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| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Apple plans to hold a special subscription services-focused event on March 25 at its Apple Park campus to announce a subscription news service — The company is expected to show off a long-rumored news subscription service. — Reporting From San Francisco, CA
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Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @dcseifert, @lucasmtny, @johnpaczkowski, @neilcybart, and @neilcybart
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming paid news service runs into resistance from major publishers as Apple seeks about a 50% cut and likely won't share subscriber data — Apple plans to keep about 50% of subscription revenue from ‘Netflix for news’ service, likely won't share customer data with publishers
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon now lets users create and submit custom Alexa skills for certification and publication in the US Skills Store — Anyone can create a trivia game and share it on the Alexa store — Amazon is now letting anyone create and publish Alexa skills into the Alexa skills store.
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| Michael Futter / Variety: |
Activision Blizzard announces record $1.8B net income in 2018, but says it is laying off 8%, or ~800 of its staff, amid internal changes and unmet expectations — UPDATED: Activision Blizzard is laying off approximately 775 people — 8% of its 9,600-person staff — as it refocuses its efforts …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon and Google are asking smart gadget makers to continuously send status updates to Echo and Home devices, even if customers aren't interacting with devices — As Amazon.com Inc. and Google work to place their smart speakers at the center of the internet-connected home … | The Guardian: |
Facebook criticized by health experts for allowing the rise of closed groups rife with anti-vaccination misinformation, some with 150,000+ members — Experts are calling on company to counter closed groups where members can post misinformation without challenge
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Jack Dorsey and Kara Swisher's live Twitter interview could have been a great conversation, but Twitter's live chat limitations made it hard to follow — Kara Swisher's live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter's product issues. — Twitter wants to be the place …
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Tweets: @karaswisher, @jack, @digiphile, @klasfeldreports, @voxdotcom, @kurtwagner8, @recode, and @waltmossberg
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google to “refocus” Android Things from a public developer platform to a “platform for OEM partners”, limiting support for some NXP, Qualcomm, MediaTek hardware — When Google announced Android Things at its 2015 I/O developer conference, it pitched it as a versatile …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Democratic lawmakers step up scrutiny of T-Mobile-Sprint merger, which they say reduces competition, as two days of Congressional hearings begin — WASHINGTON — When T-Mobile announced its intention to buy Sprint last April, the prospects for the $26 billion deal winning regulatory approval appeared strong.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla and Ubisoft are partnering to develop Clever-Commit, an AI-powered coding assistant to find potential bugs; Mozilla to deploy it for Firefox development — Mozilla and Ubisoft today announced a partnership to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant.
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Future Releases, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Gamasutra, and Variety
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Amber Authenticate is a new tool built on Ethereum that generates hashes of a video and records them on a public blockchain to protect it from deepfakes — VIDEO HAS BECOME an increasingly crucial tool for law enforcement, whether it comes from security cameras, police-worn body cameras, a bystander's smartphone, or another source.
Tweets: @laurengoode
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
DoorDash says 15% of customers leave no tip, the next 45% contribute less than half of “guaranteed amount”, and 80% of contractors are happy with the pay system — In its ideal world, food-delivery service DoorDash would pay its contractors almost nothing-relying on customer tips to cover most of the fee quoted for a job.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @robaeprice, @goldyha, @workingwa, @alexismichelle, @edzitron, and @oliviasolon
| FinSMEs: |
InfluxData, the San Francisco-based creator of the time series database InfluxDB, raises $60M Series D led by Norwest Venture Partners — InfluxData, a San Francisco, CA-based creator of the time series database InfluxDB, raised $60m in Series D funding. — The round was led …
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
San Diego-based autonomous trucking startup TuSimple raises $95M Series D, led by Sina Corp. and Composite Capital, at a $1B valuation — - It's preparing to expand its testing of self-driving semis on highways in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. — Autonomous trucking company TuSimple …
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Axios, Reuters, and TechCrunch
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find a way to run malicious code on Intel-based systems using the SGX feature, preventing antivirus software from identifying or analyzing malware — Processor protects malware from attempts to inspect and analyze it. — Researchers have found a way to run malicious code …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
US DOJ charges former Air Force counter-intel officer Monica Witt with aiding Iranian cyber operations against the US and sanctions two Iranian companies — Prosecutors have brought charges against a former Air Force officer for allegedly spying for Iran, the Justice Department confirmed Wednesday.
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| NPD Group: |
NPD: US smartwatch unit sales rose 61% YoY for the 12 months ending November 2018, as 16% of US adults now own a smartwatch, up 12% from December 2017 — U.S. smartwatch sales experienced strong growth in the 12 months ending November 2018 compared to the same timeframe a year prior …
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Computerworld, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Patently Apple, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Android Authority, and TechCrunch
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with the president and COO of mobile gaming company Scopely on its business model; Scopely says it has a $400M run rate and increased revenues 80% in 2018 — Scopely isn't the most well-known mobile game company. But it scored a couple of hits with Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem and Star Trek … Sponsor Posts
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