Oct 19th 2016
Tech News Today 1623
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Google is working on a new TV service that will be found within the YouTube platform, and it’s expected to premiere in early 2017. Apple sends invitations to journalists for an event in Cupertino next week on October 27th. T-mobile is on the hook for $7.5 million to the government, along with $35.5 million worth of data and discounts for affected customers. Today, the tech media remembers David Bunnell founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and MacWorld, who died last night at his home in Berkeley, California. He was 69 years old. And Tesla announced that it is bringing full self-driving capabilities to all of its new cars with hardware that includes 8 cameras, 360 degrees of view, and 820 feet of vision.
- Iain Thomson from The Register was at the launch of China's LeEco, a company planning to take on Apple, Samsung, Netflix, Tesla.
- Russell Brandom from The Verge talks about how Facebook was not only a source, but also a client of the surveillance company Geofeedia.
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Links
- Google Signs Up CBS for Planned Web TV Service
- Apple sends out invite for October 27 event
- Apple is reportedly putting a dynamic E Ink keyboard in 2018 MacBooks
- T-Mobile fined millions for selling unlimited data plans that weren’t really unlimited
- Remembering David Bunnell (1947-2016), The Maverick Who Helped Invent Tech Media
- Microsoft speech recognition technology now understands a conversation as well as a person
- All new Tesla cars now have hardware for ‘full self-driving capabilities’
- China's LeEco eyes up US, takes on, er, Apple, Samsung, Netflix, Tesla
- This is the LeEco LeSEE Pro self-driving electric car
- How many press conferences is Michael Bay going to destroy?
- China's LeEco eyes up US, takes on, er, Apple, Samsung, Netflix, Tesla
- Facebook caught an office intruder using the controversial surveillance tool it just blocked
- You’ll soon be able to order food through Facebook