Amazon unveils Echo Auto, a $49.99 dash mounted in-car accessory that puts Alexa in any car with an aux jack and gives directions using Waze
Access Alexa Everywhere in Your Home and Your Car CNBC : Amazon introduces a ton of new Alexa-enabled products, including a microwave and car gadget Joan E. Solsman / CNET : Amazon Music will let you ...
Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip
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Amazon announces updates to the $49.99 Echo Dot and $149.99 Echo Plus speakers with updated designs and improved sound quality, shipping Oct. 11
it's louder and has a new design, but it's still only $50 Tweets: Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : The new Dot #sounds great. I can tell you from personal experience :-) and looks about 10 times ...
PlayStation Now announces subscribers can download PS4 and remastered PS2 games, as the service becomes more like Xbox Game Pass
The biggest hindrance to Sony's PlayStation Now streaming service is lag. Because the game isn't stored locally, whatever device you're playing on has to send …
A roundup of all the major announcements from Amazon on Thursday, from a new microwave to a subwoofer to new Alexa skills and developer tools
Microwave. Subwoofer. Smart plug. In-car device. — Those are just a handful of the new devices Amazon debuted on Thursday …
In letter to Congress, Google confirms it continues to allow third-party apps to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, though Google itself stopped doing so
Lawmakers had asked company to explain policy in wake of WSJ report — WASHINGTON—Google Inc. told lawmakers it continues …
Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya appears unconcerned about the string of exits from the firm and says it will no longer raise outside capital
- Chamath Palihapitiya told his employees he would be diverting much of the “carry” — the portion of investment returns traditionally given …
Amazon launches a $59.99 AmazonBasics-branded microwave that works with Alexa-enabled speakers, has built-in WiFi, and an Amazon Dash Replenishment
Amazon will begin to sell its own brand of Wi-Fi-connected microwaves that will respond to voice commands, the company announced Thursday at its headquarters in Seattle.
Sources: Facebook plans to unveil its “Portal” video chat device for home with Alexa support next week; it will come in two screen sizes for ~$400 and ~$300
Facebook plans to finally unveil its Portal video chat device for the home next week, Cheddar has learned.
Adobe says it is acquiring the marketing automation company Marketo for $4.75B
A week ago rumors were flying that Adobe would be buying Marketo, and lo and behold it announced today that it was acquiring the marketing automation company for $4.75 billion.
Instagram is testing a way for users to reshare posts from other accounts to their own feeds; obtained screenshots suggest the feature is early in development
Will it revive the feed — or break it? — After years of resistance, Instagram is now testing a way for you to reshare posts from other accounts to your own feed.
Instagram app code shows new potential features like adding hashtags without including them in captions, geofenced posts, quiz stickers, and video tagging
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How Amazon wants to win the smart home with Alexa Connect Kit, a wireless circuit board that manufacturers can add to any device that has a microcontroller
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Google confirms the personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff have been targeted by foreign government hackers
Foreign hackers target Senators' Gmail accounts — (CNN)The personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff …
Bing rolls out AMP support for searches on the mobile web two years after adding support for the protocol to its mobile apps
Two years after adding support for the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) protocol in its mobile apps, Bing is now rolling out AMP support for searches on the mobile web.
Twitch website is currently not accessible in China and its app has disappeared from the App Store, indicating that Twitch may have been blocked in the country
Gaming service's site is inaccessible and its app is no longer on China's iOS App Store — Last month, Twitch downloads surged …
China's “pay-for-knowledge” economy, primarily podcasts with subscription fees, is estimated at $7.3B in 2017, compared to US ad-driven podcast revenue of $314M
Listen To The Story — Marketplace — Chen Jun, 34, rents a small apartment in Shanghai. Tweets: @kaifulee Tweets: Kai-Fu Lee / @kaifulee : This is an example of the China-US parallel universe. What...
Amazon introduces APL, a design language for building Alexa skills for devices with screens, says APL-powered skills coming to Alexa device owners next month
Along with the launch of the all-new Echo Show, the Alexa-powered device with a screen, Amazon also introduced a new design language …
Microsoft says Skype is coming to Amazon Alexa devices later this year, letting Alexa users make outgoing voice and video calls, accept incoming calls, and more
Microsoft and Amazon are working together to bring Skype calling to Alexa-powered devices, which brings into question, again, where Microsoft is going with Cortana.
Amazon says it is experimenting with giving Alexa a rudimentary form of emotional awareness, such as listening for the sound of frustration in a person's voice
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Review: HP's Chromebook x2 has outstanding build quality, great performance, very good battery life, but screen is a little wobbly in laptop mode
The HP Chromebook x2 takes Chrome to the next level … Research Center: — HP Chromebook x2 — Outside the Pixelbook …
Amazon introduces Wi-Fi Simple Setup to automatically share a user's home wireless network credentials with compatible smart home devices
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Trucking and freight-booking startup Convoy raises $185M Series C led by CapitalG at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $265M
After serving 14 years for the Royal Canadian Navy, Ira Lawrence was ready for a new adventure. He and his wife decided to start a trucking company in 2017 …
RIAA: revenues from streaming up 28% YoY to $3.4B in H1 2018, accounting for 75% of recorded music revenue; 75% of streaming revenue comes from subscriptions
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China-based Huazhu Hotels Group says hacker who was selling 1.415GB data on millions of its guests and tried to blackmail the chain, has been arrested
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Investigation finds that Instagram's IGTV recommended disturbing and potentially illegal videos in UK; Instagram took five days to remove some of the videos
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider :
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
Dani Deahl / The Verge :
A look at how Amazon Prime has compelled Target, Walmart, and many Google Express vendors to offer “free” two-day shipping and the challenges in matching Amazon
The quest to offer fast, free delivery has triggered an arms race among the largest retailers
Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and luxury goods, prices its US IPO at $20 per share, above the expected $17 to $19 range, raising $885M
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Online ticketing company Eventbrite closes up 59% on its first day of trading after raising $230M in its IPO at a $1.76B valuation
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Facebook says that for future political campaigns, it will pull back from dedicated on-site support like the kind it provided to Trump's 2016 campaign
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Amazon announces a DVR called Fire TV Recast, shipping Nov. 14 in two versions: a 2-tuner 500GB model for $229.99 and a 4-tuner 1TB model for $279.99
but you'll need an Echo device Avery Hartmans / Business Insider : Amazon is taking on TiVo with a new Fire TV DVR that can record live broadcasts Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : First Look at Amazon's Fir...
Sources: Uber is in early talks to buy London-based food-delivery company Deliveroo for several billion dollars; Deliveroo was last valued at more than $2B
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Sources: Amazon plants empty packages with fake labels in delivery trucks to catch drivers who are stealing
Hayley Peterson / INSIDER :
Bitmain announces its next generation, 7 nm BM1391 ASIC to power its cryptocurrency miners
Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk :
Hulu rolling out an updated web interface designed for watching shows on a computer that shows more options and controls
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
John Bolton says Trump signed off on a new national cyber strategy to guide how the administration handles cyberthreats, offensive and defensive cybersecurity
Shannon Vavra / Axios :
Origami, a Tokyo-based mobile payments company, raises ~$60M Series C from China Union Pay, others for developing and rolling out QR-code based payment services
Amazon updates the $179.99 Ring Stick Up camera and adds a wired version with an ethernet cable, available for preorder now and shipping Oct. 18
Mallory Locklear / Engadget :
Facebook says it is reviewing its policies on white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism after a backlash from civil rights groups
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