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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 … | John Detrixhe / Quartz: |
Research: Apple Pay makes up about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to double that share 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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9to5Mac, The Next Web, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @grady_booch
| 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
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago — WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
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| Financial Times: |
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two South Asian telecom providers for using disinformation against rivals — South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east …
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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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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
The FTC is asking Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft about acquisitions from the past decade that were small enough to not be reported to the gov't — FTC to review acquisitions made by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — The Federal Trade Commission …
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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 … | 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content — Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.| 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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| Bloomberg: |
The number of companies skipping MWC over coronavirus keeps rising, with Facebook, AT&T, Cisco, Sony, Intel, Amazon, Nvidia, and MediaTek among those missing it — - Organizers meet Friday to discuss situation and plan response — Event draws more than 100,000 visitors from across the world
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| 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
| 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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Windows Blog, The Verge, Microsoft Docs, Windows Central, PCWorld, Softpedia News, WinBuzzer, TechRadar.com, The Register, and Neowin
Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @stevesi, @stroughtonsmith, @maryjofoley, @thurrott, and @maryjofoley
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
PredictHQ, which aggregates data sets from public sources to help companies forecast demand for their services, raises $22M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures — PredictHQ, a company that aggregates data sets from myriad events and public holidays to help companies forecast demand for their services … | Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based CybelAngel, which helps companies manage digital risk in real time, raises €32.9M Series B, bringing its total raised to €47.6M — French startup CybelAngel, a digital risk management startup, has today announced closing a €32.9 million Series B funding round …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Profile of DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim who has been privately telling people to expect a criminal antitrust case in Silicon Valley in the next few months — As Hollywood scales up to battle big tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer) … | 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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ABC News, TechSpot, Telecoms.com, CNBC, South China Morning Post, Xinhua News Agency, Neowin, TechNode, Business Insider, Fast Company, Futurism, The Hill, Telegraph, Digital Trends, and CNET
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