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| Whitson Gordon / iFixit: |
2018 MacBook Pros include a longer screen cable, a part prone to fail on earlier models, requiring screen replacements, an issue Apple never acknowledged — In 2018, a number of MacBook Pro users—with models from 2016 onwards—discovered a serious design flaw that causes the screen to fail …
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| Bloomberg: |
Russia is pushing “Sovereign Internet”, a draft law designed to create a single command post from which data flows can be managed across Russian cyberspace — When anti-government protests erupted on Russia's side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something … | Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
Report: 40% of 2,830 AI startups in Europe do not use AI programs in their products; ~8% of EU startups were AI companies in 2018, up from ~3% in 2015 — Two-fifths of Europe's artificial intelligence start-ups do not use any AI programs in their products, according to a report that highlights the hype around the technology.
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MIT Technology Review, Forbes, The Register, and The Verge
Tweets: @parmy, @josephmosby, and @went1955
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple acquired the patent portfolio of failed smart home security startup Lighthouse AI, including those related to visual authentication, late last year — Apple has recently acquired a handful of patents from Lighthouse AI, a defunct home security camera company.
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IAM, Patently Apple, The Verge, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, and BGR
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Comedian Miel Bredouw's fight with Barstool Sports after they posted her video without credit shows how Twitter's copyright system can hurt creators — “It's insane to me that the platform is allowing them to do this.” — Earlier today, Los Angeles-based writer and comedian Miel Bredouw claims …
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Business Insider, The Daily Dot, and Mashable
Tweets: @miel, @miel, @nickstatt, @miel, @kerrymflynn, @jasonabbruzzese, @draglikepull, @mikedarnay, @megh_wright, @anildash, @ketanj0, @mmasnick, and @gossithedog
| Washington Post: |
T-Mobile acknowledges that its executives' patronage of Trump's Washington hotel, spending ~$195K, increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint — T-Mobile's patronage of President Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April …
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GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, Reuters, Ars Technica, The Hill, TmoNews, and Fortune
Tweets: @senwarren, @fahrenthold, @vgescobar, @fahrenthold, @fahrenthold, @fahrenthold, and @robertmaguire_
| Megan Wollerton / CNET: |
August View wireless video doorbell unveiled with 1440p recording, 24/7 live video streaming, and rechargeable battery, available for $230 from March 28 — August just introduced a new device to its lineup — the $230 August View. Available in the United States beginning March 28 …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Android Authority, TechHive, Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, and SlashGear
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
The servers running social robot Jibo, which had raised ~$76M in total and shipped to the public in 2017 for $899, are being shut down forever — RIP, Jibo — The servers running Jibo, a connected home robot, are about to be shut down, and the robot has started informing its owners with a bittersweet message.
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CNET, BBC, KnowTechie, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Mashable, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @dylanljmartin, @joannastern, @eringriffith, @pulpfictionaly, @jennyenicholson, and @neerajka
| Tom Cardoso / Globe and Mail: |
Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, says complying with new ad transparency rules required by Bill C-76 would be too challenging — Google is banning political advertising on its platforms ahead of the Canadian federal election because of new ad transparency rules …
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Engadget, TechSpot, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, and Beyond Search
Tweets: @annemariebridy, @tonyromm, @daphnehk, @baekdal, and @colettod
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
The Financial Times has acquired a majority stake in Amsterdam-based tech blog and events company The Next Web — The Financial Times has bought a controlling stake in consumer publisher The Next Web, marking its first acquisition in continental Europe. — The FT didn't disclose the terms …
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Financial Times and Inside TNW press releases
Tweets: @ftpressoffice, @thenextweb, @rafat, @emilybell, @bryanclark, @mattnavarra, @robinwauters, and @martinsfp
| New York Times: |
Amazon's hard bargaining helps it squeeze as much as possible out of cities, but the NYC pullout exposed its limited experience building community relationships — SEATTLE — When Texas officials pushed Amazon to pay nearly $270 million in back sales taxes in 2010, Amazon responded by closing …
Tweets: @alinaselyukh, @nickconfessore, and @ron_miller
| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Senior GOP congressional aide claims the NSA has shut down a program that collects domestic phone and text records, whose scope was revealed by Snowden in 2013 — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts …
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Axios, emptywheel, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, Android Authority, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, and Engadget
Tweets: @eff, @zackwhittaker, @grahamdavida, @woodruffbets, @ggreenwald, and @charlie_savage
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Eargo, a direct-to-consumer smart hearing aid manufacturer, raises $52M Series D, bringing total raised to $135M, and says it has 20,000 users — Eargo wants to become the ultimate consumer hearing brand. — The company's small and virtually invisible direct-to-consumer hearing aids …
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FinSMEs and Business Wire
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Alphabet startup Chronicle launches Backstory, a “Google Photos for network security” that makes network history easy to search and draw insights from — It's been a year since Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced a moonshot cybersecurity company called Chronicle.
