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April 20, 2018, 1:15 PM

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Google unveils Chat, an RCS-based carrier messaging service to supplant SMS, with typing indicators, video, and group texts, as it pauses investment in Allo  —  A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you'll get some amazing features.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple's efforts to lessen its reliance on Samsung as the sole OLED display supplier for iPhones in peril due to manufacturing problems at LG Display  —  Manufacturing problems at South Korea's LG Display could force Apple to rely solely on its competitor for high-end and costly smartphone screens
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
At antitrust trial, AT&T CEO announced AT&T Watch, a $15/month streaming TV bundle without sports; service is free for cellular customers, will debut in weeks  —  CEO unveils ‘skinny bundle’ service in testimony during antitrust case  —  AT&T Inc. T 0.13% plans to launch a …
Sean O'Kane / The Verge:
A look at the different methods and technologies that Waymo and Tesla use to collect data from the billions of miles their self-driving vehicles have driven  —  Autonomous cars won't happen without tons of data.  Tesla and Waymo have a big head start  —  There's a race happening right …
Kat Hall / The Register:
BT to shutdown its traditional PSTN phone network and shift customers to VoIP by 2025 with public consultations about the closure starting next month  —  Consultation next month following plan to shift all punters to VoIP  —  BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network …
Zeke Turner / Wall Street Journal:
How Iceland, which offers plentiful energy and cooling, is reckoning with a tech boom driven by data centers that cause power usage to surge  —  Lawmakers rethink whether a proliferation of data centers lured by the island's Nordic climate and geothermal steam is risking the environment and tourism business
Wall Street Journal:
Filings show gaming chat app Discord has raised ~$50M, bringing total funding to ~$152M, at a valuation of ~$1.65B; Discord says it had 90M users as of January  —  Maker of videogame chat app raises fresh $50 million  —  Discord Inc., maker of a popular chatting tool for PC and mobile gamers …
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