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| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus repudiates WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's Forbes interview, defending Facebook and calling Acton's attacks a new standard of “low-class” — [Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
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Forbes and Business Insider
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization — hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …
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ZDNet, Business Insider, CNET, CNBC, Telegraph, TechCrunch, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Slashdot, VentureBeat, Firstpost, Mashable, and Fortune
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| Kevin Systrom / Instagram: |
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Bloomberg, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, CNNMoney, Socialnomics, CNBC, The Interface, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, New York Magazine, and Boing Boing
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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Oculus, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Windows Central, CNET, ZDNet, Engadget, Digital Trends, Facebook, Mehedi Hassan, Gizmodo, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, GeekWire, Windows Central, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Engadget, Reuters, Variety, IGN, Bloomberg, SlashGear, CNBC, Variety, SlashGear, Oculus Blog, Fortune, Mashable, GameSpot, Windows Central, and Variety
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus updates its Go headset with fixed foveated rendering to improve image quality, YouTube VR, and more — Alongside other announcements today at its Connect 5 event, Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus announced a number of new features for its Oculus Go standalone VR headset …
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Oculus Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Gamasutra
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Oculus announces updates to its platform, including a revamped Home with improved avatars and more, and developer-focused Hybrid Apps for porting 2D games — This year's Oculus developer conference — Oculus Connect 5 — was chock full of hardware, software, and games announcements …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth — The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasn't delivered: money. — In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
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Daring Fireball, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
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| U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce …: |
Video stream of US Senate hearing on “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” with testimony from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation … | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison says the company has raised $245M at a $20B valuation, up from $9B in November 2016 — The famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman often says that his biggest investing whiff was passing on Stripe Inc. As each year ticks by, it's becoming easier …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Axios
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Android Police, The Next Web, KnowTechie, Mashable, and The Verge
| Zach Koch / The Keyword: |
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins — We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
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The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch, CNET, ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, Thurrott.com, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Softpedia News, CNBC, BetaNews, Neowin, TechSpot, Firstpost, Liliputing, Threatpost, The Register, Inquirer, MacRumors, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @lukolejnik, @jmalonzo, @nick_craver, @kimzetter, @rmhrisk, and @carnage4life
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says Facebook and Messenger Stories now have a combined 300M DAUs and it will roll out ads to Facebook Stories globally now and Messenger Stories soon — Facebook announced today at a press event in NYC that Stories now has 300 million daily active users across Messenger and Facebook …
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Facebook, Engadget, Neowin, Search Engine Journal, iPhone in Canada Blog, and CNBC
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions — Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
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Circle, Cointelegraph, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Magazine, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Bitsonline, CryptoGlobe, and NewsBTC
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users — Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information … | Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Alphabet's DeepMind partners with Unity to accelerate machine learning by building virtual environments to develop and test AI algorithms — Intelligent design versus evolution isn't just a divide in people's worldviews. It's also been a divide in the artificial intelligence community.
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Engadget, ZDNet, and VentureBeat
| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
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The Coinbase Blog, Block, BTCMANAGER, BREAKER, Crypto Briefing, TechCrunch, CryptoGlobe, Crypto Recorder, Trustnodes, NewsBTC, and CoinSpeaker
Tweets: @coinbase and @readdanwrite
| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings — As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
Tweets: @ilvestoomas, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @justinhendrix, and @jakesilverstein
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks — Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
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Xbox Wire, BetaNews, Business Insider, VG247, TechSpot, Firstpost, KnowTechie, Liliputing, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Redmond Pie, CNET, and Forbes. Tweets: @chupchap
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US — To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber says it will spend $10M over three years to support eco causes in cities it operates in and will install bike charging stations starting in Sacramento — Including $1 million to support congestion pricing in New York City — Uber made a series of announcements Wednesday designed …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Slate, CNBC, and Curbed
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, raises $30M Series C led by Meritech Capital — Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round.
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SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, and VentureBeat
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Female-focused digital health startup Maven raises $27M Series B, co-led by Sequoia and Oak HC/FT, and launches breastmilk delivery service Maven Milk — Despite the increase in women in the U.S. workforce and public pledges from several high-profile CEOs to close the gender pay gap, women …
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PR Newswire and VentureBeat
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others sign up to the EU's Code of Practice, a form of voluntary self-regulation aimed at curbing the spread of fake news — The European Union's executive body has signed up tech platforms and ad industry players to a voluntary Code of Practice aimed at trying …
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EU Press Room and CNET
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare enlists Microsoft, Google, Automattic, Backblaze, and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs — With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called …
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SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch
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