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Google rebrands G Suite as Google Workspace, integrates Meet, Chat, and Rooms across all its applications, and introduces new logos for all apps in the suite — Google is rebranding G Suite, its set of online productivity and collaboration tools for businesses that include the likes of Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet.
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Tweets: @jsoltero, @rseroter, @y_molodtsov, @candeira, @doublejake, @wongmjane, @epro, @ingridlunden, @tomwarren, @googleworkspace, and @martinsfp
| BBC: |
Facebook removed a post by Trump saying COVID-19 is “less lethal” than flu, only the second time it has done so, as Twitter hides the tweet and adds a warning — Facebook has deleted a post in which President Trump had claimed Covid-19 was “less lethal” than the flu.
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @willoremus, @mikeisaac, @donie, @donie, @chrisevans, @rmac18, and @carnage4life
| New York Times: |
Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies — WASHINGTON — For all the divisions in Washington, one issue that had united Republicans and Democrats in recent years was their animus toward …
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Politico, Axios, Bloomberg, Reuters, Axios, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Windows Central, Observer, Business Insider, Protocol, PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and Yahoo News
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @halsinger, @willoremus, @lam_barrett, @amywebb, @adrjeffries, @jason_kint, @karlbode, @samanthaladuc, and @reutersbiz
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Security flaw meant Qiui's Cellmate chastity device for men could be remotely locked by hackers; the flaw was disclosed after company missed deadlines to patch — Just because almost every gadget or appliance can be connected to the internet, doesn't mean they should be.
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Pen Test Partners, BBC, The Internet Of Dongs Project, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, and Input
Tweets: @thekenmunroshow, @pentestpartners, @the_pc_doc, and @johnfruehe
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces it will hold an event on October 13 at 10am PDT, where it's expected to unveil new 5G iPhones; invites are titled “Hi, Speed.” — Apple today has officially announced its highly-anticipated iPhone 12 event for October 13 at 10 am PT. Much like WWDC 2020 …
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Bloomberg, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Thurrott, Macworld, Gizmodo, The Next Web, MacRumors, CNET, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Axios, TheStreet, TechRepublic, Neowin, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, TmoNews, Apple Must, SlashGear, CNBC, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Engadget, iClarified, BGR, MSPoweruser, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @joannastern, @neilcybart, @mkbhd, @neilcybart, @kkiyer90, @dcseifert, @caseynewton, @rsgnl, @jetscott, @markgurman, @cheapskateblog, @jaypeters, @neilcybart, @chriswelch, @rsgnl, @panzer, @backlon, and @gernot
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram marks its 10th anniversary by expanding in-app warnings when users post nasty comments and adds a private map of stories from the last three years — Instagram is officially 10 years old, and is marking the end of its first decade with new features meant to encourage users to be nice to one another.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Instagram, CNN, About Facebook, CNET, Social Media Today, MakeUseOf, Redmond Pie, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, KnowTechie, and Mashable
Tweets: @thekenyeung and @dez_blanchfield
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a Stories feature to its Google iOS and Android app, a carousel focusing on publisher content that can include audio, full-screen video, and photos — Google announced today it's introducing a Stories feature to its Google app for iOS and Android, which now reaches over 800 million people per month.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Neowin, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @glenngabe, @glenngabe, @webcreators, @cramforce, @tonyromm, and @martinsfp
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has banned the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives and exchange-traded notes to retail users from January 6, 2021 — More than 12,500 users participated in the first phase of a public token sale on CoinList for Flow, a new blockchain platform developed by Dapper Labs, the creator of CryptoKitties.
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Financial Conduct Authority, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, CryptoGlobe, and CoinGeek
Tweets: @mdudas, @markets, and @scottmelker
| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
The European Court of Justice, EU's highest legal authority, rules that member states cannot collect mass mobile and internet data of citizens — - The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that member states cannot collect mass mobile and internet data on citizens.