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Chronicle, Engadget, 9to5Google, CNBC, The Hacker News, Geek News Central, WinBuzzer, BetaNews, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Fortune, CNET, Business Insider, Wired, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @josephfcox, @joltsik, @skuranda, @zerohedge, and @gossithedog
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud now offers SoundCloud Go+ subscriptions to students for $5/mo., a discount of 50%; it's the last major streaming service to offer student pricing — SoundCloud wants to make its streaming music service more affordable to a key demographic: younger users who generally spend … | Jack Ellis / Tech in Asia: |
Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45B; YY was lead investor in Bigo's $272M round last June — Chinese social network YY has acquired Singapore-based social media startup Bigo in a deal worth US$1.45 billion.
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YY Inc. - IR Site, DealStreetAsia, TechNode, China Money Network, and TechCrunch
| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Following outcry, Coinbase says Neutrino staff members who previously worked at Hacking Team “will transition out of Coinbase” — We recently announced the acquisition of Neutrino, a blockchain analytics company. I'd like to share a bit of the back story on this acquisition, and a decision we've made going forward.
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CoinDesk, TechCrunch, SludgeFeed, Blockonomi, BREAKERMAG, The Next Web, CryptoGlobe, Bloomberg, Bitsonline, The Block, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Ethereum World News, Mashable, and PaymentsSource
Tweets: @brian_armstrong, @theonevortex, @btc, @jeffjohnroberts, @crypt0snews, @jamestodaromd, @emiliemc, @udiwertheimer, @sassal0x, and @hasufl
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform, sources say at a pre-money valuation of $325M — The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age of digital media and imaging technologies, and startups that are putting themselves at the center of that are attracting interest.| Ben Collins / NBC News: |
On Amazon, a book pushing QAnon conspiracy theories climbs the charts, aided by Amazon's algorithmically generated recommendations — The book is currently No. 9 in all books about politics and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury's “Farhenheit 451,”
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Business Insider, The Digital Reader, The Daily Dot, and OneZero
Tweets: @jason_kint, @oliverdarcy, @slpng_giants, @oneunderscore__, and @zeynep
| Politico: |
A look at Tim Cook's lobbying efforts with the White House and China to keep Apple from getting ensnared in US tariffs and avoid backlash from China — But Apple could face future threats if the latest trade talks fail. — President Donald Trump's trade war with China has left a trail …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
San Jose-based Functionize raises $16M Series A from Canvas Ventures to automate software testing with AI — Functionize, a San Jose, California-based startup developing a cloud-based platform that autonomously susses out software bugs, today announced that it has raised $16 million in series …
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FinSMEs and PE Hub Blog
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
A look at how Spotify plans to crack the podcast market: making it easier to find podcasts, investing in creation tools and exclusive original content, and more — Spotify has been on a media blitz to hype up its plans. Most everyone involved in the deals, including Spotify CEO Daniel Ek …
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Nieman Lab and MacRumors
Tweets: @mikeduncan, @overcastfm, @joshsternberg, @mattdpearce, @dansinker, @nicktheandersen, and @letsgoayo
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SurveyMonkey acquires Amsterdam-based website and app survey company Usabilla for $80M in cash and stock — SurveyMonkey announced today that it has acquired Usabilla, an Amsterdam-based website and app survey company, for $80 million in cash and stock. — Zander Lurie, CEO at SurveyMonkey … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Roblox tries to make the kid's game safer through a digital civility initiative, moderators, more, after a character was virtually sexually assaulted last year — Roblox has more than 80 million monthly players on its Lego-like virtual world platform for teens, and it only takes a few bad apples to ruin the fun.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
US mobile bank Chime raises $200M Series D led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5B — San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Chime announced this morning it has raised an additional $200 million in Series D financing led by DST Global, valuing its business at $1.5 billion.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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