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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple has disabled the Group FaceTime feature on the server side and reports suggest this has fixed the security flaw for most people — Software update still due later this week — Apple has temporarily disabled its Group FaceTime feature in iOS and macOS to fix a major security flaw.
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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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| Chris Brantner / Streaming Observer: |
Study: of 3,839 movies on Netflix, 596 are “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, more than Prime, Hulu, HBO combined, despite Prime having 17,461 movies total — Amazon Prime Video may have more than 4.5x as many movies as Netflix, but quantity isn't everything.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Gmail's Android and iOS apps will get a refreshed design in coming weeks to reflect the Google Material Theme, with other G Suite apps to follow — Google is rolling out a new interface overhaul for Gmail on mobile devices, a move that fits with the company's broader mission … | 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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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Huawei MateBook 13 review: solid performance, comfortable keyboard, and sturdy design, but no Thunderbolt 3, lackluster battery life, and crazy-loud fans — This $1,299 laptop is stiff competition for Huawei's own $1,499 Matebook X Pro. — Despite company turmoil, Huawei continues to go after a slice of the US laptop market.
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Petal, which offers credit cards to people without credit scores, raises $30M Series B led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures — Petal, a fintech startup that offers credit cards to people without credit scores, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures …
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Collibra, which provides data governance tech to manage and track corporate data, raises $100M Series E led by CapitalG at a $1B+ valuation — CapitalG, an investment arm of Google parent Alphabet, has led a $100 million funding round in the data technology startup Collibra.
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Profile of Lyft CEO Logan Green, including how he and Lyft president John Zimmer worked together to build the company — SAN FRANCISCO — When Logan Green, chief executive of the ride-hailing service Lyft, was asked which tech leaders he admired, he pointed to three men who had built …
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EU publishes first monthly reports by Facebook, Google, Firefox, and Twitter on their fight against disinformation, wants them to intensify efforts — The European Union has urged US internet giants and advertising firms to intensify the fight against disinformation campaigns before EU elections in May, or risk regulation.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US judge rejects Yahoo data breach settlement, citing high lawyer fees and the size of the class Yahoo privately disclosed as smaller than its active user base — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information …
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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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| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
Inside Starbreeze's financial crisis, after the game studio botched the release of Overkill's The Walking Dead and made big investments in VR and other areas — At Starbreeze's 2016 Christmas meeting, held in a cinema close by to the studio's Stockholm headquarters, CEO Bo Andersson told staff the company was in rude health.
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Home improvement platform Houzz lays off ~180, roughly 10% of its workforce, and a source suggests more layoffs are coming, as it reportedly gears up for IPO — Houzz has built a $4 billion business on the back of a platform and marketplace that lets you plan and execute home improvement projects.Sponsor Posts
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