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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces an update to the $229.99 Echo Show, with a 10" display, Dolby speakers, an eight microphone array, built-in Skype, third party browsers, more — Today's Amazon event is full of surprises, but you could have predicted this one from a mile away.
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| John Falcone / CNET: |
Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, available this fall in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $229.99 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.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces an update to the $49.99 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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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Engadget, Telegraph, MacRumors, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNET, ZDNet, Business Insider, IGN, iPhone Hacks, TechRadar.com, Pocket-lint, and Thurrott.com. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| 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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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, and VentureBeat
| Ashlee Clark Thompson / CNET: |
Amazon launches a $59.99 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.
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| 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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The Verge, Android Authority, CNBC, Mashable, Fortune, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget, Recode, KnowTechie, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| 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, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Adweek, Refinery29, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, Social Media Today, and All Things How. Tweets: @wongmjane
| 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.
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| 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 … | 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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TechCrunch, Business Wire, iMore, KnowTechie, TechCrunch, CNBC, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget. Tweets: @er
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Google decides on Gmail's Smart Reply suggestions, which make up 10% of all Gmail responses, as the feature gets rolled out to all 1.4B accounts — 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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Digital Trends, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Lifehacker, BGR, Gizmodo, Mashable, Fortune, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Adobe says it is acquiring the marketing automation company Marketo for $4.75B — A week ago rumors were flying that Adobe would be buying Marketo, and lo and behold it announced today that it was acquiring the marketing automation company for $4.75 billion.
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Adobe Newsroom, CNBC, GeekWire, ZDNet, AdExchanger, Axios, and Investor's Business Daily
| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Amazon updates the $179.99 Ring Stick Up camera and adds a wired version with an ethernet cable, available for preorder now and shipping Oct. 18 — 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 …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, and CNET
| 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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MariaDB and SiliconANGLE
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Meredith Perry has stepped down as CEO of uBeam, the controversial wireless charging startup she founded in 2011 — Meredith Perry has stepped down as CEO of uBeam, the controversial wireless charging startup she founded in 2011, Axios has learned.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber is in early talks to buy London-based food-delivery company Deliveroo for several billion dollars; Deliveroo was last valued at more than $2B — - Deliveroo was valued at $2 billion in financing last year — Uber Technologies Inc. is in early talks to buy food-delivery company Deliveroo …
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Business Insider and Reuters
| Shannon Vavra / Axios: |
John Bolton says Trump signed off on a new national cyber strategy to guide how the administration handles cyberthreats, offensive and defensive cybersecurity — President Trump has signed off on a long-awaited national cyber strategy that aims to guide how the administration handles offensive … | 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 … | 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, The Hacker News, Neowin, Fortune, Inquirer, CNET, and Axios
Tweets: @tim2040, @jce_pc, @jason_kint, and @profcarroll
| 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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
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