| 11:41 PM • | Alex Heath / Cheddar: Sources: Facebook plans to unveil its “Portal” video chat device for home with Alexa support next week; it will come in two screen sizes for ~$400 and ~$300 |
| 11:10 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: China-based Huazhu Hotels Group says hacker who was selling 1.415GB data on millions of its guests and tried to blackmail the chain, has been arrested |
| 10:00 PM • | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and luxury goods, prices its US IPO at $20 per share, above the expected $17 to $19 range, raising $885M |
| 9:50 PM • | Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: PlayStation Now announces subscribers can download PS4 and remastered PS2 games, as the service becomes more like Xbox Game Pass |
| 9:00 PM • | Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: RIAA: revenues from streaming up 28% YoY to $3.4B in H1 2018, accounting for 75% of recorded music revenue; 75% of streaming revenue comes from subscriptions |
| 8:20 PM • | CNN: Google confirms the personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff have been targeted by foreign government hackers |
| 7:55 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Instagram is testing a way for users to reshare posts from other accounts to their own feeds; obtained screenshots suggest the feature is early in development |
| 7:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Facebook says that for future political campaigns, it will pull back from dedicated on-site support like the kind it provided to Trump's 2016 campaign |
| 7:20 PM • | Andrew Gebhart / CNET: Amazon introduces Wi-Fi Simple Setup to automatically share a user's home wireless network credentials with compatible smart home devices |
| 7:15 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Hulu rolling out an updated web interface designed for watching shows on a computer that shows more options and controls |
| 7:10 PM • | Tom Simonite / Wired: Amazon says it is experimenting with giving Alexa a rudimentary form of emotional awareness, such as listening for the sound of frustration in a person's voice |
| 6:50 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft says Skype is coming to Amazon Alexa devices later this year, letting Alexa users make outgoing voice and video calls, accept incoming calls, and more |
| 6:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon introduces APL, a design language for building Alexa skills for devices with screens, says APL-powered skills coming to Alexa device owners next month |
| 5:45 PM • | Motherboard: Facebook says it is reviewing its policies on white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism after a backlash from civil rights groups |
| 5:20 PM • | Sara Salinas / CNBC: Online ticketing company Eventbrite closes up 59% on its first day of trading after raising $230M in its IPO at a $1.76B valuation |
| 5:15 PM • | Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: How Amazon wants to win the smart home with Alexa Connect Kit, a wireless circuit board that manufacturers can add to any device that has a microcontroller |
| 5:00 PM • | Hayley Peterson / INSIDER: Sources: Amazon plants empty packages with fake labels in delivery trucks to catch drivers who are stealing |
| 4:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Uber is in early talks to buy London-based food-delivery company Deliveroo for several billion dollars; Deliveroo was last valued at more than $2B |
| 4:42 PM • | Josh Ye / Abacus: Twitch website is currently not accessible in China and its app has disappeared from the App Store, indicating that Twitch may have been blocked in the country |
| 4:27 PM • | Shannon Vavra / Axios: John Bolton says Trump signed off on a new national cyber strategy to guide how the administration handles cyberthreats, offensive and defensive cybersecurity |
| 4:12 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Adobe says it is acquiring the marketing automation company Marketo for $4.75B |
| 3:45 PM • | Dani Deahl / The Verge: Amazon unveils Alexa Connect Kit, a module with Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, and a real-time OS that companies can put in their products in order to make them smart |
| 3:35 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Alexa Hunches use AI to help Alexa learn from and predict user behavior to offer suggestions and reminders; Amazon expects to roll them out later this year |
| 3:14 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: Meredith Perry has stepped down as CEO of uBeam, the controversial wireless charging startup she founded in 2011 |
| 3:05 PM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Amazon adds Alexa Guard to Echo devices enabling them to notify users of sounds like smoke alarms or breaking glass |
| 2:55 PM • | Mallory Locklear / Engadget: Amazon updates the $179.99 Ring Stick Up camera and adds a wired version with an ethernet cable, available for preorder now and shipping Oct. 18 |
| 2:48 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon unveils Echo Auto, a $49.99 dash mounted in-car accessory that puts Alexa in any car with an aux jack and gives directions using Waze |
| 2:35 PM • | John Falcone / CNET: Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, shipping Nov. 14 in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $229.99 and a 4-tuner 1TB model for $279.99 |
| 2:25 PM • | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Amazon's $29.99 Echo Wall Clock connects to nearby Echo devices via Bluetooth to track and display timers via LEDs around its rim |
