Echo Sub, an Alexa-powered subwoofer, leaked via Amazon.co.uk, listed at £75, coming Oct. 11, can be paired with one or two Echo devices for stereo pairing
Amazon is adding a subwoofer to its Echo family, bringing the bassline to its Alexa-powered speakers.
GoPro launches Hero 7 Black with live-streaming, super slow motion, smooth stabilization, and 4K video at 60 fps for $399, going on sale September 27
With new cheaper options at $199 and $299 — Just a few hours after a last-minute leak, GoPro has officially announced the new Hero 7 line of cameras …
A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test, and limits users to expressing interest in a maximum of 100 people per day
Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its Dating feature.
Spotify says it will now allow indie artists to directly upload their music to the service; the upload feature is debuting in beta on an invite-only basis in US
The beta program is still invite-only — Spotify has announced a new beta feature that will allow independent artists to upload …
GoPro Hero 7 Black review: much improved stabilization, improved UI, and native live streaming make it a winner, though there is no improvement in battery life
Ever wondered why GoPro's flagship camera is called “the Black” but has always been silver or gray? Well, with the Hero 7, the company has righted that wrong.
Equifax fined the maximum £500,000 by UK's Information Commissioner's Office for failing to protect the personal data of ~15M Britons in 2017 breach
Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons.
Amazon.co.uk listing leaks Amazon Smart Plug, an Alexa-enabled plug to add voice control to any electrical socket, listed at £95 and releasing on Oct. 11
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint :
Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 Amazon Go cashierless stores by 2021
- Rapid expansion would rank it among biggest convenience chains — Retailer is testing different formats for AmazonGo strategy — Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open …
A look at how Google decides on suggestions for Gmail's Smart Reply, which is being rolled out to its 1.4B accounts, and make up 10% of all Gmail responses
Google's automated email replies, which are being rolled to its 1.4 billion accounts, have baffled users with some peculiar suggestions
John Hancock, one of the largest life insurers in the US, will now only sell policies that track fitness and health data via wearable devices and smartphones
(Reuters) - John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance …
Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif says it was hacked and ~$60M worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin, were stolen from exchange's hot wallets
Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked with a loss of total 6.7 billion yen, or $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin.
Reporter says Linus Torvalds' decision to temporarily step away from Linux maintenance came after he was asked a series of questions about his conduct
The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language.
ESPN says it has signed up more than 1M paying subscribers for ESPN+, its $4.99 a month streaming service launched in April
For $4.99 per month, ESPN+ offers a range of sports programming; doesn't offer live ESPN channels — ESPN said it has signed up more than one million paying subscribers …
Amazon is holding a surprise event in Seattle at 1pm ET today to announce new hardware
Natt Garun / The Verge :
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18
Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
Inside Facebook's election “War Room”, which will be the company's hub for safeguarding elections around the world
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction.
MariaDB announces an investment from cloud computing company ServiceNow, and that it has acquired Clustrix, a scale-out database and drop-in MySQL replacement
MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix …
Overview of the most popular attack vectors against IoT devices and which are most often compromised: MikroTik devices top the list, followed by TP-Link
Cybercriminals' interest in IoT devices continues to grow: in H1 2018 we picked up three times as many malware samples attacking smart devices as in the whole of 2017.
Chinese on-demand services provider Meituan-Dianping closes up 5.3% on its first day of trading in Hong Kong after raising $4.2B in its IPO
- Tencent-backed app is burning cash to win market share — Meituan IPO is H.K.'s biggest since Xiaomi's in July
Google announces Cloud Memorystore for Redis leaves beta, vulnerability scanning for Container Registry, partnership with NEC Corp. to expand GCP in Japan
Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo '18 conference.
Crypto pioneer David Chaum is unveiling Elixxir, a platform that promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second
A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second
Strategy Analytics: in Q2, Google Home Mini led with 20% smart speaker marketshare on 2.3M shipments, and Amazon Echo Dot had 18% market share with 2.2M shipped
Amazon's Echo Dot may have been a bestseller on Prime Day, but Google's Home Mini device is now the top-selling smart speaker worldwide …
Coinbase hires Brian Brooks, former Fannie Mae executive VP and general counsel, as its chief legal officer
Crypto exchange Coinbase has hired a new chief legal officer in its ongoing push to grow its leadership team. — Brian Brooks, a former executive vice president …
Eventbrite prices its IPO at $23 per share, at the top end of the range, raising $230M and valuing the company at $1.76B
Morning Report: Eventbrite kept the IPO wave rolling by pricing its debut at the top of its raised range. — Eventbrite, a venerable technology startup, priced its IPO at $23 per share.
