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Samsung says original Note7 fires were caused by design flaws in one supplier's battery, second supplier introduced manufacturing defects after first recall — The company opens up about the source of one of history's worst tech product recalls. — Sure, blame the batteries. But it's not quite that simple.
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Thanks:@rogerwcheng| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung says it won't unveil Galaxy S8 smartphone at Mobile World Congress, suggesting the flagship may launch later than last year's version — Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will not unveil its Galaxy S8 smartphone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show this year … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Hugo Barra steps down as international vice president at Xiaomi, will remain an advisor, and return to the US — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is losing its head of international and primary English-language spokesperson Hugo Barra after he announced his exit from the company.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
WSJ: SEC is investigating whether Yahoo should have disclosed company's data breaches sooner — Yahoo is facing an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to its failure to promptly disclose to investors information about the two massive data breaches the company revealed last year.
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| Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology: |
Open letter signed by ~70 security experts calls for The Guardian to retract story about alleged WhatsApp backdoor vulnerability — You recently published a story with the alarming headline “WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages.” This story included the phrasing “security loophole”.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers at Google, OpenAI, MIT, and other organizations say they are making progress on automating the development of AI software using AI software — Progress in artificial intelligence causes some people to worry that software will take jobs such as driving trucks away from humans.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple sues Qualcomm for ~$1B, says Qualcomm charged royalties for tech the chip giant didn't invent, retaliated for Apple's cooperation in Korean antitrust case — Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.”
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| Logan Booker / Gizmodo Australia: |
ASUS launches $73 Tinker Board, a Raspberry Pi competitor with 4K video, gigabit Ethernet, quad-core processor, and more, available in Europe and UK — It doesn't matter if you want a computer the size of a card, a thumb drive or dice box — there's a manufacturer out there that has you covered.| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for errors migrating @POTUS followers, says the issues, which affected about 560K people, have been fixed — People are a bit on edge at the moment when it comes to being forced to do things by now-President Donald Trump.
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| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Lavabit email service, which shut down in 2013 to avoid court order connected to Snowden investigation, relaunches with features to thwart surveillance — In 2013, Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit, took the defiant step of shutting down the company's service rather …
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| Tony Yoo / Business Insider Australia: |
Australia-based employee management software firm Deputy raises $25M Series A from OpenView; Deputy says it has 28K clients, including Amazon, Nike, and NASA — Sydney employee management software startup Deputy has scored $US25 million in series A funding from US venture firm OpenView.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Weekly builds of CyanogenMod fork Lineage OS, supporting 80+ Android 6 and 7 devices, begin this weekend; Lineage OS to offer CyanogenMod data migration tools — CyanogenMod has long been the most popular custom ROM, covering a wide array of devices from numerous manufacturers.
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