| 2:22 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon announces an update to the $229.99 Echo Show, with a 10" display, Dolby speakers, an eight microphone array, built-in Skype, third party browsers, more |
| 2:15 PM • | Ashlee Clark Thompson / CNET: Amazon launches a $59.99 AmazonBasics-branded microwave that works with Alexa-enabled speakers, has built-in WiFi, and an Amazon Dash Replenishment |
| 2:05 PM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Amazon announces a $24.99 Smart Plug that allows users to turn devices on and off via Alexa remotely and does not require a smart home hub in order to work |
| 1:50 PM • | Pocket-lint: Amazon launches $129.99 Echo Sub subwoofer for Echo speakers, $199.99 Echo Link that connects to receivers and amplifiers, and $299.99 Echo Link Amp amplifier |
| 1:40 PM • | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Amazon unveils $34.99 Echo Input that can plug into any speaker to turn it into a smart speaker; coming later this year to US, UK, and Germany |
| 1:35 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Amazon will add a whisper feature to Alexa, allowing the assistant to whisper back or play a song quietly when whispered to, as part of Freetime for Kids |
| 1:28 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon announces updates to the $49.99 Echo Dot and $149.99 Echo Plus speakers with updated designs and improved sound quality, shipping Oct. 11 |
| 1:05 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging |
| 12:35 PM • | Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed: Sources: UK plans Ofcom-like regulator with powers to enforce new regulations on legal content and behavior online, fines for non-removal of illegal content |
| 12:05 PM • | Malvika Joshi / Livemint: Amazon and Indian private equity firm Samara to buy More retail chain with 500+ locations; sources say for around $580M with Amazon owning 49% of the company |
| 11:30 AM • | Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: ESPN says it has signed up more than 1M paying subscribers for ESPN+, its $4.99 a month streaming service launched in April |
| 11:15 AM • | Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: Eventbrite prices its IPO at $23 per share, at the top end of the range, raising $230M and valuing the company at $1.76B |
| 10:55 AM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Study: online ad sales will increase 16% this year to $106.6B, accounting for more than half of all US ad sales |
| 10:35 AM • | Dani Deahl / The Verge: Spotify says it will now allow indie artists to directly upload their music to the service; the upload feature is debuting in beta on an invite-only basis in US |
| 10:30 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate the features of other web-based services, raises $40M Series F led by IVP, source says at a $1B+ valuation |
| 10:25 AM • | James Trew / Engadget: GoPro Hero 7 Black review: much improved stabilization, improved UI, and native live streaming make it a winner, though there is no improvement in battery life |
| 10:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud-based unified communications provider Vonage to acquire NewVoiceMedia, a UK-based startup that builds cloud-based contact centers, for $350M |
| 9:55 AM • | Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: Crypto pioneer David Chaum is unveiling Elixxir, a platform that promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second |
| 9:45 AM • | Sam Kim / Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung is planning to curtail growth in memory chip output next year to keep supplies tight and keep prices high, amid an expected slowing in demand |
| 9:35 AM • | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: GoPro launches Hero 7 Black with live-streaming, super slow motion, smooth stabilization, and 4K video at 60 fps for $399, going on sale September 27 |
| 9:25 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: MariaDB announces that it has acquired Clustrix, a scale-out database and drop-in MySQL replacement, and that cloud computing company ServiceNow is an investor |
| 9:15 AM • | Natt Garun / The Verge: Amazon is holding a surprise event in Seattle at 1pm ET today to announce new hardware |
| 9:00 AM • | Noam Cohen / New Yorker: Reporter says Linus Torvalds' decision to temporarily step away from Linux maintenance came after he was asked a series of questions about his conduct |
| 8:15 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Google announces Cloud Memorystore for Redis leaves beta, vulnerability scanning for Container Registry, partnership with NEC Corp. to expand GCP in Japan |
| 7:20 AM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test and limits users to expressing their interest in a maximum of 100 people per day |
| 6:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A look at how Google decides on Gmail's Smart Reply suggestions, which make up 10% of all Gmail responses, as the feature gets rolled out to all 1.4B accounts |
| 6:00 AM • | Patrick McGeehan / New York Times: A remote corner of New York, which once attracted heavy industry, is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity |
| 4:25 AM • | Kate King / Wall Street Journal: Research: New York City startups closed ~1,500 deals worth $12B last year, nearly double the $6.3B in capital invested in 2014 for a similar number of deals |
| 3:40 AM • | BBC: Equifax fined the maximum £500,000 by UK's Information Commissioner's Office for failing to protect the personal data of ~15M Britons in 2017 breach |
| 2:55 AM • | Securelist: Overview of the most popular attack vectors against IoT devices and which are most often compromised: MikroTik devices top the list, followed by TP-Link |
