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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission grants conditional approval for Paramount's WBD acquisition as long as Paramount ends its EU distribution deal with Universal Pictures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

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Aoife White / Bloomberg:
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says regulators are probing how Amazon gathers and uses info on sales made by competitors on Amazon Marketplace
Sara Fischer / Axios:
eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market
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