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| Maddy Myers / Kotaku: |
E3 website leaks personal info, including addresses and phone numbers, of 2,000+ reporters and content creators; E3 has removed file but data still circulates — A spreadsheet containing the contact information and personal addresses of over 2,000 games journalists, editors …
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Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @stephentotilo, @kezamacdonald, @bratterz, and @laura_hudson
| Robert Evans / bellingcat: |
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes mass shooters and gamifies the massacre of innocents — On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an El Paso Wal-Mart and opened fire.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Data breach seller provides evidence that sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May, says 6.8M records with contact info and hashed passwords were taken — It wasn't “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm.
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
WeWork has acquired at least six software companies related to real estate, possibly to build a software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies — This week WeWork, also known as The We Company and best known for its global coworking business, is adding another software company to its portfolio of acquisitions.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: out of 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, ~50% have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000; only 13 have 10M+ users — Around 87% of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 1,000 installs. — There are 188,620 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store … | Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies use AI in customer service: some to serve clients better, and some to find the “breakpoint” at which their service is so bad that a customer quits — Technology lets companies see how badly they can treat consumers, right up until the moment they bolt
Tweets: @alexhillman, @zackwhittaker, @georgebdavis, and @wsj
| FinSMEs: |
Boston-based Jobble, an on-demand marketplace connecting businesses with people looking for flexible work in the US, raises $11M Series A — Jobble, a Boston, Massachusetts-based community of on-demand workers, raised $11m in funding. — The round was led by Vestigo Ventures …
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| South China Morning Post: |
China is moving away from using QR codes for mobile payments and is increasingly adopting facial recognition payments technology from WeChat Pay and Alipay — In cities around China, vendors from supermarkets to bakeries have adopted facial recognition payments technology Facial recognition …
Tweets: @muloongo
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success — KEY POINTS — Building 8, the laboratory she started, turned into a costly failure for Facebook, and Dugan was gone in less than two years.
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FutureSin, Digital Information World, and The Verge
| Colin Dixon / nScreenMedia: |
Parks Associates: 39% of US broadband homes own a streaming media player, up 1% since 2018; Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% and 30% of the market, respectively — New research data shows that streaming media player growth is flattening. However, the number of connected TV homes continues to grow strongly, thanks to smart TV.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple spent $4.2B, or 7.9% of its revenue, on R&D in Q3, the highest percentage of R&D spending since 2003, and is on track to spend $16B in 2019 — KEY POINTS — Apple CFO Luca Maestri hinted that R&D would continue to rise, and said that the company's $1 billion purchase …
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| Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: |
Diabetics in the US are increasingly using electronic skin patches and smartphones to better manage their disease through continuous glucose tracking — Wearable blood-sugar monitors deliver round-the-clock glucose readings—and relief from the daily grind of finger-stick blood tests
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