| 2:10 AM • | Jessica Davies / Digiday: Multiple publisher sources claim Google Ad Manager has been down for several weeks; Google confirms issues but says the problem had been global for only 3 days |
| 1:35 AM • | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Chinese on-demand services provider Meituan-Dianping closes up 5.3% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong after raising $4.2B in its IPO |
| 1:20 AM • | Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: Indian Twitter-like social platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises ~$100M led by Shunwei Capital, at a $460M valuation |
| 12:45 AM • | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: Quantum Metric, an enterprise SaaS startup that helps companies calculate how much revenue is lost from bad website design, announces $25M Series A led by IVP |
| 11:40 PM • | Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: Coinbase hires Brian Brooks, former Fannie Mae executive VP and general counsel, as its chief legal officer |
| 10:35 PM • | CNN: DOD's new Cyber Strategy will allow the military to use offensive hacking operations to defend against cyberattacks on election systems and the energy grid |
| 10:05 PM • | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif says it was hacked and ~$60M worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin, were stolen from exchange's hot wallets |
| 9:05 PM • | Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: John Hancock, one of the largest life insurers in the US, will now only sell policies that track fitness and health data via wearable devices and smartphones |
| 8:30 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researcher shares flaw, reported to Western Digital in April 2017, that bypasses admin password for WD's My Cloud NAS drives; WD says fix coming in a few weeks |
| 7:10 PM • | Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg: Report says illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged 459% in 2018 YoY and that the spike is tied to the 2017 US government leak of hacking tool EternalBlue |
| 6:10 PM • | Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: The developers of Bitcoin Core, the most popular client software for Bitcoin, patch a serious flaw that could have let anyone bring down the network for ~$80K |
| 5:45 PM • | Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: Echo Sub, an Alexa-powered subwoofer, leaked via Amazon.co.uk, listed at £75, coming Oct. 11, can be paired with one or two Echo devices for stereo pairing |
| 5:45 PM • | Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: Amazon.co.uk listing leaks Amazon Smart Plug, an Alexa-enabled plug to add voice control to any electrical socket, listed at £95 and releasing on Oct. 11 |
| 5:20 PM • | Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: Counterpoint Research: in Q2, Apple sold 43% of all $400+ phones and 88% of $800+ phones globally, and took 62% of global handset profits |
| 5:10 PM • | BuzzFeed News: Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood wrote a blog post in 2013 in which he described having sex with an 11- or 12-year-old girl dying of AIDS; Wood says it was fiction |
| 4:50 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Cloudflare says it is rolling out resource public key infrastructure to all of its customers to stop route leaks and route hijackings |
| 4:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Strategy Analytics: in Q2, Google Home Mini led with 20% smart speaker marketshare on 2.3M shipments, and Amazon Echo Dot had 18% market share with 2.2M shipped |
| 3:38 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 Amazon Go cashierless stores by 2021 |
| 3:25 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: IBM announces cloud service to help businesses detect and mitigate AI bias and launches an open source bias-mitigating toolkit called AI Fairness 360 |
| 3:10 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU sources: Facebook may face sanctions because it has yet to comply with EU consumer rules; Airbnb has made necessary changes in response to regulatory demands |
| 2:55 PM • | Nat Levy / GeekWire: Documents show Nest's plans to enter the digital health business via the acquisition of Senosis, a startup focused on smartphone-based health monitoring systems |
| 2:26 PM • | New York Times: Inside Facebook's election “War Room”, which will be the company's hub for safeguarding elections around the world |
| 2:20 PM • | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: Alibaba's Jack Ma recants promise to Trump, made early last year, to help US economy add one 1M jobs, citing the current state of US-China trade relations |
| 2:10 PM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: British P2P lending startup Funding Circle sets IPO range at £4.20 to £5.30/share, hopes to raise £300M and be valued up to £1.8B after IPO |
| 1:40 PM • | Andy Hoffman / Bloomberg: Oil traders and banks, including Citi and ING, partner to form a new platform called Komgo, to develop a blockchain-based system to track commodity transactions |
| 1:17 PM • | Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child |
| 1:02 PM • | Aoife White / Bloomberg: EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says regulators are probing how Amazon gathers and uses info on sales made by competitors on Amazon Marketplace |
| 12:40 PM • | Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: Apple finishes paying $15.3B in back taxes to Ireland, prompting EU regulators to drop lawsuit against the country |
