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Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets and has been in testing since October 2017, to all mobile users — Twitter today is publicly launching its “Bookmarks” feature, which has been in testing since late last year, following the company's HackWeek project dubbed #SaveForLater.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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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Apple, The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, InvestorPlace, CNET, TechCrunch, iLounge, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, and iMore. Tweets: @tim_cook
| 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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| Hugh Langley / Wareable: |
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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Tweets: @jowens510 and @ampressman
| 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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| 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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| 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.| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft Teams adds guest support for users with any email address — Microsoft is today advancing guest account support for Teams. When Microsoft first launched guest account support for Teams, the company only allowed users with Azure AD accounts to be added as guests to a team using the service.
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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 …
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Facebook, The Verge, CNET, Tech Times, MIT Technology Review, Adweek, Engadget, TechSpot, Forbes, and Mashable. Tweets: @joshconstine
| 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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| Washington Post: |
NSA director says Russia hasn't been dissuaded from meddling in US elections, and Trump hasn't given him new authority to strike at Russian cyber-operations — The head of U.S. Cyber Command warned lawmakers that penalties and other measures have not “changed the calculus or the behavior” …
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| 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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SiliconANGLE, The Official Microsoft Blog, The AI Blog, Windows Central, Bloomberg, Office Blogs, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@johnhcook
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
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 … | 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.
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| Akhil Arora / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Amazon Music launches in India as a free service for Prime members, available on Android, iOS, and the web — Amazon has quietly given Amazon Music a full-scale launch in India, its subscription-based music streaming service that's part of Amazon Prime membership.
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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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The Duo Blog, US-CERT, Naked Security, The Register, eWeek, BetaNews, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @jurajsomorovsky, @dcuthbert, @mitsuhiko, @fanf, and @gossithedog
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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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eBay Newsroom, Bloomberg, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he'll invest an extra $125M into his nonprofit AI research lab over three years in attempt to teach machines “common sense” — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen said Wednesday that he is pumping an additional $125 million … | 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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