Report says illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged 459% in 2018 YoY and that the spike is tied to the 2017 US government leak of hacking tool EternalBlue
- Cyber Threat Alliance releases report on cryptocurrency mining — Illicit cryptocurrency mining surged 459 percent in 2018
Amazon and Indian private equity firm Samara to buy More retail chain with 500+ locations; sources say for around $580M with Amazon owning 49% of the company
The transaction is said to be valued at around 4,200 crore — Mumbai: Private equity firm Samara Capital along with Amazon.com Inc. …
Study: online ad sales will increase 16% this year to $106.6B accounting for more than half of all US ad sales
- With new video services, their next phase of growth targets TV — Politics bolster local, national TV, Magna Global report says — Online advertising will account …
Counterpoint Research: in Q2, Apple sold 43% of all $400+ phones and 88% of $800+ phones globally, and took 62% of global handset profits
Apple's iPhone earnings were over 3.6 times that of Samsung and over three times the profits of the top four brands in China, as the company sold 43 percent of all “premium” phones globally.
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
enough to collect data about arrhythmia but not to diagnose a heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : Use Apple Watch for 5 minutes and I'm instantly reminded of why ...
A remote corner of New York, which once attracted heavy industry, is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity
A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity. Tweets: @davecullen , @ryanvlastelica , @dannorberts , and @nic...
Alibaba's Jack Ma recants promise to Trump, made early last year, to help US economy add one 1M jobs, citing the current state of US-China trade relations
thus helping create 1m US jobs. Trump trade war killed those plans. http://www.axios.com/... Sally Shin / @sallyshin : Jack Ma: The promise was made on the premise of friendly US-China partnership and...
Google partners with T-Mobile to send Google Maps-like location data from Android phones in the US to emergency call centers
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal :
Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast :
Cloud-based unified communications provider Vonage to acquire NewVoiceMedia, a UK-based startup that builds cloud-based contact centers, for $350M
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cloud-based voice services. Today, Vonage — once a VoIP pioneer that today offers cloud-based …
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
lends credence to iPad perhaps getting a USB-C port for 4K video-out? http://twitter.com/... Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith : Face ID has support for landscape orientation (presumably for iP...
Researcher shares flaw, reported to Western Digital in April 2017, that bypasses admin password for WD's My Cloud NAS drives; WD says fix coming in a few weeks
and the company said patches are, to this day, still a few weeks away. https://techcrunch.com/... Svbl / @svblxyz : “Cookie: username=admin” lol. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog ...
EU sources: Facebook may face sanctions because it has yet to comply with EU consumer rules; Airbnb has made necessary changes in response to regulatory demands
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Ethereum cofounder Gavin Wood wrote a blog post in 2013 in which he described having sex with an 11- or 12-year-old girl dying of AIDS; Wood says it was fiction
BuzzFeed News :
Multiple publisher sources claim Google Ad Manager has been down for several weeks; Google confirms issues but says the problem had been global for only 3 days
Publishers have struggled to get visibility on who is buying their inventory for the last two weeks, due to what many claim to be an unusually long Google Ad Manager outage. Tweets: @digiday and @digi...
DOD's new Cyber Strategy will allow the military to use offensive hacking operations to defend against cyberattacks on election systems and the energy grid
even if the infrastructure is in a friendly country: http://www.cnn.com/... http://twitter.com/... @cnn : The US military is taking a more aggressive stance against foreign government hackers who are ...
The developers of Bitcoin Core, the most popular client software for Bitcoin, patch a serious flaw that could have let anyone bring down the network for ~$80K
Jordan Pearson / Motherboard :
Israel-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate the features of other web-based services, raises $40M Series F led by IVP, source says at a $1B+ valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: Samsung is planning to curtail growth in memory chip output next year to keep supplies tight and keep prices high, amid an expected slowing in demand
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Indian Twitter-like social platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises ~$100M led by Shunwei Capital, at a $460M valuation
Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times :
Research: New York City startups closed ~1,500 deals worth $12B last year, nearly double the $6.3B in capital invested in 2014 for a similar number of deals
@WSJ http://www.wsj.com/... Andrea Kowalski / @dre_kowalski : NYC-based startups have raised $9.1 billion to date across 850 deals. Let's see if we can exceed last year's $12 billion http://www.wsj.co...
Cloudflare says it is rolling out resource public key infrastructure to all of its customers to stop route leaks and route hijackings
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Thanks: @thenicolenewby
Quantum Metric, an enterprise SaaS startup that helps companies calculate how much revenue is lost from bad website design, announces $25M Series A led by IVP
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat : Tweets: @ahhensel Tweets: Anna Hensel / @ahhensel : How many times have you decided not to buy something on a website because the checkout process was awful to navigate? Q...
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