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| Chris Morris / Fortune: |
Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves. Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream.
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The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Engadget, Thurrott, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Polygon, Variety, Neowin, Wccftech, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar.com, HotHardware, SYFY WIRE, Tom's Guide, Android Police, TechSpot, SlashGear, USA Today, Pocket Gamer.biz, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, Android Central, VentureBeat, Droid Life, GameSpot, VG247, OnMSFT.com, WinBuzzer, and Gamasutra. Tweets: @toadsanime
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy — SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
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Tweets: @kennwhite, @marquardta, @crowdstrike, and @padresj
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — Channels will now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — YouTube is overhauling its community guidelines …
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YouTube Creator Blog, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Journal, Engadget, CNET, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, Mashable, Adweek, SlashGear, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Marketing Land, Android Police, 9to5Google, hypebot, KnowTechie, and YouTube Blog
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @youtubegaming, @teamyoutube, @nealmohan, @davelafontaine, and @stephenschenck
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups — House committee asked for a briefing — Lawmakers are looking to question Facebook about its privacy practices after allegations …
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Tweets: @donie, @ravindranize, @matthewstoller, and @frankpasquale
| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” — - In early February, Google announced that Assistant would now work with its home security and alarm system Nest Secure.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it's not shown it can broadly take, despite recent policy shift — Last month, the YouTube star Shane Dawson uploaded his new project: a 104-minute documentary, “Conspiracy Theories With Shane Dawson.”
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IFTTT's Linden Tibbets resigns as CEO, will stay as chief design officer; Chris Kibarian, ex-CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, named IFTTT CEO — After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and GM's Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world — ‘See’ the world of a self-driving car with these free web portals — By now you've probably seen those top-down graphical images of a self-driving car …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations — A month ago, a woman known online as CadenceLikesVGs realized she had a gambling problem.
Tweets: @nickstatt and @carnage4life
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase buys Neutrino, which helps monitor, analyze, and track cryptocurrency flows, for an undisclosed sum — Coinbase, the world's most valuable crypto company, is gearing up to add more cryptocurrencies to its exchange thanks to its latest acquisition.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter — The RVR is coming — Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots.
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TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Hackaday, KnowTechie, SlashGear, Digital Trends, MacRumors, and Engadget. Tweets: @captain_primate
| Reuters: |
Report: Amazon's China unit in merger talks with NetEase's Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's Chinese joint venture is in talks about a merger with local e-commerce firm Kaola, which sells imported products in the Asian country …
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TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, CCN, TechNode, Moneycontrol, and Thurrott. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M — Smart speakers continue to sell like hotcakes. That's according to Strategy Analytics, which today reported that in the fourth quarter of 2018 …
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Strategy Analytics …, SiliconANGLE, CNET, and 9to5Mac
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X55, its second generation 5G modem, with a maximum download speed of 7 Gbps, up 40% from the X50's 5 Gbps — The Snapdragon X55 adds support for more 5G technologies — Even before most phone makers have launched their first 5G handsets, Qualcomm …
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Qualcomm, TechCrunch, Engadget, Mashable, Android Beat, BGR, SiliconANGLE, TalkAndroid.com, SemiAccurate, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Windows Central, CNET, AnandTech, XDA Developers, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Android Police
Tweets: @neiltwitz and @patrickmoorhead
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
GitHub expands its bug bounty program by upping reward amounts, removing a maximum reward limit, adding Legal Safe Harbor terms; GitHub paid out $250K+ in 2018 — GitHub today beefed up its bug bounty program. The Microsoft-owned company has expanded the program's scope, increased its reward amounts …
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The GitHub Blog, Fossbytes, BleepingComputer, GeekWire, and The Register
Tweets: @j_winterton, @iancoldwater, and @github
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GN Group, which makes connected hearing aids that work with iOS and Android, is acquiring videoconferencing device and software provider Altia Systems for $125M — Some interesting M&A is afoot in the world of hardware and software that's aiming to improve the quality of audio and video communications over digital networks.
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GN Group and Silicon Valley Business …
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers: India's state gas company allowed a sensitive part of its website to be indexed by Google, exposing 5M+ customer records, including Aadhaar numbers — Another security lapse has exposed millions of Aadhaar numbers. — This time, India's state-owned gas company Indane left exposed …
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Elliot Alderson, Fossbytes, Firstpost, and International Business Times
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
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