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| Sameer Samat / The Keyword: |
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color — Over the last decade, Android's open platform has created a thriving community of manufacturers and developers that reach a global audience with their devices and apps.
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Tweets: @android, @cgartenberg, @rdrv3, @pranavdixit, @ronamadeo, and @backlon
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning to launch Pro iPhones with three-sensor camera systems for better low-light, new iPads, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro next month — Apple Inc. is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years.
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The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Computerworld, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Mercury News, Digital Trends, CNET, Wareable, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, iMore, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Gotta Be Mobile, USA Today, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, CNBC, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, KnowTechie, Liliputing, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Variety, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Inquirer, Patently Apple, Fast Company, Thurrott, and MACお宝 …
Tweets: @markgurman, @business, @tomwarren, @gerritd, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service called Knewz, to address publisher concerns about Google and Facebook — Knewz.com will surface articles from hundreds of news sources, using software and human curation — News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant …
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The Verge, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Variety, and Seeking Alpha
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Chrome team proposes new privacy and anti-fingerprinting open standard to make it harder for marketers and advertisers to track users across the web — Google today announced a new long-term initiative that, if fully realized, will make it harder for online marketers and advertisers to track you across the web.
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The Keyword, The Keyword, Chromium Blog, Digital Trends, The Seattle Times, Android Police, Threatpost, GitHub, Engadget, AdExchanger, MSPoweruser, Digiday, ZDNet, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, Thurrott, CNET, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @justinschuh, @wendyndavis, @stshank, and @wilto
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google says it has shut down 210 YouTube channels after it found they had been tied to misinformation about Hong Kong protesters — KEY POINTS — In a blog post Thursday, Google said it axed more than 200 YouTube channels due to misinformation around Hong Kong protests.
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The Keyword, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, NBC News, CNN, The Hill, CNET, Washington Post, TechCrunch, The Verge, New York Times, Ars Technica, and Axios
Tweets: @dellcam, @sarafischer, @shanehuntley, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| ProPublica: |
Interviews with 36+ DOD and tech officials shed light on tech giants' fight for $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract using backdoor lobbying and an advisory board — Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
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GeekWire, Fortune, and FedScoop
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B — KEY POINTS — VMware is acquiring Carbon Black, a cybersecurity company that went public in 2018, the companies announce as part of VMware's quarterly earnings report.
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TechCrunch, GlobeNewswire News Room, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, GlobeNewswire News Room, Axios, and Tehrani.com. Tweets: @jordannovet
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Bose announces the $349 Portable Home Speaker with WiFi and Bluetooth and support for Google Assistant, Alexa, AirPlay 2, and Spotify Connect — Preempting Sonos' leaked Move speaker announcement next week — Bose just announced a surprise product: the Portable Home Speaker …
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Bose Global Press Room, Android Central, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, TechHive, Android Police, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @reckless
| CNBC: |
Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a “Deep State” investigation of 2016 election — - Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after making controversial comments about his role in the “Deep State.”
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Overstock.com Inc., Overstock.com Inc., New York Times, CoinDesk, Observer, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, and The Register
Tweets: @berthacoombs, @thestalwart, @imagineworldas1, and @seth_hettena
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls — Twelve of the country's largest telephone companies on Thursday pledged to implement new technology to spot and block robocalls …
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Wall Street Journal, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Axios, Reuters, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, TmoNews, and FierceWireless
Tweets: @joshstein_ and @gigibsohn
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note10+ review: the screen is beautiful and handwriting recognition with S Pen is neat but software backslides into confusion and DeX is a mess — The most phone — How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone? — That's the essential question for the Note 10 Plus.
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iFixit, Engadget, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Gizchina, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Central, Gizmodo, and The Verge. Tweets: @backlon
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DoorDash announces a new tipping policy that will let drivers keep 100% of tips, rolling out next month, and pledges to bump up base pay across the board — The changes are arriving a month after DoorDash's CEO promised to address the issue — DoorDash today announced more concrete details …
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DoorDash, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, CNN, Axios, Fortune, and Fast Company
Tweets: @amir, @chillmage, and @nickstatt
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
HP says its CEO Dion Weisler will step down and Enrique Lores, president of HP's imaging, printing, and solutions business, will become new CEO from November 1 — KEY POINTS — HP CEO Dion Weisler will step down from the company “due to a family health matter,” HP announced Thursday.
