Here s what s going on in tech:
IDC: Apple Watch is No. 2 in wearable shipments, behind the Fitbit. The research firm estimates that 3.6 million units of the watch shipped in the second quarter, its debut on the wearables list.
Amazon scaling back its hardware ambitions: The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has laid off dozens of engineers who worked on the Fire phone at Silicon Valley-based Lab126, which employs about 3,000 and has been reorganized.
Follow-up on social networks and the Virginia TV shooting, which Queenie Wong wrote about yesterday: Rethinking autoplay video.
Germany s justice minister wants Facebook to do more about racist posts and hate comments, including anti-refugee posts. He proposes a meeting with the company s top European officials.
ICYMI: Is Google really recruiting potential hires when they do programming-related searches?
From Gizmodo: Ashley Madison leaked data shows the site had about 31 million male members, 5.5 million female members, but likely only 12,000 female active users. Meanwhile, is the Ashley Madison hacker tweeting?
Chinese state media reports that a woman was robbed and molested at knifepoint by an Uber driver.
Photo: The Amazon Fire Phone (Associated Press)