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| Sean Scott / The Amazon Blog: |
Amazon says it is field testing Amazon Scout, a small autonomous six-wheeled delivery robot, in Snohomish County, Washington — At Amazon, we continually invest in new technologies to benefit customers. We've been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system - Amazon Scout …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
Microsoft's Bing has been blocked in China following a government order, removing the last major foreign search engine left in the country — Microsoft's Bing search engine has been blocked in China following a government order, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a video posted online, Xiaomi teases a working prototype of a phone with a double-folding display and a more symmetrical design than Samsung's foldable phone — China's Xiaomi has become the latest smartphone maker to tease a folding smartphone, dropping the below video clip of its president …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
After Netflix price hikes, Hulu will lower its base, ad-supported subscription plan to $6/mo, down from $8/mo, and hike its Live TV service to $45/mo on 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 …
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| 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 — - 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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| CNBC: |
Verizon Media Group, which owns Yahoo and AOL, plans to cut 7% of its global workforce, according to an email to employees from CEO Guru Gowrappan — Verizon Media Group — formerly known as Oath — is laying off 7 percent of its workforce, a person familiar with the change told CNBC.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook to launch Page Quality tab for admins, showing when content is removed for policy violations and when post distribution is reduced due to fact-checking — We're taking new steps in how we handle Page content that goes against our policies. First, starting tomorrow people who manage …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Microsoft now offers NewsGuard, a plug-in that guides users on which news websites can be trusted, as an option 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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Tweets: @bbctech, @stopfundinghate, @carnage4life, @shoaibmkhan, @jbenton, @dondraperreally, @carnage4life, and @adrianweckler
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher: 24M+ financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages, were left exposed online by Texas-based firm Ascension — Exclusive: The database included highly sensitive financial data on customers who have taken out loans with U.S. banks| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority publishes draft guidelines on cryptoassets and how they fit within the UK's current regulatory framework — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposed guidance for how crypto assets should be regulated in the country.
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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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Sherpa.ai, which makes a Spanish language voice assistant, expands Series A by $8.5M to $15M as it passes 5M users — When we think of the AI platforms that are shaping how we use voice to interact with phones, home devices and other services, we tend to think of Amazon's Alexa … | Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Cision, a public relations software company, has agreed to buy AI-powered analytics company TrendKite for $225M as it continues to invest in software automation — - Purchase will help Cision automate parts of PR campaigns — TrendKite is company's second acquisition announced this month
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia India announces Surge, an accelerator focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, says it will offer selected companies a $1.5M investment — ‘Surge’ offers a $1.5M check and access to the firm's global network — Sequoia India is going deep into early-stage investing …
Tweets: @jonrussell, @jonrussell, and @jonrussell
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Patreon says it has 3M+ patrons, up by 1M+ in 2018, who support 100K+ creators; the company will pay creators $500M in 2019, reach $1B paid since launch in 2013 — Membership services platform Patreon now has more than 3 million patrons who pay to support any of its over 100,000 creators every month, the company announced Wednesday.
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| Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Federal prosecutors and US court in Seattle agree to publish info on warrantless surveillance requests, will disclose case numbers and crime being investigated — The public will learn how often federal investigators in Seattle obtain private details about your communications … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Next Trucking, a California-based logistics platform matching carriers with shippers, raises $97M Series C led by Brookfield, with Sequoia, others participating — Next Trucking ("Next“), a logistics platform that matches carriers with shippers, has raised $97 million in a series C round …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Google's 27-person in-house counterespionage team, the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks 200+ hacker groups, many of which are linked to US adversaries — Google likely has 'the most useful data set available to any private company for tracking state adversaries and intelligence services,' an expert says
Tweets: @wsj, @bobmcmillan, @shanehuntley, and @alexstamos
| Tomio Geron / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: SoftBank is investing $100M in Globality, a marketplace for large companies to find and manage service providers, at a ~$1B valuation — Globality uses AI, machine learning to match project needs with service providers
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Business Wire, Nikkei, FinSMEs, and VatorNews
| GSMArena.com: |
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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