Shaun Nichols / The Register: Apple sues former chief architect of the iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who quit in February to start data center chip startup Nuvia, for breach of contract  —  CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court  —  Apple is suing the former chief architect of its iPhone …

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Cosmose AI, a Shanghai-based analytics software provider that anticipates how people shop offline, raises $12M seed led by TDJ Pitango and OTB Ventures  —  Keeping abreast of shopping trends online is straightforward enough — whole categories of startups achieve this with predictive modeling.

CNBC: Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; sources: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag after a major investment under two years ago  —  KEY POINTS  — SoftBank is selling its stake back to Wag after investing in the struggling dog-walking start-up more than two years ago, sources say.

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week  —  Goes live “this week;” promising October tease has us cautiously optimistic.  —  3 with 3 posters participating

Liam Tung / ZDNet: The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers  —  Verizon says the archivists it has blocked breached its terms of service.  —  Verizon, which bought Yahoo In 2017 …

Jeffrey R. Young / EdSurge: Education software company Instructure says it is being acquired for $47.60 per share or ~$2B by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo  —  Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo …

Ed Bott / ZDNet: Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead  —  Back on January 27, 2010, a very Big Thinker declared the PC dead.  A decade later, the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not recognize it.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos  —  Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in videos you can then share.

Financial Times: China accounted for nearly half of the global facial recognition business in 2018 per IHS, but it is facing competition from rivals from Japan, US, and Israel  —  What do Uganda´s police force, a Mongolian prison and Zimbabwean airports have in common?  All three are in the process …

Rob Pegoraro / Ars Technica: An overview of 5G rollout plans in the US, technical limitations of millimeter-wave, mid-band, and low-band 5G frequencies, the state of 5G hardware, and more  —  5G is many things—but the most interesting part is what it will eventually become.  —  127 with 80 posters participating