| 12:30 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Amazon is testing a new site called Scout that recommends products to customers based on their likes and dislikes in categories like furniture and women's shoes |
| 12:17 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: GitLab raises $100M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a valuation of $1.1B |
| 12:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Salesforce debuts two new AI voice assistants atop its Einstein platform, Einstein Voice for enterprises and consumer-facing Einstein Voice Bots |
| 11:35 AM • | Cate Cadell / Reuters: Alibaba says it will set up a chip subsidiary to make customised AI chips for its cloud and IoT businesses, aims to launch its first AI chip in H2 2019 |
| 11:25 AM • | Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: great 4K gaming, excellent cooling, ray tracing tech has potential, but expensive and there are few games optimized for it |
| 11:05 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Tencent Music Entertainment Group has confidentially filed for a $2B US IPO, down from the up to $4B rumored earlier |
| 10:52 AM • | Ashley Carman / The Verge: Fitbit launches a new premium fitness coaching service called Fitbit Care, available via a new Fitbit Plus app, that also lets users connect with their doctors |
| 10:15 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries |
| 9:50 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 |
| 9:35 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: How companies like Quanergy, Palmer Luckey's Anduril, and Alphabet-supported Cogniac are testing virtual patrols along the US-Mexico border using lidar and AI |
| 9:20 AM • | Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers |
| 9:05 AM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display |
| 8:20 AM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent announces a China-focused platform, which includes WeChat's natural language processing capabilities, to help other companies pursue AI initiatives |
| 7:40 AM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3 |
| 7:25 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market |
| 7:10 AM • | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option |
| 5:45 AM • | Elaine Teng / ESPN: Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the top Fortnite players in the world who shot to fame in March after he played the game with Drake |
| 2:40 AM • | Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com: Book excerpt: how Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian patched their fractured friendship and reclaimed Reddit's helm |
| 10:55 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Google Cloud launches Work Insights, a tool that provides data on G Suite adoption rates and collaboration patterns across teams in a company, available in beta |
| 9:20 PM • | Garrett M. Graff / Wired: Court filing: US government seeks to continue FBI work with Mirai botnet hackers, who pled guilty to creating the malware last Dec., as part of their sentencing |
| 7:35 PM • | ProPublica: Investigation: 15 employers, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex in the past year, with many ads playing to stereotypes |
| 7:25 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Cloudflare adds new “one-click” DNSSEC setup to make it far more difficult to spoof websites, likely increasing the protocol's woeful adoption rate |
| 6:05 PM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Salesforce updates Quip, adding a new PowerPoint-like feature called Slides with real-time collaboration, new apps from Dropbox and Box, and Giphy integration |
| 5:45 PM • | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: In a leaked email, Evernote CEO says the company has cut 54 jobs, or 15% of its staff; the news comes amid a recent report that several senior execs have left |
| 5:00 PM • | Ry Crist / CNET: Amazon launches the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit, a set of software tools designed for third-party gadgets that connect with Amazon's Echo devices via Bluetooth |
| 4:50 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is rolling out Chrome OS 69 with Material Theme, Linux support, Night Light, dictation, and more |
| 4:08 PM • | Kerry Flynn / Digiday: HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll becomes CEO, replacing Rus Yusupov, who will take a creative role, as the company previews a new Wheel of Fortune-like game |
| 4:05 PM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Microsoft says HoloLens apps Remote Assist and Layout generally available on Dynamics 365 along with previews of new AI-infused CRM tools on Oct. 1 |
| 4:00 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: HQ Trivia has a new CEO |
| 3:55 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Google Maps is now available on Apple CarPlay with iOS 12, which previously just supported Apple Maps; Waze also plans to support CarPlay in a future update |
| 3:35 PM • | Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: Women startup founders own 39 cents for every dollar of equity a male founder owns, says study that used anonymized data from more than 6,000 US-based companies |
| 3:20 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Ampere launches its first ARM-based eMAG server processors to challenge Intel, with power efficiency, high performance, and high memory capacity |
| 3:10 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Illumix, a startup making tools for more dynamic phone-based AR games, raises $8.6M seed round co-led by Maveron and Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| 2:55 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations |
