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| 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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| 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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option — The screen steals the show — The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
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| 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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| 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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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Alibaba's Jack Ma recants promise to Trump, made early last year, to help US economy add one 1M jobs, citing the current state of US-China trade relations — - Jack Ma, founder of Chinese retail giant Alibaba, has recanted his promise to Donald Trump to create 1 million U.S. jobs.
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers — Android phones will soon send Google Maps-like location data to emergency call centers — Emergency call operators will soon have an easier time pinpointing the whereabouts of Android phone users.| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss — Solid updates to a winning formula — Last year, Apple did something out of character: it introduced the usual update to the iPhone …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher shares flaw, reported to Western Digital in April 2017, that bypasses admin password for WD's My Cloud NAS drives; WD says fix coming in a few weeks — A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year.
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| Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child — The far-right figure allegedly met a teen on SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he told her he was a ‘big deal.’ — The founder of a an alt-right crowdfunding site and a 3-D gun-printing company …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display — Expected this Fall — Apple's recently released iOS 12.1 beta contains code that suggests a new iPad is coming this fall.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood wrote a blog post in 2013 in which he described having sex with an 11- or 12-year-old girl dying of AIDS; Wood says it was fiction — Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Gavin Wood wrote — and then deleted — a post about having sex with a preteen girl who was dying of AIDS.| 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.| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Multiple publisher sources claim Google Ad Manager has been down for several weeks; Google confirms issues but says the problem had been global for only 3 days — Publishers have struggled to get visibility on who is buying their inventory for the last two weeks, due to what many claim to be an unusually long Google Ad Manager outage.| CNN: |
DOD's new Cyber Strategy will allow the military to use offensive hacking operations to defend against cyberattacks on election systems and the energy grid — US intel warns of Russian threat to power grid — (CNN)The US military is taking a more aggressive stance against foreign government hackers … | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Quantum Metric, an enterprise SaaS startup that helps companies calculate how much revenue is lost from bad website design, announces $25M Series A led by IVP — Quantum Metric, an enterprise SaaS startup that helps companies calculate how much revenue is lost from bad website design …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Counterpoint Research: in Q2, Apple sold 43% of all $400+ phones and 88% of $800+ phones globally, and took 62% of global handset profits — Apple's iPhone earnings were over 3.6 times that of Samsung and over three times the profits of the top four brands in China, as the company sold 43 percent of all “premium” phones globally.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Documents show Nest's plans to enter the digital health business via the acquisition of Senosis, a startup focused on smartphone-based health monitoring systems — Google-owned Nest has been secretly laying the groundwork for a move into digital health products, a potential new line of business … Sponsor Posts
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