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Live stream of Apple's October 2018 Special Event — - This stream is best experienced on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using Safari on iOS 10 or later; a Mac using Safari on macOS Sierra 10.12 or later; or a PC using Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. Streaming to Apple TV via AirPlay requires an Apple TV … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple unveils MacBook Air with Retina 13.3" display, 50% narrower bezel, wedge design, Touch ID, USB-C ports, no Touch Bar, 8th gen Intel CPU, for $1,199+ — Apple has brought the MacBook Air back to life today, announcing the first proper refresh of its super thin laptop line in three years during its October hardware event.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces an updated Mac mini in space grey with Intel 8th gen CPU with four to six cores, up to 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD, starting at $799 for 8GB RAM model — Now that the Air's got shiny new update, it's time for the other major neglected entry in the Mac line.
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's event from Brooklyn, New York, where new iPad Pros and MacBooks are expected — Event Details On October 30th, Apple is holding its second Fall hardware announcement. We're expecting a new iPad Pro with FaceID and no home button as well as the successor to the MacBook Air.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it will release iOS 12.1 on October 30 with Group FaceTime, new emoji, Dual SIM support, and more — iOS 12.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch will be available tomorrow as a free software update. The first significant update to iOS 12 brings a variety of features including Group FaceTime …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Apple says there are now 100M active Mac users, with 51% of buyers buying for the first time — Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the company's “More in the Making” event in New York City that the company has 100 million active Mac users. He added that 51 percent of Mac buyers are …
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| Asiff Hirji / The Coinbase Blog: |
Coinbase raises $300M Series E led by Tiger Global Management at a post-money valuation of $8B+ — At Coinbase, we believe that cryptocurrencies and the technologies that power them represent a breakthrough in computer science that will change both the internet and the global financial system for the better.
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Leaked document shows Coinbase is projecting 2018 revenue of ~$1.3B and a profit of $456M, up from revenue of $923M and profit of $380M in 2017 — In the last year, the cumulative value of all major cryptocurrencies has tumbled by more than 70 percent. But that doesn't mean no one's making money in crypto anymore.| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Nintendo says it sold 3.19M Switch units in Q2, passing the GameCube's total sales with 22.86M units, and reports profit of ~$274M on revenue of ~$1.96B — The Nintendo Switch has overtaken another console in lifetime sales: the GameCube. The company sold 3.19 million units in the last quarter …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: 200+ Google engineers organizing company-wide “women's walk” walkout, expected Nov. 1, following reports of Google protecting alleged sexual harassers — A group of more than two hundred engineers at Google are organizing a company-wide “women's walk” …
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| Ian Small / Evernote: |
Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill to depart and be replaced by Ian Small — Hi, I'm Ian Small. — Today is my first day as CEO of Evernote. — This morning, the Evernote board announced to the team that Chris O'Neill was leaving the company and that I was joining as CEO.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
As Google rolls out a news feed under the search box on its mobile homepage, questions remain about the effects it could have on society — This is exhausting; I'm exhausted — I woke up this morning to two pieces of news that I couldn't help but see as two sides of the same coin …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Interview with Brock Pierce, founder of Block.one and chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, on helping Puerto Rico, cryptocurrency games, and fighting controversy — Brock Pierce is a blockchain billionaire, one of the people who got into cryptocurrency when Bitcoin was in its infancy.| Rose Eveleth / Motherboard: |
NY's Lockport City school district has begun implementing a controversial surveillance system with facial recognition software and a tool to identify guns — Installed in the wake of recent high-profile mass shootings, controversial facial recognition systems that scan students' faces …
Tweets: @evanselinger, @motherboard, @nyclu, @torproject, and @jason_koebler
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases reCAPTCHA v3 API that is more customizable and runs adaptive risk analysis in the background to alert webmasters of suspicious traffic — CAPTCHAs are a common test on the web and are designed to differentiate between actual users and bots.| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
How China-based Bytedance, worth ~$75B, has crossed borders with relative ease by focusing on apps with light, affirming fare aimed toward young people — BEIJING — A Chinese internet company that serves up homemade break-dancing videos, dishy news bites and goofy hashtag challenges …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @zhonggg, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimes, @paulmozur, and @nytimesbusiness
| Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Sony reports Q2 profit of $2.1B, up 17% YoY, on revenues of $19.5B, up 6% YoY, and boosts annual profit outlook by 30% to $7.7B — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp boosted its annual profit outlook by 30 percent to a record level after a strong second-quarter, propelled by popular game titles like …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Lime has hired Uber's former business chief David Richter to oversee M&A, sales strategy, and other finance operations; he will also serve as interim CFO — David Richter will serve as Lime's chief of business, where he will oversee mergers and acquisitions, sales strategy and other finance operations
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK chancellor announces a new 2% digital services tax that will come into effect in April 2020 for profitable tech companies that generate £500M a year globally — The UK government has announced a new “digital services” tax of two percent that it plans to start levying on the UK revenues …
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Tweets: @hmtreasury, @charlesarthur, @jamesliamcook, @shonaghosh, and @wsj
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says over the last five years it has donated $100M+ to charity through AmazonSmile, its shopping portal that donates to a charity of the shopper's choice — Amazon revealed that it has donated more than $100 million to charitable causes since the launch of AmazonSmile exactly five years ago.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider — Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service.
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Tweets: @getongab, @marisakabas, @nbcnews, @espiers, @bcappelbaum, @alexstamos, @mikeisaac, @ashleyfeinberg, and @cwarzel
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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