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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD announces the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII GPU, which it says will be 27% to 62% faster, coming in Feb. for $700; CEO Su says 400M+ gamers use Radeon graphics — Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, announced the chip makers new graphics processing unit, the 7-nanometer AMD Radeon VII graphics chip.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @bdsams, @starfire2258, @patrickmoorhead, @amd, and @vladsavov
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
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VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Blue's News, PCWorld, IGN, ZDNet, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Engadget, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@iancutress
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will now let users post to multiple accounts at once on iOS and begins testing easier Google Photos imports on Android — Instagram is swaying the balance towards simplicity but away from originality. It's adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces a new search feature that lets logged-in users access past searches on specific topics, available now in the US — Google is now rolling out a new feature in search named “your related activity.” This feature lets signed in Google users pick up on previous searches they've done related to the query they just added.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
AT&T says its mobile 5G network will be available nationwide in 2020 on its sub-6GHz spectrum amid competitor criticism of its 5G E branding on non-5G devices — AT&T already launched its initial mobile 5G network in parts of 12 U.S. cities last December, but it's now preparing …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Source: e-scooter startup Bird is raising $300M, led by Fidelity, as an extension of its prior round at its current $2B pre-money valuation — E-scooter startup Bird is raising $300 million in new funding led by Fidelity, Axios has learned. Bird would maintain its existing $2 billion pre-money valuation … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google's “knowledge panel” search results can be manipulated for users visiting via specially-crafted URL; researcher says he told Google of the issue last year — Dutch researcher argues that Google should remove support for knowledge panels. — A feature of the Google search …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker, which adheres to Coalition for Better Ads' guidelines, is rolling out globally on July 9 — Google today announced that Chrome's ad blocker is expanding across the globe starting on July 9, 2019. As with last year's initial ad blocker rollout, the date is not tied to a specific Chrome version.
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Chromium Blog, The Verge, The Register, BleepingComputer, and 9to5Google
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft updates group chat app Teams with location sharing, secure audio messaging, and a camera feature to securely save photos to Teams and not locally — Microsoft is adding location-sharing, a smart camera and secure messaging capabilities to its Teams group-chat product, specifically targeting mobile, firstline workers.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage; MacKenzie worked at Amazon from the beginning — Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, announced this morning via the Amazon CEO's personal Twitter account that they've decided to divorce after 25 years of marriage.
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Tweets: @jeffbezos, @ashleymayer, @rmac18, @timjhanrahan, @mattyglesias, @rmac18, @silviakillings, and @glennf
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Amazon DocumentDB, a new document database offering that is compatible with MongoDB version 3.6 — The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.
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Tweets: @nathankpeck, @andigutmans, @nathankpeck, @tomkrazit, and @mjasay
| Kim Zetter / Politico: |
Sources: Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab helped the US government catch NSA contractor Harold Martin, who was accused of stealing a trove of classified data — The U.S. has accused Kaspersky Lab of working with Russian spies. But sources say the company exposed a massive breach that U.S. authorities missed.
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Tweets: @kimzetter, @nakashimae, @zackwhittaker, @ericgeller, and @robertmlee
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
NYU and Princeton study of 3,500 US adults: 11% of those over 65 have shared a hoax article on Facebook, while just 3% of those 18 to 29 have done so — And the finding holds true across party lines — Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook …
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Science, CNET, Gizmodo, The Hill, Mashable, The Register, and Washington Post
Tweets: @caseynewton, @hshaban, @anildash, @caseynewton, and @melbala
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Square launches an in-app payments SDK for iOS, Android, and Google's Flutter cross-platform mobile development SDK — Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as well, the company is launching a mobile software …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Some VCs say they are rooting for a market dip to counterbalance an overheated startup market, with a VC at IVP predicting valuations will drop 10%-40% in 2019 — Some venture capitalists are rooting for a market dip to calm Silicon Valley's overheated start-up scene.
Tweets: @nytimes and @nytimesbusiness
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sonos says it has begun a private beta test of Google Assistant integration, first announced in 2017, with the aim of rolling it out later this year — Sonos has started a private beta test of Google Assistant on its smart speakers, and is looking to launch the integration to the public this year.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, Android Police, Cult of Mac, Phandroid, RAIN News, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Google, and MobileSyrup. Tweets: @ow
| Elizabeth Gurdus / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says revenue for Apple's wearables is 50% more than iPod at its peak, with the Watch and AirPods generating 4-6X more in sales than iPod over same time — - Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the revenue from his company's wearable products, namely the Apple Watch and the AirPods, has already topped that of the iPod at its peak.
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Tweets: @ericjackson, @neilcybart, @caseynewton, @asymco, and @jonrussell
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Starting in February, Twitter will stream the second half of some NBA games, with the camera's focus on an individual player picked by users — Twitter cut a streaming deal with the NBA to show you individual players, not full games. — Twitter doesn't stream NBA games …
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @willoremus, @howelloneill, @caseynewton, and @tylercowen
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google makes over a dozen announcements for Google Assistant at CES, including Google Assistant Connect for third-party developers and flight check-ins — Today, Google is showing off auto-translation on smart display speakers, letting you naturally talk to each other with the speaker acting as the translator automatically.
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SiliconANGLE, The Keyword, HARMAN Newsroom, 9to5Google, Stratechery, YouTube, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, FierceWireless, ValueWalk, TechHive, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, MSPoweruser, The Next Web, Firstpost, Gotta Be Mobile, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, CNET, GeekWire, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @ohmdee, @benpopper, @shannon_liao, @ohmdee, @starfire2258, @backlon, and @wired
| Financial Times: |
A look at how data brokers identify people and how much personal information they sell as IDC forecasts data vendor sales will triple to $10.1B by 2022 — There are many personal details that Paul-Olivier Dehaye is willing to share online, but the behaviour of his bladder is not one of them.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @nils_gilman, and @financialtimes
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Wikimedia announces the integration of Google Translate into Wikipedia's content translation tool used by editors, which now supports 121 total languages — For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit's effort has been slow …
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
TaxJar, a subscription software company that helps online retailers automate sales tax calculations and filings, raises $60M from Insight Venture Partners — TaxJar, a subscription software company that helps businesses automate their sales tax calculations and filing … Sponsor Posts
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