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| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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Tweets: @android, @codinghorror, @cgartenberg, @rdrv3, @pranavdixit, @ronamadeo, @rdrv3, and @backlon
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light, new iPads, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro next month — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @saradietschy, @business, @tomwarren, @gerritd, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @pierce
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters — KEY POINTS — In a blog post Thursday, Google said it axed more than 200 YouTube channels due to misinformation around Hong Kong protests.
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The Keyword, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, NBC News, CNN, The Hill, Washington Post, CNET, TechCrunch, New York Times, The Verge, Axios, and Associated Press
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome team proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track users across the web — Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web.
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The Keyword, Chromium Blog, The Keyword, The Seattle Times, Digital Trends, GitHub, PYMNTS.com, Android Police, Threatpost, Engadget, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, CNET, Thurrott, AdExchanger, and Digiday
Tweets: @mtravizano, @justinschuh, @wendyndavis, @stshank, and @wilto
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook — Knewz.com will surface articles from hundreds of news sources, using software and human curation — News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant …
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| ProPublica: |
Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board — Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
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GeekWire, FedScoop, and Fortune
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Preempting Sonos' leaked Move speaker announcement next week — Bose just announced a surprise product: the Portable Home Speaker …
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Bose Global Press Room, Android Central, Tom's Guide, Engadget, TechHive, Android Police, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @reckless
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B — KEY POINTS — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black, a cybersecurity company that went public in 2018, the companies announce as part of VMware's quarterly earnings report.
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TechCrunch, The Register, SiliconANGLE, GlobeNewswire News Room, VMware, Inc., VMware, Inc., ZDNet, and Tehrani.com. Tweets: @jordannovet
| CNBC: |
Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election — - Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after making controversial comments about his role in the “Deep State.”
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Overstock.com Inc., New York Times, CoinDesk, Modern Consensus, Observer, TechCrunch, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @kris_sacrebleu, @joncoopertweets, @berthacoombs, @thestalwart, @imagineworldas1, @cnbc, and @seth_hettena
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls — Twelve of the country's largest telephone companies on Thursday pledged to implement new technology to spot and block robocalls …
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Reuters, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, TmoNews, and FierceWireless
Tweets: @joshstein_, @davemcclure, and @gigibsohn
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board — The changes are arriving a month after DoorDash's CEO promised to address the issue — DoorDash today announced more concrete details …
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Tweets: @jimprosser, @chillmage, @amir, and @nickstatt
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1 — KEY POINTS — HP CEO Dion Weisler will step down from the company “due to a family health matter,” HP announced Thursday.
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HP - Home, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, The Verge, Engadget, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, and CRN. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess — The most phone — How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone? — That's the essential question for the Note 10 Plus.
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iFixit, 9to5Google, Engadget, Thurrott, Gizchina, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Central, Digital Trends, and Gizmodo. Tweets: @backlon
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation — In response to a need to enforce short term rental legislation, an industry of companies has popped up tasked with finding …
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @charlesknight, @vice, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, and @vice
| Alison Frankel / Reuters: |
Oracle board committee recommends court to proceed with the shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9.3B NetSuite acquisition in 2016 — (Reuters) - Shareholder derivative suits exist because corporate directors can't always be trusted to put aside their own interests …
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus — KEY POINTS — Pedestrians walk past Google headquarters in New York. — Krishna Bharat, the inventor of Google News, has returned to the company … | Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods — Amazon delivery drivers were surprised to learn earlier this year that the e-commerce giant would at times dip into their tips to cover their promised wages.| Facebook Technology: |
A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible — VR hardware was tethered to a PC — until one Facebook engineering team found a way to cut the cord — When Anna Kozminski joined Facebook as a software program manager …
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Facebook AI, TechCrunch, CNET, CNN, VRFocus, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @boztank, @hbarra, @gabeaul, @id_aa_carmack, @oculus, and @facebookai
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace — IN 2018, MEI'LANI Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship — (CNN)Officials from the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have expressed serious concerns … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon buys 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, and would give Amazon 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail — Amazon, which has invested more than $6 billion in India's growing internet market, just invested a little more as it moves …
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| Washington Post: |
Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE — After Google dropped a defense contract over employee pressure, Palantir's leaders doubled down on controversial work with the U.S. government
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| Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: |
Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012 — COPENHAGEN — The authorities in Denmark say they plan to review over 10,000 court verdicts because of errors in cellphone tracking data offered as evidence.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @nytimes
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