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Cryptocurrency-focused financial-services firm Circle acquires crypto exchange Poloniex, source says for ~$400M — Circle, a cryptocurrency-focused financial-services firm, will announce today that it is buying crypto exchange Poloniex—a move that immediately makes Circle one of the largest …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Troy Hunt releases new Pwned Passwords API to securely check your login data against a database of 500M+ leaked passwords; 1Password among first to use the API — A new system that securely checks whether your passwords have been made public in known data breaches has been integrated into the widely used password manager, 1Password.| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Sony announces 5.7" Xperia XZ2 and 5" XZ2 Compact with 18:9 aspect ratio, Snapdragon 845, 19MP camera, on sale next month in UK for £699 and £549 respectively — Sony has longed to find lasting success in the smartphone market, but none of the devices it released in the past few years have done the job.
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Sony Xperia Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Phandroid, PhoneDog.com, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Times, PCWorld, AndroidGuys, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Fortune, Xperia Blog, Xperia Blog, TechCrunch, Digital Photography Review, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @benwood
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube Live gets automatic English captions, live chat replays, and location tagging — YouTube today announced a trio of new features for its YouTube Live streaming service. — Arguably the most interesting of the new features is automatic captions. YouTube has offered captioning functionality since 2006.
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Supreme Court to begin hearing email privacy case on Tuesday in the high-profile battle between Microsoft and US government over data stored on foreign servers — When should CEOs get involved in public policy — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on Tuesday in a digital privacy case …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sony announces Xperia Ear Duo open ear earbuds with head gestures and integration for Google Assistant and Siri, will ship in late May in black or gold for $280 — Sony will release its Xperia Ear Duo wireless earbuds in May for $279.99. Preorders for the “open ear” headset …
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Neowin, Android Police, and Android Beat
| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
SK Telecom buys a majority stake in Switzerland-based quantum-safe cryptography firm ID Quantique for $65M — The South Korean telco has acquired quantum-safe solutions provider ID Quantique (IDQ) which will ensure security in the coming 5G era, the company said.
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Cybersecurity company PhishMe acquired by private equity firms BlackRock and Pamplona Capital Management for $400M and rebranded as Cofense — The trend of private equity firms snapping up cybersecurity businesses continues. — BlackRock and Pamplona Capital Management have jointly acquired PhishMe …
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Infosecurity Magazine, and Cofense
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba to buy out Baidu and other investors in food-delivery service Ele.me, making it the biggest player in China's online food delivery market — Alibaba is said to want Ele.me's last-mile delivery network — Ele.me had acquired Baidu's food delivery business in August
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Google Assistant expands to 7 more languages and now lets developers deep link to Android apps from Assistant Actions — Actions on Google, the Google Assistant's version of what Amazon calls ‘skills,’ have been around for a while, but Google today announced that is expanding the platform … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Dell XPS 13 2018 review: solid performance, ships with Windows Hello IR camera and a fingerprint sensor, but the webcam is still awkwardly placed below display — The XPS 13 laptop isn't stale anymore, but it still forces a few compromises. — The XPS 13 laptop needed an overhaul and Dell needed to make a statement.| The Khronos Group: |
Khronos Group is bringing Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL, to macOS and iOS in collaboration with Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop — Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop join forces with Khronos to release open source SDKs and runtime libraries …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, VentureBeat, AnandTech, Softpedia News, AppAdvice.com, iPhone Hacks, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @timothylottes
| 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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BuzzFeed, CNET, Macworld, XDA Developers, Engadget, Android Authority, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Android Police, SamMobile, Thurrott.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, SlashGear, Fortune, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Android Beat, ZDNet, USA Today, BBC, Android Central, Android Beat, SiliconANGLE, AnandTech, The Register, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Samsung, GeekWire, 91mobiles.com, and MacRumors
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