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What to expect at MWC 2017: LG G6, Huawei P10, Huawei Watch 2, Blackberry “Mercury”, Moto G5 & G5 Plus, Nokia phones, Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, and a Sony flagship — So many new phones — It's time for the annual trip to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2017.| 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,” … | 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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Sources: autonomous Uber was driving itself when it ran a red light in San Francisco, though Uber claimed “human error” — The suit, brought by the autonomous car business Waymo, accuses Uber and a star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, of planning to steal trade secrets. — April 21, 2064
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| Priya Anand / BuzzFeed: |
Uber women confront CEO Travis Kalanick in leaked audio from Thursday meeting with 100+ female engineers — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joined a group of more than 100 female engineers on Thursday to discuss the explosive allegations of sexual harassment and sexism recently leveled against the ride-hailing company.
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
International Telecommunication Union announces 5G specs: 20Gbps download, 1ms latency, support for up to 1M devices per square kilometer — The total download capacity for a single 5G cell must be at least 20Gbps, the International Telcommunication Union (ITU) has decided.
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google announces more carrier support for its implementation of RCS, rebrands Messenger to Android Messages, makes app default on phones from LG, ZTE, others — When text messaging was simple, SMS worked beautifully. You could send 160 characters to anyone with a cellphone, and they'd receive it the same way they would a phone call.
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Baidu reports 2.6% sales dip, its second straight quarterly decline, says “revenue impact” of 2016 medical advertising scandal is “largely behind” it — Online search operator's sales dipped 2.6 per cent to 18.21 billion yuan (US$2.65 billion) in the fourth quarter
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