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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, Inquirer, The Next Web, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, ZDNet, Engadget, The Register, VentureBeat, Android Central, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, XDA Developers, and VentureBeat
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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Jay Stanley / American Civil Liberties Union: |
US Secret Service to test facial recognition in and around the White House according to a document released by DHS last week — In yet another step toward the normalization of facial recognition as a blanket security measure, last week the Department of Homeland Security published details …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th — Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 — Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe.
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
In a leaked email, Uber's India lead told company executives that Uber India reached an annualized bookings rate of $1.64B in Q3 — - In an email to executives including CEO Dhara Khosrowshahi, Uber India head Pradeep Parameswaran said the company doubled its engineering team in the country as of the third quarter.
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| 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, Decrypt Media, CoinSpeaker, SludgeFeed, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
| 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, Light Reading, The Stack, Softpedia News, The New Stack, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @asheshbadani and @kennwhite
| 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, @searchliaison, @searchliaison, @searchliaison, @wired, @mhbergen, @duckduckgo, and @duckduckgo
| Tony Lystra / GeekWire: |
A new crop of productivity and collaboration apps like Quip and Airtable aim to reinvent Office with quick sharing and simple interfaces within a single window — Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it.| 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.
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