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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Investigation shows how easy and affordable obtaining cellphone customers' real-time location data can be, as T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T peddle it to middlemen — T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands …
Tweets: @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @kaleighrogers, @ericgeller, @karlbode, @ronwyden, @ronwyden, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, and @jason_koebler
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Lambda School, which trains students online to be software engineers in exchange for a share of future income, raises $30M Series B from Bedrock, GV, YC, others — Income Sharing Agreements are gaining the attention of higher education and Wall Street. One early success story is getting a boost from venture capital.
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Axios. Tweets: @nytimes, @neill4illinois, @antoniogm, @zeynep, @lpolovets, @austenallred, and @mattyglesias
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple erred on China and “S” cycles, XR, and growth strategies, but reasons for optimism remain as headwinds, like cheap battery swaps, will fade — As rare as last week's Apple revenue warning from CEO Tim Cook may have been — the company last issued a revenue warning in June 2002 …
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CNBC, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Guardian, hypebot, Macworld, Abacus, The Ringer, Computerworld, and Technology Personalized
Tweets: @stratechery and @trengriffin
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Plaid, which links US bank accounts to popular fintech apps like Venmo and Robinhood, is buying competitor Quovo, source says for ~$200M — - Plaid, which links one quarter of U.S. bank accounts to popular fintech apps, is buying a similar data company called Quovo.
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Plaid - Blog, Bloomberg, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Reuters
Tweets: @kr00ney, @plaid, and @julieverhage
| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung forecasts decline in Q4 operating profit to ~$9.65B, below analyst estimates of ~$12.4B, due to weak memory chip demand and competition in smartphones — Samsung Electronics Co. posted fourth-quarter profit below estimates as demand for memory chips slumps amid deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China.
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Tweets: @thekenyeung, @mattrosoff, @ow, @charlesarthur, and @samkimasia
| Axios: |
Amazon is quietly piloting a program for brands like Folgers to pay to send free samples to Amazon users, who are likely to enjoy them based on order history — Amazon is quietly piloting a program to let brands like Maybelline and Folgers pay to send free samples to consumers …
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The Verge, Lifehacker, and CNBC
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Yubico unveils the first Lightning security key for iPhones, which has received Apple's approval and is slated to launch this year — The Apple-approved device is currently in private preview, aiming to launch sometime this year — Yubico has announced a new version of its popular Security Key …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Over a dozen ex-Facebook employees detail how the company's leaders and stacked ranking performance reviews foster a culture where any dissent is discouraged — - More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company's leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged.| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it's halted Ethereum Classic transactions, withdrawals, and deposits, after a 51% attack on the cryptocurrency led to coin double-spending — Crypto exchange Coinbase has halted all ethereum classic transactions, withdrawals and deposits due to a series of blockchain history reorganizations on the network.
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| Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
Twenty-year-old German man admits to stealing and publishing data on hundreds of lawmakers, journalists, and other figures from every party except far-right AfD — BERLIN — A young German man admitted to stealing and publishing online the personal data of hundreds of lawmakers …
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Tweets: @josephfcox and @nytimestech
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
AT&T has rolled out software updates to some Android phones changing its branding of 4G LTE to “5G E”, says that 5G with mmWave technology will be branded “5G+” — AT&T starts swapping out “4G” status bar icons with “5GE.” — There's a new cellular network technology …
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Tweets: @tmobile, @verizonnews, @jbrodkin, @patricknorton, @chillmage, @jbrodkin, @johnlegere, @harrymccracken, and @cnet
| New York Times: |
A Facebook ad campaign associating Roy Moore with calls for a state alcohol ban during Alabama's Senate race was a false flag operation by Democratic activists — The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink … | Washington Post: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer, a 20-qubit system that combines quantum and classical computing parts and is still lacking breakthrough speed — At CES, IBM today announced its first commercial quantum computer for use outside of the lab.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Fossil's Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2, which has GPS, NFC, and heart-rate sensors and will be in stores January 28 starting at $295 — Gallery: Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2 hands-on | 7 Photos … Gallery: Kate Spade Scallop Smartwatch 2 press images | 6 Photos
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps on iOS and Android today, to help users with navigation, music, and replying to texts, now with auto-punctuation — We've known for a while now that Google Assistant (the company's voice powered AI, a la Siri or Alexa) would eventually be built right into Google Maps.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @google, @benbajarin, @johnwilson, @johnwilson, @backlon, and @suka_hiroaki
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces Yoga A940, an all-in-one PC with a 27" display that flexes on a hinge, similar to the Surface Studio but cheaper, coming March from $2,350 — The Yoga A940 is more than $1,000 cheaper than Microsoft's all-in-one PC — Lenovo has a new type of Yoga ready for CES 2019 this week … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram accounts were allegedly coordinating sharing of child porn using hashtags, then a viral campaign spotlighted it, and finally Instagram banned the tags — A hashtag war has been brewing on Instagram between users who appear to be trading child pornography and the memers intent on stopping them.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba acquires Berlin-based Data Artisans, which provides distributed systems and large-scale data streaming services for enterprises, for €90M — Alibaba has paid €90 million ($103 million) to acquire Data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup that provides distributed systems …
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SiliconANGLE, data Artisans Blog, Alizila.com, EU-Startups, Datanami, and DEVCLASS
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower: December was Fortnite's biggest month so far on iOS with $44M in revenue, up 83% over November, and 16% more than the previous top month of July — Fortnite was an unstoppable force in 2018. And throughout the year, the only game you could really compare it to was itself.
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Digital Trends, Sensor Tower Blog, GameSpot, and GamesIndustry.biz
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google removes 85 adware apps that were installed a total of 9M+ times, according to Trend Micro — Adware-infected apps masqueraded as games and TV remote controllers. — Google has removed 85 Android apps from the official Play Store that security researchers from Trend Micro deemed to contain a common strain of adware.
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blog.trendmicro.com and TechCrunch
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel demos its first 10nm Ice Lake chip, which is based on its Sunny Cove architecture, says PCs with the processor will ship by the end of 2019 — Dell promises an Ice Lake laptop for end of 2019 — Intel announced a major rethink of its chip design back in December, just before it finally delivers 10nm chips for PCs and laptops.
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Intel Newsroom, Intel Newsroom, Digital Trends, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Fortune, The Tech Report, AnandTech, Investor's Business Daily, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Register, PCWorld, The Tech Report, PC Gamer, Windows Central, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @hardocp, @stephennellis, and @chillmage
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu says its Apollo open source driverless car platform has 130+ partners and debuts Apollo Enterprise, a suite for managing fleets of autonomous vehicles — Beijing tech giant Baidu is ramping up its self-driving car initiative. At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC unveils Vive Pro Eye, a new VR headset with eye-tracking capabilities, coming in April, and teases the Vive Cosmos, a new consumer-friendly headset — HTC wants to make it easier for everyone to get into virtual reality. And it hopes to do it through the Vive Cosmos.
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Digital Trends, UploadVR, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Polygon, GameSpot, GameSpot, The Verge, UploadVR, Pocket-lint, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @htcvive, @nickstatt, @cymaticbruce, @davismtl, @jank0, @cnet, @cnet, @cnet, @cnet, and @markhachman. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's Ring unveils a $199 Door View Cam, which captures peephole video and detects knocks, alongside several new devices for smart outdoor lighting and more — Amazon's Ring today unveiled a series of new products including the Door View Cam for live video from the peephole of your front door …
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The Verge, MacRumors, TalkAndroid.com, and 9to5Toys
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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