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HP - Home, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, Financial Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and CRN. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus — KEY POINTS — Pedestrians walk past Google headquarters in New York. — Krishna Bharat, the inventor of Google News, has returned to the company … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Cities are paying companies like Host Compliance to be “Airbnb Police” and find real addresses of vacation rentals to enforce short term rental legislation — In response to a need to enforce short term rental legislation, an industry of companies has popped up tasked with finding … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Girls Who Code study of 1,000 young women highlights the challenges faced when seeking internships, often an unpleasant experience in a male-dominated workplace — IN 2018, MEI'LANI Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle …
Tweets: @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @sarambsimon, and @schemaly
| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon says it will no longer use tips or supplemental earnings to cover promised wages of Flex drivers, who deliver for Prime Now, Fresh, and Whole Foods — Amazon delivery drivers were surprised to learn earlier this year that the e-commerce giant would at times dip into their tips to cover their promised wages.| Washington Post: |
Palantir's revenue from US government contracts under Trump surpassed its total under Obama's second term, as sources describe staff debates about work with ICE — After Google dropped a defense contract over employee pressure, Palantir's leaders doubled down on controversial work with the U.S. government
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CNBC and Bloomberg
Tweets: @dmac1, @rmac18, @rmac18, @jeffbercovici, @mattzeitlin, and @rmac18
| Facebook Technology: |
A look at Oculus Insight, Facebook's technology that makes inside-out VR tracking on Oculus Quest and Rift S headsets possible — VR hardware was tethered to a PC — until one Facebook engineering team found a way to cut the cord — When Anna Kozminski joined Facebook as a software program manager …
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Facebook AI, TechCrunch, CNET, CNN, VentureBeat, and VRFocus
Tweets: @boztank, @hbarra, @gabeaul, @id_aa_carmack, @oculus, and @facebookai
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Sources: FCC and FTC officials raised concerns about the constitutionality and scope of a Trump draft executive order on CDA Section 230 and alleged censorship — (CNN)Officials from the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have expressed serious concerns … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon buys 49% stake in Future Coupons, which, filings show, may be worth ~$104M, and would give Amazon 3.58% stake in India's No. 2 retail chain Future Retail — Amazon, which has invested more than $6 billion in India's growing internet market, just invested a little more as it moves …
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| Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times: |
Flaws in cellphone tracking data used in Denmark, which may have linked innocent people to crime scenes, prompt a review of 10K+ court cases dating back to 2012 — COPENHAGEN — The authorities in Denmark say they plan to review over 10,000 court verdicts because of errors in cellphone tracking data offered as evidence.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @nytimes
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Users whose accounts have been disabled by Facebook say the opaque review process, the endless wait, and the inability to contact an employee can be maddening — For a decade, Christopher Reeves, an Uber driver in Seattle, used Facebook for everything: talking with friends, communicating with fellow drivers, meeting singles.
Tweets: @mvzelenks, @kashhill, @robpegoraro, @kashhill, @trevortimm, @antoniocasilli, and @digiphile
| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Investigation reveals popular on-demand massage app Zeel repeatedly ignored therapists' complaints about sexual harassment and inappropriate client behavior — When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client's Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood.
Tweets: @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, @bcmerchant, @denisehearn_, @bcmerchant, and @meghanemorris
| BBC: |
Microsoft says it stopped listening to Xbox recordings to improve tech months ago, but at times reviews recordings between users on reports of TOS violations — Microsoft has said that it will stop listening in to Xbox users, saying it was “no longer necessary”.
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London Evening Standard, Telegraph, Futurism, IGN, Softpedia News, Thurrott, and Tom's Hardware. Tweets: @josephfcox
| Rani Molla / Vox: |
A snapshot of Amazon's financial history and why free cash flow, which Bezos called Amazon's “ultimate financial measure”, is always higher than its profits — Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images — It's all about investing in the future.
Tweets: @naijaflyingdr, @recode, @recode, and @recode
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