| 2:40 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: London-based Divido, a marketplace for lenders that offer B2C and B2B financing to customers at checkout, raises $15M Series A |
| 2:25 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Pinterest rolls out a new API to help brands find and keep track of influencers |
| 2:20 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram to run ads in Stories and feed to point US users over 18 to midterms voting registration info, will let users add an “I Voted” sticker |
| 2:15 PM • | Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: YouTube extends its $4.99/mo Channel Memberships, previously available only to channels with 100K+ subscribers, to smaller channels with 50K+ subscribers |
| 1:50 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Agriculture tech startup Indigo raises $250M Series E and launches marketplace to help farmers sell grain online; source: funding values firm at $3.5B |
| 1:25 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: as recently as last year, Facebook pressed banks for the ability to use customer financial data passing through Messenger for purposes like advertising |
| 1:20 PM • | Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies |
| 1:10 PM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Shopify adds support for AR Quick Look, an iOS 12 feature that lets users place models of products in real environments from within Safari |
| 12:39 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube announces it will shut down its standalone Gaming app and launches a new YouTube Gaming destination at youtube.com/gaming, first coming to the US |
| 12:15 PM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Lyft passes 1 billion trips six years after its founding, amid some concerns about its future growth ahead of a potential IPO |
| 12:02 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Tesla under criminal investigation by DOJ over public statements made by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk, alongside a previously-reported civil inquiry by SEC |
| 11:40 AM • | Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: ACLU files complaint with EEOC against Facebook and 10 other employers, alleging job ads on site were targeted to exclude “female and other non-male” prospects |
| 10:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Zurich-based WayRay, which develops holographic AR hardware and display tech for cars, raises $80M Series C led by Porsche, source says at a $500M valuation |
| 9:55 AM • | Dami Lee / The Verge: Google's Family Link, which allows parents to set screen time limits and more, expands to teens, adds support for Google Assistant, and rolls out worldwide |
| 9:45 AM • | Polina Marinova / Fortune: On-demand delivery startup Postmates raises $300M led by Tiger Global, source says at a ~$1.2B valuation, to accelerate its growth across the US |
| 9:30 AM • | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, a web browser built to work with VR and AR headsets, available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores |
| 9:20 AM • | David Ingram / NBC News: ACLU, others file formal complaint against Facebook alleging that its advertising platform is being used by prospective employers to discriminate against women |
| 9:05 AM • | Nicole Lee / Engadget: Withings launches Steel HR Sport smartwatch with GPS and fitness level analytics via a VO2 max indicator, available for $200 today |
| 8:20 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: UiPath, which develops AI-based bots that automate mundane enterprise tasks, raises $225M Series C at a $3B valuation from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, and Accel |
| 7:45 AM • | Violet Blue / Engadget: Female ASMR video creators have been permanently banned from PayPal and had funds frozen after 8chan harassment campaign; PayPal says it has no anti-ASMR policy |
| 7:10 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss |
| 6:55 AM • | South China Morning Post: How China is working to expand industrial robot usage tenfold to 1.8M units, 70% of which are to be made in China, up from 30% currently, by 2025 |
| 5:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Google partners with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to provide Android-powered infotainment systems, with integrated maps, assistant, more, starting in 2021 |
| 3:35 AM • | Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times: Indian ride-hailing service Ola has raised $50M from two Chinese investors at a valuation pegged between $3.7B and $4.3B |
| 12:30 AM • | Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter: HBO and Netflix tie for the most Emmy wins, taking home 23 each; Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won eight awards; Hulu won four |
| 9:10 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Twitter update lets users revert to a chronological timeline, says it is working on a way for users to easily switch between algorithmic and chronological feeds |
| 8:45 PM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: GovPayNow.com, used by ~2,300 US government agencies for online payments, has exposed 14M+ customer records dating back to 2012, says issue has now been fixed |
| 7:45 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Amazon opens a checkout-free Amazon Go retail store in Chicago, its first such store outside Seattle |
| 7:10 PM • | New York Times: Trump placing 10% tariffs on an additional ~$200B in Chinese imports on Sept. 24, drops ~300 types of goods, including smartwatches, from list of those affected |
