Techmeme: Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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.

More: 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.

More: Qualcomm, International Business Times, Mashable, BGR, Telecoms.com, Tom's Guide, ZDNet, Trak.in, SemiAccurate, Engadget, and Tom's Guide

Tweets: @sharatibken, @markhachman, @markhachman, @patrickmoorhead, and @rdrv3

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.

More: Windows Blog, GitHub, GitHub, .NET Blog, VentureBeat, Thurrott, On MSFT, The Register, InfoQ, Neowin, On MSFT, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, and The Official Microsoft Blog. Tweets: @carnage4life

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

More: Visual Studio, The Visual Studio Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Neowin, Petri, MSPoweruser, and GitHub

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, part of its Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available

More: SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, CIO.com, VentureBeat, and VentureBeat

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 …

More: Department of Homeland …, BuzzFeed News, SlashGear, CNET, Quartz, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Hill, and PYMNTS.com

Tweets: @jasonleopold and @aclu

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.

More: Glassdoor, Business Insider, Washington Post, GeekWire, Adweek, CNBC, CNET, Business Insider, Glassdoor Blog, and Mercury News

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 …

More: Silicon Republic. Tweets: @thekenyeung, @mikeisaac, @mattnavarra, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine

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.

More: The Verge, The Hill, Federal Computer Week, Axios, CNN, Cyberscoop, Bloomberg, Slate, Engadget, The Verge, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Wired

Tweets: @politicoalex, @markwarner, @mviser, @dnvolz, @rvawonk, @nicoleperlroth, @samstein, @kylegriffin1, @tedlieu, @repswalwell, @arawnsley, @tparti, @politico, @politico, and @chrislu44

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.

More: AT&T, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Guide, Forbes, VentureBeat, CNET, Android Authority, Droid Life, Tom's Guide, CNBC, PCWorld, Engadget, XDA Developers, Digital Trends, Neowin, and Android Beat

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.

More: Engadget, Fast Company, TechSpot, Mashable, Digital Trends, Recode, and TechCrunch

Tweets: @fastcoideas, @greenhousenyt, @ajravenellenyc, @aspenfuturework, and @lydiadepillis

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.

More: The Verge, MIT Technology Review, 9to5Google, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, DroneDJ, ZDNet, CNET, and Engadget. Thanks:@ingridlunden

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

More: 9to5Mac, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @lisafleisher, @mhess4, @chris_bailey, @benbajarin, @tapbot_paul, and @rsgnl

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 …

More: AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @tarah, @zackwhittaker, @kimzetter, and @howelloneill

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.

More: ZDNet, New York Times, Microsoft on the Issues, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNET, Telecompetitor, Axios, Microsoft, and On MSFT

Tweets: @puiwingtam and @bradsmi

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.

More: PYMNTS.com

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.

More: 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.

More: 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 …

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.

More: The Verge, Digital Trends, New York Post, DroneDJ, Gizmodo, The Hill, and Engadget

Tweets: @nwmalinowski, @nwmalinowski, and @nyclu

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