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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook cancels its F8 developer conference amid growing concerns around COVID-19, says it is planning “locally hosted events” and livestreamed content instead — Facebook said Thursday it's cancelling its annual F8 developers conference, the social media giant's biggest event of the year …
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Developer News, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, Vox, Protocol, CNBC, Ars Technica, BGR, Variety, TechRepublic, The Hill, Fortune, Hollywood Reporter, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, Thurrott, ZDNet, Silicon Valley Business …, The Next Web, VRFocus, Digital Trends, OnMSFT.com, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, USA Today, TheStreet, Mashable, NBC Bay Area, Reclaim The Net, and Houston Chronicle
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| Carli Velocci / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says it will not attend Game Developers Conference due to coronavirus concerns and will make sessions and experiences available in a digital event — The move follows Sony, Facebook, and Unity. — What you need to know — Microsoft Game Stack announced it's pulling out of GDC due to coronavirus concerns.
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Microsoft Developer, Unity Technologies Blog, Digital Trends, The Guardian, TechCrunch, IGN, International Business Times, TechSpot, Engadget, VICE, SlashGear, Destructoid, Android Central, GamesIndustry.biz, VRFocus, USgamer.net, Neowin, Gizmodo, CNET, GamingBolt, Hollywood Reporter, Stevivor, Wccftech, Kotaku, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @domsplaying, @tomwarren, and @megan_nicolett
| BuzzFeed News: |
Docs show Best Buy and Walmart, alongside ICE, DOJ, and FBI, are among the 2,200+ companies and law enforcement agencies listed as clients of Clearview AI — The United States' main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy's …
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Washington Post, TechCrunch, CNET, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, BuzzFeed, Fight for the Future, WeLiveSecurity, Dark Reading, The Daily Dot, HackRead, Input, Tech.co, Security Boulevard, ComputerWeekly.com, BBC, and All Systems Go
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard with a built-in trackpad, likely with the next version of the iPad Pro, later this year — Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard accessory later this year that will include a built-in trackpad, the latest step in its effort …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, Six Colors, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Yahoo Finance, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, SlashGear, MACお宝 …, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Wccftech, Mashable, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, and iMore
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: FCC proposes fining AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon at least $200M in total for improperly disclosing some real-time location data of users — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is set to propose fining four major U.S. mobile phone companies …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers find an Android malware strain Cerberus that can extract and steal one-time passwords generated by Google's Authenticator mobile app — A new version of the “Cerberus” Android banking trojan will be able to steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA-protected accounts.
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ThreatFabric, Android Headlines, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Gizchina, Wccftech, Tom's Guide, and BleepingComputer
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| Maddie Stone / OneZero : |
Researchers argue that fear of rising data center usage, accounting for 1% of global electricity demand, is overblown and will be offset by improved efficiency — Researchers argue that new technology and greater efficiency could offset energy demands — The climate impact of the data centers …
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New York Times, Science, Wired, The Keyword, and Quartz
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart plans to start publicly testing a membership program called Walmart+ as soon as next month to compete with Amazon Prime — Walmart has struggled to keep up with Amazon's online dominance for years. Javier Zarracina/Vox — Amazon Prime has devastated traditional retail.
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CNBC, Gizmodo, 9to5Toys, CNET, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, TechSpot, Mashable, and Input
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says TikTok is “fundamentally parasitic”, “always listening,” and its fingerprinting technology is “truly terrifying” — TikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app …
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USA Today, The Verge, Input, Tubefilter, and TechSpot
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| Let's Encrypt: |
Let's Encrypt says it has issued 1B free TLS certificates on around 192M unique domains in the four years since its launch — We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We're going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event.
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Ars Technica, ZDNet, and Neowin
Tweets: @umengineering, @stshank, @troyhunt, @gcluley, and @patrickbeuth
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience, claiming it paid app developers to install its SDK in their apps so it could harvest data on Facebook users — Data analytics firm OneAudience allegedly paid app developers to include its SDK in their code so it could harvest data from Facebook users.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
DocuSign acquires Seal Software, which develops AI-powered contract discovery and management software, for $188M in cash — Note: This article was updated post-publication with comments from DocuSign — Today, DocuSign announced it would acquire Seal Software, which develops AI-powered contract discovery …
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ZDNet, PR Newswire, San Francisco Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, GeekWire, LAW.com, and IT Management. Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
Senate passes bill that bans the government from purchasing Huawei and ZTE equipment, funds small telecoms to replace equipment; bill heads to Trump for signing — The Senate unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would ban the use of federal funds to purchase telecommunications equipment …
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South China Morning Post, CNET, Politico, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @benktallmadge
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash announces it has confidentially filed documents for an IPO with the SEC — Food delivery service DoorDash announced Thursday it has taken a first step toward a public offering. — DoorDash said it has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, Crunchbase News, and Silicon Valley Business …
Tweets: @rurikbradbury, @lamonicabuzz, @aaronwall, @rakeshlobster, @aaronwall, @jyarow, and @bplewis
| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Google officially adds support for Google Earth on Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers, and says it is working on adding support for Safari — When Google unveiled the new Google Earth back in 2017, it switched Google Earth from being a desktop application to a web application.
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Google Earth and Earth Engine, The Verge, Engadget, OnMSFT.com, SlashGear, Windows Central, and Input
Tweets: @googleearth, @unoplatform, @googleoss, and @twone2
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Two veteran Apple execs are retiring, both with backgrounds in manufacturing and operations and with key roles in the production of major devices — - Company's vice president of manufacturing design departs — Operations executive who worked on iPhone discussing exit| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTube says it is testing a way for creators to sell ads directly to brands “with whom they already have a relationship” — In the perhaps not-too-distant future, YouTube will let creators sell ad space on their own videos. — “We're experimenting with a new way for creators … | Gideon Lichfield / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at IBM and Google's efforts to build a practical quantum computer, as Google chases quantum supremacy as a milestone while IBM chases “quantum advantage” — IBM thinks quantum supremacy is not the milestone we should care about. — Rigetti Computing / Justin Fantl
Tweets: @inakib
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
VMware reports Q4 revenue of $3.07B, up 11% YoY, subscription and SaaS revenue up 14% YoY, but misses expectations, stock down 6% after hours — However, shares fell in after-hours trading as Q4 earnings fell below expectations. — VMware crossed a new revenue threshold in fiscal year 2020 …
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SiliconANGLE and ZDNet
| New York Times: |
Pakistan to review new internet censorship rules after a group representing Facebook, Google, and Twitter writes a letter threatening to leave the country — The battle is the latest skirmish between internet companies and governments over who decides what content should be online.
Tweets: @vindugoel, @salmanmasood, and @zalmayzia
| Baidu Inc: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenue of $4.15B, up 6% YoY, and iQIYI revenue of $1.08B, up 7% YoY; iQIYI subscribers grew to 106.9M and membership revenue grew 21% YoY — Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) ("Baidu" or the “Company"), a leading search engine, knowledge and information centered Internet platform and AI company …
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: 120Hz screen is nice and battery life is good but the main camera often acts like a first-gen product with first-gen problems — A new-generation camera with first-generation problems — Samsung has something to prove. — That's the most obvious feeling …
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Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Droid Life, Financial Times, Android Authority, 9to5Google, and Android Police
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