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Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple says several of its services including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade are facing outages   —  Top Rated Comments  —  I cannot access iCloud.com.  Getting server error/verification failed from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2HEQSQR

Reuters : Tencent to take private NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou in a $3.5B deal; Tencent had previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July   —  (Reuters) - Sogou Inc said on Tuesday shareholder Tencent Holdings Ltd would take the web search firm private in a $3.5 billion deal … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3n64Rzl

Looking for a great TV show to binge? Here are some of the best Netflix has to offer. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3jgApAf

Moderator Chris Wallace has his hands full as President Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold nothing back. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3cK5Hgz

Don't know what to watch tonight? Here are some of the best movies Netflix has to offer. from CNET News https://ift.tt/2Glp3fW

Mechanical keyboards are discounted, too. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3igJh7Q

Searching for something other than Marvel and Star Wars? Let's round up the best gems on Disney Plus. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3n1JCPl

The ride-hailing services will be required to pay their drivers at least $16.39 under the new law. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3jiSY6X

Searching for more great shows like The Mandalorian? Let's round up Disney's best gems. from CNET News https://ift.tt/33eGnfB

Christina Farr / CNBC : DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon's PillPack and Walmart's CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+   —  - UnitedHealth Group has acquired DivvyDose, a competitor to Amazon-owned PillPack.  — A spokesperson declined to comment. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/36igAF9

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik   —  Sethi previously served in security roles at Rubrik, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, and eBay.  —  After leaving the position unfilled for months … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jfEeFL

Wall Street Journal : Prior to their Wednesday direct listing debuts, the NYSE set reference prices for Palantir at $7.25 and Asana at $21 per share   —  Both companies are poised to do direct listings on Wednesday; only two other notable companies have done them before  —  Data firm Palantir Technologies Inc … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jgMzJo

The carbon will even be bookmatched for extra eye candy. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3cKvFQQ

The grand prize includes a keyboard and pencil. *Open to the US, Puerto Rico and Canada (excluding Quebec). from CNET News https://ift.tt/3cjiia7

We're giving away $100 Jiffy Lube gift cards to 10 grand prize winners. *Open to the US only. This giveaway ends Sept. 30, 2020. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3ksOb2Z

Despite an uncertain future in the US, the social video app could have lasting implications for what we want from social media. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3mXlMEp

Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire : Seattle unanimously approved new regulations that would ensure Uber and Lyft drivers earn minimum wage, the second US city to establish the standard after NYC   —  Seattle became the second big city in the nation to establish a minimum wage standard for Uber and Lyft drivers on Tuesday. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3kWDciz

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch : UK-based Huboo, which offers an end-to-end fulfillment service for online retailers, raises £14M Series A led by Stride.VC   —  Huboo, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an end-to-end fulfilment service for online retailers of all sizes, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/30j0as9

Mozilla last week refreshed Firefox to version 81, adding a new standard theme for the browser, improving its PDF skills and automatically filing in credit card information. Engineers also patched six vulnerabilities , half of them labeled "High," Firefox's second-most-serious label. Unlike many Firefox upgrades, version 81 did not fix any bugs marked "Critical." Firefox 81 can be downloaded for Windows, macOS and Linux from Mozilla's site. Because Firefox updates in the background, most users need only relaunch the browser to get the latest version. To manually update on Windows, pull up the menu under the three horizontal bars at the upper right, then click the help icon (the question mark within a circle). Choose "About Firefox." (On macOS, "About Firefox" can be found under the "Firefox" menu.) The resulting page shows that the browser is either up to date or describes the refresh process. To read this article in full, ...

The concepts, which range from a turboprop commuter plane to a blended wing design, would fly with modified gas turbine engines that burn liquid hydrogen as fuel. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3cK8Pc5

To fill its empty CMO position, Facebook just promoted a longtime Facebook executive focused on product growth to the C-suite. Former VP of product growth and analytics Alex Schultz, who has been with the company since 2007, announced the move Tuesday in a Facebook post . Schultz will fill position left open by Antonio Lucio, who joined the company from HP in 2018 and announced his departure last month . Lucio said he was leaving the company to “dedicate 100% of my time to diversity, inclusion and equity.” In his Facebook post, Schultz said he planned to bring “experience in segmentation, targeting, and measurement” to the table to extend Facebook’s already massive reach. Schultz, who is the executive sponsor of Facebook’s LGBTQ resource group, added a personal note to the news, writing that Facebook is the first workplace where he has “truly safe to be gay and be open about it.” Stepping into the role late in the U.S. election, an intensely consequential time for the company, Schu...

Swarm’s new network of satellites is intended to provide low-bandwidth, low-power connectivity to “Internet of Things” devices all over the world, and the company just announced how much its technology will actually cost. A $119 board will be sold to be integrated with new products, so while your home security camera won’t get it, it might be invaluable for a beehive monitor deep in an orchard or gunshot detection platform in a protected wildlife reserve. The Swarm board is about the size of a pack of gum, and provides a constant connection at the kind of data rate and power requirement that IoT devices need — which is to say, low. After all, things like barometric pressure monitors, seismic activity detectors, and vehicles that operate far from cellular coverage just send and receive a handful of bytes now and then. Connecting those to legacy geosynchronous satellite networks is possible, of course, but also expensive, bulky, and power-hungry. Swarm aims to offer a similar service...

