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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel begins issuing patches to combat Spectre and Meltdown flaws, with plans to release updates for 90% of chips from past five years this week — Following up on yesterday's confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable …
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| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says his personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing Facebook's “important issues” and the company makes “too many errors” enforcing policies — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 9 Series 9810 processor, likely to be used in Galaxy S9, and teases iPhone X-like features including face tracking and unlocking — Starting off the new year by introducing its latest custom smartphone processor, Samsung has revealed some of what we might expect from its next Galaxy S flagship.
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| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, will only allow use of government-issued devices — The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AT&T announces plans to start rolling out a true 5G network in 12 cities by the end of 2018 — AT&T has announced plans to roll out a true 5G network in a dozen markets in accordance with the 3GPP's recently released 5G NR (new radio) guidelines by the end of 2018.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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Forbes, Bitcoinist.com, Telegraph, TechSpot, The Independent, ValueWalk, CoinSpeaker, and Business Insider
Tweets: @novogratz, @tsimonite, and @cnbc
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Reports suggest India's Aadhaar national ID database was breached, exposing information of ~1.2B Indians and allowing creation of admin accounts by other admins — In 2010 India started scanning personal details like names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile numbers, and more …
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The Tribune, Washington Post, The Quint, The Tribune, The Guardian, Gizmodo, BGR India, BGR India, Firstpost, and MediaNama
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls unveils $319 Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, which runs Windows 10 IoT Core; available now for preorder, ships in March — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Spotify says it has 70M paying subscribers, up from 60M in late July 2017, as the company prepares for an IPO — Spotify today announced on Twitter that it has hit a new milestone, with the streaming music service reaching a total of 70 million paid subscribers.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Bloomberg, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Reuters
Tweets: @spotify, @apollozac, @shiraovide, and @alexeheath
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys predicts worldwide smart speakers sales will reach 56.3M in 2018, with 38.4M sales in the US, outpacing AR, VR, and wearables — Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share. The reason?
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Canalys, MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, and AppAdvice.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it's testing a feature that allows cross-posting of Stories to WhatsApp as a Status — Last October, Facebook extended the usage (and flexibility) of Instagram Stories — the Snapchat-like feature that lets you patch together photos and videos into a slide show …
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Android Authority, Digital Trends, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Central, Cult of Mac, and BGR India. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
French startup Shadow to launch $34.95/month cloud game streaming service for Windows, macOS, and Android on Feb. 15 in California with one-year subscription — For all sorts of products we've irremediably blurred the lines between renting vs. owning, local vs. cloud — but are we ready to do the same for the PC?
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Gizmodo, The Verge, PCWorld, Polygon, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, and TechCrunch
| New York Times: |
How Nvidia researchers generated pictures of faces that appear to be real but aren't by analyzing photos of celebrities and detecting patterns — To create the final image in this set, the system generated 10 million revisions over 18 days. — The woman in the photo seems familiar.
Tweets: @alexsteffen, @pnhoward, @rafael_parente, @nvidiaaidev, @cademetz, and @nvidiaai
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Nintendo says Switch is the fastest selling game console ever in the US, selling 4.8M units in 10 months, breaking the Wii's record of 4M units in the same time — The Switch has broken the US record for the fastest selling console ever, with 4.8 million units sold in just 10 months, Nintendo says.
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Business Wire, TechCrunch, Inquirer, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and SlashGear
Tweets: @pixelpar, @mochi_wsj, and @domsplaying
| Stephanie Saffer / Apple: |
App Store customers spent $300M worldwide on New Year's Day and spent over $890M in the week starting Dec. 24; developers earned $26.5B in 2017, up 30%+ YoY — New Year's Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases — Cupertino, California — App Store customers around the world … Sponsor Posts
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