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Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac, with a new window layout, more space for coding, a new search experience, and more — At its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 — you can download it now for Windows and Mac.
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Visual Studio, The Visual Studio Blog, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, Petri, Neowin, On MSFT, The Register, and GitHub
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Qualcomm announces 3D Sonic Sensor, a new under-display fingerprint sensor for smartphones that uses sound waves to map fingerprints — After years of prototypes and fine-tuning, Qualcomm on Tuesday finally announced a fingerprint reader that uses sound to unlock your phone.
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91mobiles.com, The Verge, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, MobileSyrup, Android Central, Android Central, ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, and Windows Central
Tweets: @themrmobile and @benbajarin
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, which supports “multi-gigabit 5G” and promises up to 3X better AI performance than last gen — This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we're not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news.
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Tweets: @sharatibken, @rdrv3, @markhachman, @markhachman, and @patrickmoorhead
| Politico: |
Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP's campaign arm, had several months' worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker — Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo study finds that Google personalizes search results even when logged out or using the private browsing incognito mode — A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly — The amount of personalization inherent in any one of Google's …
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Tweets: @searchliaison, @scottthurm, @duckduckgo, @wired, @duckduckgo, and @mhbergen
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Flutter 1.0, its cross-platform UI toolkit and SDK for building Android and iOS apps, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments — At Flutter Live in London today, Google launched version 1. of Flutter, the company's open source mobile UI framework … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10 — Microsoft's Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 in 2015. Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales — - ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand — Analysts look again for what's next beyond the iPhone
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Tweets: @lisafleisher, @chris_bailey, @tapbot_paul, @mhess4, @rsgnl, and @benbajarin
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will let developers build competitors to its features on its platform, reversing an earlier policy — Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1 which stipulates …
Tweets: @thekenyeung, @mikeisaac, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 — Samsung announced yesterday that it's set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise.
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AT&T, Forbes, Android Authority, and Droid Life
| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
NYC approves measures to set the US' first minimum pay rate for rideshare drivers of $26.51/hour gross, or an estimated $17.22/hour after expenses — Today, New York's City's Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno.
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Tweets: @fastcoideas, @greenhousenyt, @ajravenellenyc, @aspenfuturework, and @lydiadepillis
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Bose announces Frames, its AR glasses that use sound to relay information, available to preorder now for $199, shipping in January — More information about its AR platform is coming at SXSW — Bose has officially announced a consumer release of Frames, its augmented reality sunglasses …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week …
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Fortnite-maker Epic Games announces a PC and Mac game store to rival Steam's, coming “soon”, with 88% of revenue going to developers, up from 70% on Steam — Fortnite-maker Epic Games is capping off their insanely successful 2018 with an even more ambitious product launch …
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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, GameSpot, The Verge, Android Police, Kotaku, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Twinfinite, Unreal Engine, IGN, and Engadget
Tweets: @thurrott, @tha_rami, @albertwenger, @codinghorror, @kylebrussell, and @kylebrussell
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group — Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday.
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Business Wire, SludgeFeed, FinSMEs, and The Block
| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available — There's now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes.
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Red Hat, The Stack, Softpedia News, The New Stack, BleepingComputer, The Register, SecurityWeek, and DEVCLASS
Tweets: @asheshbadani and @kennwhite
| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Sources: Netflix paid $100M to license Friends in the US from AT&T's WarnerMedia through 2019, up from $30M/year, ahead of AT&T's 2019 streaming service launch — Are Netflix and “Friends” on a break? — The answer is no — for now. Reruns of Joey's thespian trials … | Hannah Boland / Telegraph: |
Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 — Alphabet will start testing its drone delivery service in Europe from next year, having struggled to gain momentum for the service in the US …
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9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, and CNET
| New York Times: |
New York police say they have acquired 14 drones and have trained 29 officers to fly them but will not use them for everyday police patrol or surveillance — The police say they could be used for reconstructing traffic crashes, mapping crime scenes, securing large events, and conducting search-and-rescue operations.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft expands its US rural broadband initiative, aiming to operate in 25 states by the end of 2019 and reach 3M customers by July 2022 — Microsoft Corp., which last year announced a plan to bring broadband to 2 million people in the rural U.S., is boosting the program to reach another 1 million customers across more states.
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Microsoft on the Issues, New York Times, CNET, Telecompetitor, Axios, Microsoft, On MSFT, and Quartz
Tweets: @puiwingtam and @bradsmi
| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Razer Blade Stealth updated with a new design, Windows Hello, and an option for a 4K screen with discrete graphics; launching today with same $1,399 base price — The updated Blade Stealth might be a charmer — Razer is updating one of its most recognizable laptops, the 13.3-inch Blade Stealth, with a new chassis and specs.
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Gizmodo, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Windows Central, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, and PCWorld. Tweets: @c_davies
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