After deliberately flouting Apple's in-app payment policies, Epic launched a lawsuit against Apple accusing it of anti-competitive practices. The two companies appeared at a hearing on Monday via Zoom. However, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Rogers did not seem particularly pleased with Epic's legal arguments, per a report from CNN.... from TechSpot https://ift.tt/3kZAsRo

NASA announced that it has decided to delay its Dragonfly mission that was supposed to send a drone to Saturn's largest moon  - Titan - by a year. This means that the launch to Titan will not take place until 2027. According to a statement issued by NASA , "While Dragonfly was originally scheduled to launch in 2026, NASA has requested the Dragonfly team pursue their alternative launch readiness date in 2027." NASA added that there will be no changes made in the mission architecture to accommodate the new date and the launching at a later date will not affect Dragonfly’s science returns or capabilities once it is on Titan. Dragonfly marks the first time NASA will fly a multi-rotor vehicle for science on another planet. If all goes well, it will also become the first vehicle to fly its entire science payload to multiple locations for repeated and targeted access to surface materials. According to NASA, Dragonfly will characterise the habitability of Titan’s en...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Pew survey of 12K+ US adults: 26% said they get news from YouTube while only 23% of those said they “often” get news from channels of established news orgs   —  Around a quarter of U.S. adults, or roughly 26%, say they get news by watching YouTube videos, according to a new study … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2GcFTgR

The hardest knits require the strongest wills. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3j7Ckal

These electric bikes will help you get around while public transit is limited. And we've got picks for almost any budget. from CNET News https://ift.tt/2GbmwoC

Whether you’re a small business owner, artist, photographer, writer or consultant, there's a website builder out there for you -- even if you don't know how to code. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3j7qEE7

The General Electric GE9x will power the new Boeing 777x, which flew for the first time this year. from CNET News https://ift.tt/36fAvEM

More than 33 million people worldwide have tested positive for the disease. from CNET News https://ift.tt/33b5nEn

Review: This psychologically terrifying new creature-feature series will still give you chills even if you end up rooting for the monster. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3n1JMWH

Toaster ovens are bulky, inefficient and outdated. There, I said it. Now let's find the ones that are actually worth it. from CNET News https://ift.tt/2GhNt9Y

Other conventions have opted to postpone or go virtual. from CNET News https://ift.tt/2S76mz9

It's about time Hyundai's N division got busy on another full-fat model to keep the Veloster company. from CNET News https://ift.tt/30fj0R7

Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal : Disney sells TrueX, an ad-tech company it absorbed as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019, to Gimbal; a source says for less than $100M   —  Gimbal wants TrueX's technology to go after the ‘addressable-TV’ market, where different ads are shown to different households from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3jb22ec

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : Boston- and Shenzhen-based XtalPi, which uses AI for drug discovery and development, raises $319M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund   —  XtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors led by SoftBank's Vision Fund. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/36bJoz7

Whether you want to enclose your AirPods in a waterproof case, a hard shell or a silicone car, there's a case here for you. from CNET News https://ift.tt/30bDpXh

If you live in the right location, you don't need any special equipment, though a camera might help. from CNET News https://ift.tt/33cDyeV

Searching for a movie that isn't Marvel or Star Wars? Here are some of the hidden gems on Disney Plus. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3jinbmQ

Looking for what to watch tonight? Here are some of the best movies Netflix has to offer. from CNET News https://ift.tt/3jGuJPM

Looking for what to watch on Amazon tonight? Let's round up some of its best movies. from CNET News https://ift.tt/346Qe6b

XtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. It joins numerous others with 9-figure rounds in what is clearly a valuable and competitive space. XtalPi works with major pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer that need to identify promising new drug-like molecules and learn as much about them as possible. It’s very much a race, so companies claiming to use AI to speed up the process have attracted major funding. Though there have been no prominent breakthroughs to speak of resulting from the space, it’s hard to imagine any major player can afford to ignore it. This company, founded in 2014, purports to offer extremely low-level simulation and prediction of target molecules, both simulating the physics at atomic levels and doing the more traditional data science work that eliminates dead ends and points towards more fruitful avenues for investigat...

A month after completing Y Combinator’s accelerator program , BukuWarung , an financial tech startup that serves small businesses in Indonesia, announced it has raised new funding from a roster of high-profile investors, including partners of DST Global, Soma Capital and 20VC. The amount of the funding was undisclosed, but a source told TechCrunch that it was between $10 million to $15 million. The new capital will be used to hire for BukuWarung’s technology team. TechCrunch first profiled BukuWarung in July. Angel investors in the round include several high-profile founders and executives: finance technology platform Plaid’s co-founder William Hockey; Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen; Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra; Adobe chief product officer Scott Belsky; Clearbit chairman and startup advisor Josh Buckley; former Uber chief product officer Manik Gupta; Spotify’s former head of new markets in Asia Sriram Krishnan; 20VC founder Harry Stebbings; Nancy Xiao, an investor with Bond Cap...