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Sources: Apple laid off 200+ employees this week from Project Titan; Apple acknowledges it has restructured its autonomous systems tech team — - Apple dismissed just over 200 employees from Project Titan this week, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative, people familiar with the group told CNBC.
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Jack Dorsey's recent media tour is largely performative, substituting talking for doing, masking Twitter's slow response to many of its issues — Jack Dorsey has a lot to say — but he has more to do — Jack Dorsey is talking. — He is talking to the Huffington Post's Ashley Feinberg.
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Microsoft makes the Office suite available via the Mac App Store, with users needing an Office 365 subscription — An Office 365 subscription is required for most apps — Microsoft is making its Office suite available on Apple's Mac App Store today. The software giant originally promised … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos is planning to launch wireless, over-ear headphones with the ability to work with multiple digital assistants next year, for $300 or more — - Audio device maker seeks new markets after disappointing IPO — Company targets growing but crowded market that includes Apple
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Bing appears to be accessible in China again, as sources say the earlier block was due to a technical error rather than censorship — Internet users in mainland China have begun to report that Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine is accessible again after outages in the country persisted for many hours Thursday.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook says it will shut down its private photo-sharing app Moments on Feb. 25; users can export photos until May — Take a moment to remember Moments. — Facebook said on Thursday it was shuttering Moments, its standalone app for privately sharing photos with friends, in part because few people were using it.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Verizon's Visible, which offers unlimited text, voice, and data for $40/month, announces Android compatibility and starts selling Galaxy S9, S9+, and iPhones — When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Neo-AI, an open source project for ML training models to be run across multiple operating environments, under the Apache Software License — Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project …
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OpenSignal Mobile Networks Experience report: Verizon leads in 4G availability and video experience, but ties with T-Mobile for fastest download speeds — Verizon surges forward in our metrics — For the last two years T-Mobile has been the dominant operator for mobile network experience across …
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AWS launches WorkLink, a fully managed service for $5 per month per user, that aims to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier — If your company uses a VPN and/or a mobile device management service to give you access to its intranet and internal web apps, then you know how annoying those are.| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: US pressed Chinese tech companies to show their autonomy by giving an example of resisting a data request from the Chinese government, but they couldn't — Chairman of Chinese telecom firm contends Huawei is being unfairly targeted — The chairman of embattled telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co … | Bloomberg: |
FOIA inquiry: Google urged US Labor Board to drop an Obama-era protection for staff organizing over work email; Google says doing so was part of a legal defense — While Google publicly supported employees who protested company policies, it quietly asked the government to narrow the right to organize over work email
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Jyve, which aims to connect workers with retail companies to fill gig economy jobs, comes out of stealth, says it has raised $35M in funding — The so-called gig economy shows no signs of slowing — in fact, the opposite is likely true. According to a recent Gallup poll … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
As smartphone makers strive for differentiation in a crowded market, 2019 will see more devices with pop-up cameras, hole-punch displays, and foldable displays — THIS WEEK, CHINESE smartphone-maker Vivo released a video calling out one of the brand's signature innovations from 2018 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Netherlands-based Geophy raises $33M Series B for its AI-based commercial real estate appraisal platform, to expand in the US and Europe — Corporate real estate (CRE) appraisals are fraught with peril — not to mention subjectivity. The average gap between a standard estimate …
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Emails shed light on Amazon's attempts to woo shippers away from FedEx and UPS by forgoing some fees, like residential surcharges, which can be $3.80+/parcel — New seven-day delivery service offers to pick up parcels and bring to residences, without added fuel or weekend surcharges| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing an “Original Tweeter” tag to make it easier to see who started a thread; test has rolled out to “a small percentage” of iOS and Android users — Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread.
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Tweets: @fredericl, @calbucci, @raymondchung, @caseynewton, and @kerrymflynn
| Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Hyperledger Grid project to let developers create blockchain-based supply chain apps running atop the distributed ledger tech — The Linux Foundation's blockchain initiative - Hyperledger Project - has created a set of developer tools to allow the creation …
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Humio, which provides real-time log analysis for $200+ per month, raises $9M Series A led by Accel and says Bloomberg and Microsoft are clients — Humio, a startup that provides a real-time log analysis service for on-premises and cloud infrastructures, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Accel.| The Intercept: |
Snowden documents shed light on how states can compromise hardware supply chains, a practice undertaken by the US, France, Germany, China, and others — In October, Bloomberg Businessweek published an alarming story: Operatives working for China's People's Liberation Army had secretly implanted microchips …
Tweets: @kimzetter and @bobmcmillan
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google Express quietly removes Walmart as a retail partner, leaving Target as the only major partner for the beleaguered delivery service — When Google Express re-launched in 2017 as a free service, it had two major retail partners — Walmart and Target. Both companies have a massive amount … | 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: @shiraovide, @shanehuntley, @wsj, @bobmcmillan, and @alexstamos
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