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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has fixed a data deletion bug and is re-releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update that it pulled over the weekend — Software maker is making changes to Windows 10 testing — Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update today, following the company pulling …
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Tweets: @daniel_rubino and @helgeklein
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google announces $799+ 5.5" Pixel 3 and $899+ 6.3" Pixel 3 XL with slimmed down bezels, wireless charging, dual front cameras, preorder now, available Oct. 18 — Google just unveiled the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, its latest flagship Android smartphones. There was little left to “unveil” …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Live Albums, which uses AI to automate the sharing of photos with groups of people and displays them on the Home Hub as they are taken — Just ahead of today's Google's hardware event, the company quietly rolled out an update to its Google Photos application which introduces a new …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches Snap Originals, 12 daily scripted original shows for its Discover section, with each episode lasting four or five minutes — Snapchat needs reasons for teens to come back every day as it struggles to grow amidst competition from Instagram, so it's capitalizing on its Los Angeles roots.
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| April Glaser / Slate: |
Users on Discord are still freely exchanging pro-Nazi/white supremacy speech on the platform, more than year after a number of alt-right accounts were purged — Discord is a hub for 150 million gamers—as well as some of the worst people on the web. — Why LADbible Is More Popular on Facebook Than the New York Times
Tweets: @slate, @aprilaser, @communism_kills, @slpng_giants, and @loudmouthjulia
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Rubin's Essential is building a new kind of phone that will mimic the user and automatically respond to messages on their behalf — - Mobile device would conduct tasks itself or via voice control — Startup pauses work on home speaker to focus on new gadget| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Microsoft has discontinued support for the Apple TV version of Minecraft from September 24 due to lack of players, undermining Apple's push into gaming — - “Minecraft” is one of the most popular games in the world, and the second highest-selling game of all time.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, TouchArcade, The Mac Observer, VentureBeat, and InvestorPlace
Tweets: @macinteractive, @kifleswing, and @bricomedy
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US GAO releases report highlighting Pentagon failures around cybersecurity, including security of weapons, like using weak passwords — A government watchdog has said the Department of Defense has not done enough to protect critical weapons systems from cyberattacks.
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Tweets: @micahzenko, @joshuawbaron, and @qirex
| Ana Berman / Cointelegraph: |
Diar report: as Bitcoin mining revenues reach ~$5B in 2018, rising costs like electricity are making mining unprofitable for all but the biggest of players — Bitcoin (BTC) miner revenues for the first six months of 2018 have already surpassed results in 2017, but the miners themselves see little profit …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Report: Apple “dramatically” reduced the rate of fraud in its Chinese retail stores in recent years using secretly marked parts, changed repair policies, more — If you've ever wondered why Apple employees seem at least a little skeptical during requests for repairs …
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The Information, Engadget, MacRumors, Firstpost, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @jessicalessin, @amir, and @jessicalessin
| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Twitter says it will remove the ability to create Moments from its iOS and Android apps on October 23, making it a desktop exclusive — Twitter has announced today that it is removing the ability to create Twitter Moments from its iOS and Android applications.
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BetaNews, Engadget, Neowin, AndroidHeadlines.com, BGR India, Search Engine Journal, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @peteskomoroch, @weemundo, @sushubh, @martinsfp, @karoli, @mgsiegler, @tomwarren, @sub8u, and @artjonak
| Motherboard: |
Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile deny being the “US telecom” mentioned in today's Bloomberg story alleging compromised Supermicro hardware — No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek's bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
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Cult of Mac and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @josephfcox, @motherboard, and @lorenzofb
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Tweets: @kimzetter, @dangoodin001, @mims, @micahflee, and @johnpaczkowski
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook quietly begins testing Messenger Lite for iOS, which is only 10MB, starting in Turkey — A few days ago, Facebook quietly introduced a “Lite” version of its Facebook app for iOS devices, but only in a single market, Turkey. The app had been previously available only on Android.
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iPhone Hacks and Engadget
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia launches Rapids, an open source platform for data science and machine learning, to help bring GPU acceleration to data analytics, with IBM, HPE, others — Nvidia, together with partners like IBM, HPE, Oracle, Databricks and others, is launching a new open-source platform for data science and machine learning today.| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Andreessen, Altman, Kalanick, others named to a Saudi advisory board for a $500B megacity project amid journalist's disappearance; Jony Ive dropped from list — - More than a dozen high profile tech executives, including famous venture capital investors Marc Andreessen and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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CNET, ArgaamPlus, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @tomgara, @tomgara, @robaeprice, @rashmi, @rafat, @jrivanob, @teddyschleifer, and @amir
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Google debuts Pixel Slate, a Chrome OS tablet with a 3000×2000 display, 8-16GB of RAM, front and rear cameras, no 3.5mm jack; coming later in 2018 from $599 — Google just took the wraps off a new Chromebook device at its hardware event today. The company is launching its new Pixel Slate …
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The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, Softpedia News, and Engadget
Tweets: @ihnatko, @andrewmartonik, @rdrv3, @thatmatsmith, @tomwarren, @pierce, and @mehedih_
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