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Sources: Apple plans to fund original, exclusive podcasts and has reached out to media companies, in a bid to compete with Spotify — - Tech giant looks to use exclusives to compete with Spotify — Company has recently added new Podcasts Mac app, web interface
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Neuralink, which has received $158M in funding including $100M from Elon Musk, hopes to begin testing its brain-computer interface on humans by Q2 of 2020 — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk aspires to make inserting a computer connection into your brain as safe and painless as Lasik eye surgery.
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Tweets: @adammarblestone, @antonioregalado, @backlon, @bwjones, @seanmcarroll, and @business
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Highlights from the Senate hearing with Facebook's David Marcus on the proposed Libra cryptocurrency, and what was left unanswered — Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets …
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Tweets: @1markmoss, @davidealgebris, @adamthierer, and @ryan_browne_
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Four of the seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company — FOUR OF THE seven Google employees who organized a 20,000-person walkout in November have resigned from the company, including two women who claimed Google retaliated against them for their internal activism.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sprint says hackers had access to customers' names, billing, device details, and more via Samsung's website, fails to disclose the number affected — Hackers had access to customer info such as names, billing, device details, and more. — US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke …
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CNET, Android Central, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, BGR, SecurityWeek, The Register, Digital Trends, TechSpot, The Verge, and PhoneArena. Tweets: @metacert
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says it is sending out another silent update for macOS to fix a webcam vulnerability affecting apps using Zoom's tech including RingCentral and Zhumu — RingCentral and Zhumu are now patched — Apple informed us that it has sent out a silent security update to Macs to remove software …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear, Engadget, Insanely Great Mac, iPhone Hacks, DISPLAYBLOG, iDownloadBlog.com, Appleosophy, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and BuzzFeed News. Tweets: @karanlyons
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years — PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle.
Tweets: @eff, @imhassan, and @quatrainman
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers shed light on how WeChat censors images in private chats automatically in real time by using a massive and growing index of MD5 cryptographic hashes — The super app instantly blocks even the images for over 1 billion users and growing. — WeChat is a window into the future of the internet in many different ways.| Reuters: |
Review of 33 high-profile blockchain projects within the financial sector and interviews with execs shows the limitations of blockchain and its weak adoption — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years ago Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) announced a new blockchain system they said would make payments …
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TechRepublic, The Block, and ETHNews
Tweets: @annairrera, @davidgerard, @mjasay, @reuters, @pmylund, @_johnwhelan, and @ericvanm
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatens to “take a look” at Google for alleged China ties, in a tweet that cited claims Peter Thiel made at a conference and repeated on Fox News — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to threaten that his administration would “take a look” at Google …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps will now show bike-sharing station information on Android and iOS in 23 new cities globally, more than a year after debuting the feature in NYC — Google Maps is bringing bike-sharing station information to global markets from today, more than a year after first debuting the feature in New York City.
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The Keyword, Digital Trends, The Verge, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, 9to5Google, and Engadget
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Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, says all future releases of its 1,500 active US titles will be “digital first” and updated on an ongoing basis — The world's largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing out print books by making all its learning resources “digital first”.
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Bloomberg, Inside Higher Ed, Financial Times, Forbes, The Times & The Sunday Times, Sky News, CBS News, US News, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Guardian, CNBC, Reuters, NBC News, and EdSurge
Tweets: @barlowjk, @ibd_ecarson, @janiswong_, @tombennett71, @rkelchen, @bergmayer, @billmickey, and @trengriffin
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Unwarranted health fears about wireless tech can be traced to a scientist's flawed report in 2000 that failed to account for the shielding effect of human skin — How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology. — In 2000, the Broward County Public Schools …
Tweets: @martinsfp and @jswatz
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google has banned Chinese app developer CooTek from its ad platforms and Play Store, removing 60+ CooTek Android apps for bombarding users with disruptive ads — Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded Chinese app developer, from its Play store and ad platforms after BuzzFeed News …
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TechNode, SlashGear, KrASIA, Pandaily, and The Verge
Tweets: @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC authorizes funding for ISPs to provide broadband access for 220,000+ unserved rural homes and businesses in 24 states as part of the Connect America Fund — Tens of millions of Americans still don't have broadband Internet. — More than 220,000 unserved rural homes and businesses … | European Commission: |
The European Commission launches a formal antitrust investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct by Amazon in its dual role as marketplace and retailer — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data …
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Business Insider, The Irish Times, The Verge, CNN, CNBC, and Thurrott
| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Finix, a payments infrastructure platform that lets companies own and control their payment processing, raises $17.5M Series A led by Bain Capital — In the U.S., electronic payments is a highly regulated business whose esoteric ins and outs can make your eyes glaze over.
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PR Newswire, Finix, Crunchbase News, Crowdfund Insider, and FinSMEs
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