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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 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, Silicon Valley Business …, KnowTechie, CNET, Engadget, and Recode
Tweets: @joshconstine and @paul__armstrong
| 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, Windows Central, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, and Engadget. Tweets: @er
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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| 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.| 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, Business Insider, Android Authority, Ars Technica, CNET, Thurrott.com, The Next Web, RAIN News, Neowin, Engadget, AFTVnews, Voicebot, SlashGear, Firstpost, GeekWire, Mashable, and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@stuartmiles
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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 …
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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 …
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| 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 … | 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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| 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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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, Telegraph, ZDNet, Coingeek, TechRepublic, Bitcoinist.com, CoinSpeaker, The Next Web, CCN, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, CryptoGlobe, Bitsonline, Cointelegraph, and Hacked. Tweets: @edmundedgar
| 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 …
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| 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| 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, Financial Times, TechCrunch, 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
| 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
| 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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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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Volexity, RiskIQ, eWeek, Windows Central, The Verge, Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, The Tech Report, Flashpoint, PCWorld, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, PaymentsSource, Security Affairs, Android Police, Inquirer, The Register, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Engadget, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, CNET, and Softpedia News
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| 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
| Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: UK plans Ofcom-like regulator with powers to enforce new regulations on legal content and behaviour online, fines for non-removal of illegal content — Exclusive: BuzzFeed News has obtained details of plans being drawn up by ministers that also include a compulsory code of conduct … | Malvika Joshi / Livemint: |
Amazon and Indian private equity firm Samara to buy More retail chain with 500+ locations; sources say for around $580M with Amazon owning 49% of the company — The transaction is said to be valued at around 4,200 crore — Mumbai: Private equity firm Samara Capital along with Amazon.com Inc. …
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Times of India, The Economic Times, Reuters, cnbctv18.com, The Financial Express, and Trak.in
| 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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