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Microsoft's Andrew Shuman says firm is playing the long game with Cortana after Amazon and Google overshadowed Cortana smart home and SDK announcements at CES — LAS VEGAS — Lost in the shuffle of Amazon and Google's digital assistant showdown this week at CES is another tech giant's virtual brain: Microsoft's Cortana.
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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon's participation in the public sphere grew alongside the company, Bezos' other investments, and his personal wealth — Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person and can afford virtually any luxury. But obscurity is no longer among them.
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Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students — A day after Trump rejected a deal to preserve DACA, Jeff Bezos said he would make a major charitable donation to support DREAMers. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he would give $33 million …
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Disney cites conflicts of interest with Facebook, Twitter as reason for Sandberg, Dorsey not seeking board re-election; Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joining Feb. 1 — Disney cites difficulty avoiding conflicts of interest — Smith, Matschullat also leaving because of age, term limits
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Shenzen judge rules Samsung infringed on one of Huawei's wireless communications patents and must stop selling products using infringing technology in China — Back in 2016, Huawei sued Samsung for allegedly violating several of its patents. Lawsuits were filed in both California and China …
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Apple says email to users with Apple IDs outside of China informing them that their iCloud data would be moved to a Chinese company's servers was sent in error — Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs with locations not set to China that their iCloud data was being moved …
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NPR and Edison Research survey: 16% of Americans own a smart speaker today, up 128% YoY; 30% of owners say smart speakers are replacing time spent with TV — One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research - a figure that's up 128 percent from January, 2017.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities stayed secret for 7 months but were eventually revealed after rumors and suspicious Linux kernel patches surfaced — How an industry-breaking bug stayed secret for seven months — and then leaked out — When Graz University … | New York Times: |
Paytm, Google, others see India's low rate of digital payments as an opportunity after the value of digital wallet transactions rose 64% from Dec. '16-Dec. '17 — ALIGARH, India — Signs and banners for Paytm, India's biggest digital payments service, festoon Pooran Singh's cellphone shop …
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House passes Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act, which would require DHS to tell Congress about how the government deals with vulnerability disclosure — The House of Representatives passed the “Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act” this week.
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The fallout from Uber's disclosure of its $100K payment to a hacker who stole consumer data exposes legal ambiguity with tech companies' bug bounty programs — SAN FRANCISCO — “Hello Joe,” read the November 2016 email from someone identifying himself as “John Doughs.” “I have found a major vulnerability in Uber.”
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS to review 1992 Quill decision that states can collect sales tax only if retailer has physical presence in the state; Quill is used in taxing online sales — South Dakota says 1992 ban on many tax collections is obsolete — States could have collected $13 billion more in 2017: GAOSponsor Posts
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