|
September 25, 2019, 11:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers, including the $180 Echo Frames eye glasses and $130 Echo Loop ring — Amazon is rolling out a new line of wearables that work with Alexa today including the Echo Frames eyeglasses and the Echo Loop smart ring.
More:
Day One, TechCrunch, Washington Post, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Verge, Vox, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, The Verge, CNN, Engadget, CNET, and Thurrott
Tweets: @mcwm, @neilcybart, @caseynewton, @benedictevans, @joannastern, @alexqgb, @neilcybart, and @backlon
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Amazon announces high-end Echo Studio, available for pre-order today for $200, with five speaker drivers and 3D audio support — It supports 3D audio from Dolby Atmos — Amazon announced its first high-end smart speaker at its annual hardware event today, called the Echo Studio.
More:
Amazon.com, Inc., The Verge, The Verge, TechHive, Ars Technica, Android Police, CNET, Thurrott, Mashable, TechSpot, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Streamable, Engadget, and Axios
Tweets: @stshank, @benbajarin, @caseynewton, @markgurman, and @bretkinsella
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils Echo Buds, $129.99 Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds that track steps, with claimed battery life of five hours and 20 hours with the charging case — Preorders start today, with shipping in time for the holidays — Amazon just announced its first foray into the headphone space …
More:
9to5Mac, VentureBeat, TechHive, Amazon.com, Inc., CNET, Engadget, Eater, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, 9to5Toys, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Bloomberg, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @tomwarren, @johnpaczkowski, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @voice_beyond, and @neilcybart
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $25 Echo Flex, an Echo smart plug with modular accessories that cost $15, like a motion sensor and night light, available for pre-order today — Alexa now has its own smartplug with modular accessories — Amazon is introducing another way to get Alexa into your home, the Echo Flex.
More:
GeekWire, The Verge, CNET, CNBC, Engadget, Thurrott, Thurrott, BuzzFeed News, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @greene and @tomwarren
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook unveils Horizon, a VR massive multiplayer world coming in 2020, and will shut down existing VR platforms Facebook Spaces and Oculus Rooms on Oct. 25 — Facebook today announced a virtual reality sandbox game where you can build your own environments and games, socialize with friends, and more.
More:
Oculus Blog, Engadget, VentureBeat, Windows Central, and CNET
Tweets: @alexeheath, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @mahalis, @benasmith, @thejeremyhaynes, @stocksharks_, @imcatnoone, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Oculus Quest will be updated in Nov. to be able to wire up directly to PCs, like the Rift, and in 2020 will get support for hand tracking, no controllers needed — Just before the annual VR/AR conference Oculus Connect 6, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a teaser video hinting …
More:
Oculus Blog, Engadget, Ars Technica, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, Oculus Blog, Ars Technica, Facebook, GameSpot, Digital Trends, Android Headlines, PC Gamer, VRFocus, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Android Central, CNET, Destructoid, IGN, SiliconANGLE, Variety, The Verge, The Verge, Windows Central, Road to VR, and UploadVR
Tweets: @chriswade__, @appleidinesh, @jason_rubin, @jank0, and @merryh
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on cracking social in VR, updates to the Quest headset, and how the future of Oculus' AR ambitions are grounded in its VR efforts — I'm led down a staircase by a small team of Facebook communications people, into a high-ceilinged, wide-open office …
More:
Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Telegraph, GameSpot, Windows Central, Nikkei Asian Review, VentureBeat, Kotaku, ZDNet, Gizmodo, and IGN. Thanks:@iansherr
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces a new Eero mesh router with Alexa voice controls, available today in the US for $99 each or $249 for a three pack — Amazon has just announced a brand-new $99 Eero router at its big hardware event, marking the first new product from the mesh networking company since Amazon bought it earlier this year.
