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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is exploring adding health-related features to AirPods, including for enhancing hearing, reading body temperature, and monitoring posture — Earbuds could be offered as hearing aids and include an in-ear thermometer and posture warnings — Apple Inc. is studying ways …
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Engadget, CNET, Livemint, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, phonearena.com, iMore, and Patently Apple
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will likely cut its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by 10M units, due to shortage of Broadcom and Texas Instruments parts — Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units because of prolonged chip shortages …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, PCMag, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, MarketWatch, Gamereactor UK, iMore, Coinspeaker, Apple Must, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, Livemint, Cult of Mac, BGR India, TNW, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, phonearena.com, BBC, iTnews, MACお宝 …, TechRadar, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @vladsavov, @htsfhickey, and @davemcclure
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 7 review: bigger display, dust resistance, and multiple timers, but only one day battery life and no third-party watch faces or Qi charging — A bigger screen and faster charging are nice, but not reasons to upgrade — The most important questions to ask …
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Engadget, inews.co.uk, YouTube, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, MacRumors, British GQ, CNET, The Independent, CNN, CNBC, Daily Express, Input, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, Daring Fireball, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, and NextPit
Tweets: @nicnguyen, @nicnguyen, @jetscott, @backlon, and @dcseifert
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC and Sony are planning a semiconductor factory in Japan, opening in 2024 and costing ~$7B, half of which will come from the Japanese government — Toyota group parts maker Denso considers signing up — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker …
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Engadget, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @dnystedt, @mit_obe, @kennedycsis, @pareekhjain, @debjani_ghosh_, @dnystedt, and @dnystedt
| Reuters: |
Internal documents show Amazon's Indian arm ran a systematic campaign to create knockoff goods and boost them in search, starting in 2016 — A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results …
Tweets: @nickconfessore, @adityakalra, @adityakalra, @adityakalra, @adityakalra, @praveendel, @akshayalladi, and @adityakalra
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Acer announces ConceptD 7 SpatialLabs Edition laptop, which uses eye tracking for a glasses-free 15.6-inch 3D display, available in December starting at €3,599 — That kind of tech doesn't come cheap, though — Acer is finally bringing its glasses-free 3D SpatialLabs tech to a laptop you can buy …
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PCWorld, CNET, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, Engadget, 9to5Google, Engadget, PR Newswire, Pocket-lint, and SlashGear
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says a virtual event, titled “Unleashed”, will be held on October 18 at 10am PT, where new MacBook Pros with M1X are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding a special event on Monday, October 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event will be held virtually on October 20 at 7am PT — Who's left? — Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It's called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” …
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techadvisor.com, Thurrott, Patently Apple, Neowin, Gizchina, ZDNet, Phandroid, Gizmodo, AndroidPolice, Android Headlines, Engadget, and CNET
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Research: China's bitcoin hashrate share fell from 44% to 0% between May and July, as the US rose from 17% in April to 35% in August and Kazakhstan rose to 18% — Crackdown on digital currencies knocks country's share of crypto production to zero — The US overtook China as the world's biggest source …
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Cambridge Judge Business …. More:
Bloomberg, Decrypt, South China Morning Post, BBC, Reuters, The Block, CNBC, CoinDesk, Nikkei Asia, cryptonews.com, CoinJournal, New York Post, cryptodaily.co.uk, and Wired UK
Tweets: @cambridgejbs, @mattsteinglass, @samjoiner, and @sdbernard
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
The Intercept publishes Facebook's secret blacklist of ~4,000 “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” that users are barred from speaking favorably about — To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users …
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Protocol, The Daily Dot, Washington Post, Politico, and The Daily Beast
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Stripe begins hiring a crypto team to “build the future of Web3 payments”, three years after ending bitcoin support — Payments company Stripe has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. — The team - described in LinkedIn posts and job listings …
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Silicon Republic, Finextra, altfi.com, Bitcoin Magazine, cryptodaily.co.uk, Coinspeaker, cryptonews.com, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @gponcin, @collision, @brian_armstrong, @passy, @stefdelev, @alexisohanian, @grady_booch, @gladstein, @iamchrisani, @mayazi, @joemccann, @patrickc, @coindesk, @julieverhage, and @pinboard
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: competitors are gaining on Huawei and Apple in the 5G equipment and handset markets; US is catching up fast to China in 5G subscriptions per capita — The competition among equipment makers, countries and cellphone companies is heated. Here are the leaders in each of those races.
Tweets: @meghanbobrowsky, @atbwebb, @chinarealtime, @edourdooo, @andylangenkamp, and @jojjeols
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Regulating social media algorithms, an increasingly appealing idea among US lawmakers, is very hard to get right without running afoul of the First Amendment — Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won't be easy.
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Protocol. Tweets: @normative, @jeffjarvis, @brendannyhan, @counteringcrime, @willoremus, @wexler, @iethics, @fightfortheftr, @freedomonthenet, @alfunk, @davidclinchnews, @willoremus, @dlberes, @davidclinchnews, @davidclinchnews, @evan_greer, and @ho_ben
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
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Input. Tweets: @donie, @jason_kint, @fightextremism, @omidyarnetwork, @anupamchander, @anthony, @moorehn, and @dhakatribune
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Karat, which helps companies conduct technical interviews, raises a $110M Series C at a $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global — The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation.
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TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Funnel, which makes a no-code tool to organize and create reports from marketing data, raises $66M, says it is planning for an IPO in Sweden — The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech. But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Weights & Biases, which builds tools for machine learning researchers, raises a $100M Series C at a ~$1B valuation from Felicis and others — What do you call AI these days? ML in a suit. — ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. That is thanks to modern corporations accreting data …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Carl Pei's Nothing, which launched Ear (1) earlier this year, raises a $50M “Series A Extension”, bringing total funding to $74M — In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1), Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date.
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Livemint, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, NDTV Gadgets 360, and GSMArena.com
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US to host a two-day virtual event from Wed. on ransomware with 30 countries, except Russia and China; source says Russia isn't invited “for a host of reasons” — The Biden administration did not invite Russia to participate in the first meeting of a global effort to combat cybercrime …
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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, The White House, Reuters, BleepingComputer, Associated Press, CyberScoop, Washington Post, The Hill, and Axios
Tweets: @martinmatishak, @ericgeller, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces it will let users buy, sell, and showcase Ethereum-based NFTs by the end of the year — Coinbase is joining the non-fungible token (NFT) arms race. — The U.S. crypto exchange is launching “Coinbase NFT,” a marketplace that will allow its users to buy …
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The Coinbase Blog. More:
Forkast, KnowTechie, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoGlobe, SlashGear, The Motley Fool, and Insider
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Waze announces a “Drive with Headspace” feature, letting users choose from five “moods” and an accompanying custom Spotify playlist with content from Headspace — Daily commutes to the office can be exhausting and, depending on the amount of traffic you're dealing with, very stressful.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ohio-based Aware, which analyzes internal company chat tools for legal compliance, sentiment, and more, raises a $60M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — Organizations have been using social media monitoring for years to get a better idea of how they are being perceived in the world at large …
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