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Amazon announces it's acquiring mesh WiFi company eero to make it easier for customers to set up and connect their smart home devices  —  Amazon announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire eero, a company that offers products and services for high-performing, reliable, and simple home WiFi
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service, as an invite-only beta in the US  —  LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Longtime Apple employee and iPhone exec Frank Casanova named as Apple's first head of product marketing for AR  —  - Company is betting on augmented reality as major initiative  — Apple veteran Casanova helped market the iPhone via carriers  —  Apple Inc. assigned a longtime iPhone executive …
Will Knight / MIT Technology Review:
Trump signs American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more  —  Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
Neil Cybart / Above Avalon:
As search interest in AirPods grew 500% YoY during the 2018 holiday season, they are becoming a cultural phenomenon with memes, videos, and tweets  —  Apple has a hit on its hands, or maybe we should say in its ears.  AirPods have become the second best-selling Apple product out of the gate of all time.
New Yorker:
Inside Israeli private intelligence company Psy-Group, which provided clients influence campaigns on social media using avatars, before shuttering in Feb. 2018  —  Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.  —  One evening in 2016 …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Research details an AI system that diagnosed common medical conditions in childhood with high accuracy after analyzing records of nearly 600K Chinese patients  —  Each year, millions of Americans walk out of a doctor's office with a misdiagnosis.  Physicians try to be systematic …
Bill Bostock / Business Insider:
Apple and Google's mobile app stores host Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel  —  - Apple and Google have been criticized by rights groups for hosting Absher, an app which allows men in Saudi Arabia to track and control where women travel.

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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules

Pranav Baskar / New York Times:
Journalists say an AP reporter and three other journalists were detained in Cameroon while probing a secretive US program that deports migrants to Cameroon

David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says, “We're going to be moving forward” with Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, a merger that requires lifting the station ownership cap

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Julia Boorstin / CNBC:
Reddit raises $300M Series D at $3B valuation, with Tencent, Sequoia, a16z, Fidelity among investors, says it has 330M MAUs, half between the ages of 18 and 24
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it has partnered with the US Department of Veterans and will soon let veterans access their digital health records through iPhone's Health app
South China Morning Post:
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi's fell 34.9%, but Huawei's shipments grew 23.3%
Reuters:
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B
Wall Street Journal:
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience
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