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Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more — Exclusive: A better design than the Ionic, but lacks GPS — On its latest investors call, Fitbit teased a brand new smartwatch …
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Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2 — Apple has announced that skiers and snowboarders can use Apple Watch Series 3 to track their activities starting today. — Apple Watch apps snoww, Slopes …
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
WatchKit is a buggy, “baby” UI framework that does not unlock the true potential of third-party apps on the Apple Watch and needs to be discontinued or replaced — In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+ — Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned.
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| Ali Winston / The Verge: |
Sources: Palantir has been secretly testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans since 2012 that identifies individuals at risk of committing crime — Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about — Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed — LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M Series A, with participation from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures — Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Study: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive ~85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but could bring only ~$17K/year each in advertising revenue — You can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent — Do your children dream of YouTube stardom?
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google brings Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor, out of beta and adds it to G Suite with deeper integration with other Google and third-party tools — Hangouts Chat, Google's take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite.
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Inside the informal coalition of tech companies, experts, industry groups, and more who meet weekly in Washington to discuss protecting net neutrality rules — Every week, a motley crew of tech wonks and legal experts meet in Washington to discuss the problem they've been grappling … | Clare McGrane / GeekWire: |
Microsoft announces four new services aimed at healthcare professionals, including Microsoft Genomics for genetic analyses and AI-based Empower MD platform — Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth as a mother describes …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Duo Security reports SAML vulnerability affecting single sign-on systems, allows attackers with authenticated access to log in as other users without a password — A validation bug in how some single sign-on products implemented an open authentication standard could have allowed an attacker …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
UK-based Kindred Capital, a VC firm that shares 20% of the fund's profits with the founders of startups it invests in, closes its first fund at $112M — What do you do if you're a venture capital (VC) firm looking to make a name for yourself in a crowded space?
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eBay to acquire Japanese ecommerce platform Qoo10.jp, an arm of Singapore-based Giosis, report says for ~$700M — eBay has confirmed that it's buying the Japanese arm of Giosis, a Singapore-based business that operates the Qoo10 ecommerce platform across a number of Asian markets …
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| Marek Majkowski / Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps — Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center — The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center.
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Poll of 3,574 US adults shows 55% are in favor of the government regulating big tech companies, up from only 40% in November last year — A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won't do enough to regulate how U.S technology companies operate, according to an Axios-SurveyMonkey poll.
Tweets: @mikedelmoro, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @whatthebit, @jimvandehei, @axios, @anildash, and @mattyglesias
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi files for US IPO with $1.5B placeholder target; reports suggest it's aiming for a public market valuation of ~$10B — IQiyi is working with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, BofA — Chinese IPOs expected for 2018 include Xiaomi, Tencent Music| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Square says that in December 7M customers used the Cash app and that Cash customers spent more than $90M using virtual and physical Cash cards — That's... pretty big? — Since Square's founding in 2009, CEO Jack Dorsey has been determined to build a consumer hit that complements the company's core payment-processing business.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
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