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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Phil Schiller talks about the R in iPhone XR and the choices Apple made to make it more appealing to a broader audience — The iPhone XR might be the most interesting phone Apple has made in years. — Think about it: Apple just released its flagship XS and XS Max to a chorus of positive reviews …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Brendan Iribe, co-founder and ex-CEO of Oculus, is leaving Facebook; source: move follows shakeups in Oculus' VR arm that include canceling PC-powered Rift 2 — Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced today that he is leaving Facebook, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Super Micro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story — ‘[Tim Cook] is right. Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’ — Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Odyssey+, a $499 Windows Mixed Reality headset, with new light diffusion tech to address the screen door effect, available now in the US — Leaked two months ago by the FCC, Samsung's HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality headset became official today with a somewhat unexpected feature … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct — Executive steps down following WSJ article revealing allegations of sexual misconduct — Uber Technologies Inc.'s top deal maker, Cameron Poetzscher, has resigned from the company …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay launches eBay Instant Selling, a new trade-in service for smartphones — eBay today launched a new service to help users unload their old smartphones on its online marketplace. With eBay Instant Selling, as the service is called, consumers can list their device info, add images …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; from Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to buy a $10/month VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi — Selected Firefox users will be able to purchase a ProtonVPN version for $10. Some of the money will go to support Mozilla and Firefox.
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Future Releases, ProtonVPN Blog, The Verge, and Android Police
Tweets: @protonvpn and @campuscodi
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says European Union's copyright legislation, Article 13, threatens creators' livelihoods if implemented as proposed — ‘Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs’ — The European Union's contentious copyright directive became a major talking point …
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YouTube Creator Blog, Engadget, Mashable, The Hill, TechCrunch, YouTube Blog, CNBC, KnowTechie, Axios, Boing Boing, Deadline, and YouTube. Tweets: @susanwojcicki
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Pixel 3 and 3 XL owners report issues with camera not saving images, background apps being killed, and other glitches that may point to memory managment issues — With its Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Google has crafted some pretty fantastic smartphones in terms of the experience they offer.
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Android Police, BGR, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Android Police, Inquirer, Thurrott.com, and Firstpost
Tweets: @journeydan and @dcseifert
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix says it's going to raise $2B through debt securities, the sixth time in less than four years it's raising $1B+ through bonds — Netflix is again going to debt markets to fund its enormous appetite for content, announcing plans Monday to raise $2 billion in financing through debt securities.| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Huawei says it will not be selling its latest flagships, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, in the US after its predecessor was dropped by US carriers and Best Buy — - Huawei won't be selling its latest flagship devices, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro smartphones, in the US.
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XDA Developers, Thurrott.com, Softpedia News, BGR, and Neowin
| Michael Laris / Washington Post: |
Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021 — The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington …
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Self-Driven, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Mashable, and CNET
Tweets: @douglevin, @avgregr, @b_fung, and @robpegoraro
| New York Times: |
Detecting fake news using AI will require a number of major advances far beyond today's AI, which just flags word patterns and operates at a keyword level — At least not for decades to come. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg. — Dr. Marcus is a professor of psychology and neural science.
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Fortune. Tweets: @stevesi, @erictopol, @bendee983, @1br0wn, @ilparone, @amelia_acker, and @barryosullivan
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
White House to meet executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM today urging them to make it easier for their workers to do tours of duty in government — The White House plans to convene technology giants including Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and IBM on Monday and urge …
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CNET, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and Fortune
Tweets: @webdevlaw, @gabrielsnyder, @tonyromm, and @100zeroes
| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home Hub review: smart photo frame and home control panel, a capable digital assistant, photos and videos look crisp but sound quality is mediocre — Google Assistant helps this tiny screen feel powerful — The Good The Google Home Hub's touchscreen is responsive and works …
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Strategy Analytics …, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Android Police, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Google, Wired, The Verge, The Guardian, XDA Developers, KnowTechie, TechHive, SlashGear, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @gebandrew, @cnet, @cnet, and @c_davies
| Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
China's internet censor releases draft rules for blockchain startups, requiring registration of users with real names, censoring posts, and storing user data — - Cyberspace Administration of China published draft regulations on Friday for public consultation until November 2
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MIT Technology Review, The Verge, CoinDesk, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, BREAKER, Bitcoinist.com, The Next Web, NewsBTC, TechNode, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @pingroma and @jenzhuscott
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