More:
TechCrunch, CNET, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Android Headlines, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
More:
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, Engadget, Android Headlines, BBC, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, IGN, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @willoremus, @ow, @max_read, @mcwm, and @mcwm
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
More:
CNET, Gizmodo, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Engadget, Thurrott, TechCrunch, TechRepublic, Android Headlines, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @benthompson
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
FTC sues Match Group, alleging Match.com connected daters with accounts known to be fake to get them to subscribe, leading to 499,691 new subscriptions — The FTC says more than 400,000 people subscribed because of these fraud messages — Match.com may have connected non-paying daters …
More:
Federal Trade Commission, Match.com, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Register, The Hill, Gizmodo, Fortune, CNN, Business Insider, and Reuters
Tweets: @tonyromm, @ashleyrcarman, and @tonyromm
| Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare launches Warp VPN for iOS and Android for optimizing and securing traffic, with a faster tier for $5/mo., after its bug-ridden limited debut in April — Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP Plus to the general public.
More:
Wired, The Cloudflare Blog, XDA Developers, Android Police, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, and BetaNews
Tweets: @dok2001 and @rustlibhunt
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 10 (Go edition), aimed at low-end devices with less than 1.5GB RAM, will launch this fall with speed and security improvements — Last year, Android (Go edition) launched with Pie, and Google today is detailing the latest version of its OS for entry-level smartphones with less than 1.5GB of RAM.
More:
The Keyword, SlashGear, Android Police, Softpedia News, XDA Developers, and Thurrott
| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
Interviews with 20 people show Uber's 80-strong Special Investigations Unit, which deals with severe incidents, often puts Uber's interests ahead of riders' — Investigators say drivers get three “strikes” for bad behavior — and may just end up driving for Lyft.
More:
Business Insider, Digital Trends, The Verge, and Seeking Alpha
| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
More:
Ars Technica, The Keyword, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, and The Next Web
Tweets: @laukaya, @glynmoody, @robpegoraro, @jasonfalter, @mehreenkhn, @jason_kint, @ugambini, and @mathewi
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon announces a cheaper $100 Stick Up Cam and $60 Indoor Cam, and says Ring Doorbell Elites will get a feature where Alexa “answers” the doorbell next year — It also showed a DIY retrofit alarm kit — At its fall event today, Amazon announced two new versions of its Ring Stick … | Wall Street Journal: |
SoftBank-backed real estate tech startup Compass loses its COO, after departures of CFO, CTO, CMO, HR head, general counsel, and head of product over 18 months — Startup fueled by $1.5 billion from Japanese tech fund faces scrutiny following wave of executive departures| Joshua Franklin / Reuters: |
Peloton prices its IPO at $29/share, at the top of the range, raising $1.16B at ~$8.1B valuation; Peloton was reportedly valued at ~$4.15B in its latest round — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Interactive Inc PTON.O, the U.S. fitness startup known for on-demand workout programs on its exercise bikes …
Tweets: @jasonfalter
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Dropbox starts rolling out Dropbox Spaces, shared team workspaces that connect things like files, tasks, and meetings, and other new features in its desktop app — Dropbox held its Work in Progress user conference on Wednesday where the company announced a host of new product experiences and features.
More:
Work in Progress, diginomica, Fast Company, and The Register
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering invoices between CRM and accounting systems — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes).There's a workflow most growing teams know well. Sales closes a deal in the CRM.
Stop re-entering invoices between CRM and accounting systems — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes).There's a workflow most growing teams know well. Sales closes a deal in the CRM.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Training Data:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
Matthew Smith — Natural Gas: The Next Bottleneck
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:25 PM ET, September 25, 2019.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
MJ Franklin / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay announces CEO Devin Wenig is leaving the company and appoints CFO Scott Schenkel as interim CEO
More:
eBay Newsroom, Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Business Insider, GeekWire, Telegraph, Bloomberg, New York Times, Financial Times, CNET, TechSpot, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Google AI Blog: |
More:
MIT Technology Review, Engadget, Fast Company, 9to5Google, The Daily Dot, and The Next Web
Tweets: @googleai, @sundarpichai, @yasmind, @valaafshar, @samgregory, @techreview, @r_d, and @jason_kint
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
More:
Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, Firstpost Tech, TechSpot, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Macworld, AppleInsider, Inquirer, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, Mashable, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iMore, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @rsgnl
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |