Techmeme
- A look at how tech products aimed at civic engagement made by technologists from Silicon Valley have mostly failed to have any long term impact (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
- Luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch closes up 42% on its first day of trading, after raising $885M in its IPO; Farfetch is now valued at $8.2B (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)
- NYT sues FCC for records that NYT alleges may reveal Russian government interference in FCC's comment period before rollback of Obama-era net neutrality rules (Jon Reid/bna.com)
- Telltale Games, which makes games based on franchises such as Jurassic Park and Batman, lays off most of its staff, keeps 25 to begin "majority studio closure" (Megan Farokhmanesh/The Verge)
- Pinterest makes Shop The Look Pins, a free product-tagging tool previously available only to big businesses, available to all businesses and influencers (Amy Gesenhues/Marketing Land)
- Ethereum-based decentralized exchange Bancor to launch BancorX, an extension of its protocol to EOS blockchain that will allow cross-blockchain conversions (Colin Harper/Bitcoin Magazine)
- Wearables startup Thalmic is about to launch smart glasses under the new brand North, sources and ads around NYC and Toronto show (Douglas Soltys/BetaKit)
- Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Google announces new experimental Daydream VR features for developers: support for all Android apps, new 6DoF controllers, and a see-through mode (Jonathan Huang/Google Developers Blog)
- Sources: Google made staff delete memo that said Dragonfly required logins to search, tracked location, and gave Chinese partner unilateral access to data (The Intercept)
- PayPal says it has banned all Infowars-related sites for promoting hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- How Facebook is turning M Suggestions, its AI virtual assistant in Messenger, into a real-time conversation translator, currently supporting Spanish and French (Rob Price/INSIDER)
- Bitmain announces its next generation, 7 nm BM1391 ASIC to power its cryptocurrency miners (Daniel Palmer/CoinDesk)
- Investigation finds that Instagram's IGTV recommended disturbing and potentially illegal videos in the UK; Instagram took five days to remove some of the videos (Isobel Asher Hamilton/Business Insider)
- 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 (Nikkei)
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- How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five years
- How advances in edge computing are addressing key problems in the healthcare, telecommunications, and automotive sectors
- The issues with discoverability, monetization, and retention, and how to solve them
- How Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are shaking up healthcare ? and what it means for the future of the industry (GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)
- 'The product still needs a lot of work': Ad execs say Instagram's IGTV has a lot to do after investigation exposes disturbing videos
- People are complaining that Apple Store sales systems went down on new iPhone release day, and they didn't get their new phones (AAPL)
- How SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic plan on taking you to space
- Telltale Games, the company behind games like ?The Walking Dead? and 'Game of Thrones,' has laid off almost all of its employees as it winds down operations
- Before-and-after satellite photos show the staggering amount of water Hurricane Florence dumped on North Carolina
- PayPal is cutting off Alex Jones and says it will no longer do business with InfoWars because it promotes 'hate and discriminatory intolerance' (PYPL)
- 'Nearly every aspect of humanity will be impacted': Verizon and AT&T are banking on 5G to connect every device on the planet to the Internet
- A gender discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft could see new light as court agrees to reconsider class action status for 8,600 current and former employees (MSFT)
- Here's how Amazon's and Apple's new smart speakers stack up with consumers (AMZN, AAPL)
- 'Someone is going to die in this truck': Amazon drivers and managers describe harrowing deliveries inside trucks with 'bald tires,' broken mirrors, and faulty brakes
- Google is scurrying to kill a new internal leak about its plans for China (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Everything we know about the Google Pixel 3
- Elon Musk is building a spaceship that's so ambitious that some experts are calling it 'science fiction.' Here's what SpaceX and its engineers are up against.
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- Intel's chip problems will allow AMD to steal market share, Jefferies says (AMD, INTC, HP, DVMT)
- The lines to buy a new iPhone on launch day are shorter than they were last year (AAPL)
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