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During record-breaking holiday, Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were #1 and #2 top sellers with “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” sold — Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote were the #1 and #2 top-selling products across all categories on Amazon
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
San Jose-based Energous, which is developing wireless charging tech that works from three feet away, says the FCC has approved its product, set for debut at CES — Charging your mobile device wirelessly is certainly less of a hassle than plugging it in, but still requires the device …
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Tweets: @jowens510, @pogue, and @rustybrick
| Flurry Blog: |
44% of global smartphone and tablet activations from December 19-25 were iOS, same as last year, while 26% were Samsung devices, up 5% YoY — 2017 was another marquee year for smartphone sales and innovation with the introduction and evolution of manufacturers' flagship devices …
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9to5Mac, International Business Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, info.localytics.com, MacRumors, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Rick Webb / NewCo Shift: |
The vision of internet pioneers that a globally connected, transparent world with free access to information is inevitably good turned out to be wrong — I'm sorry I was wrong. We all were. Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head.
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Politico, Beyond Search, Gizmodo, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Tweets: @carnage4life, @rozzie, @tomcoates, @jacksmithiv, @mjgault, @cindygallop, @moorehn, @a_w_gordon, @adrjeffries, @nicknotned, and @anildash
| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo has told Switch developers it's delaying release of 64GB game cards from second half of 2018 to 2019, potentially limiting top-tier games — The company had expected to make the cards available in the second half of next year — TOKYO—Nintendo Co. told outside game developers …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, Engadget, BGR, SlashGear, Kotaku, Mashable, NDTV Gadgets 360, Tom's Guide, Polygon, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @bryfitz, @jonporty, @mochi_wsj, @mochi_wsj, and @ow
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
iPhone X's Face ID inexplicably can't approve family purchases as Touch ID could, requiring users to enter their passwords — Touch ID could be used before, but iPhone X owners must enter their passwords. — iPhone X owners have found that Face ID isn't available as an authentication method for the … | Rick Tetzeli / Fortune: |
History shows Apple's success since 1998 has rarely hinged on initial designs but on innovation and improvement over time — A generation of peerless products made Apple the world's most valuable company. Now some in the i-universe are questioning if the magic—in the post-Steve Jobs era—is still there.
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9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @stevesi, @neilcybart, and @mrinaldesai
| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
US Library of Congress will no longer archive the text of every tweet, will instead archive tweets on a “very selective basis”; the archive has yet to go online — The Library of Congress just announced some changes to its long-running plan to archive all of Twitter.
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Library of Congress Blog, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Recode, TechCrunch, ABC News, Ubergizmo, and Engadget
Tweets: @raffi, @john_overholt, @dancohen, @mhintzesq, @eiratansey, @jessienyc, @palewire, and @raju
| Dave Smith / Business Insider: |
HQ Trivia arrives on Android in limited beta and says its goal is full availability by January 1 — - The app's makers say they are working to get HQ Trivia in the hands of all Android users on January 1, 2018. — HQ Trivia, the hottest iPhone game of 2017, previously said it would release an Android version in time for Christmas.
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, International Business Times, Droid Life, and AndroidHeadlines.com
Tweets: @hqtrivia and @kantrowitz
| Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Safran, which sells fingerprint-analysis software used by FBI, 18K+ US law enforcement agencies, didn't disclose some code was from Kremlin-linked firm — In a secret deal, a French company purchased code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software …
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The Hill, ExtremeTech, Ubergizmo, HackRead, Gizmodo, bellingcat, Washington Post, Washington Post, and Axios
| David Kline / Wired: |
How Xiaomi's investment in 100 startups making cheap connected gadgets like air purifiers and rice cookers, sold in new Mi Home Stores, helped firm's turnaround — A YEAR AGO, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi (sha-oh-me) had fallen from the world's most valuable unicorn to a “unicorpse.”
Tweets: @alexosterwalder
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's platform unification push should center on making it easier for devs to share code between Mac and iOS apps, not on getting iOS apps to run on the Mac — Mark Gurman had an intriguing story at Bloomberg this week, but the problems start with the headline itself: “Apple Plans Combined iPhone …
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