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FaceTime bug lets a caller hear audio or view video from recipient's phone before call has been accepted or rejected; Apple says fix coming later this week — A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media.
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| Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg: |
DOJ unseals Jan. 16 indictment against Huawei, CFO Meng Wanzhou, affiliated firms; charges include bank and wire fraud, IP theft, conspiring to obstruct justice — - T-Mobile accused Huawai of theft; CFO linked to sactions case — U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co. …
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| U.S. Department of Justice: |
DOJ: indictment details Huawei's efforts to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile and offer bonuses to staff who stole confidential information from other companies — Huawei Corporate Entities Conspired to Steal Trade Secret Technology and Offered Bonus to Workers who Stole Confidential Information from Companies Around the World
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Apple is planning a subscription service for games; it began discussions with game developers in the second half of 2018 — Apple is planning a subscription service for games, according to five people familiar with the matter. — The service would function like Netflix for games …
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| ProPublica: |
Changes to Facebook's site break plugins created by ProPublica and others to track and report on exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers — Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year.
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Sources: 2013 “Assembled in USA” Mac Pro was delayed due to custom screw shortage in US, illustrating why Apple is unlikely to move manufacturing out of China — SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook shares draft proposal describing how its new content review board could work, suggesting it have 40 diverse members, none of whom are Facebook staff — In November, Facebook announced a new plan that would revamp how the company makes content policy decisions on its social network …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at seven public locations like malls in US, Canada, and Asia, raises $68M Series A to expand to new locations — - Sandbox VR makes virtual-reality experiences combining off-the-shelf hardware, green screens, and custom content.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Internal docs and sources describe how Facebook educates moderators about political issues and potential “PR fires” that are particular to different elections — Internal Facebook documents obtained by Motherboard show specific steps and strategies taken by the company …
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Facebook, The Hill, The Mac Observer, and CNBC
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Dropbox is buying San Francisco-based electronic signature startup HelloSign for $230M, in the company's largest acquisition since its founding in 2007 — Dropbox on Monday said it's acquiring electronic signature start-up HelloSign for $230 million in cash.
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| Meir Orbach / CTECH: |
Samsung acquires Tel Aviv-based smartphone camera maker Corephotonics, which sued Apple for patent infringement of its dual aperture tech in 2017, for $155M — Calcalist first reported that Samsung was considering the acquisition earlier this month. The companies signed the deal Sunday| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
GDPR complaint against Google and IAB by privacy advocates claims that ad category lists enable mass broadcasting of intimate personal data — Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health.
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Wired, Brave Browser, CSO, Mashable, Bitcoinist.com, PYMNTS.com, The Register, and Fortune
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bluetooth 5.1, available to developers today, includes a feature that allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal — Bluetooth is already a key feature in billions of connected devices, serving as a wire-free way of transferring data over short distances.
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Bluetooth Technology Website, Android Authority, The Verge, KnowTechie, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, and TechSpot. Tweets: @leeratliff
| Miranda Karanfili / Cointelegraph.com News: |
BitTorrent completed its token sale on Tuesday on the Binance Launchpad platform, netting $7.1M in under 15 minutes with the sale of 50B tokens — The BitTorrent token (BTT) sale on the Binance Launchpad platform concluded today Jan. 28, netting $7.1 million dollars with the sale of 50 billion tokens in under 15 minutes.
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Ethereum World News, CryptoPotato, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, SludgeFeed, The Merkle Hash, CoinDesk, The Block, Trustnodes, ETHNews, and CCN
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Kite raises a $17M Series A led by Trinity Ventures for its Python IDE that uses AI to suggest code snippets in real time — Kite, which suggests code snippets for Python developers in real time, has raised $17 million in a series A round led by Trinity Ventures.Sponsor Posts
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