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Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip — Samsung's next foldable should be coming this month — Samsung's next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online.
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
UK startup Exscientia and a Japanese pharmaceutical firm claim to have created the first human trial-ready drug using AI, which took under a year to develop — An OCD drug created via AI will be tested on humans. — The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has lowered his iPhone shipment forecast by 10 percent to 36-40 million units in the first quarter of 2020 …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU — Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos …
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| Andrea Noble / Route Fifty: |
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: @glenngabe, @scottthurm, @tsimonite, @gregoryjbarber, and @nxthompson
| Peter Eavis / New York Times: |
WeWork names commercial real estate veteran Sandeep Mathrani as its new CEO; SoftBank's Marcelo Claure will continue as WeWork's executive chairman — Sandeep Mathrani, a senior real estate executive, will take over the operator of shared office space, which was on the brink of financial collapse last year.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Founding president of the Internet Association, Michael Beckerman, to step down after eight years and join TikTok as VP of US public policy in March — The president of tech trade group the Internet Association is stepping down to run TikTok's Washington policy shop, the organizations said Friday.| 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.| 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.| 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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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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