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LG, HTC, Motorola say they don't throttle phones with older batteries; Samsung says it doesn't throttle via software updates “over the lifecycles of the phone” — Two of the biggest Android phone makers - Samsung and LG - have just confirmed that they do not slow down phones …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OKCupid's rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy — OKCupid's users are angry - very, very angry. Just ahead of the new year, the company made a radical change to its policies, and now requires people to use real names instead of an OKCupid username, as before.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Gamers say deadly shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a swatting prank — A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home.
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @vinnylingham, @calbucci, @kwch12, @thegrugq, and @briankrebs
| Justin Sink / Bloomberg: |
In a tweet, President Donald Trump calls on the United States Postal Service to charge Amazon “much more” in postage fees — Latest criticism of online retailer and its CEO Jeff Bezos — Amazon stock opens as much as 0.6 percent lower after tweet
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple surged 50%+ on Friday and is now valued at ~$85B, surpassing Ethereum's market cap and becoming the second-most valuable cryptocurrency — - Officially called XRP, ripple climbed 55.9 percent to a record high of $2.23 Friday afternoon, according to CoinMarketCap.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Amazon's “Alexa everywhere” strategy is winning the smart speaker battle and Apple's delayed and high-priced HomePod may not be able to compete — And what that might mean for Apple's HomePod — My post a couple days ago about the opportunity for Amazon Echo devices in hotels …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @versoe, @stephennellis, and @ktbenner
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Pavel Lerner, an executive of Bitcoin exchange Exmo who was kidnapped in Ukraine, was released after paying $1M+ ransom in bitcoins, according to a Ukrainian MP — An executive of a UK-registered cryptocurrency exchange kidnapped in Ukraine this week has been released after paying a ransom …
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| Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg: |
Nielsen: Netflix's “Bright”, which had a ~$90M budget, had 11M viewers on its opening weekend, roughly equivalent to $99M at the box office — Netflix Inc.'s ambitious attempt at a big-budget film, “Bright” starring Will Smith, drew an enough viewers in its first three days … | Anjali Athavaley / Reuters: |
AT&T says all 50 states will participate in FirstNet wireless broadband network for emergency responders, funded with $6.5B over 5 years by federal government — NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Friday that all 50 U.S. states had decided to participate in the nationwide broadband network …
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| Joshua Holden / Nautilus: |
How quantum computers will speed up the breaking of public-key cryptography and how “post-quantum cryptography” researchers are trying counter that threat — Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, certainly raised the profile of quantum computing a few notches last year … | BBC: |
Two Romanians arrested for hacking Washington DC police surveillance cameras just days before President Trump's inauguration — US prosecutors have charged two Romanians with hacking Washington DC police computers linked to surveillance cameras just days before President Donald Trump's inauguration.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
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