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TechCrunch, Financial Times, VICE, ComputerWeekly.com, Fortune, The Irish Times, SecurityWeek, Bloomberg, and CityAM
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple removed headphones and speakers from Bose, Logitech, and Sonos from its online store at the end of September and asked retail employees to do the same — - Apple is working on first over-ear headphones, smaller HomePod — Products from Sonos, Bose, Logitech pulled from online store
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Thurrott, Laptop Mag, Engadget, Android Authority, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, Coinspeaker, NextPit, Apple Must, Redmond Pie, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, Wccftech, Mashable, Digital Trends, The Mac Observer, TechRadar, iDownloadBlog.com, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @markgurman, @jon_prosser, @benwood, @varunkrish, @jonyiveparody, @hshaban, @tculpan, @patrickmoorhead, and @leaksapplepro
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As AT&T stops connecting new DSL users, a new report co-written by an AT&T workers union says only 28% of AT&T territory has fiber-to-the-home internet — AT&T stops connecting new DSL users; only 28% of AT&T territory has full fiber. — AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Internet …
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Communications Workers of America, Techdirt, USA Today, VICE, Cord Cutters News, SlashGear, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @usatodaytech, @jbrodkin, @robpegoraro, @efffalcon, and @gigastacey
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 86 with stronger password protections on iOS and Android, VP9 video codec for macOS Big Sur, a slew of new developer features, and more — Google today launched Chrome 86 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 86 brings password protections for Android and iOS …
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9to5Google, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, Android Police, XDA Developers, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Engadget, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Bloomberg: |
Health insurance startup Clover Health, which uses health and behavioral data to lower costs, agrees to go public via Social Capital's SPAC at a $3.7B valuation — - Deal values the health-insurance startup at $3.7 billion — ‘We need companies like Clover,’ Social Capital III CEO says
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Business Wire, CNBC, Fast Company, MobiHealthNews, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @chamath, @johnstcapital, @joshk, and @katie_roof
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
John McAfee has been arrested in Spain for tax evasion after SEC sues him for allegedly promoting ICOs in 2017, 2018 without disclosing he was paid to do so — John McAfee, the 74-year-old software magnate-turned-crypto-bull, has been arrested in Spain on allegations of tax evasion, according to the Department of Justice.| Daniel Oberhaus / Wired: |
FEC data: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle employees have donated ~19x more to Biden than Trump since 2019 and far more overall than in 2016 — A WIRED analysis finds roughly 95 percent of contributions by employees of six big tech firms have gone to Trump's Democratic challenger.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
After years harshly criticizing Big Tech's impact on the publishing industry, News Corp now has partnerships with Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Snapchat, and others — One of the biggest news publishing companies in the world has slowly backed away from its harsh public criticism of Big Tech platforms …
Tweets: @sarafischer and @sam_l_shead
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Remotion, a workplace video service for short chats, raises $13M across seed and Series A; its Mac app is live in beta with a waitlist for Windows and Linux — One of the broader trends of the pandemic has been the unbundling of Zoom with startups pulling out a feature or two and designing …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher says that Macs with T2 chips are vulnerable to a variant of the checkm8 exploit, which could jailbreak certain iPhones and was unpatchable — Jailbreak involves combining last year's checkm8 exploit with the Blackbird vulnerability disclosed this August.
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ironpeak.be, Six Colors, Computerworld, Threatpost, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, MacDailyNews, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore, and SlashGear
Tweets: @chronic, @e_kaspersky, @chronic, @campuscodi, and @chronic
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds support for Netflix to Portal TV and Zoom to Portal Mini, Portal, and Portal+ devices — Facebook announced this morning it's bringing a number of new features and services to its family of Portal devices, including support for Netflix and Zoom.
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TechHive, The Verge, Facebook Technology, CNET, iMore, MakeUseOf, Pocket-lint, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @boztank
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which connects doctors and patients to provide insights on proposed treatment plans, raises $15M across seed and Series A — Abridge announced $15 million across seed and Series A rounds. The Pittsburgh-based company's new app connects doctors and patients …
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FinSMEs, Forbes, and Venture Capital Journal
| Liam Frost / Decrypt: |
China says the People's Bank of China has processed 3M+ transactions in digital yuan, worth ~$162M, as part of its digital currency pilot — The People's Bank of China (PBoC) has processed over three million transactions—worth 1.1 billion yuan ($162 million) as part of its trial of the DCEP …
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CoinDesk and FinTech Futures
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
After two senators' inquiry into warrantless tracking by the IRS, the agency is being investigated for its use of location info from data brokers — The IRS used smartphone location data from a contractor to try and track Americans without a warrant. — Joseph Cox| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Iranian state-sponsored hackers are actively exploiting Zerologon, a Windows vulnerability in the Netlogon protocol — Microsoft links back the attacks to an Iranian hacker group known as Mercury, or MuddyWater. — Microsoft said on Monday that Iranian state-sponsored hackers …
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Threatpost, TechRadar, and SecurityWeek
| Martin Giles / Forbes: |
Unqork, a “no-code” enterprise app development service, raises $207M C round led by BlackRock at a valuation of $2B — When Gary Hoberman founded Unqork in 2017 after standing down as CIO of giant insurer MetLife, he had a frustrating time trying to get venture capitalists …
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FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Chargebee, which helps businesses set up and manage subscription services, raises $55M Series F led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $105M — Chargebee, which helps businesses set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, Silicon Canals, and PYMNTS.com
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