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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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Tweets: @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @thisistechtoday, @ronamadeo, @jdolcourt, @dlberes, and @ronamadeo
| 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.
| 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: @arpitrage, @astuttaford, @sengianaris, @mdbergfeld, @conorsen, @martin_casado, @shawndubravac, @ceonyc, @sigalow, @curtislee, @joshsternberg, @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
| 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 …
Tweets: @zachgins, @balajis, @synopsi, @sama, @vivekraju93, @nongaap, @triketora, and @sama
| 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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| The Verge: |
What to expect at CES 2020: 5G phones, 4K HDR TVs and HDMI 2.1, dual-screen laptops, gaming CPUs, smart home devices, game consoles, and more — CES will have a lot of little companies taking big swings — In 2020, this is what to expect in the world of consumer tech: the best stuff is going to get more powerful and more premium.
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Tweets: @bleedsixcolors and @thurrott
| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Following US assassination of Iran's Soleimani, newly created Twitter and Instagram accounts are spreading many thousands of pro-Iranian hashtags and messages — The U.S. drone strike that killed Iran's top security and intelligence commander also triggered a wave of social media propaganda apparently meant …
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Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed News, and CNN
Tweets: @ironnetcyber, @buzzfeednewsuk, @eilah_tan, @cnn, @riosjose559, @bpopken, @jeffstone500, @simink_, and @thepacketrat
| Flavie Halais / Wired: |
A look at how cities around the world have been experimenting with app-based on-demand bus services, often with little success — Helsinki, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Singapore, and other metros have been experimenting with on-demand buses—and not seeing a lot of success.
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Radical Urbanist. Tweets: @medicalquack, @smartgrowthusa, @ofsevit, @stephawade, @canonleonardo, @hypervisible, @humantransit, @marylgray, and @meikasue
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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