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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Hands-on with Samsung's new S20 lineup: 120Hz refresh rate makes the screens stand out, the Ultra is significantly bigger, and the cameras are ambitious — If you were planning to buy a premium Android smartphone this year, you can rest easy knowing they'll all come with more or less the same things.
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Tweets: @samitsarkar, @andrewmartonik, @geoffreyfowler, and @rdrv3
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the 6.2" Galaxy S20, 6.7" Galaxy S20 Plus, and 6.9" Galaxy S20 Ultra, with starting prices ranging from $1,000 to $1,600, coming March 6 — Samsung has announced its latest flagship phones: the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, and Galaxy S20 Ultra.
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| Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: |
US officials claim Huawei has, for over a decade, been able to covertly access mobile-phone networks globally through back doors designed for law enforcement — Trump administration ramps up push for allies to block Chinese company — U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co … | Andrew Morse / CNET: |
Flipboard launches Flipboard TV, an in-app feature that offers professional short-form video, for $2.99/mo; will be a Galaxy S20 exclusive for first 3 months — Flipboard , the popular news aggregator app, is introducing a new subscription video service. Called Flipboard TV …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip with a foldable 6.7" FHD+ AMOLED display, 3,300 mAh battery, dual front-facing cameras, coming February 14 starting for $1,380 — Foldable phones still feel like a dream, but to kick off the 2020 smartphone season, Samsung is hoping to change that.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK proposes plans to put media regulator Ofcom in charge of regulating social media, with a focus on removing illegal content and minimizing “harmful” content — Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Malwarebytes detected 11 threats per endpoint for its Mac users in 2019, up from 4.8 threats per endpoint in 2018, while PCs saw 5.8 threats per endpoint — Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common.
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| John Detrixhe / Quartz: |
Research: Apple Pay makes up about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to double to 10% of such payments by 2025 — Future of Finance — New technology is upending everything in finance. — Apple's mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia says that Activision Blizzard has removed its catalog of games like Overwatch, WoW, and Call of Duty from Nvidia's cloud gaming service GeForce Now — A bad precedent for cloud gaming — Nvidia's GeForce Now feels like one of the very best ways to get a free taste of cloud gaming …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft shows how containerized and dual-screen apps will work in Windows 10X with a new emulator and SDK and also refreshes its Android-based Duo SDK — Microsoft is delivering its promised Windows 10X emulator and SDK, plus a refresh of its Android-based Duo SDK as its next milestones along its dual-screen device path.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI says it received 467,361 cybercrime complaints in 2019, with attacks involving business email compromise causing about half of the estimated $3.5B in losses — Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. — The FBI received 467,361 internet … | John Herrman / New York Times: |
Third-party sellers from China and other countries are flooding Amazon with thousands of new brands, overwhelming the USPTO as applications soar for trademarks — How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks. — Maybe it's cold, and you need some winter gloves.
Tweets: @abhabhattarai, @annehelen, and @profcarroll
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Registrars raise alarm over ICANN's plan to allow Verisign to raise .com TLD prices by 70% over the next decade, much higher than forecasted inflation in the US — Proposed contract allows Verisign to raise registration fees 7 percent per year. — Last week, ICANN announced that Verisign … | BBC: |
China launches an app that uses its vast surveillance network data to let users check if they have come into close contact with coronavirus carriers — China has launched an app that allows people to check whether they have been at risk of catching the coronavirus.
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| Hired: |
State of Software Engineers 2019: global demand for AR/VR engineers up by 1,400%, gaming developers up 146%, security engineers up 49% but slower than in 2018 — Overview — The worldwide process of digital transformation, while something of a buzzword, reflects a critical truth: every company is now a technology company.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination — In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them.
Tweets: @stevenlevy, @stevenlevy, @stevenlevy, and @stevenlevy
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases a Catalyst-based Swift Playgrounds app for the Mac, which was built from the existing iPad version of the app — Apple today released a Catalyst-based Swift Playgrounds app for the Mac, which was built from the existing Swift Playgrounds app for the iPad.
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Mac App Store, Apple Must, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @armadsen, @capttaco, @bigzaphod, and @gregheo
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Analysis: among the 10K most popular sites, right-leaning outlets placed 227 cookies in a user's browser, versus 131 for the left-leaning counterpart — One analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies than its left-wing counterpart.
Tweets: @wired, @nxthompson, and @janelytv
| Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Lyft reports Q4 revenue of $1.02B, up 52% YoY, an adjusted EBITDA loss of $130.7M vs $251.1M in Q4 2018, and 22.9M active riders, up 23% YoY — LYFT) reported fourth-quarter results that beat consensus expectations, topping $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time as riders grew more than expected.
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Lyft, Inc., CNBC, MarketWatch, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Wccftech, Business Insider, and CNET
Tweets: @ldignan and @yahoofinance
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
The T-Mobile + Sprint deal is good for you if you like paying more for your wireless plan — The Department of Justice has blessed /LightRocket via Getty Images Competition among the four big wireless carriers kept prices low for years. Now the Trump administration, along with a federal judge …
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| The Verge: |
A look at online coding program Lambda School, which lets students defer tuition payments until they have jobs, but that many say is costly and under-delivers — Students at Lambda School say the program hasn't delivered on its promise — Bethany Surber was sleeping on friends' couches … Sponsor Posts
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