Realme 10 Pro+ set to launch in China on November 17

The teaser posted by the company online confirms that the smartphone will have a curved screen with a centre punch-hole. The upcoming Realme 10 Pro+ smartphone is rumoured to come in two RAM and storage variants, i.e., 8GB+128GB and 128GB+256GB. https://ift.tt/7aHIQme

Unity, which makes the eponymous game engine, merges with adtech company ironSource in a $4.4B all-stock deal; Unity stock is down ~75% YTD and ironSource ~50% (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Unity, which makes the eponymous game engine, merges with adtech company ironSource in a $4.4B all-stock deal; Unity stock is down ~75% YTD and ironSource ~50%  —  Unity's proposed merger with IronSource has formally concluded, with the two companies coming together to create an end …

Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine  —  Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.

Amazon app quiz today, November 7: Get answers to these questions and win Rs 15,000 in Amazon Pay balance

There is usually one winner of the quiz, who is chosen via a lucky draw. The results of today’s quiz will be announced on November 8. Here are five questions from today’s (November 7) quiz along with their respective answers that can help you win Rs 15,000 in Amazon Pay balance. https://ift.tt/xoYn4Bk

Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 handsets than anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer, primarily due to softer demand (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 handsets than anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer, primarily due to softer demand  —  Apple Inc. expects to produce at least 3 million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, according to people familiar with its plans.

Internal post and sources: Twitter is delaying rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections (New York Times)

New York Times:
Internal post and sources: Twitter is delaying rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections  —  Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk's plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.

An investigation details India's "hack-for-hire" industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:
An investigation details India's “hack-for-hire” industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians  —  In a quiet alcove of the opulent Leela Palace hotel in Delhi, two British corporate investigators were listening intently …

Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April  —  A Post review of hundreds of posts found many with misinformation but none with social media labels

Source: Apple is working on simplifying the "Hey Siri" trigger phrase to just "Siri" and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Source: Apple is working on simplifying the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri” and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services  —  Apple is working on a project to simplify the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri.”

Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies are ending or rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance their costs against usefulness (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies are ending or rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance their costs against usefulness  —  In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky results, at costs some companies find too high.

Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy says the company will cut back on dealmaking and hiring as losses mount, amid fierce competition from Amazon and Reliance (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy says the company will cut back on dealmaking and hiring as losses mount, amid fierce competition from Amazon and Reliance  —  CEO Krishnamurthy insists country's ecommerce sector remains ‘vibrant’  —  Flipkart's chief executive says the Walmart-owned ecommerce group …

Twitter rolls out its new Twitter Blue subscription, which offers a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Twitter rolls out its new Twitter Blue subscription, which offers a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK  —  Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.

OpenSecrets: the crypto industry gave $73M in the 2022 US midterms, up from $13M in 2020; FTX has become the third-largest source of 2022 campaign contributions (Paul Kiernan/Wall Street Journal)

Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal:
OpenSecrets: the crypto industry gave $73M in the 2022 US midterms, up from $13M in 2020; FTX has become the third-largest source of 2022 campaign contributions  —  Industry seeks to gain influence in Washington as regulators increase scrutiny of digital assets

Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline over funding issues, as SpaceX negotiates with US DoD despite Musk's claims to keep funding the units (CNN)

CNN:
Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline over funding issues, as SpaceX negotiates with US DoD despite Musk's claims to keep funding the units  —  Ukraine's fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week …

Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her  —  How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? … Today, we're just talking about a problem.