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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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44% of global smartphone and tablet activations from December 19-25 were iOS, down 5% YoY, while 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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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
South Korea's antitrust regulator fines Qualcomm $850M+, says firm forced phone makers to pay royalties for too broad a set of patents on modem chip sales — South Korea's antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc 1.03 trillion won ($854 million) …
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
As the list of SV startup scandals grows, entrepreneurs' “fake it till you make it” ethos garners continued scrutiny from reporters, while investors defend bets — As the list of startup scandals grows, it's time to ask whether entrepreneurs are taking “fake it till you make it” too far.
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| Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Lenovo updates Thinkpad lineup with Microsoft Precision TouchPad drivers, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C, Intel Optane SSD support, unveils Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks — Today Lenovo is announcing a refresh of most of its ThinkPad lineup, and although the model numbers have only changed a bit …
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| 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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Three Chinese citizens charged in US for computer intrusion, insider trading, and more, after allegedly trading on information obtained by hacking law firms — Chinese traders hacked into the computer systems of U.S. law firms that handle mergers, then used the data for insider trading …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Online dress rental service 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 …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Ford debuts upgraded self-driving car with extra compute power, better vision despite now having two LiDAR sensors; plans to triple fleet to 90 vehicles in 2017 — Ford has developed a new generation of autonomous development vehicle, a hybrid Fusion that uses the same essential platform … | Rachel Becker / The Verge: |
FDA publishes new cybersecurity guidelines for securing medical devices, but the recommendations lack enforceability — The FDA outlined how medical device manufacturers should ward off cyberattacks, but didn't include plans for enforcement — Today, the US Food and Drug Administration released … | 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.| 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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