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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Assistant begins rolling out to non-Google devices running Android Nougat and Marshmallow, starting in the US — Google continues its march to expand its place in the mobile ecosystem, anchored by the fact that its Android OS is by far the most ubiquitous smartphone platform in the world.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
LG G6 hands-on: sleek design, easy one-handed use, but no Snapdragon 835, loses removable battery for water resistance, and many apps are buggy on 18:9 screen — Cutting corners in the best way possible — With the G6, announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG is changing its own definition of “flagship” phone.| Matt Humrick / AnandTech: |
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| George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Study finds Wikipedia bots often undo each other's edits, engage in years-long editing wars — Revision wars on Wikipedia amongst human editors is an all-too-common occurrence, but new research from the UK shows that similar online battles are being waged between the site's software robots.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
EFF: Half of web traffic is now encrypted — Half of the web's traffic is now encrypted, according to a new report from the EFF released this week. The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, including recent moves from major tech companies to implement HTTPS on their own properties.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai plans to halt rule that would require ISPs to protect the security of their customers' personal information — FCC chair plans to halt security rule and set up vote to kill privacy regime. — The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation …
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FCC, The Verge, NPR, Computerworld, GeekWire, CNET, Digital Trends, Reuters, TechCrunch, Privacy Online News, CNBC, The Register, AdExchanger, Tech Times, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo, and VentureBeat
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
TCL debuts $549 BlackBerry KeyOne with hardware keyboard, Snapdragon 625, 4.5-inch 1620x1080 display, and Android 7.1; phone ships “as early as” April — BlackBerry's “hail mary” just went official, the BlackBerry “KeyOne.” Previously referred to as the “Mercury,” … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Startups that once aimed to disrupt big banks in the US are now working with the banks and building services on top of existing financial infrastructure — SAN FRANCISCO — In 2011, Brett King was promoting his book, “Breaking Banks,” and creating a start-up that he hoped would do to the banks … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app, on April 17, will make app read-only on March 3 — After nine months of existence, Google is throwing in the towel on group messaging app Spaces. It's going read-only on March 3rd and will be completely offline on April 17th.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Inside Facebook's Applied Machine Learning Group and how AI became an integral part of company's strategy for the future — When asked to head Facebook's Applied Machine Learning group—to supercharge the world's biggest social network with an AI makeover—Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated.Thanks:@nicolenumrich
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Bigscreen, an app that enables people to use their computer desktops in VR while communicating in a shared virtual space, raises $3M led by a16z — Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from “Tier 1” VC firms.
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Bigscreen, Amitt Mahajan, Wall Street Journal, True Ventures, TechCrunch, and UploadVR
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
LG Watch Sport review: great fitness features, workout apps run directly on the smartwatch with Android Wear 2.0, but it is huge and extremely ill-fitting — A good fitness tracker — if you can stand to wear it — If you're considering the LG Watch Sport as a health-and-fitness tracking sport watch, I won't blame you.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube has attracted little scrutiny for hosting and rewarding creators of fake news, conspiracy theories, and hate speech — David Seaman is the Pizzagate King of the Internet. — On Twitter, Seaman posts dozens of messages a day to his 66,000 followers, often about the secret cabal …
Tweets: @bernstein and @bernstein
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare fixes bug active since September 2016 that leaked private user info, says search engine caches have now been cleared of sensitive information — Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens. — Cloudflare, a service that helps optimize …
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bugs.chromium.org, gHacks Technology News, Fortune, Yarn, Tech Times, Softpedia News, FastMail Blog, Gizmodo, CSO, Techdirt, SiliconBeat, CNET, USA Today, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Macworld, Bitcoin Magazine, CRN, Digital Trends, Quartz, eWeek, SlashGear, Mashable, ExtremeTech, Refinery29, TechnoBuffalo, Breitbart, WordPress Tavern, Android Central, iMore, Tom's Hardware, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, CNNMoney, TechSpot, BBC, CoinDesk, BetaNews, theWHIR.com, Neowin, The Next Web, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Finextra Research Headlines, cloudpro.co.uk, Inquirer, motherboard, bit-tech.net, Discord Blog, The Verge, MediaNama, SecurityWeek, and SiliconANGLE
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