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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 12 officially launches out of beta, with faster performance, Screen Time, smarter notifications, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, improved privacy in Safari, more — Apple today officially released iOS 12, the latest operating system designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iOS 12 is available …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 12 review: mostly incremental improvements to iOS 11 rather than breaking new ground, except for Siri Shortcuts, which is a productivity playground — We left last year's iOS 11 update with a palpable tension between two platforms. — On one hand, following a year of minor changes …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to release at least eight new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an amplifier, and subwoofer, by the end of the year — - It reflects Amazon's ambition to make its Alexa voice assistant ubiquitous, especially in areas where people spend most of their time, like the home and car.
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| New York Times: |
Trump placing 10% tariffs on an additional ~$200B in Chinese imports on Sept. 24, drops ~300 types of goods, including smartwatches, from list of those affected — President Trump, emboldened by America's economic strength and China's economic slowdown, escalated his trade war on Monday …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Shopping launches personalized Explore channel, expands Stories tags after testing them since June, and lets brands add a shopping bag icon to Stories — Instagram is embracing its true identity as a mail-order catalog. The question will be how much power merchants will give Instagram …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Stripe unveils Stripe Terminal, a new service for in-person payments with Warby Parker and Glossier as launch partners, will charge 2.7% plus 5¢ per transaction — The San Francisco-based company is introducing a new service for in-person payments. — For years, Stripe has been synonymous … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus — Apple's old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs' office.
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Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider, TidBITS, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, and 9to5Mac
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| Mike Memoli / NBC News: |
Facebook debuts pilot program to expand its security tools and procedures, like 2FA and threat monitoring, for candidates and campaign staff ahead of midterms — The program is meant to identify patterns of malicious behavior earlier, making Facebook's reaction quicker.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 0-day flaw allowing remote code execution on security cameras running Nuuo software, say hundreds of thousands of devices may be affected — The previously unknown security flaw in Nuuo software is thought to impact hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Cloudflare debuts IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the P2P-driven InterPlanetary File System that does not require installing special software — Internet security provider Cloudflare is introducing a new product to help users more easily access the InterPlanetary File System …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Getty Images partners with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200M digital pics for searches on the Echo Show and Echo Spot — On the heels of the Getty family regaining control of Getty Images, reportedly for about $3 billion, the company is announcing a move to expand use of its images to a wider set of eyeballs.
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Getty Images Press Room, Engadget, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Neowin, The Verge, and Fortune. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link — Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon opens a checkout-free Amazon Go retail store in Chicago, its first such store outside Seattle — Amazon today officially expanded its checkout-less grocery stores outside Seattle, as the ecommerce giant opened its very first Amazon Go store in Chicago, located at 113 S Franklin Street.
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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