Fast Company details how Comcast is thinking beyond the set-top box. “Comcast is moving beyond the box and porting the user interface for its elegant, intuitive Xfinity X1 set-top box brick by digital brick to four of the leading smart TV operating systems,” it writes. “The X1 interface is already available in beta for Roku TV smart TVs (from TCL, Hisense, and others) and Roku streaming devices as well as some Samsung smart TVs.”  

DuckDuckGo is accusing Google of preventing its search engine from being added to Chrome on Android, The Independent reports. “But the most bizarre example of Google appearing to undermine DuckDuckGo is with the domain duck.com, which is owned by the search giant and automatically redirects visitors to google.com,” it writes.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter just announced the Data Transfer Project -- a standards initiative to more effectively move data between their respective platforms. “Google described the project as letting users ‘transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it,’” The Verge reports. “The current version of the system supports data transfer for photos, mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks.”

Budgeting app Even just raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures. “When Even.com first launched its eponymous app, the goal was to offer income smoothing for workers, helping them avoid usurious payday loans to make ends meet,” TechCrunch writes. Since then, the app has broadened its purpose to include all things budgeting-related.

Despite Amazon’s extraordinary profits, Wired’s Felix Simon suggests that there’s no magic behind the company’s success. “I can’t think of a single industry, other than bookselling, that Amazon has entered with significant negative repercussions for the incumbents in that industry,” Simon writes. “Amazon makes fantastic TV shows, for instance, but it has hardly damaged Disney or Netflix in doing so.”

Apple has lost Tom Gruber, head of Siri’s Advanced Development group, and Vipul Ved Prakash, head of search, The Information reports. “Mr. Gruber is retiring and will be pursuing personal interests in photography and ocean conservation,” The Information writes, citing sources. Both departures have since been confirmed by Apple.  

Bloomberg takes a look at Fuchsia, a mobile operating system that Google is currently developing to ultimately replace Android. “The project … was created from scratch to overcome the limitations of Android as more personal devices and other gadgets come online,” it writes. “It’s being designed to better accommodate voice interactions and frequent security updates and to look the same across a range of devices, from laptops to tiny internet-connected sensors.”  

Netflix is partnering with Sirius XM to expand its digital footprint. “It will be creating a comedy channel for the satellite radio provider,” CNBC reports. “The radio channel’s focus is going to be stand up excerpts and highlights from its original comedy programming.” Bigger picture, “This marks the first time Netflix has made media content outside of video.”

By early next year, Samsung is finally planning to debut a “foldable-screen” smartphone, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. While the practical need for such a device is not quite clear, The Journal suggests that the South Korean tech giant could certainly use a “splashy device to help re-energize its slumping handset business.”

During a wide-ranging sit-down interview, Recode’s Kara Swisher presses Mark Zuckerberg on range of issues from Facebook’s persisting fake news problem to foreign powers using its network to influence domestic election outcomes. “I think the interview gives a picture of an earnest and canny tech leader who is also grappling with the darker side of his creation,” Swisher writes.