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| 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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| 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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Lead-Gen Blog, 9to5Mac, BGR, International Business Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, MacRumors, SlashGear, Deadline, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Amazon.com: |
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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| 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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| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram begins rolling out a Recommended For You section that highlights 3-5 posts liked by followed accounts — Instagram's feed will now show users recommended posts - a change that earlier this month was spotted while in testing, and has since quietly gone live.| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
iPhone X's Face ID can't approve family purchases as Touch ID could, possibly due to family resemblance, 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 …
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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @raffi, @john_overholt, @dancohen, @mhintzesq, @eiratansey, @jessienyc, @palewire, and @raju
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Experts say Bitcoin's boom is a boon for extremist groups and some far-right leaders, with Bitcoin adoption gaining new urgency after Charlottesville rally — After Charlottesville's bloody Unite the Right rally in August, technology companies tightened rules against hate speech and banned … | 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.”
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