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Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown reveals a fragile build that lacks adequate protection against the ingress of debris between the OLED screen and the bezel — A teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Fold performed by iFixit in April of 2019.
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Tweets: @ifixit, @kwiens, @kwiens, @kwiens, @detroitborg, @backlon, and @tomwarren
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon team auditing Alexa commands has access to user location data, making finding customer addresses easy; Amazon says access is tightly controlled — - Some members of Alexa Data Services see latitude and longitude — The team is charged with helping Alexa improve its performance
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: the UK will allow Huawei limited access to help build parts of the country's 5G network, such as antennas and other “non-core” infrastructure — Experts and policymakers are wary of letting China get involved in domestic infrastructure — UK Prime Minister Theresa …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will launch two new AirPods models in the Q4 2019 - Q1 2020 timeframe, one an iterative update, the other with a new design and higher price — Following just hours after a Digitimes report on ‘AirPods 3′, the veritable TF Industries’ Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple is set …
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Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @markgurman
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Source: Trump complained in a meeting with Jack Dorsey that Twitter had removed some followers; Dorsey stressed even he lost followers from new Twitter policies — President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House between one of the site's …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: former DHS Secretary tried to focus White House on potential Russian interference in 2020 election, but was told not to bring it up in front of Trump — WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities …
Tweets: @theplumlinegs, @maggienyt, @shearm, @kfile, @juliettekayyem, and @maggienyt
| Twitter: |
Twitter is adding an option to report attempts to mislead election voters, which will be available in India from April 25 and the EU from April 29 — Voting is a fundamental human right and the public conversation occurring on Twitter is never more important than during elections.
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @gelliottmorris, and @buzzfeedindia
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes Fit, its activity tracker, available on iOS as a standalone app with full Health integration — Last August, Google Fit was completely revamped with the Material Theme and a focus on two new metrics. The health and activity tracking application is now coming to iOS with full Apple Health integration.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB says it will acquire Realm, an open source database platform for mobile apps, for $39M; Realm had raised $40M — MongoDB announced today that is acquiring Realm, an open source database geared for mobile applications for $39 million. The startup had raised just over $40 million before being acquired today.
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As China exports its surveillance tech to the world, a look at its use in Ecuador, where 4,300 cameras feed video to 16 monitoring stations employing ~3K people — In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence.| Hiten Shah / Product Habits: |
Founder of KISSMetrics reflects on how the analytics startup failed because of distraction from random ideas, drive-by management, lack of prioritization, more — Back in 2008, I co-founded KISSmetrics, an analytics company. — There were so many times when I thought about giving up during the early days.
Tweets: @rrhoover, @amix3k, @shearic, @joshelman, @lissijean, @natalykogan, @tuckermattr, and @arjunsethi
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find that someone has guessed the private keys of some Ethereum users and siphoned off ~45,000 ether from their accounts; low entropy keys to blame — LAST SUMMER, ADRIAN Bednarek was mulling over ways to steal the cryptocurrency Ethereum. He's a security consultant; at the time … | Reuters: |
Samsung plans to invest $116B in its semiconductor division through 2030 to develop non-memory logic chips for use in self-driving cars and AI-enabled devices — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to invest $116 billion in non-memory chips through 2030 … | Rachelle Hampton / Slate: |
How a group of black women outed Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color in 2014, in what may have been a dry run for the 2016 misinformation campaign — Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color.
Tweets: @cjane87, @wesleylowery, @mckaycoppins, @jamilsmith, @yair_rosenberg, @heyydnae, @millicentsomer, @alexmleo, @aprilaser, @ericajoy, and @brooklynmarie
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 2,791 adult US Twitter users shows they are younger, more likely to be Democrats, and have higher incomes than US adults overall — U.S. adult Twitter users are younger and more likely to be Democrats than the general public. Most users rarely tweet, but the most prolific 10% create 80% of tweets from adult U.S. users
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| Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
Sources say Fortnite's growth led to months of intense crunch for Epic staff and contractors, and some are enduring an ongoing crunch to maintain game's success — Sources reveal long hours and intense pressure while working on hit game — In a dozen interviews conducted by Polygon …
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Tweets: @glitterbroker, @beckhallstedt, @russpitts, @moomanibe, @kuraine, @manuelaxibanya, @austin_walker, @rexsmeal, @videodante, and @toadsanime
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Ad-blocking browser Brave rolls out optional Brave Ads to desktop users, with users who opt in receiving 70% of the gross ad revenue in Basic Attention Tokens — Brave today rolled out Brave Ads, its digital advertising model, to desktop users in Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Hacker claims he can track and even turn vehicle engines off for some users of GPS tracker apps iTrack and ProTrack, which let users keep weak default passwords — “I can absolutely make a big traffic problem all over the world,” the hacker said. — A hacker broke into thousands …
Tweets: @josephfcox, @lorenzofb, @jason_koebler, and @mattrosoff
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Bond Capital, Mary Meeker's new growth equity VC firm that spun out from Kleiner Perkins, has secured $1.25B+ for its debut fund — Bond Capital, the growth equity firm spun out of Kleiner Perkins last year, has secured $1.25 billion in commitments for its debut fund, Axios has learned from a source.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Atlanta-based FullStory, which is building an analytics platform for user experiences, raises $32M Series C led by Stripes — FullStory, an Atlanta, Georgia-based software company developing a code analytics suite for digital customer experiences, today announced that it's raised $32 million …
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| Nicole Carpenter / Gizmodo: |
A look inside the creative streaming community on Twitch, which includes channels from musicians, knitters, makeup artists, scientists, and photographers — “Hi! I see you, but I'm focused on the reading right now. I can chat during the next break!" This message popped up on the stream …
Tweets: @sweetpotatoes and @kohquette
| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
Facebook tells UK MPs that New Zealand shooter's first-person video fooled its AI content detection, saying it was something “we had not seen before” — - Labour party lawmaker calls tech platforms a “cesspit” — Tech firms giving evidence on hate crime to U.K. panel| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Bumble says it will soon launch Private Detector, a feature that uses AI to automatically blur incoming lewd images and present blocking and reporting options — New York (CNN Business)On Bumble, lewd pictures will soon come with a warning. — The company, which launched …
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| New York Times: |
Japanese government and financial institutions are scrambling to update their software and IT systems to align with the imperial era calendar reset on May 1 — It isn't exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.
Tweets: @nytimes, @yukarisakamoto, @nytimestech, and @motokorich
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Docker and Arm announce a new partnership to help Docker developers more easily build apps for the Arm platform — Docker and Arm today announced a major new partnership that will see the two companies collaborate in bringing improved support for the Arm platform to Docker's tools.
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Microsoft has managed to dodge the Big Tech backlash, with its reputation improving since 2016 thanks to a methodical approach to thorny issues — The tech industry is feeling the pain of an unprecedented backlash over its business practices and broad impact on society … Sponsor Posts
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