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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils $799 Galaxy S21, $999 Galaxy S21 Plus, and $1,199 Galaxy S21 Ultra, available to preorder on January 14 and launching on January 29 — Samsung's latest flagships are here: the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The first two — which start at $799 and $999 …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy SmartTag, a $29.99 Tile competitor that works only with Samsung Galaxy devices, available on January 29 — It uses Bluetooth Low Energy and will arrive on January 29th — Alongside the new Galaxy S21 phones and Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is announcing …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Rick Osterloh / The Keyword: |
Google completes Fitbit acquisition, vows to protect users' privacy, says “deal has always been about devices, not data” — Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit. Together, we can make health and wellness more accessible to more people.
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year — AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers — Punchy news startup Axios is betting …
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| New York Times: |
Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection — Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them. — Mr. Thompson is a writer and editor in Opinion.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand — Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter but reflects a “failure” to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a tweetstorm that the company faced an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
A group of health and tech companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, says it is developing a digital COVID-19 vaccination “passport” — - A digital Covid vaccination passport is being jointly developed by a group of health and technology companies who anticipate that governments …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A leak of a near-final version of Windows 10X shows a strong similarity to Chrome OS, with the Start button centered on the taskbar, lack of Live Tiles, more — A new lightweight version of Windows to take on Chromebooks — After years of waiting, it looks like Microsoft now has a true answer to Chrome OS.
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
The far-right is flocking to MeWe, a privacy-focused Facebook alternative that has Tim Berners-Lee on its board, with membership growing to 15M in recent months — ‘Have you tried to moderate 15 million people?’ MeWe founder Mark Weinstein told OneZero — 'm an American who is sick …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs — The ContentFilterExclusionList has been removed in macOS 11.2 beta 2. — Apple has removed a controversial feature from the macOS operating system …
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| Mike Stone / Reuters: |
The Trump admin adds Xiaomi, along with 8 other Chinese firms, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, forcing US investors to divest by Nov. 11 — The Trump administration on Thursday added nine Chinese firms to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
BMW announces Digital Key Plus, a keyless access system that uses the UWB chip in iPhones to let users unlock select BMW cars without taking out their phones — Using the ultra wideband chip that debuted in the iPhone 11 — BMW has announced an upgraded version of its mobile car key technology dubbed Digital Key Plus.
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BMW Group, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Input, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and SlashGear
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
New research details iOS and Android issues that may allow third parties and law enforcement to access user data and suggests mitigation techniques — New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
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Input, securephones.io, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @z3r0trust and @wired
| Bloomberg: |
Netflix diversity report: women make up 47.1% of its global workforce; 8% of US staff are Black, more than 2x the share in 2017; 8.1% of employees are Hispanic — Netflix Inc. has made gains in adding women and minorities to its workforce over the past three years, vaulting it past Silicon Valley peers … | Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Medium is acquiring Glose, a digital platform for buying, reading, and discussing books; Glose's 20 employees, most of whom are based in Paris, will join Medium — New York (CNN Business)Substack has become synonymous with writers looking to go independent.
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| Bloomberg: |
Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with “dark patterns,” calls on regulators to investigate — - Public Citizen, others ask regulators to probe Prime rules — Report says manipulative techniques make it hard to opt out
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Cisco says it has struck a new deal to buy Acacia Communications for around $4.5B, boosting the original purchase price by 64% — Networking-equipment giant boosts purchase price by 64% in deal that values Acacia at about $4.5 billion — Cisco Systems Corp. said Thursday that it has struck …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Ring says it has fixed a security flaw in its Neighbors app that was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app — A security flaw in Ring's Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
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Tweets: @dellcam, @techjournalist, @zackwhittaker, and @alfredwkng
| Chris Sanders / Reuters: |
DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim to resign effective Jan 19, a day before the Biden administration takes over — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top antitrust official in the U.S. Justice Department, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, told the White House he will resign effective January 19 …
Tweets: @karlbode
| Jared Council / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM say it will acquire Taos, an IT firm that helps companies migrate from in-house servers to cloud infrastructure; terms of the deal were not disclosed — Deal marks latest step in IBM's mission to bring customers into cloud era, in which software and data are accessed online| Wall Street Journal: |
TSMC says it will raise capital expenditures to between $25B and $28B in 2021, an increase of at least 47% YoY — The world's biggest contract chip maker plans to boost capex by at least 47% in 2021 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. , a key chip supplier to Apple Inc. … | David Jeans / Forbes: |
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