echo Dot speaker with improved sound quality — A new, fabric design and better sound comes to the other members of the Echo lineup — Amazon has just announced an update to its most popular Echo speaker, the Echo Dot, along with its larger Echo Plus model that it had introduced last year.
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Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechRadar.com, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Ashlee Clark Thompson / CNET: |
Amazon launches a $60 AmazonBasics branded microwave that works with Alexa-enabled speakers, has built-in WiFi, and an Amazon Dash Replenishment — Amazon will begin to sell its own brand of Wi-Fi-connected microwaves that will respond to voice commands, the company announced Thursday at its headquarters in Seattle.| John Falcone / CNET: |
Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, available this fall in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $230, and a 4-tuner version with 1TB of storage — That Amazon DVR that was rumored a few weeks back? It's real, and it's here. The Fire TV Recast is a DVR, but it doesn't have its own video outputs.
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The Verge, US Day One Blog, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, and AFTVnews
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Amazon is holding a surprise event in Seattle at 1pm ET today to announce new hardware — Remember when Amazon held a “surprise” event last September and introduced a bunch of new Echo devices? Well, it's doing it again this year in what looks to become an annual hardware event.
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Engadget, BetaNews, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, Fortune, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, KnowTechie, Inquirer, Thurrott.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @omarg
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test and limits users to expressing their interest in a maximum of 100 people per day — Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its Dating feature.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro launches Hero 7 Black with live-streaming, super slow motion, smooth stabilization, and 4K video at 60 fps for $399, going on sale September 27 — With new cheaper options at $199 and $299 — Just a few hours after a last-minute leak, GoPro has officially announced the new Hero 7 line of cameras …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, iMore, Gizmodo, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, TechCrunch, and CNBC. Tweets: @er
| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
Reporter says Linus Torvalds' decision to temporarily step away from Linux maintenance came after he was asked a series of questions about his conduct — The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Google decides on suggestions for Gmail's Smart Reply, which is being rolled out to its 1.4B accounts, and make up 10% of all Gmail responses — Google's automated email replies, which are being rolled to its 1.4 billion accounts, have baffled users with some peculiar suggestions
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, BGR, Fortune, Mashable, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @wsj
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging — Geofenced sharing, Quiz stickers, Stories Highlight stickers, and a separate interface for adding hashtags to posts are amongst a slew …
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The Next Web, The Next Web, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Social Media Today, and All Things How. Tweets: @wongmjane
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Spotify says it will now allow indie artists to directly upload their music to the service; the upload feature is debuting in beta on an invite-only basis in US — The beta program is still invite-only — Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Bloomberg, Music Ally, Music Business Worldwide, CDM Create Digital Music, Fortune, KnowTechie, and Rolling Stone
Tweets: @pkafka, @danideahl, and @sammiscarlette
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB announces an investment from cloud computing company ServiceNow, and that it has acquired Clustrix, a scale-out database and drop-in MySQL replacement — MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix …
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| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
John Hancock, one of the largest life insurers in the US, will now only sell policies that track fitness and health data via wearable devices and smartphones — (Reuters) - John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance … | Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Amazon updates the $180 Ring Stick Up camera and adds a wired version with an ethernet cable, available later in the year — Amazon is rolling out a bunch of new gadgets today, a few of which are focused on home security. Among those is a new Ring Stick Up Cam, which will come in both wired and battery-powered versions.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNET
| BBC: |
Equifax fined the maximum £500,000 by UK's Information Commissioner's Office for failing to protect the personal data of ~15M Britons in 2017 breach — Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons.
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ico.org.uk, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, The Hill, Axios, CNET, The Hacker News, Neowin, Fortune, and Inquirer
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Study: online ad sales will increase 16% this year to $106.6B accounting for more than half of all US ad sales — - With new video services, their next phase of growth targets TV — Politics bolster local, national TV, Magna Global report says — Online advertising will account … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif says it was hacked and ~$60M worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin, were stolen from exchange's hot wallets — Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked with a loss of total 6.7 billion yen, or $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin.
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The Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg, Bitcoinist.com, Telegraph, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoin Magazine, ZDNet, CoinSpeaker, The Next Web, CCN, Coingeek, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, TechRepublic, Bitsonline, Cointelegraph, and Hacked. Tweets: @edmundedgar
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto pioneer David Chaum is unveiling Elixxir, a platform that promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second — A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
ESPN says it has signed up more than 1M paying subscribers for ESPN+, its $4.99 a month streaming service launched in April — For $4.99 per month, ESPN+ offers a range of sports programming; doesn't offer live ESPN channels — ESPN said it has signed up more than one million paying subscribers … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese on-demand services provider Meituan-Dianping closes up 5.3% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong after raising $4.2B in its IPO — - Tencent-backed app is burning cash to win market share — Meituan IPO is H.K.'s biggest since Xiaomi's in July
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @luluyilun
| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Eventbrite prices its IPO at $23 per share, at the top end of the range, raising $230M and valuing the company at $1.76B — Morning Report: Eventbrite kept the IPO wave rolling by pricing its debut at the top of its raised range. — Eventbrite, a venerable technology startup, priced its IPO at $23 per share.
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