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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Report: police sought Echo data with warrant in murder case; Amazon declined to share the data Echo logged on servers but did provide suspect's account details — Amazon's Echo devices and its virtual assistant are meant to help find answers by listening for your voice commands.
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Fort Smith/Fayetteville News, TechCrunch, The Information, Digital Trends, BuzzFeed, Slate, Ubergizmo, Mashable, USA Today, Newser, Fortune, New York Magazine, CNET, Robotics Trends, Android Central, Business Insider, GeekWire, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, BGR, International Business Times, and internetretailer.com
Tweets: @gigastacey, @zackwhittaker, @dannysullivan, @orinkerr, @reneritchie, and @zackwhittaker
| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Open source cross-platform video transcoder HandBrake updated to version 1.0.0 after 13 years of development — HandBrake 1.0.0, a new version of the popular open source cross-platform video converter, was released on December 24, 2016. — I reviewed HandBrake for the first time in the year 2007 …
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HandBrake, BetaNews, iClarified, Fossbytes, Slashdot, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, MacRumors, Softpedia News, Technology Personalized, Daring Fireball, Engadget, The Tech Report, 9to5Mac, Liliputing, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @donmelton and @robertheron
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok, Thailand falsely triggered by fake news reports about a bomb explosion, was deactivated after about an hour — There was no bomb scare in Thailand — Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network falsely activated its Safety Check feature …
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SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, Digital Trends, Engadget, Mashable, International Business Times, BGR, CNET, SiliconBeat, and The Independent
Tweets: @saksithcna, @richardbarrow, @verge, @jerometaylor, @thedextriarchy, and @jonrussell
See also Mediagazer| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Rent the Runway raises $60M Series E led by Fidelity, says this year was profitable as revenue grew to $100M+ — The company was profitable in 2016 on revenue north of $100 million. — In March, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman told Recode, “I think you need to assume it's impossible …
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Business Insider, and internetretailer.com
| Flurry Blog: |
44% of smartphone, tablet activations during week leading up to Christmas were iOS, down 5% YoY, 21% were Samsung devices; Pixel, Pixel XL not among top sellers — By: Chris Klotzbach, Director at Flurry and Lali Kesiraju, Marketing and Analytics Manager at Flurry
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CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, iMore, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, SocialTimes, ARC, and Patently Apple
| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Apple publishes an artificial intelligence paper for the first time, after recently promising to open up its AI research — Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial intelligence research community that the secretive company would start publishing AI papers of its own.
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arXiv.org, MacRumors, AppleInsider, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Fortune, iMore, InvestorPlace, Tech Times, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, TechCrunch, International Business Times, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @reza_zadeh. Thanks:@aatilley
| Reuters: |
Tencent, Chinese mapping firm NavInfo, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC buy 10% stake in digital maps company HERE — Chinese mapping firm NavInfo (002405.SZ), internet group Tencent (0700.HK) and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are buying a 10 percent stake in digital maps company HERE …
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HERE 360, Channel NewsAsia, VentureBeat, and Tech.eu
| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
T-Mobile rolls out update to Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones that prevents battery from charging, becoming the first major US carrier to do so — Samsung's previously announced plan to kill the battery in the remaining active Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US has begun.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Inside Snopes' increasingly prominent fact-checking operation, which added 12 staffers a couple of years ago and saw record ~2.5M uniques the day after election — SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of … | Wall Street Journal: |
World's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater, is building an algorithmic model to recreate founder's staff-management style, led by ex-IBM Watson's David Ferrucci — Bridgewater wants day-to-day management—hiring, firing, decision-making—to be guided by software that doles out instructions
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SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @matt_levine, @mathbabedotorg, @eiaine, @awealthofcs, @willmenaker, @gerardtbaker, and @jyarow
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Obama urges the end of the “dual hat” arrangement where US Cyber Command and NSA are led by the same person — With weeks to go in his tenure, President Obama on Friday moved to end the controversial “dual-hat” arrangement under which the National Security Agency …
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| Kevin McCoy / USA Today: |
Three Chinese citizens charged in US for computer intrusion, insider trading, and more, after allegedly trading on info obtained by hacking a law firm — Chinese traders hacked into the computer systems of U.S. law firms that handle mergers, then used the data for insider trading that generated …
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