Day: October 22, 2018

    • Qualcomm announces a reference design headset based on its QCC5100 Bluetooth audio chip to make it easier for manufacturers to build Alexa-powered headphones (Richard Lai/Engadget)

    Richard Lai / Engadget: Qualcomm announces a reference design headset based on its QCC5100 Bluetooth audio chip to make it easier for manufacturers to build Alexa-powered headphones  —  When it comes to adding a voice assistant to a speaker or a pair of headphones, Amazon’s Alexa has become the default choice for many OEMs …

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    • Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance (Andrei Frumusanu/AnandTech)

    Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based SOC with support for triple camera setups, promises better gaming performance  —  Today we’re seeing a very interesting announcement from Qualcomm: The new Snapdragon 675 chipset is a direct successor … Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 675, an 11nm mid-range ARM Cortex A76-based

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    • Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with InfoWars, some for helping InfoWars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban (CNN)

    CNN: Twitter says it has removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with InfoWars, some for helping InfoWars and Alex Jones circumvent September ban  —  New York (CNN Business)Twitter on Monday removed more than a dozen accounts affiliated with the fringe right-wing media organization InfoWars, a company spokesperson told CNN. Twitter says it has removed

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    • Report: blockchain engineers make between $150K and $175K on average, on par with AI developers and above the typical $135K salary for software engineers (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

    Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Report: blockchain engineers make between $150K and $175K on average, on par with AI developers and above the typical $135K salary for software engineers  —  – Blockchain engineers are the top paid roles in software development, on par with specialists focused on artificial intelligence. Report: blockchain engineers make between 0K and

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    • A critical analysis of Bloomberg's claims about the alleged compromised Supermicro motherboards and why the reported technical details are implausible (ServeTheHome)

    ServeTheHome: A critical analysis of Bloomberg’s claims about the alleged compromised Supermicro motherboards and why the reported technical details are implausible  —  Today we are going to more thoroughly address the Bloomberg Businessweek article alleging that China targeted 30 companies by inserting chips … A critical analysis of Bloomberg's claims about the alleged compromised Supermicro

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    • Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Linus Torvalds back in charge of Linux, according to the Linux 4.19 announcement, over a month after temporarily stepping away to get help to fix his behavior  —  After a few weeks off to reconsider his role in the Linux community, Linus Torvalds is back in the saddle. Linus Torvalds

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    • Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens' daily video consumption in US, and Instagram is now teens' most-used social platform, eclipsing Snapchat (Piper Jaffray)

    Piper Jaffray: Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for 70.7% of teens’ daily video consumption in US, and Instagram is now teens’ most-used social platform, eclipsing Snapchat  —  Our 36th semi-annual Taking Stock With Teens survey included results from 8,600 teens across 48 states with an average age of 16. Survey: Netflix and YouTube account for

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    • AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg's spy chip story (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

    Makena Kelly / The Verge: AWS CEO Andy Jassy and Supermicro CEO Charles Liang join Apple CEO Tim Cook in calling for a retraction of Bloomberg’s spy chip story  —  ‘[Tim Cook] is right.  Bloomberg story is wrong about Amazon, too.’  —  Today, executives from both Amazon and the server manufacturer, Super Micro … AWS

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    • Lobbying group for Apple, Facebook, Google, and others unveils framework proposal for user privacy regulation, including opt-ins for use of sensitive data (David McCabe/Axios)

    David McCabe / Axios: Lobbying group for Apple, Facebook, Google, and others unveils framework proposal for user privacy regulation, including opt-ins for use of sensitive data  —  A leading tech lobbying group in Washington Monday introduced a plan for regulations to protect user privacy online … Lobbying group for Apple, Facebook, Google, and others unveils

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    • Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct (Greg Bensinger/Wall Street Journal)

    Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at Uber, has resigned following report about allegations of sexual misconduct  —  Executive steps down following WSJ article revealing allegations of sexual misconduct  —  Uber Technologies Inc.’s top deal maker, Cameron Poetzscher, has resigned from the company … Cameron Poetzscher, a top dealmaker at

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    • Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021 (Michael Laris/Washington Post)

    Michael Laris / Washington Post: Ford says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services in 2021  —  The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington … Ford says

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    • Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; starting Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to purchase a VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla announces ProtonVPN partnership; starting Oct. 25, some Firefox users will see an ad to purchase a VPN subscription when connected to unsecured WiFi  —  Selected Firefox users will be able to purchase a ProtonVPN version for $10.  Some of the money will go to support Mozilla and Firefox. Mozilla announces

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