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Sources: Apple replaced 11M iPhone batteries under the $29 replacement program in 2018, up from an average of 1-2M — Jean-Louis Gassée, on Apple's earnings warning: … I'm pretty sure Gassée's back-of-the-envelope estimate of the number of batteries replaced was way too low.
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Amazon's recently-announced DocumentDB AWS offering highlights the economic challenges facing companies like MongoDB Inc. that focus on an open source project — In 1999, music industry revenue in the United States peaked at $14.6 billion (all numbers are from the RIAA).| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple COO Jeff Williams testifies that Qualcomm refused to sell chips for newest iPhones amid legal battle, says $7.50/iPhone fee for Qualcomm patents too high — Apple wanted to use Qualcomm's 4G LTE processors in its newest iPhones, but the chipmaker wouldn't sell to it, Apple's operating chief testified Monday.
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NBCUniversal says it will launch an ad-supported streaming service in Q1 2020 that is free for pay-TV subscribers; source: non-subscribers could pay ~$12/month — - NBC's streaming service will be a free, ad-supported product to anyone that subscribes to a pay-TV service.
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| Eleanor Cummins / Popular Science: |
YouTube starts rolling out a new feature on iOS that will let viewers swipe right or left to navigate between videos, coming to Android devices later this year — The design team tells us how they made swipe happen. — Tapping is so last year. That's why YouTube began rolling … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher discloses several flaws that made Bluehost, DreamHost, Hostgator, OVH, and iPage vulnerable to user account hacks; all except OVH say bugs now fixed — A security researcher has found, reported, and now disclosed a dozen bugs that made it easy to steal sensitive information …
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Apple's FoundationDB says it is open sourcing FoundationDB Record Layer, which powers CloudKit and offers schema management, indexing, and query capabilities — Apple originally acquired FoundationDB in 2015, and last April it announced that it was making the cloud database open source.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it is rolling out RCS messaging support on the Google Fi network available on the Pixel phones, the Moto G6, LG V35, LG G7, and Android One Moto X — Alongside faster international LTE data — Today, Google is announcing that it's rolling out RCS Chat on the Google Fi network.
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| Eva Szalay / Financial Times: |
HSBC says it processed over 3M FX transactions worth ~$250B using blockchain tech in 2018 and plans to make its FX Everywhere platform commercially available — HSBC is leaning more heavily on blockchain-based tools to handle the fiddly processes behind foreign-exchange trades …
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Trump administration proposes rules to remove waiver requirements for operating drones at night and over populated areas — (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Monday proposed rules that would allow drones to operate over populated areas and end a requirement for special permits for night use …
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| Mark Armstrong / The WordPress.com Blog: |
WordPress.com launches Newspack by WordPress.com, a publishing platform aimed at small- and medium-sized news outlets and backed by Google, ConsenSys, others — Over the past 15 years, WordPress has grown to become the world's most popular publishing platform for the open web — and it's especially true for news organizations.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
District court judge rules that authorities don't have the right, even with a warrant, to force suspects to unlock devices via biometrics, similar to passwords — A California judge has ruled that American cops can't force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or finger.
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