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Google launches YouTube TV in 95 new US markets, says it now covers 98% of US households — 98 percent of US households are covered as of today, with the rest coming soon — YouTube TV is finally nearing nationwide availability. The streaming TV service first launched in February 2017 … | Reuters: |
Waymo to invest $13.6M in a factory for level 4 autonomous cars in Michigan, partnering with Magna to install Waymo's self-driving system in cars made by others — (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving vehicle unit said on Tuesday it plans to build a plant in Michigan to transform vehicles …
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Amazon says it is field testing Amazon Scout, a small autonomous six-wheeled delivery robot, in Snohomish County, Washington — Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout. — At Amazon, we continually invest in new technologies to benefit customers.
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Microsoft is automatically installing NewsGuard, a plug-in that guides users on which news websites can be trusted, on mobile versions of its Edge browser — Mail Online rated one out of five for credibility by new feature to fight fake news — Microsoft's internet browser is warning users …
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| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
Despite Bitcoin's dive, thousands of Georgians have sold cars to buy computers to mine Bitcoin; ~10% of the country's energy output goes into mining Bitcoin — Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader.
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| Steven T. Wright / Ars Technica: |
A look at the history of LiveJournal, the early blogging platform that boasted 10M+ accounts at its height but faltered after questionable business decisions — George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed. — Last April, famed writer …
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Meizu announces Zero, a smartphone with no ports, physical buttons, or SIM card slot; instead it has eSIM support and 18-watt fast wireless charging — The Meizu Zero is here - the world's first phone without physical buttons, speaker cutout and even without a USB port for conventional wired charging.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
After Netflix price hikes, Hulu will lower the price of its base, ad-supported subscription plan to $5.99/mo, down from the current $7.99/mo, starting Feb. 26 — The core service is getting cheaper, but live TV now costs more — Hulu just announced that it will lower the price of its base … | Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Candy Ventures acquires AR startup Blippar, which went into administration last month after raising $130M+, and will reform it as a new business with same CEO — - British property tycoon Nick Candy has bought Blippar, the augmented reality startup which collapsed late last year.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $125M Series D led by Sequoia Capital, source says at a $2.5B valuation — Open source software has produced a new multi-billion-dollar company - one that has some of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms jockeying …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter begins limited rollout of a new web interface with a two-column layout, keyboard shortcuts, a dedicated emoji button, and a revised trends section — Don't be surprised if Twitter looks very different on the web in the near future. The social network has started rolling … | Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
US DoL files complaint against Oracle for discrimination against women and people of color, seeks $400M+ for workers who have suffered pay inequities — US labor department accuses company of rampant exclusion of black and Hispanic people in hiring and higher pay for white men
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Anchorage, which holds and safeguards crypto assets for institutions, comes out of stealth after raising $17M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — I'm not allowed to tell you exactly how Anchorage keeps rich institutions from being robbed of their cryptocurrency, but the off-the-record demo was damn impressive.| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Consumer finance journalist Martin Lewis drops his lawsuit against Facebook over scam ads, after the company agrees to donate £3M to set up an anti-scam project — Consumer finance journalist drops action as firm agrees to give £3m to anti-scam project
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Electric.ai, the NYC startup that helps companies automate their IT support services via a chat-based service, has raised $25M Series B round led by GGV — Electric.ai, the NY-based startup that offers chat-based IT support, has announced the close of a $25 million Series B round led by GGV.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Alexa AI scientists describe in a paper a technique that uses millions of unannotated interactions with Amazon's voice assistant to reduce NLP error rate by 8% — Developing an AI system capable of understanding natural language isn't just time-consuming — it's really expensive.| Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: |
The Motion Picture Association of America has added Netflix as a member, the first internet-based service to be added — UPDATED with Netflix officially joining: It's official, Netflix is a member of the MPAA. The Washington, DC-based organization just dropped the following release:
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google spent $21.2M on US govt lobbying in 2018, up from $18.04M in 2017; Facebook spent $12.62M, up from $11.51M; and Microsoft spent $9.52M, up from $8.5M — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google disclosed on Tuesday that it spent a company-record $21.2 million on lobbying … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google will retire classic Hangouts for G Suite customers in October, after its previous announcement that Hangouts would be split into Hangouts Chat, Meet apps — Google announced in March 2017 that it would split Hangouts, its cross-platform messaging service, into two core apps …
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G Suite Updates Blog, Ars Technica, The Verge, Inquirer, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, Mashable, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Droid Life, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New research details how two widely received spam email campaigns over the past few months were made possible by a previously detailed weakness at GoDaddy.com — Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam … | Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Google announces it will contribute an additional $3.1M to Wikimedia and give Wikipedia editors free access to Custom Search API and Cloud Vision API — GOOGLE IS POURING an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Andela, which trains and places African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $100M Series D from Al Gore's Generation Investment Management — Outsourcing isn't generally seen as the most high-minded of industries. But when the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative …
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FinSMEs, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Financial Times, The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper, Andela, Quartz, PC Tech Magazine, Concise News, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @celestocalculus
| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Q&A with the ACLU's Jon Callas, formerly of Apple, on the need for tech expertise in policymaking, the biggest challenges for the security industry, and more — Apple security expert Jon Callas, who helped build protection for billions of computers and smartphones against criminal hackers …
Tweets: @kimzetter, @lorenzofb, and @kimzetter
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