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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 …
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Sprint buys 33% of Jay Z's TIDAL streaming music service, will offer it to its 45M customers; Jay Z and the artist-owners will continue to run TIDAL — 212-827-3753 … Global music and entertainment platform TIDAL and Sprint (NYSE: S) announced today an unprecedented partnership …
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See also Mediagazer| 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.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyond will run Android apps — The Play Store is on its way to even more Chromebooks. — Less than a year ago, Google announced that the Play Store and Android apps would be supported on Chromebooks. Now the company has made this feature a guarantee …
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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.| 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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See also Mediagazer| 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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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's smart home brand Nest expands to Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain — As Amazon, Apple and others tee up smart home strategies with apps, hubs and new devices, Google is also turning up the temperature, so to speak, on its own ambitions. Today, Nest — the smart home business … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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