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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $280 Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, its first color e-reader with a Paperwhite-like design and color E Ink display, shipping October 30 — For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. … The Colorsoft costs $279.99 and starts shipping on October 30th.
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| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite, adding a larger, brighter 7" display and faster page turns for $160+, and Kindle, adding color options and speed improvements — Amazon introduced updated versions of the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on Wednesday, only a few hours after inadvertently leaking them both.
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Threads: @scruffybookdude and @ampressman
X: @amazon, @maxwinebach, @bookofjoe, @panos_panay, and @maxwinebach
LinkedIn: Eric Saarnio and Nageswara Rao Tadepalli
| Tony Polanco / Tom's Guide: |
Kindle Colorsoft hands-on: bold and sharp color on a 7" display, wireless charging, and comfortable, lightweight design, but pricier than other Kindles at $280 — The Kindle Colorsoft is shaping up to be a winner — Early Verdict … The Kindle Colorsoft ($279) is the first color Kindle and something I've been waiting years for.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle Scribe to add modest design improvements like white bezels, a new stylus, and a more paper-like feel, shipping December 4 for $400 — Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle Scribe in 2022, the company has been noticing some unusual ways people are using the device.| Diana Olick / CNBC: |
Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy — Amazon Web Services is investing more than $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington state.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The US FTC adopts its final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up, after proposing the rule in 2023 — The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year — Government says two brothers targeted big U.S. corporations, a hospital and an Israeli defense system in a mostly ideologically driven operation.| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish 2025 sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall — - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%
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| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's first chief people officer, Carol Surface, who joined in early 2023, is leaving; retail chief Deirdre O'Brien is reassuming oversight of human resources — - Carol Surface joined Apple from Medtronic in 2023 for new role — The short tenure for a senior executive is rare at Apple
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X: @markgurman, @counternotions, and @markgurman
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China — Intel (INTC.O) products sold in China should be subject to a security review, the Cybersecurity Association of China … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more — French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users” — Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday …
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| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute partner to speed up development of humanoid robots using TRI's large behavior models and Boston Dynamics' Atlas — Research effort aims to develop, deploy multi-tasking robots at scale. … Toyota Motor Corp.'s research unit …
More: TechCrunch, Toyota USA Newsroom, IEEE Spectrum, Digital Trends, The Boston Globe, and Maginative. X: @thehumanoidhub
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple is expanding Apple Business Connect to let businesses, including those without a physical location, manage their presence in Mail, Phone, and Tap to Pay — Apple on Wednesday announced an expanded series of tools that will allow businesses to increase their visibility on Apple's platforms via …
More: Apple, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, zollotech on YouTube, and Cult of Mac. LinkedIn: Blake Holland
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Uber has explored a possible bid for Expedia as it seeks to grow into a super app; Expedia, valued at nearly $20B, would be Uber's largest acquisition — Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing group's biggest deal as it looks to diversify
X: @mikeisaac, @jfk_america, and @carlquintanilla
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Florida-based SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz to build a new kind of computing intelligence platform, raised a $20M seed led by Crosspoint — SynthBee, started by Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, has raised $20 million in funding to create a new kind of “computing intelligence.”
More: Forbes and SynthBee, Inc.
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Instacart names Anirban Kundu, head of engineering for Uber's delivery business, as its new CTO, a position that has been vacant for eight months — - Anirban Kundu to join Instacart Oct. 28, company says — Kundu was head of engineering for Uber Eats and delivery ads| RT Watson / The Block: |
Crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial raised $25M led by Ripple and launches Botanical, a futures trading platform in the US currently in closed beta — - Bitcoin derivatives exchange Bitnomial announced it has raised $25 million in a funding round led by Ripple.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Lightmatter, which uses silicon photonics with waveguides instead of wires in chips, raised a $400M Series D led by T. Rowe Price at a $4.4B valuation — Investors put $400 million into the company, which aims to make it faster to build new AI software.
More: PitchBook, Lightmatter, Reuters, TechCrunch, Pulse 2.0, The Boston Globe, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, Lightmatter, Tech Startups, FinSMEs, Capital Brief, and Crunchbase News. LinkedIn: Ritesh Jain
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb launches the Co-Host Network to help homeowners hire fellow hosts to manage their rentals in the US, the UK, Canada, France, Spain, and Brazil — - Homeowners can pay co-hosts to set up listing, manage guests — Firm won't take commission when hosts connect with each other
More: Airbnb Newsroom, Skift, Inc.com, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Fox Business, Ad Age, PhocusWire, The Times, Engadget, The Independent, and The Verge
| Daniel Thorp-Lancaster / Wired: |
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers — This powerful clamshell Chromebook packs an AMOLED screen and is one of the first with the new Quick Insert key. — Rating:
More: ZDNET, Android Central, Android Authority, and SamMobile
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