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FCC approves $20.4B Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to deploy rural broadband but Democratic FCC commissioners warn it won't help many areas that need internet — In this April 30, 2015 photo, Sylvia Fonseca, 16, works in the computer lab at Cuyama Valley High School in California.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers — Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software.
Tweets: @scottthurm, @gregoryjbarber, @tsimonite, and @nxthompson
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Kenya's high court temporarily suspended a national biometric ID program until laws are enacted to protect data and safeguard minorities from discrimination — The biometric system was challenged in court over privacy concerns, and fears that it could exclude millions from accessing public services.| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
West Virginia governor to sign a bill that would allow voters with physical disabilities to vote via smartphone in 2020, becoming the first US state to do so — Cybersecurity experts have long railed against voting apps, saying that any kind of online voting unnecessarily increases security risks.
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Ajit Pai says FCC has concluded “that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law” by selling user location data and will consider fines — More than a year after a Motherboard investigation revealed that wireless carriers were collecting and selling user location data …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Behind the revival of Dubsmash, an app that lets users post lip sync and dance videos that now has 27% of the US short-form video market share by installs — The loud app that quietly hit 1 billion monthly views — Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death.
Tweets: @dennishegstad, @sacca, and @joshconstine
| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Roku says it has settled its carriage dispute with Fox to distribute Fox channels on the Roku platform ahead of the Super Bowl — At midnight tonight, it was expected that Roku would remove the FOX Now, FOX Sports, FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Nation, Big 10 Network, and FOX Soccer apps from the Roku Channel Store and existing devices.
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| Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg: |
Yandex launches a new online service in Moscow called Lavka, which delivers orders in 15 minutes using bike couriers and small warehouses spread across the city — In Moscow, online orders delivered in just 15 minutes by bicycle signal what the future of shopping may hold.
Tweets: @cristinagberta, @leonidragozin, @csertoglu, @evangershkovich, and @matt_townsend
| Sanam Yar / New York Times: |
A look at MSCHF, a group behind viral stunts like an astrology app to pick stocks or “holy water” sneakers, which has raised ~$11.5M in funding since fall — Gabriel Whaley and his colleagues do whatever they want all day. Sometimes, they even make money.
Tweets: @dgisserious, @mikkipedia, @nytstyles, and @jenn_rtr
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based InterviewBit, which offers an online computer science program and lets its students pay part of the fee after getting a job, raises $20M Series A — InterviewBit, a Bangalore-based startup that runs an advanced online computer science program for college graduates … | IDC: |
Global tablet shipments declined 1.5% YoY to 144.1M units in 2019; Apple's shipments grew 15.2% YoY to 49.9M units during the year — The worldwide tablet market declined 0.6% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19) as global shipments fell to 43.5 million units …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple's performance in 2019 across hardware, software, and services is rated and critiqued by a 65-person panel, including writers, developers, and podcasters — It's time for our annual look back on Apple's performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors …
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