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AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro 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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Tweets: @ajassy, @stevekopack, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @mattblaze, @lorenzofb, and @josephfcox
| 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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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance — Today we're seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor …
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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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Tweets: @etherington, @chrisvelazco, @nateingraham, @natisho, and @appleinsider
| 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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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior — After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle.
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Tweets: @chimeracoder and @sjvn
| 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 … | 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 … | 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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Tweets: @campuscodi and @protonvpn
| 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, TechCrunch, YouTube Blog, CNET, KnowTechie, Engadget, The Hill, CNBC, Mashable, Axios, Boing Boing, YouTube, and Deadline. Tweets: @susanwojcicki
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Engadget, TechCrunch, Mashable, CNET, and TechSpot
Tweets: @avgregr, @robpegoraro, @douglevin, and @b_fung
| 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, Digital Trends, Android and Me, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, MacDailyNews, Android Police, Inquirer, Thurrott.com, and Firstpost
Tweets: @journeydan and @dcseifert
| CNN: |
Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with Infowars, some for helping InfoWars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban — New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN.| Piper Jaffray: |
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