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Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event, where Galaxy S10 and Fold successors are expected, will be held on February 11 in San Francisco — The Galaxy S11 (or is it S20?) is fast-approaching, and Samsung always announces its new S-series flagship phones in February or March.
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| Matthew Haag / New York Times: |
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are expected to have a combined 20,000 workers in New York City by 2022, mostly concentrated along Manhattan's West Side — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in New York City, many in offices on the West Side.
Tweets: @astuttaford, @sengianaris, @mdbergfeld, @conorsen, @martin_casado, @shawndubravac, @ceonyc, @sigalow, @arpitrage, @curtislee, @joshsternberg, @carnage4life, @mdrc_news, and @tomdale
| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
100K+ leaked Cambridge Analytica docs show the Facebook data scandal was part of a broad operation in 68 countries involving governments, intel agencies, more — Company's work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents — An explosive leak of tens of thousands …
Tweets: @cindyotis_, @profcarroll, @guyverhofstadt, @stevesilberman, @mikercarpenter, and @peterjukes
| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Crypto in 2020s: at least one blockchain will reach 1B users, a separate world of fully-decentralized, little-regulated crypto-to-crypto innovation will emerge — Yesterday I recapped the last decade in crypto. Today, let's look ahead to the future and what I think will happen in the 2020s.
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| Brian Armstrong / The Coinbase Blog: |
Crypto in 2010s: Bitcoin survived and became the best performing asset of the decade, exchanges captured most of the value, crypto became a regulated industry — It was December of 2010 when I first read the Bitcoin whitepaper, while at home visiting my parents for the holidays.
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
US limits the export of geospatial imagery software that may be used to automate the process of identifying targets; industry feared a much broader crackdown — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part …
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| Danielle Morrill: |
Sam Altman loses 2015 bet against a tech bubble, as 1 of the 3 portfolios failed to achieve its proposed valuation by Jan. 1, 2020, will give $100K to a charity — In 2015, Sam Altman wrote a post titled “Bubble Talk” which lamented the “boring reading” of ongoing press coverage of a bubble …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Report: GCHQ is investigating the possibility that the London Stock Exchange outage in August may have been due to a cyberattack, not a software update glitch — UK officials are worried that a London Stock Exchange outage in August wasn't just the glitch that many suspected.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
A decade after debut, Chrome OS seems to have stalled out, as the future of the web “catching up” to make Chromebook a true laptop seems as remote as ever — Nearly ten years ago, Google shipped an unassuming, totally unbranded laptop to a large group of journalists and tech enthusiasts …
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| Rosalind Adams / BuzzFeed News: |
How some people in Japan are finding comfort through companion robots like Sony's robot dog Aibo, which is designed to show and respond to emotions — TOKYO — It was before 10 a.m. on a gray summer Sunday, but already a small crowd had gathered outside Penguin Café at the end of a block in residential Tokyo.| Dan Wang: |
Trade war exposed the fragility of China's technology foundations, which will persist in short and medium-term but will likely be resolved in the long-term — Following the twists and turns of the trade war meant that I had less time for personal writing this year, so this letter is the only piece I'll publish.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
TypingDNA raises $7M Series A led by Google's Gradient Ventures for its service that enables companies to identify people by how they type — TypingDNA, a four-year-old, 18-person startup that was founded in Bucharest, Romania and more recently moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York …
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