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Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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Oculus, The Verge, Ars Technica, Facebook, CNET, Wired, Polygon, ILMxLAB, The Verge, Inquirer, Variety, Windows Central, Quartz, Mashable, Oculus Blog, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Geek News Central, VentureBeat, MIT Technology Review, Tubefilter, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Silicon Valley Business …, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, GeekWire, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Amazon US Day One Blog: |
Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC — Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers. — Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
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| David Stringer / Bloomberg: |
Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple — - Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says| David Marcus / Facebook: |
David Marcus responds to Brian Acton's interview, defending Zuckerberg and his protection of WhatsApp within Facebook, says Acton's attack was “low-class” — [Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
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| Benjamin Mayo: |
Apple's first iOS apps on Mac, via its universal framework Marzipan, are sluggish, have UI quirks, non-standard behaviors, should not be preinstalled on Mojave — I don't like marzipan. And I don't like Marzipan. — I haven't been running Mojave on my machine in the beta period.
Tweets: @jerkob, @fakebaldur, @zeveisenberg, and @stroughtonsmith
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund has already committed $65B; Masayoshi Son says that he plans to raise a new $100B fund every two or three years and spend ~$50B per year — The Japanese dealmaker says he'll raise a new $100 billion fund every few years. Silicon Valley's disruptors are struggling to keep up.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45-minute video that it sent to team leaders at Whole Foods; Amazon says Gizmodo “cherry-picked soundbites” — Amazon, the country's second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union.
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Boing Boing, Fast Company, and Fortune
Tweets: @bryandisagrees, @heidigroover, @tylerkenthill, @alexpalombo, @fightfor15, and @alibreland. Thanks:@andrewcouts
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7 — Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
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Tweets: @francispouliot_, @jonrussell, @kr00ney, @ampressman, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at how, ten years after Google introduced Android to prevent the industry's other players from becoming dominant, its mobile OS has become just that — It's an Android world; we just live in it — Android is 10 years old now, give or take. It was revealed on September 23rd … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $400M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, source says at a $2B+ valuation — It's official. Two weeks ago, we reported that Opendoor — the four year-old, San Francisco-based company aiming to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate …
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Bloomberg, Axios, and VentureBeat
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Real estate tech company Compass raises $400M Series F, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund and the Qatar Investment Authority, at a $4.4B valuation — Compass, the New York startup that has built a tech-first platform to take on the antiquated market of real estate, is building up its own house today.| Steve Blank: |
A look at how the Apple Watch is poised to disrupt the highly regulated healthcare industry and what diagnostics and screening apps Apple may add in the future — I don't own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Jen Fitzpatrick, head of Google Maps and once-intern of 1999, on the consistency of Google's culture, ongoing opportunities for Maps, possibilities with AR — Jen Fitzpatrick started out in Google's first class of interns in 1999. She now runs one of the company's most important businesses.
Tweets: @harrymccracken
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cargo, which makes boxes of items such as gum, phone chargers, and snacks to help drivers sell goods to ride-hailing passengers, raises $22.5M Series A — In-car commerce startup Cargo has raised $22.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund …
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PE Hub Blog and Forbes
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
TechInsights teardown: iPhone XS Max components cost an estimated $443 for the 256GB model, nearly $50 more than last year's 64GB iPhone X — The iPhone XS Max with 256GB of storage costs an estimated $443 to make, according to estimates shared by TechInsights in a teardown of the new device.
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Seeking Alpha, Softpedia News, SlashGear, and AppleInsider
| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM study: ~60% of 5K polled execs say they're concerned with explaining, in order to meet regulatory standards, how AI is using data, up from 29% in 2016 — About 60% of 5,000 executives in IBM survey expressed concern with AI's ‘black box’ — Concerns about transparency and ethics …
Tweets: @ibmnews
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Profile of Coraline Ada Ehmke, author of Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct encouraging inclusive language use and now adopted by 40K+ open source projects — CORALINE ADA EHMKE has been writing software professionally since 1994. For the past decade, she's been active …
Tweets: @jahnaberry, @coralineada, @dhh, and @wired
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
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The Keyword, XDA Developers, Thurrott.com, Firstpost, The Verge, BGR, AndroidGuys, AndroidHeadlines.com, and Droid Life
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