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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, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNBC, and Engadget. Tweets: @er
| James Trew / Engadget: |
GoPro Hero 7 Black review: much improved stabilization, improved UI, and native live streaming make it a winner, though there is no improvement in battery life — Ever wondered why GoPro's flagship camera is called “the Black” but has always been silver or gray? Well, with the Hero 7, the company has righted that wrong.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test, and limits users to expressing 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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The Verge, CNBC, Mashable, CNET, Engadget, KnowTechie, and Recode
Tweets: @joshconstine and @paul__armstrong
| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
Echo Sub, an Alexa-powered subwoofer, leaked via Amazon.co.uk, listed at £75, coming Oct. 11, can be paired with one or two Echo devices for stereo pairing — Amazon is adding a subwoofer to its Echo family, bringing the bassline to its Alexa-powered speakers.
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Fortune, Android Authority, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Thurrott.com, CNET, The Next Web, AFTVnews, Voicebot, SlashGear, Engadget, Firstpost, GeekWire, Mashable, Neowin, and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@stuartmiles
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
| 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.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 Amazon Go cashierless stores by 2021 — - Rapid expansion would rank it among biggest convenience chains — Retailer is testing different formats for AmazonGo strategy — Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open …
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CNBC, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Reuters, KnowTechie, Retail Dive, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, Forbes, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, Geek News Central, Firstpost, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, Engadget, and AndroidHeadlines.com
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| 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| 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 …
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| 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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Engadget, ico.org.uk, TechCrunch, CNET, Axios, ZDNet, Neowin, Fortune, and Inquirer
Tweets: @jason_kint, @profcarroll, @tim2040, and @jce_pc
| 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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Bloomberg, The Asahi Shimbun, ZDNet, Coingeek, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, TechRepublic, CoinSpeaker, The Next Web, CCN, NewsBTC, CryptoGlobe, 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| 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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| 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, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, Financial Times, and South China Morning Post. Tweets: @luluyilun
| Patrick McGeehan / New York Times: |
A remote corner of New York, which once attracted heavy industry, is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity — A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity.
Tweets: @davecullen, @ryanvlastelica, @dannorberts, and @nickconfessore
| 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 …
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| 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 … | New York Times: |
Inside Facebook's election “War Room”, which will be the company's hub for safeguarding elections around the world — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction.
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @sarahfrier, @nytmedia, @patricktbrandt, @dctwining, @joshconstine, @nytimesbusiness, and @marshallk
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google announces Cloud Memorystore for Redis leaves beta, vulnerability scanning for Container Registry, partnership with NEC Corp. to expand GCP in Japan — Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo '18 conference.
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TechCrunch, Google Cloud, ReadITQuik, ZDNet, SearchCloudSecurity, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
| Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg: |
Report says illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged 459% in 2018 YoY and that the spike is tied to the 2017 US government leak of hacking tool EternalBlue — - Cyber Threat Alliance releases report on cryptocurrency mining — Illicit cryptocurrency mining surged 459 percent in 2018
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Cyber Threat Alliance, NullTX, SiliconANGLE, Bitsonline, NewsBTC, CryptoSlate, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @business
| Securelist: |
Overview of the most popular attack vectors against IoT devices and which are most often compromised: MikroTik devices top the list, followed by TP-Link — Cybercriminals' interest in IoT devices continues to grow: in H1 2018 we picked up three times as many malware samples attacking smart devices as in the whole of 2017.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 — Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
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RiskIQ, Volexity, Windows Central, The Verge, PCWorld, Threatpost, Inquirer, The Tech Report, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, Flashpoint, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, PaymentsSource, Security Affairs, The Register, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Engadget, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, and CNET
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate the features of other web-based services, raises $40M Series F led by IVP, source says at a $1B+ valuation — Designing for digital interfaces has come a long way since the first days of the web, but there remains a place for tech … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q2, Google Home Mini led with 20% smart speaker marketshare on 2.3M shipments, and Amazon Echo Dot had 18% market share with 2.2M shipped — Amazon's Echo Dot may have been a bestseller on Prime Day, but Google's Home Mini device is now the top-selling smart speaker worldwide …
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Business Wire, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost, iPhone Hacks, and ZDNet
| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase hires Brian Brooks, former Fannie Mae executive VP and general counsel, as its chief legal officer — Crypto exchange Coinbase has hired a new chief legal officer in its ongoing push to grow its leadership team. — Brian Brooks, a former executive vice president …
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The Coinbase Blog, Fortune, TechCrunch, CoinSpeaker, American Banker, Cointelegraph, and Reuters. Tweets: @macroscope17
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