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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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Facebook says it now counts activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures to help protect them and will remove sexual content targeting celebrities — Facebook said it will remove “severe sexualizing content” targeting public figures — including celebrities …
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Tweets: @exavierpope, @alexthomp, @noupside, @alexvoica, @zekuzelalem, @zekuzelalem, and @zekuzelalem
| 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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Tweets: @dnystedt, @mit_obe, @kennedycsis, @pareekhjain, @debjani_ghosh_, @dnystedt, and @dnystedt
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Activision announces the Ricochet anti-cheating system for Call of Duty: Warzone, which uses a PC kernel-level driver and ML to examine player behavior — Activision is cracking down on Call of Duty cheaters — Activision and Raven Software are finally cracking down on cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone.
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Tweets: @foxhoundfps, @pepverbsnouns, @charlieintel, @cloudthejoke, @recordscod, and @shgames
| 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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Tweets: @cherlynnlow, @nateingraham, @backlon, @tomwarren, @dcseifert, @nicnguyen, @parkerortolani, @jetscott, and @nicnguyen
| 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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| Cathy Gellis / Techdirt: |
An overview of possible Section 230 reforms and why each proposed change might as well be an outright repeal, given each one's practical effect — Some lawmakers are candid about their desire to repeal Section 230 entirely. Others, however, express more of an interest to try to split this baby …
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft agrees to commission an independent human rights review of its law enforcement and government contracts, in response to a shareholder proposal — After shareholder proposal, Microsoft to commission independent report on company's contracts. — Microsoft Corp. … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Mindbody acquires ClassPass, a subscription-based fitness marketplace recently valued at $1B, in an all-stock deal and raises $500M led by Sixth Street — ClassPass, the subscription-based fitness marketplace most recently valued at $1 billion, is today announcing that it has been acquired by Mindbody.| 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: @edourdooo, @meghanbobrowsky, @atbwebb, @andylangenkamp, @chinarealtime, and @jojjeols
| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Matik, which offers businesses data-driven and automated tools for making personalized PowerPoint presentations for customers, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — Matik, which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations …
Tweets: @kshenster, @menloventures, and @bayareawriter
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US to host a two-day ransomware virtual event from Wed. with 30 countries, excluding Russia and China; source says Russia wasn'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 Hill, The White House, Washington Post, Reuters, CyberScoop, CNET, Axios, Associated Press, The Hill, CyberScoop, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @martinmatishak, @ericgeller, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit now lets subreddit moderators create Predictions Tournaments, where participating users get 1K tokens to bet on different questions — Reddit today is introducing a new way to post to its communities with the launch of the on-platform feature called “Predictions.”| 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 — Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake! — What do you call AI these days?| 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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| 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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| 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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Financial Times, Bloomberg, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Benzinga, Reuters, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, TheStreet, SamMobile, Tom's Guide, Apple Must, Cult of Mac, BGR India, KnowTechie, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, Gamereactor UK, iDownloadBlog.com, Coinspeaker, PCMag, BBC, iMore, TNW, Livemint, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, and MACお宝 …
Tweets: @vladsavov, @htsfhickey, and @davemcclure
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
In open letters, NHTSA calls Tesla's use of NDAs with its FSD customers “unacceptable” and questions its use of an OTA safety update instead of issuing a recall — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a pair of letters to Tesla targeting the company's use … | 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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CNET, PCWorld, ZDNet, AndroidPolice, 9to5Google, Laptop Mag, PR Newswire, Thurrott, XDA Developers, TechRadar, Engadget, SlashGear, Engadget, techadvisor.com, Laptop Mag, CNET, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Pocket-lint, Windows Blog, Liliputing, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @mattk
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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Zoho:
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IDrive:
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