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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG V40 ThinQ review: 6.4" QuadHD display, 6GB of RAM, Snapdragon 845, available for preorder now for $900+; five camera system is versatile but not high-quality — The V40 gives you a camera bag full of lenses in one device — All too often, when we evaluate smartphone cameras, we are looking at incremental improvements.
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LG Newsroom, Android Central, Android Authority, Android Police, Droid Life, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Beat, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, CNET, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @dcseifert, @volokin_project, @dcseifert, and @rossrubin
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
LG announces Watch W7 with a 1.2" display, mechanical hands, Android Wear, Snapdragon 2100 chipset, and a watch-only mode, available Oct. 14 for $449 — Android Wear recently got a substantial overhaul, and now it needs some fancy new hardware to run on. That's where LG's new Watch W7 comes in.
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Android Authority, TechCrunch, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Android Police, GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, Android Authority, PCWorld, Android and Me, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Central, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @greengart, @chriswelch, and @dcseifert
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a redesign for its Assistant app on Android and iOS, including introducing larger visuals and controls for smart home devices — Google today is launching a major visual redesign of its Assistant experience on phones. While the original vision of the Assistant focused mostly on voice …
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The Keyword, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Android Police, AndroidGuys, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @loupventures
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
US government ran the first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET today, with a message going to all US wireless users — Beginning at 2:18 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Americans across the country were interrupted by an urgent notification on their cellphones.
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
TD Ameritrade and a slew of Wall Street firms invest an undisclosed amount in cryptocurrency exchange ErisX, which plans to launch spot trading in Q2 2019 — Brokerage giant TD Ameritrade, a slew of high-speed traders, and a long list of Wall Street firms are getting behind a brand new market … | Ryan Gilliam / Polygon: |
Blizzard co-founder Michael Morhaime steps down as president, will remain an advisor, is succeeded by World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack — World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack is new president — Mike Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Wi-Fi Alliance rebrands 802.11n as Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac as Wi-Fi 5, and the upcoming 802.11ax as Wi-Fi 6 — Quick quiz: Which is better, 802.11n or 802.11ac? — The answer, if you're familiar with Wi-Fi standards coming from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is 802.11ac …
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Wi-Fi Alliance, The Verge, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, Cult of Mac, AnandTech, MacRumors, PC Gamer, Michael Tsai, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Android Police, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Windows Central, FierceWireless, Engadget, Fortune, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @cnetnews, @darylbaxter, @jbogard, @reckless, and @notpatrick
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Hortonworks and Cloudera announce all-stock merger valuing the new company at $5.2B; the two companies helped commercialize Hadoop open-source big data software — Cloudera stock jumped 17 percent on Wednesday after it announced an all-stock merger of equals with competitor Hortonworks.
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Tweets: @mjasay, @ericjackson, @jordannovet, @alex, and @rhatr
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon is transferring IT workers to Infosys as part of a $700M outsourcing agreement and has offered voluntary severance packages to about 44,000 employees — More than a quarter of carrier's workforce affected in effort to cut $10 billion in costs — Verizon Communications Inc.'s VZ .31% offer …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour; sources say bonuses could be hundreds per month — - Some long-time workers say the changes make their raises less — Amazon says all workers will see overall compensation increase
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Tweets: @coryprovost, @ranimolla, @profgalloway, @karlbykarlsmith, @rwdsu, @kashanacauley, and @spettypi
| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Report: after years of steady decline, BitTorrent usage is once again growing, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services with exclusive content — BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
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Sandvine, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Engadget, IndieWire, The Next Web, and Polygon
| Padraic Halpin / Reuters: |
Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which regulates multinationals with HQs in Ireland, says it has opened a probe into Facebook's recent data breach — DUBLIN (Reuters) - Facebook's (FB.O) lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) …
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Tweets: @dnvolz, @dseetharaman, and @itsnicolenguyen
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Interview with Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, on his new cryptocurrency startup Chia, which aims to be more eco-friendly than Bitcoin and launches next year — IN 2001, A 25-year-old unemployed college dropout named Bram Cohen crafted an elegant protocol for moving data around the internet.| CNBC: |
Barnes & Noble to look at strategic alternatives including a possible sale, after receiving interest from multiple parties including Chairman Leonard Riggio — - The announcement follows expressions of interest from multiple parties, including its chairman Leonard Riggio, it said in a statement.| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
GM and Honda partner to develop autonomous vehicles, with Honda investing $750M in GM's Cruise Automation subsidiary and contributing $2B towards development — Japan is bringing big money to self-driving car partnerships: General Motors has struck a new alliance with Honda to produce …
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Cruise, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Honda Newsroom, Axios, CNBC, CleanTechnica, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Wired, Bloomberg, InvestorPlace, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Engadget, Associated Press, New York Times, and The Verge
Tweets: @cruise, @binarybits, and @binarybits
| Samantha Cole / Motherboard: |
Wikipedia editors have voted to classify Breitbart as an unreliable reference for facts and decided that Infowars should be generally prohibited as a source — Alex Jones' InfoWars and the far-right media outlet Breitbart can't be used as a source of fact in Wikipedia articles anymore, “due to its unreliability.”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Marketplace introduces buyer and seller ratings and adds AI-based features to offer price range suggestions and auto-categorize items — Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered …
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Facebook, AndroidHeadlines.com, Neowin, NBC Bay Area, PYMNTS.com, and Digital Trends
| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
In cease-and-desist letter, eBay alleges that ~50 Amazon sales representatives worldwide used eBay's messaging system to try and poach sellers from its platform — In a cease-and-desist letter, EBay alleges Amazon sales representatives sent more than 1,000 messages to sellers on its platform
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New York Times, CNBC, KnowTechie, The Verge, The Hill, InvestorPlace, GeekWire, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNET, and Telegraph
Tweets: @shiraovide and @yoda
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank and Toyota partner to develop mobility services powered by autonomous cars, combining SoftBank's focus on IoT and Toyota's connected vehicles platform — SoftBank is getting into self-driving car services after the Japanese tech giant announced a joint-venture with Toyota in its native Japan.
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SoftBank, Financial Times, CNBC, and Reuters
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Freelancing platform Upwork closes up 40% on its first day of trading, with shares reaching $21, raising $187.1M+; the company is now valued at $1.5B — Freelancing platform Upwork's IPO received a hearty welcome on Wall Street as its public debut on the markets capped an unlikely journey …
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Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Owen Williams / Charged Tech Blog: |
After years of trying, and as Apple increasingly drops the ball, Microsoft's hardware event showed a coherent and appealing lineup of PCs, desktops, and tablets — At a low-key event held in a New York City warehouse, Microsoft unveiled its next iterations in the Surface lineup.
Tweets: @ow, @ow, @ow, @ow, @michaelgillett, @brianmcc, @luvsinha, and @markhachman
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
US judge finds ZTE violated probation imposed in 2017, extends term of a monitor appointed to assess ZTE's compliance with US export control laws by two years — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday issued an order finding that China's ZTE Corp violated probation imposed in March 2017 …
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