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What to expect at MWC 2017: LG G6, Huawei P10, Huawei Watch 2, Blackberry “Mercury”, Moto G5 & G5 Plus, Nokia phones, Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, and a Sony flagship — So many new phones — It's time for the annual trip to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2017.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
TCL debuts $549 BlackBerry KeyOne with hardware keyboard, Snapdragon 625, 4.5-inch 1620x1080 display, and Android 7.1; phone ships “as early as” April — BlackBerry's “hail mary” just went official, the BlackBerry “KeyOne.” Previously referred to as the “Mercury,” … | George Dvorsky / Gizmodo: |
Study finds Wikipedia bots often undo each other's edits, engage in years-long editing wars — Revision wars on Wikipedia amongst human editors is an all-too-common occurrence, but new research from the UK shows that similar online battles are being waged between the site's software robots.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai plans to halt rule that would require ISPs to protect the security of their customers' personal information — FCC chair plans to halt security rule and set up vote to kill privacy regime. — The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
EFF: Half of web traffic is now encrypted — Half of the web's traffic is now encrypted, according to a new report from the EFF released this week. The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, including recent moves from major tech companies to implement HTTPS on their own properties.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app, on April 17, will make app read-only on March 3 — After nine months of existence, Google is throwing in the towel on group messaging app Spaces. It's going read-only on March 3rd and will be completely offline on April 17th.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Bigscreen, an app that enables people to use their computer desktops in VR while communicating in a shared virtual space, raises $3M led by a16z — Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from “Tier 1” VC firms.
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
International Telecommunication Union announces 5G specs: 20Gbps download, 1ms latency, support for up to 1M devices per square kilometer — The total download capacity for a single 5G cell must be at least 20Gbps, the International Telcommunication Union (ITU) has decided.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Misconfigured backup drive at New York's Stewart International Airport exposed highly sensitive data to the public internet for almost a year — Exclusive: The files included gigabytes of emails, sensitive government files, and a password list, which researchers say could give hackers ‘full access’ to the airport's systems.
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
YouTube has attracted little scrutiny for hosting and rewarding creators of fake news, conspiracy theories, and hate speech — David Seaman is the Pizzagate King of the Internet. — On Twitter, Seaman posts dozens of messages a day to his 66,000 followers, often about the secret cabal …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twitter opens up Periscope Producer to all users; the service lets broadcasters incorporate live video from sources other than their mobile device — After four months of being slowly released, Twitter announced that its Periscope Producer service is now available to everyone … | New York Times: |
Sources: autonomous Uber was driving itself when it ran a red light in San Francisco, though Uber claimed “human error” — The suit, brought by the autonomous car business Waymo, accuses Uber and a star engineer, Anthony Levandowski, of planning to steal trade secrets. — April 22, 2064
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare fixes bug active since September 2016 that leaked private user info, says search engine caches have now been cleared of sensitive information — Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens. — Cloudflare, a service that helps optimize …
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