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Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on the warrant from NY state claiming she violated US trade sanctions against Iran — Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States …
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Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live today in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, allowing users to detect irregular heart rhythms — Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart's electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device.
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| Aparajita Saxena / Reuters: |
Lyft says it has filed with the SEC for an IPO, hasn't specified the number of shares it is selling or their price range; sources say IPO is slated for H1 2019 — (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc on Thursday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019 — Google has officially announced that it's shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn't entirely unsurprising …
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK Parliament publishes 250+ redacted pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from founder of Six4Three, a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.
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Facebook responds to UK Parliament document dump, giving an explanation for API whitelisting, scraping Android call and SMS records, how it uses Onavo, and more — As we've said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherrypicked these documents from years ago as part …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies — Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck …
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| Financial Times: |
Millions of users on the SoftBank network in Japan and O2 in the UK are unable to use mobile data, sources say due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment — Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T says it now supports eSIM on the latest iPhones with the iOS 12.1.1 update, making it the first major US carrier to support Dual SIM on iPhones — Apple today officially released iOS 12.1.1 to the public, teasing in the update's release notes that it includes “eSIM …
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Qualcomm gives details on Snapdragon 855, its smartphone chipset: X24 modem, which isn't 5G compatible, 7 nanometer for 20% better graphics, and AI improvements — Qualcomm calls it an AI powerhouse — Qualcomm officially took the wraps off the Snapdragon 855, its next generation processor, yesterday at the SnapDragon Tech Summit.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
LeanIX, a SaaS that lets enterprises map out their software architecture, raises $30M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners — LeanIX, the Software-as-a-Service for ‘Enterprise Architecture Management’, has closed $30 million in Series C funding. — The round is led by Insight Venture Partners … Thanks:@sohear
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Lime to launch its dockless electric bikes in London tomorrow, starting with 1,000 bikes in two boroughs, a week after launching in the UK — AT&T is the first major US carrier to support eSIM on iPhone — Tell us about your experiences with the Pixel 3 and 3 XL! — A. Bouman| Bloomberg: |
A look at Ninebot, a Chinese company that makes an estimated four out of five electric scooters in use worldwide, which a source says is valued at $1.5B — Ninebot makes powered unicycles, Segways and other odd-looking artifacts of the transportation future. It didn't see the scooter boom coming.Sponsor Posts
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