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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PS5 will launch Nov. 12 in N. America, Japan, AU, and NZ for $500 for Blu-ray drive version and $400 for Digital Edition, will launch in more regions on Nov. 19 — Sony provided more details about the upcoming PlayStation 5. During a video event today, the company explained what you can expect …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Facebook announces Oculus Quest 2, starting at $299, with a lighter design, 50% better resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, up to 256GB storage, coming October 13 — The Oculus Quest 2 is here, and it sounds like a tremendous upgrade over the original in every way.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus Quest 2 review: sharp screen, great price, and strong ecosystem, but requires a Facebook sign-in, Link cable and better strap cost extra, and it's bulky — The new default for VR, if you're okay with Facebook — As someone who writes about virtual reality and has been stuck at home …
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Tweets: @joshsternberg, @thedextriarchy, and @benbajarin
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Facebook details Infinite Office, a virtual space for working from home, coming to Quest 2 later this year — A couple of years ago, Facebook announced Oculus for Business, a software suite for enterprise-grade VR. But today, at Facebook Connect, the company is introducing … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it has partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica to develop consumer “smart glasses”, coming next year, but shared few details — The company partnered with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica — Facebook says its first pair of consumer “smart glasses” will be releasing next year …
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Gizmodo, NBC News, AppleInsider, TheStreet, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, CNET, and Input
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Snowflake opened at $245, after pricing its shares at $120, far above the original range of $75-$85 from last week, and closed at over $250 — - Snowflake began trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange. — Stock began trading at $245 per share. — Snowflake begins trading in the biggest software IPO ever
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Cloud data warehousing company Snowflake raised $3.4B in its IPO, making it the largest software IPO ever, valuing the company at over $44B — Snowflake, a Silicon Valley cloud data warehousing company, on Tuesday night raised $3.4 billion in what is the largest software IPO ever.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle's bid for TikTok falls short of addressing Trump administration's national security concerns; a final decision has not yet been reached — Oracle Corp.'s bid for TikTok falls short of resolving concerns of Trump administration officials that the Chinese-owned video-sharing app poses …
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| Eric Tucker / Associated Press: |
DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting 100 companies and institutions in the US and elsewhere; two Malaysian businessmen were arrested — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with hacks targeting more than 100 companies and institutions …
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U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, ZDNet, CyberScoop, International Business Times, Decrypt, CNET, Politico, Nextgov, and TechCrunch
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| Matthew Choi / Politico: |
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Developers are frustrated at Apple for launching iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 with just one day's notice — Apple fans who were waiting for an iPhone 12 unveiling at the Apple Event today may be a little disappointed. But, Apple gave them a treat to hold them over instead: an announcement that iOS 14 is being released tomorrow.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT and Facebook announce a multi-year partnership to co-develop AR filters and effects on Instagram that help users access and contextualize NYT stories — The New York Times and Facebook have struck a multi-year partnership to co-develop augmented reality (AR) filters and effects on Instagram …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
In a new filing, Apple says “Epic started a fire, and poured gasoline on it”, arguing that the game developer's injuries are “entirely self-inflicted” — Apple lays out its case for keeping Fortnite off the App Store — Apple has responded to Epic's demands …
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Tweets: @lupin_bebop, @dsmart, and @counternotions
| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Music adds podcasts for free across its subscription and ad-supported tiers, with 70K+ titles to start, much smaller than Apple's 1M+ or Spotify's 1.5M — Company looks to draw new listeners with 70,000 titles, including originals from DJ Khaled — Now playing on Amazon Music: podcasts.
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Amazon.com, Inc., Telegraph, Variety, TechSpot, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended keeping Joe Rogan's transphobic podcasts available; Spotify passed on some other old Rogan episodes — Multiple sources inside Spotify described an all-hands meeting in which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discussed the company's handling of the controversial podcaster.| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
As TypeScript turns 10 in December, its co-creator talks about getting Microsoft to embrace open source and how it became a go-to language for building web apps — After initial internal Microsoft resistance, open-source TypeScript is now a go-to language for building web apps.| David Pierce / Protocol: |
As Evernote rolls out a redesigned iOS app, CEO Ian Small discusses the challenges facing the company, which rebuilt all of its apps over 18 months — “Silicon Valley is addicted to momentum,” Evernote CEO Ian Small said, by way of explaining how his company had come to be, as he put it, stuck.| Ari Natter / Bloomberg: |
US says it will sanction two Russians for a phishing campaign that netted nearly $17M in cryptocurrency theft — The Trump administration announced it was sanctioning two Russian men for a phishing campaign that resulted in nearly $17 million in cyber currency theft.
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U.S. Department …, Krebs on Security, Cointelegraph, ZDNet, Voice of America, PYMNTS.com, and CoinDesk. Tweets: @stevenmnuchin1
| Financial Times: |
Money launderers are using Chinese online shopping sites to funnel billions of dollars to offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions — Police busts show people topping up offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions on popular platforms — Money launderers have used … | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs across the US, with a goal of about 1,500 hubs, to speed up deliveries — Amazon.com Inc. plans to open 1,000 small delivery hubs in cities and suburbs all over the U.S., according to people familiar with the plans.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers unveil a Bluetooth LE attack impacting billions of devices, leaving them vulnerable to spoofing; most vendors do not have patches but Apple does — New BLESA attack goes after the often ignored Bluetooth reconnection process, unlike previous vulnerabilities, most found in the pairing operation.| Becca Farsace / The Verge: |
Review of GoPro's new $449 Hero9: 5K video is crisp and a welcome addition, front-facing screen is useful, and it's rugged, but it's pricier than Hero8 — If only I was as cool as this camera — GoPro has been the industry standard for action cameras for over 15 years.
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Digital Trends, Engadget, Engadget, T3, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Verge, Global, Tom's Guide, and TechCrunch
| MIT Technology Review: |
Many AI ethics advisory boards consist mostly of people based in Europe or the US, which may lead to standards that are biased and insensitive to local cultures — Too many councils and advisory boards still consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States.
Tweets: @dorotheabaur, @hypervisible, @swisscognitive, and @hkanji
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
A safety driver who was riding in an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, AZ, during its fatal 2018 crash has been charged with negligent homicide — Investigators said the woman had been watching a video on her phone when the vehicle killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
Tweets: @willoremus, @alexhern, and @counternotions
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal documents show Google is expanding moderation of internal forums, as the company has seen a recent rise in forum posts flagged for racism or abuse — - Google is expanding its internal content moderation practices, requiring employees to more actively moderate resources they control … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Apple One bundles launch with discounts on services including Music, TV+, Arcade, iCloud storage, Fitness+, and News+ and tiers between $15 and $30/month — The hardware giant leans into its software offerings — The long-rumored bundle bringing together Apple Music, Apple TV Plus …
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The Verge, Apple, Axios, Apple, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Reuters, Game Discoverability Now!, Neowin, TechRadar, Houston Chronicle, International Business Times, CNET, Fast Company, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @pkafka, @stephennellis, and @joannastern
| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, and others join a 24-hour freeze of Facebook and Instagram accounts for #StopHateForProfit — Kim Kardashian West announced that she will freeze her Instagram and Facebook accounts on Wednesday because the platforms …
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