| 6:40 PM • | Music Business Worldwide: Leaked email to Dubai ad agency shows Spotify plans to launch across the Middle East and North Africa in November with a new regional headquarters in Dubai |
| 6:10 PM • | David Katzmaier / CNET: Apple releases tvOS 12 for Apple TV and Apple TV 4K, with support for Dolby Atmos audio, NASA screensavers, zero sign-on for some cable apps, and more |
| 6:00 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple launches watchOS 5, with Walkie-Talkie, Apple Podcasts, Siri Shortcuts, new watch faces, raise to speak, new workout types like yoga and hiking, and more |
| 5:06 PM • | Eugene Kim / CNBC: Sources: Amazon plans to release at least eight new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an amplifier, and subwoofer, by the end of the year |
| 4:20 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft Managed Desktop launches as a subscription service whereby Microsoft provisions, deploys and manages companies' Windows 10 devices |
| 4:12 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: List of some of the iOS apps supporting Siri Shortcuts, now available in the App Store, including Pandora, The Weather Channel, Google News, and Trello |
| 4:07 PM • | Mike Memoli / NBC News: Facebook debuts pilot program to expand its security tools and procedures, like 2FA and threat monitoring, for candidates and campaign staff ahead of midterms |
| 3:43 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram Shopping launches personalized Explore channel, expands Stories tags after testing them since June, and lets brands add a shopping bag icon to Stories |
| 3:35 PM • | Rebecca Smithers / The Guardian: TripAdvisor plans revamp later this year to include a “travel feed”, to let users follow other travelers or content creators, including major publishers |
| 2:50 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Getty Images partners with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200M digital pics for searches on the Echo Show and Echo Spot |
| 2:15 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Cloudflare debuts IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the P2P-driven InterPlanetary File System that does not require installing special software |
| 2:05 PM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Researchers disclose 0-day flaw allowing remote code execution on security cameras running Nuuo software, say hundreds of thousands of devices may be affected |
| 1:35 PM • | Federico Viticci / MacStories: iOS 12 review: mostly incremental improvements to iOS 11 rather than breaking new ground, except for Siri Shortcuts, which is a productivity playground |
| 1:19 PM • | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Testing shows app launch times on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2 improve between 7% and 27% after installing iOS 12 |
| 1:07 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: iOS 12 officially launches out of beta, with faster performance, Screen Time, smarter notifications, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, improved privacy in Safari, more |
| 12:25 PM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Facebook expands its bug bounty program to include third-party apps and services that involve improper exposure of Facebook user access tokens |
| 12:25 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Stripe unveils Stripe Terminal, a new service for in-person payments with Warby Parker and Glossier as launch partners, will charge 2.7% plus 5¢ per transaction |
| 12:10 PM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: AR startup Blippar announces the close of a $37M financing round, bringing total raised to $137M; the company says it hopes to reach profitability in 12 months |
| 11:25 AM • | David Meyer / Fortune: Italian court sentences a man who sold hospitality businesses fake reviews on TripAdvisor to nine months in jail |
| 10:55 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Freightos, a marketplace for logistics providers that lets users book, manage and track shipments, raises $44.4M Series C led by Singapore Exchange |
| 10:25 AM • | Mihir Dalal / Livemint: Sources: Flipkart has held early-stage talks with Indian video streaming service Hotstar about acquiring a stake in the company |
| 9:50 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Sisense, a startup that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, raises $80M Series E led by Insight Venture Partners |
| 9:20 AM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon adds a new section to its website called Amazon Storefronts, a retail hub exclusively for US SMBs, featuring 1M+ products from ~20K companies |
| 8:45 AM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link |
| 7:00 AM • | Steven Levy / Wired: Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus |
| 5:55 AM • | Eric Johnson / Recode: Q&A with Roku CEO Anthony Wood on working at Netflix while running Roku early on, partnering with Chinese TV makers, competing with tech giants, and ads on Roku |
| 4:30 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 |
| 2:50 AM • | South China Morning Post: A look at 6 of 36 members of Alibaba Partnership, an organization set up in 2010 to ensure the continuity of Alibaba's management after Jack Ma retires |
| 1:05 AM • | Jessi Hempel / Wired: WeWork acquires Teem, an office space scheduling and workplace analytics platform, to add to Powered by We product suite; sources: WeWork paid $100M for Teem |
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