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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Amazon is holding a surprise event in Seattle at 1pm ET today to announce new hardware — Remember when Amazon held a “surprise” event last September and introduced a bunch of new Echo devices? Well, it's doing it again this year in what looks to become an annual hardware event.
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Engadget, BetaNews, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, Fortune, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, Inquirer, KnowTechie, Thurrott.com, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @omarg
| 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 — Amazon is introducing a small new device that you can plug into any existing speaker to turn it into an Echo. It's called the Echo Input …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces an update to the $49 Echo Dot speaker with improved sound quality — A new, fabric design and better sound comes to the other members of the Echo lineup — Amazon has just announced an update to its most popular Echo speaker, the Echo Dot, along with its larger Echo Plus model that it had introduced last year.
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Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechRadar.com, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Ashlee Clark Thompson / CNET: |
Amazon launches a $60 AmazonBasics branded microwave that works with Alexa-enabled speakers, has built-in WiFi, and an Amazon Dash Replenishment — Amazon will begin to sell its own brand of Wi-Fi-connected microwaves that will respond to voice commands, the company announced Thursday at its headquarters in Seattle.| John Falcone / CNET: |
Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, available this fall in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $230, and a 4-tuner version with 1TB of storage — That Amazon DVR that was rumored a few weeks back? It's real, and it's here. The Fire TV Recast is a DVR, but it doesn't have its own video outputs.
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The Verge, US Day One Blog, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, and AFTVnews
| 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 — Today's big Amazon event was all about the hardware, but Amazon kicked things off with a few extra tricks. Among the cooler features rolling out for the smart assistant …
Tweets: @danielpmcdermot
| 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 — Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its Dating feature.
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The Verge, CNBC, Mashable, Fortune, SlashGear, Silicon Valley Business …, CNET, Engadget, Recode, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @joshconstine and @paul__armstrong
| 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 — With new cheaper options at $199 and $299 — Just a few hours after a last-minute leak, GoPro has officially announced the new Hero 7 line of cameras …
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, iMore, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, Engadget, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @er
| 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 — The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Google decides on suggestions for Gmail's Smart Reply, which is being rolled out to its 1.4B accounts, and make up 10% of all Gmail responses — Google's automated email replies, which are being rolled to its 1.4 billion accounts, have baffled users with some peculiar suggestions
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The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, BGR, Fortune, Mashable, 9to5Google, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @wsj
| 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 — Geofenced sharing, Quiz stickers, Stories Highlight stickers, and a separate interface for adding hashtags to posts are amongst a slew …
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The Next Web, The Next Web, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Social Media Today, and All Things How. Tweets: @wongmjane
| 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 — The beta program is still invite-only — Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload …
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CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Bloomberg, Music Ally, Music Business Worldwide, CDM Create Digital Music, Fortune, KnowTechie, and Rolling Stone
Tweets: @pkafka, @danideahl, and @sammiscarlette
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB announces an investment from cloud computing company ServiceNow, and that it has acquired Clustrix, a scale-out database and drop-in MySQL replacement — MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix …
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| 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 — (Reuters) - John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance … | 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 — Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons.
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ico.org.uk, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, The Hill, Axios, CNET, The Hacker News, Neowin, Fortune, and Inquirer
Tweets: @jason_kint, @profcarroll, @tim2040, and @jce_pc
| 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 — - With new video services, their next phase of growth targets TV — Politics bolster local, national TV, Magna Global report says — Online advertising will account …
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| 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 — Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked with a loss of total 6.7 billion yen, or $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin.
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Bloomberg, The Asahi Shimbun, Bitcoinist.com, Telegraph, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoin Magazine, ZDNet, CoinSpeaker, The Next Web, CCN, Coingeek, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, TechRepublic, Bitsonline, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @edmundedgar
| 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 — For $4.99 per month, ESPN+ offers a range of sports programming; doesn't offer live ESPN channels — ESPN said it has signed up more than one million paying subscribers … | 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 — A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second| 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 — - Tencent-backed app is burning cash to win market share — Meituan IPO is H.K.'s biggest since Xiaomi's in July
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @luluyilun
| 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 — Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
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Volexity, RiskIQ, eWeek, Windows Central, The Verge, Tom's Guide, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, PaymentsSource, Android Police, Threatpost, The Tech Report, PCWorld, Inquirer, Security Affairs, Flashpoint, The Register, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Engadget, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, CNET, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Motherboard, Cyberscoop, ZDNet, and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| 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 — Morning Report: Eventbrite kept the IPO wave rolling by pricing its debut at the top of its raised range. — Eventbrite, a venerable technology startup, priced its IPO at $23 per share.
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| Alex Wickham / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: UK plans Ofcom-like regulator with powers to enforce new regulations on legal content and behaviour online, fines for non-removal of illegal content — Exclusive: BuzzFeed News has obtained details of plans being drawn up by ministers that also include a compulsory code of conduct … | 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 — A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity.
Tweets: @davecullen, @ryanvlastelica, @dannorberts, and @nickconfessore
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud-based unified communications provider Vonage to acquire NewVoiceMedia, a UK-based startup that builds cloud-based contact centers, for $350M — More consolidation is afoot in the world of cloud-based voice services. Today, Vonage — once a VoIP pioneer that today offers cloud-based …
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, Tech.eu, and PE Hub Blog
| 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 — Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo '18 conference.
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TechCrunch, Google Cloud, ReadITQuik, ZDNet, SearchCloudSecurity, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
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