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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 …
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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.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
BigID, which helps monitor and protect enterprise customers' data, raises $50M Series D, four months after a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $144M — Almost exactly 4 months to the day after BigID announced a $50 million Series C, the company was back today with another $50 million round.| Ians / Livemint: |
Apple recovered in India in 2019 after a sharp decline in 2018, and 2020 could be Apple's strongest year yet in the country due to a stronger device portfolio — - With the first-ever flagship retail store would give Apple a booster in the price-sensitive smartphone market in 2020, say industry experts
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon strikes long-term partnership with India's second largest retail chain, Future Retail, to sell its goods on Amazon India marketplace — Amazon is deepening its relationship with India's second largest retail chain, Future Retail, as the e-commerce giant widens its footprint in one of its key overseas markets.
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