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Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option -
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Filings from Chinese regulator TENAA: iPhone XS and XS Max have 4GB of RAM, iPhone XR has 3GB; iPhone XS Max and XR have larger 3,174 and 2,942 mAH batteries -
Nilay Patel / The Verge: iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 -
Sara Fischer / Axios: eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market -
22 minutes ago Aoife White / Bloomberg: EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says regulators are probing how Amazon gathers and uses info on sales made by competitors on Amazon Marketplace -
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers -
Jon Porter / The Verge: Code snippets in iOS 12.1 beta suggest new iPad to be announced this fall, possibly an iPad Pro with Face ID and an edge-to-edge notched display — Expected this Fall -
Sponsor Post Smartsheet: 4 Reasons your IT belongs in the cloud — How can moving to the cloud benefit your business? Here are four key benefits. -
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: GitLab raises $100M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a valuation of $1.1B — Code collaboration and DevOps platform GitLab has raised $100 million in a series D round … -
ProPublica: Investigation: 15 employers, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex in the past year, with many ads playing to stereotypes -
Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: ACLU files complaint with EEOC against Facebook and 10 other employers, alleging job ads on site were targeted to exclude “female and other non-male” prospects -
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Salesforce debuts two new AI voice assistants atop its Einstein platform, Einstein Voice for enterprises and consumer-facing Einstein Voice Bots — Amazon's got Alexa. -
Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Salesforce updates Quip, adding a new PowerPoint-like feature called Slides with real-time collaboration, new apps from Dropbox and Box, and Giphy integration -
Reuters: Sources: Tencent Music Entertainment Group has confidentially filed for a $2B US IPO, down from the up to $4B rumored earlier -
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Fitbit launches a new premium fitness coaching service called Fitbit Care, available via a new Fitbit Plus app, that also lets users connect with their doctors -
Garrett M. Graff / Wired: Court filing: US government seeks to continue FBI work with Mirai botnet hackers, who pled guilty to creating the malware last Dec., as part of their sentencing -
Nick Statt / The Verge: Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3 — 20 ‘genre-defining’ games and two controllers for $99.99 -
Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: Women startup founders own 39 cents for every dollar of equity a male founder owns, says study that used anonymized data from more than 6,000 US-based companies -
Cade Metz / New York Times: How companies like Quanergy, Palmer Luckey's Anduril, and Alphabet-supported Cogniac are testing virtual patrols along the US-Mexico border using lidar and AI -
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: In a leaked email, Evernote CEO says the company has cut 54 jobs, or 15% of its staff; the news comes amid a recent report that several senior execs have left -
Ari Levy / CNBC: Amazon is testing a new site called Scout that recommends products to customers based on their likes and dislikes in categories like furniture and women's shoes -
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations -
Cate Cadell / Reuters: Alibaba says it will set up a chip subsidiary to make customised AI chips for its cloud and IoT businesses, aims to launch its first AI chip in H2 2019