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Samsung debuts 6.2" Galaxy S9+ and 5.8" S9 with f/1.5 and f/2.4 dual aperture, dual cameras on S9+, AR Emoji, Snapdragon 845, stereo speakers; ships March 16 — The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ fuel new discoveries with Super Slow-mo video, best-in-class low light camera and AR Emoji for a more personalized way to express yourself
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
S9 and S9+ hands-on: same look and feel as S8, fingerprint reader placement is a welcome improvement, AR Emoji not as precise as Animoji, Bixby button lives on — The Galaxy S9 will feel very familiar to S8 owners — Last year, Samsung walked out of the ashes of the Note 7 debacle …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Galaxy S9 and S9+ preorders start Mar. 2 for $720 and $840 from Samsung and T-Mobile; AT&T S9 costs $790, S9+ costs $915; Verizon S9 costs $800, S9+ costs $930 — Samsung just announced the Galaxy S9, and now we're getting details on how much retailers and wireless carriers are going to charge for it.
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Newsroom, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNET, Verizon Fios & Custom TV, Android Police, The Tech Report, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @ampressman
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Huawei announces MateBook X Pro Windows laptop with 13.9" touchscreen that has 91% screen-to-body ratio and 3 Android tablets - 8" and 10.8" M5 and 10.8" M5 Pro — The webcam is built into the keyboard — Huawei isn't bringing a new flagship phone to Mobile World Congress this year …
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Tweets: @backlon, @fredericl, @geekynerddad, and @dcseifert
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HMD announces $85 4.5" Nokia 1 with Oreo Go and MediaTek SoC, €279 5.5" Nokia 6, €399 6" Nokia 7 Plus, and €749 Nokia 8 Sirocco with 5.5" edge-to-edge display — HMD Global had a good first year making Nokia-branded phones. In 2017, the Finnish company sold 70 million devices across …
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| Jacob Brogan / Slate: |
Indictment claims Paul Manafort and Robert Gates exchanged incriminating evidence over email because Manafort wanted Gates to convert PDFs to editable Word docs — There are two types of people in this world: those who know how to convert PDFs into Word documents and those who are indicted money laundering.| Antonio García Martínez / Wired: |
How the Trump campaign increased its Facebook ad purchasing power with provocative content and mastered ad tools like Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences — Why Russia's Facebook ads were less important to Trump's victory than his own Facebook ads. — IT'S NOT EVERY day that a former …
Tweets: @nycsouthpaw, @mollymckew, @maxkennerly, @mikeisaac, @parscale, @obsoletedogma, @nxthompson, @carnage4life, @nxthompson, @eastdakota, and @antoniogm
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple is working on a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could debut in the fourth quarter of 2018 at the earliest — Capitalizing on early success with AirPods, Apple is readying a branded over-the-ear wireless headphone product that could launch …
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MacRumors, CNET, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, and MAC blog. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US officials say Russian hackers breached several hundred computers during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony and made it look like a North Korean operation — Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Critics say FCC's new National Broadband Map, like its previous iteration, overstates available ISPs, lists inaccurate data about speeds, and lacks pricing info — At the core of the problem is, unsurprisingly, the influence of deep-pocketed telecom operators on lawmakers and regulators.
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Tweets: @fcc, @stefan_heck, @mmasnick, and @karlbode
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Xiaomi says Mi Mix 2S with Snapdragon 845 is coming on March 27, hints at 273,741 AnTuTu score; rumored specs include 5.99" 18:9 FullHD+ display, 8GB RAM — The flow of leaks and rumors on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S is coming to an end. The company just announced on its Weibo profile the launch date for the new phablet.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
To comply with local laws, Apple will store keys to Chinese users' iCloud accounts in China starting next week, giving authorities easier access to user data — SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center …
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