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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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Tweets: @mochi_wsj, @bryfitz, @ow, @mochi_wsj, and @jonporty
| 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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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Snap is developing a “Stories Everywhere” product, led by ex-News Corp. SVP, to make Stories available outside Snapchat, possibly through a web player — Snapchat is developing a new product called “Stories Everywhere” with a goal of making Snapchat Stories available outside … | 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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| 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.| 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
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
LG and HERE announce partnership to create a telematics product aimed at autonomous vehicles — LG is looking at the rise of autonomous vehicle technologies as an opportunity to expand its electronics business, and it's now working with mapping provider HERE to put together a telematics product aimed …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As Facebook expands content moderation, contract workers describe the job of vetting porn, racism, and violence: high turnover, $13-$28/hour in Bay Area, more — Social-media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence amid a torrent of posts and videos
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @conorsen, @bencasselman, @jacobgershman, @samschech, @dseetharaman, @kelseykgee, @jillianiles, and @andrewlavallee
| 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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MacRumors, Daring Fireball, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, SlashGear, and BGR India
| 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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Tweets: @tedhope, @mcwm, @danrayburn, @shiraovide, @stevekovach, @mdudas, @gauravshukla, @joshelman, @jeffawilke, and @shiraovide
| 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 Hacks, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @stevesi, @neilcybart, and @mrinaldesai
| Gabriel Wildau / Financial Times: |
Pilot program in Guangzhou, one of China's largest cities, allows residents to link their national ID cards to Tencent's WeChat, may roll out nationwide in Jan. — One of China's largest cities will allow residents to link their national identity cards to the ubiquitous mobile messaging …
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South China Morning Post, TechNode, Caixin Global, BleepingComputer.com, CNET, PYMNTS.com, and ecns
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