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Report: police sought Echo data with warrant in murder case; Amazon declined to share the data Echo logged on servers but did provide suspect's account details — Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.
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| Flurry Blog: |
44% of global smartphone and tablet activations from December 19-25 were iOS, down 5% YoY, while 21% were Samsung devices; Pixel, Pixel XL not among top sellers — By: Chris Klotzbach, Director at Flurry and Lali Kesiraju, Marketing and Analytics Manager at Flurry
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $850M+, says firm forced phone makers to pay royalties for too broad a set of patents on modem chip sales — South Korea's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc 1.03 trillion won ($854 million) …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour — There was no bomb scare in Thailand — Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network falsely activated its Safety Check feature …
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Lenovo updates Thinkpad lineup with Microsoft Precision TouchPad drivers, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Intel Optane SSD support; unveils Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks — Today Lenovo is announcing a refresh of most of its ThinkPad lineup, and although the model numbers have only changed a bit …
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| Kevin McCoy / USA Today: |
Three Chinese citizens charged in US for computer intrusion, insider trading, and more, after allegedly trading on information obtained by hacking law firms — Chinese traders hacked into the computer systems of U.S. law firms that handle mergers, then used the data for insider trading …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Online dress rental service Rent the Runway raises $60M Series E led by Fidelity, says this year was profitable as revenue grew to $100M+ — The company was profitable in 2016 on revenue north of $100 million. — In March, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman told Recode …
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| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
T-Mobile rolls out update to Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones that prevents battery from charging, becoming the first major US carrier to do so — Samsung's previously announced plan to kill the battery in the remaining active Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US has begun.| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Open source cross-platform video transcoder HandBrake updated to version 1.0.0 after 13 years of development — HandBrake 1.0.0, a new version of the popular open source cross-platform video converter, was released on December 24, 2016. — I reviewed HandBrake for the first time in the year 2007 …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
As the list of SV startup scandals grows, entrepreneurs' “fake it till you make it” ethos garners continued scrutiny from reporters, while investors defend bets — As the list of startup scandals grows, it's time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.
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| Reuters: |
Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE — Chinese mapping firm NavInfo (002405.SZ), internet group Tencent (0700.HK) and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE …
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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