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Samsung debuts $1,000+ Galaxy Book 2, a Windows 2-in-1 to compete with Surface, with 12-inch OLED display, LTE, 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 850, on sale from November 2 — A couple weeks after Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 6, Samsung is today unveiling the $1,000 Galaxy Book 2 …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
How one company spent between $1.2M and $4.6M over five months to get 45M+ impressions on Facebook political issue ads, without saying who's paying for the ads — Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How a loophole in Facebook's political ad review system, letting verified buyers put anything in the “paid for by” field, has been weaponized in a Virginia race — A competitive race in Virginia's 10th Congressional District has an alarming new element: anonymous attack ads on Facebook.
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: data mining giant Palantir is weighing an IPO as soon as H2 2019; some bankers have told the firm it could IPO with a valuation of as much as $41B — Bankers have told the firm it could go public with a valuation as high as $41 billion — Data-mining giant Palantir Technologies Inc. …
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| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
Samsung says it has started mass production of 7nm chips using an EUVL process that it claims enables 50% power and 20% performance improvements over 10nm chips — Samsung Foundry on Wednesday said that it had started production of chips using its 7LPP manufacturing technology …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechSpot, The Tech Report, Neowin, BGR, Engadget, and CNET. Tweets: @benbajarin. Thanks:@antonshilov
| Dave Zohrob / Chartable: |
An in-depth analysis of how the Apple Podcasts top charts are being manipulated, and how that affects the podcast ecosystem, which relies on Apple's directory — How did an unknown show about real estate beat out Serial, Dr. Death, and The Daily? — Something weird has been happening on the Apple podcast charts lately.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it will show whether a tweet was deleted by the user who posted it or because Twitter took an action, starting in the coming weeks — Twitter is making a change to how its tweet reporting procedures will work. Before, Twitter had experimented with both showing or hiding …
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A close look at the suit against Facebook on video metrics and a look back at many statements from publishers pivoting to video as Facebook touted the medium — “It will probably be all video.” — In June 2016, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa … | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook tentatively finds that the hack affecting 30M users was perpetrated by spammers posing as a digital marketing company, not by a nation-state — Facebook Inc. FB .40% believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users …
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The Hill, Reuters, The Verge, Neowin, KnowTechie, CNET, CNBC, Inquirer, USA Today, Mashable, and Business Insider
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| For The Record: |
Spotify Premium gets streamlined navigation, personalized search, and endless artist radio, rolling out globally on iOS and Android starting today — We're always looking for ways to provide the best possible methods for people to discover and enjoy the music they love.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
A deep look at the emergent Chinese phone market, where the hardware is now on par or better than flagships popular in the West but the software lags behind — 2018 will go down as the year when it became impossible to ignore the increasing advancements of Chinese smartphone hardware … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Vacation rental company Vacasa raises $64M led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $207.5M — Investors continue to bet big on Vacasa. — The Portland-based vacation rental management company today raised another $64 million from existing investors.| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Web Foundation finds a 12% slowdown in the global growth of internet access between 2007 and 2017, with African women the least connected — Report showing dramatic decline in internet access growth suggests digital revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of people| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
How Silicon Valley's rich can defer or even avoid capital gains tax, via a provision that Sean Parker helped craft, by investing in low-income Opportunity Zones — Sean Parker crafted a little-known part of the tax code called Opportunity Zones. Now every one-percenter in Silicon Valley wants in.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @juliaferraioli
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian makes its redesigned Jira Software tool, which includes new APIs and more, available to all Jira users, after previewing it earlier this year — Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it's available to all Jira users.
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ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and Atlassian Blog
| Financial Times: |
Softbank COO says “there is no certainty” that there will be another Vision Fund, as the firm is “anxiously looking” at fallout from Khashoggi's disappearance — SoftBank has voiced its doubts about the likelihood of a second $100bn Vision Fund for the first time …
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