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Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple is also an unlikely suitor

Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims

Disney isn’t going to bid for Twitter, either

Which leaves Salesforce, for now

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Here's why Wikileaks' Julian Assange wants to take down Google

Wikileaks threatened to leak documents about the internet search giant yesterday morning.

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Snapchat’s automated ad sales have arrived, and real ad dollars are likely coming next

Snapchat has launched its ads API.

Samsung is buying the Siri team's new startup to have a future in AI

The Korean phone maker wants to compete against Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant.

The feds are now looking into the replacement Galaxy Note 7 after one ignited on a plane

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is “moving expeditiously” to investigate.

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff on Twitter acquisition talks: We look at everything, and usually pass

Benioff’s gamesmanship is strong.

What a venture capitalist sees in the virtual and augmented reality market

A VC straps on his headset and hunts for opportunity and potential in the AR/VR entertainment landscape.

Amazon has 143 billion reasons to keep adding more perks to Prime

Forget AWS. Without Prime, Amazon is nothing.

A replacement Galaxy Note 7 ignited aboard an airplane

Southwest canceled the flight before it took off.

From Curbed

Inside Golden 1, the most high-tech arena in America

The Sacramento King’s solar-powered home, a tech-savvy fan’s dream, envisions stadium 3.0

Cable service providers need to offer more than ‘dumb pipes’

Nondescript, indistiguishable telcos and ISPs should look to Spotify, Uber and Amazon, which build and sell services that consumers are more than happy to pay for.

We bought a successful app, loaded it with extras and watched it fail

Apps are getting bigger. But you don’t often hear about the impact of app size on installs and usage.

After two million miles, Google’s robot car now drives better than a 16-year-old

In the self-driving universe, this is actually a good thing.

From The Verge

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lands in the Texas desert after a successful escape system test

Despite expectations of fiery explosions, Blue Origin successfully landed its New Shepard rocket after launching the vehicle for the fifth time today. The landing was a delightful surprise for the company, since it fully expected that rocket to...

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Samsung Gear 360 review: only the first step

Here’s an obvious statement: The shift from film to digital changed the way we take photos and record videos. What’s less obvious about that, or at least easier to forget, is that this shift wasn’t just a one-time thing. Digital photography has...

Full transcript: Europe’s Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on Recode Decode

“I think it's a completely honest thing to want to do business. ... But there is a limit to everything.”

Full transcript: Europe’s Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on Recode Decode

“I think it's a completely honest thing to want to do business. ... But there is a limit to everything.”

Full transcript: Niantic CEO John Hanke talks Pokémon Go on Recode Decode

“[We have] mixed feelings about people looking at their screen when we're trying to lead them out into the park.”

Why are valuable startups called ‘unicorns’?

Venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who coined the term ‘unicorn,’ explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

Women in tech are held to tougher standards than men — and that has to change, investor Aileen Lee says

Also, doing more for diversity isn’t just a moral question.

Watch some of Steve Jobs’s best interviews, five years after his death

Recode founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg reminisce on hosting Jobs at the D conference.

CEO Jeff Weiner will talk about LinkedIn’s $26 billion sale to Microsoft and more at November’s Code Enterprise conference

With a new owner, will the company become more than just a job network?

From The Verge

Are you ready for your own personal Google?

Sometimes, it’s the little changes to language that give away a company’s ambition. At the unveiling of Google’s new Pixel phones yesterday, CEO Sundar Pichai started the event not by talking about what users can get from Google, but what they can...

From The Verge

BuzzFeed vandalized by hacking group after exposing alleged member

A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group. The hacking group, which goes by OurMine, changed the titles of several BuzzFeed posts to read...

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Scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for making tiny machines out of molecules

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who figured out how to build tiny machines out of molecules. The machines, which include a nano-sized car, are invisible to the human eye and have important implications in...

Mossberg: How Google’s bold moves shake up the tech industry

Intelligent, integrated hardware and software are powerful weapons.

From The Verge

PlayStation VR review: When good enough is great

This was supposed to be the year virtual reality broke out. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the first two high-end consumer devices on the market, arrived this spring to critical praise and preorders that sold out within minutes. Then… they...

The Twitter bids begin this week | Recode Daily, October 5, 2016

Salesforce’s Mark Benioff has been making the case for an acquisition.

Google tailored its fabric Daydream headset for VR first-timers

The $79 device is just the first move to turn Android into the de facto operating system for virtual reality.

Google’s hardware chief says the Pixel will hold its own against the iPhone

Rick Osterloh makes it clear: Google is focused on the high end of the smartphone business.

Full transcript: Niantic CEO John Hanke talks Pokémon Go on Recode Decode

“[We have] mixed feelings about people looking at their screen when we're trying to lead them out into the park.”

Pinterest has hired its first CFO: Twitter exec Todd Morgenfeld

But that doesn’t mean it is planning an IPO.

Google’s hardware event was really all about its AI software

The search giant wants to beat Apple and Amazon to a fully voice-enabled interface.

Watch a supercut of Google’s event announcing its Pixel phones, Home and Daydream VR headset

Why watch it live when you can get the highlights?

Why are valuable startups called ‘unicorns’?

Venture capitalist Aileen Lee, who coined the term ‘unicorn,’ explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.

From The Verge

Humans will contaminate Mars with life — the question is how to do it right

If Elon Musk’s Mars colony becomes a reality, he won’t be sending just humans to the Red Planet; he’ll be sending trillions of hitchhiking microbes as well. Such a biological invasion seemingly clashes with a concept known as planetary protection...

Consumer technology companies want a stake in enterprise

After a decade of tech going from the consumer world into the enterprise, we’re now seeing it going back the other way.