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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: quarterly tablet shipments down 7.9% YoY, the 13th straight quarter of decline; Amazon sells ~7.7M tablets in Q4, overtaking Samsung for second place — The tablet market has now declined year-over-year for 13 quarters straight. Q4 2017 saw a 7.9 percent year-over-year decline … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
The Pixel 2's Visual Core photo processing technology is coming to third party apps, starting with Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, over the next few days — Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until …
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| Timi Cantisano / Neowin: |
Huami unveils Amazfit Bip, a $99 smartwatch with 1.28" touch display, heart rate monitor, GPS, accelerometer, iOS/Android integration, 30+ days of battery life — You probably have never heard of Amazfit, but the company has been producing fitness wearables for a few years now.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
New Jersey governor signs executive order requiring ISPs to follow neutrality rules if they sell internet services to state agencies, in effect on July 1 — ISPs can't block or throttle traffic if they sell broadband to state agencies. — New Jersey is enforcing net neutrality … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
EHang releases footage of latest manned test flights in China of the 184, an autonomous, electric quadcopter taxi that can carry a single person up to 10 miles — But I'm still highly skeptical this can scale — Two years ago, Chinese drone maker Ehang came to CES in Las Vegas and promised …
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| Nuala Sawyer / SF Weekly: |
WrkRiot CEO Isaac Choi pleads guilty to defrauding employees, faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, sentencing set for May 24 — Isaac Choi pleaded guilty on Monday, and faces up to 20 years in prison. — New businesses are often fraught with stress, bad communication … | David Ingram / Reuters: |
Seattle's Ethics and Elections Commission says Facebook violated election ad law, orders Facebook to disclose political ad spend info during 2017 city elections — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Seattle's election authority said on Monday that Facebook Inc is in violation of a city law …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Grammarly fixes security bug in its Chrome extension, which is used by about 22M people, that allowed any site to obtain access to user accounts — The grammar-correcting browser extension is used by about 22 million users. — Grammarly has fixed a security bug in its Chrome extension …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Waymo v. Uber begins with opening slides; Waymo claims Levandowski stole trade secrets, Uber says Alphabet upset over Otto acquisition, Levandowski hire — The trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Alphabet's self-driving arm Waymo began today. — Uber and Waymo are finally having their day in court.
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| Patrick Rucker / Reuters: |
Sources: since taking over Equifax probe in Nov, Mick Mulvaney, head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has not ordered subpoenas or sought exec testimony — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe …
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Early Facebook, Google staffers, others form Center for Humane Technology, a group planning anti-tech addiction lobbying and ad campaign at 55K public schools — SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Alessandro Sabatelli, Twitter's director of AR/VR, has left the company after 18 months — The head of Twitter's AR/VR team announced today via a tweet that he is leaving the social media site after 18 months. — Alessandro Sabatelli joined Twitter in June of 2016 after leaving … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with a prototype of Intel's smart glasses, dubbed Vaunt, which look like normal eyeglasses and project a display on the user's retina — Exclusive first look at Vaunt, which uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball — The most important parts of Intel's …
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @hbehrens, @tomwarren, @backlon, @stroughtonsmith, and @reckless
| Chico Harlan / Washington Post: |
Interviews with Kentucky residents on why they invest in cryptocurrencies, looking up to locals who invested early and, in some cases, got into consulting — He had invested in bitcoin almost two years earlier, so now Jacob Melin had a new house, a new truck, a new consulting business …
Tweets: @nickatfp, @dandrezner, @nathanielpopper, @paulkrugman, @laurashin, and @zeynep
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