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 …
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 …
Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood
we reject claims that we defrauded advertisers. Damian Collins / @damiancollins : Yet more allegations regarding Facebook's opaque advertising system. Regulators such as the CMA should consider invest...
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.
Spotify announces a standalone app for Wear OS that lets users control and browse music, rolling out over the next week
Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica :
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
Kevin Roose / New York Times :
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers
http://blog.twitter.com/... No surprises, there are several disinformation accounts which push Jeremy Corbyn's narratives /1 Thomas Rid / @ridt : So this is fascinating and good news for researchers: ...
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 …
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. …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Apple sends out invites for an event on October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in NYC
Apple today sent out media invites for a second major 2018 event set to be held in New York City on Tuesday, October 30 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House.
BitGo, which makes multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets, raises $58.5M Series B from Goldman, Mike Novogratz, and others, bringing total raised to $70M
- Startup guards digital currencies for institutional investors — Bank calls custody a ‘logical precursor’ to market making
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 …
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
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 Tweets: Teddy Schleif...
Factcheck.org debunks less than one post per day, as human fact-checkers' primary role is seen to be helping Facebook's algorithms to understand fake news sites
The social network's algorithms scan billions of posts each day in hopes of flagging misinformation before it goes viral; humans can't keep up
Atlassian makes its redesigned Jira Software tool, which includes new APIs and more, available to all Jira users, after previewing it earlier this year
The Jira Software you needed in 2002 … Sean Captain / Fast Company : Software engineers live in Jira. Can Atlassian help them love it?
Following a cease-and-desist letter sent in early October, eBay sues Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching eBay sellers via eBay's internal messaging system
Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal :
Beijing-based cryptocurrency startup Cobo raises $13M Series A, launches Cobo Vault, a hardware wallet featuring a self-destructing mechanism
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk :
Fiverr announces its own elearning service called Learn, which offers courses aimed at freelancers on topics like SEO, with classes starting at $19
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat :
Sources: SoftBank Group has lined up commitments for a ~$9B loan for its Vision Fund from banks, including underwriters of its Japanese wireless business's IPO
Bloomberg : Tweets: @bondhack and @biswarupget Tweets: Robert Smith / @bondhack : SoftBank is doing that totally normal thing of raising a margin loan on its Vision Fund holdings in order to provide ...
Andy Rubin's Essential confirms layoffs; sources say it's almost a third of its workforce, primarily from the startup's hardware and sales divisions
Some More Skepticism About Blockchains, Bitcoins, and What Not Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : $100M later, Andy Rubin's cutting staff and looking for what's Essential Habeeb On...
Apple rolls out an updated privacy website, first trialed in the EU in May, that lets customers search the information Apple has on them
Kate Fazzini / CNBC :
Sources: Uber is developing a short-term staffing business, called Uber Works, that would utilize its database of workers for events and corporate functions
Financial Times :
Clippers CourtVision, which uses AI and AR to enhance LA Clippers games on screen, launches Wednesday, backed by Steve Ballmer and built by Second Spectrum
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
Pixel USB-C earbuds review: sound great and are comfortable, compatible with most modern devices, and affordable at $30, but lack a good seal in the ear
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
Middle East ride-hailing service Careem raises $200M from existing investors including Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holding
Alexander Cornwell / Reuters :
Twilio debuts Autopilot, to help developers deploy bots across text, message, and voice assistants, and Pay, an API to securely process payments over the phone
Today, we're adding support for Twilio <Pay … Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch : Twilio launches Autopilot to help developers build better bots Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Twilio unveils new platforms ...
Microsoft begins testing a major redesign of the iOS and Android Cortana apps, with a focus on conversational experiences and more
Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central :
Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games, which launch in browsers
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance partners with crypto compliance software provider Chainalysis to improve its detection of suspicious transactions
William Suberg / Cointelegraph : Tweets: @cointelegraph Tweets: @cointelegraph : Binance turns to Chainalysis to ease AML/KYC compliance obligations http://cointelegraph.com/...
Profile of Kris Goldsmith, an Army veteran who catalogues questionable Facebook Pages, some with millions of followers and links to Russia and Iran
please subscribe to the all of the media that you can afford. If you can't, Google has all answers. http://www.wsj.com/... Kristofer Goldsmith / @krisgoldsmith85 : Thread: For over a year, on behalf o...
A look at how the Democratic National Committee has beefed up cybersecurity since 2016, hiring staff from Silicon Valley, warning about phishing, and more
Eric Geller / Politico : Tweets: @ericgeller , @kimzetter , @ilvestoomas , @raffi , @ericgeller , and @donie Tweets: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : New from me: An in-depth look at how the DNC has overh...
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